The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1872-08-08

''by yon bright orb above us, always
to be thine" Did he, / say7 You
can bet he didn't. You can lay out
your whole revonuo safely on that
William knew too much about the
prico OF pants to 60 Topping around
on the wet grass with his good
clothes on besides, he nevor carod
anything about strcamlets or any
kind OF cold water, except to mix
with his gin. No sir, it was exceed
ingly strange, but this infatuated
William met her at the alley gate,
and there stood right up on his legs
and says
"Say Moll; old gal, s'poscn we get
hitched 2"
But how did Mary bohavci Did
she go dropping TO sleep on the
bricks in dead faint, or did she hide
her gentle hand ON his shirt bosom
to conceal hor bushes No, she
didn't, and she didn't say, 81 am
ever thine, my own lovo, dear viii.
lam !" Oh, my, no. She looked right
into his yellow eyes and says
I'm in Billy 1 IN tho gal for these
sort of things. Go in !"
And instead of referring him to
her father, she only said,
"Won't tho old man bust right
out when you tell him J.? Ha! ha!"
and she laughed
But she didn't ask William to try
to molify her fond father No, no.
She very wickodly advised him to
poke the old gcntlsm in the noso
if he gave him any of his lip" She
was a funny girl, this Mary.
Now, the old man wasn't wealthy,
for he sold soap fat for living, and
SO he didn't think Bill was nosing
around for his stamps 50, whom
Bill asked him, he neither ordered
him iiercely away, nor did the dewy
moisture gather in his eagle oyo rs
he passed his hcm-stltched up there
and said. BLESS you my children,
bless you !" Oh, no, nothing Of the
sort. He just blew his red nose with
his bandanna and told Bill to take
her along, for he was glad to get rid
OF her, he was, and William would be
the same mighty soon, for she was
awful rough ON victIlals, and always
broke plates when she got mad,
So you see there really was no ne
cessity for William to come at mid.
nights solemn hour, in cab, and
throw rope ladder mp to the win
dow, and whistle three times on his
fingers, and then go up hand, and
bring her down in ono hand and her
trunk in the other, and q bandbox
and umbrella under each arm, and
whole lot of bundles, and then get
into the cab, and fly TO some distant
shore. That's the way it would have
been in novel but Bill said he
wasn't on that lay, so he Just went
out into the yard, and out of pure
Joy he skinned the cat three or four
times on the grape vine orbor, and
then went and got his butcher cart,
and drove her right down to the
magistrate, to get the job done for n
quarter-for he said he was some on
the low price, he was.
But the very queerest thing of all !
was that Bill had no tall, dark ruff |
fianly rival with a slowing visage
and black whiskers, who flew at him
with drawn dagger and n horse pis-
tol in each hand, and muttered
curse upon his lips, and cried wildly
for "Reyenge Ha! ha! and said
"Death!i and "Villain, thou diestI'
Not any. Thore was another fellow
in love with Mollie, to be sure, but
he was a weak.eyed young man who
had sandy hair and wore spectacles
aud choke collar, and always lonk-
ed scared when you hollcred at him.
So, when he saw that Bill had the
best of the girls affections, no looked
all serene, aud said, "Go in Billy, If
you banker for;' aud as Billy was
some on the banker, he sailed right
10.
SO William you SEQ, had no trou'
ble at all--and you couldu't get up
m agonizing novel about him II you
tried. He did't have my urgent bu
siness that called him to q foreign
land, and 80 he had to bid her a fond
good-by, aud swear always to be true,
and then 60 away aud forget her and
fall in love with dark-eyed Italian
girl, picking grapes, 10 vineyard,
with square towel folded on her
head, while this forgotten aud forsa.
ken Mary gradually faded and pined
away, aud baffled the physicians
skill, and grew paler, and at last when
The June roses were in bloom, lying