The Huntington argus. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1872-1905, 1872-06-08

twice week.
Now this bill, he was in love with Mary.
but he did not 90 and make a deliberate
ass Of himself Did he, I say, 90 into a
grove with her, and in the soft moonlight,
by the streanlet that murmured sweetly
by, and with the tender zephry signing
thro' the foliage, fall down on his knees
sieze her jeweled hand, and breathe his
deep affection In the tender accents Of fond
attachment, and swear 'by Won bright orb
above us, always to be timer
Did lie, | say? you can just bet he didn't
y GU can lay out your whole revenue safely
on that William knew too much about
the price Of pants to 20 topping around on
the wet grass with his good clothes on;
besides he never cared anything about
s,reamlets or any kind Of cold water, ex.
cept to mix with his gin. No, sir; it was
exceedingly strange, but this Infatuated
William met her at the alley gate, and lie
stood up right on his old legs, and says
Say, Moll, old gal, s'posen we get hitch
But how did Mary behave? Did she 90
dropping TO sleep over on the bricks in a
dead faint, or did she hide her gentle head
on his shirt bosom to conceal her bushes?
No, she didn't and she didn't say:
II am ever thine, my own love, dear
William
%, my, no. She looked right in his vel
low eyes and says:
'lm in Billy; I'm the gal for these sort
OF things. Go inI'
And instead ofrefering him to her father,
she only said, won't the old man bust
right out when you tell him2 Hal hal
and she laughed But she didn't ask Will.
lam to try TO molliy her foud father. No,
no. she very wickedly advised him to
poke the old gentleman in the nose il he
gave him any OF his lip" she was funny
girl this Mary.
Now, the old man wasn't wealthy, for
he sold soap fat for living, aud so he
didn't think Bill was nosing around after
his stamps, so, when Bill asked him, he
| neither ordered him iercely away, nor did
the dewy moisture gather in his eagle eye
as he passed his hemstitched up there and
said:
BLESS you, my children, bless youl'
Oh, no. nothing of the sort lie just
blew his old red nose in his bandanna and
told Bill to take her along for he was gls
TO get rid OF her, he was, and William
would be the same way mighty soon, for
she was awful rough on victuals and al
ways broke plates when she got mad.
SO you see, there really was no neces.
sity for William to come at midnight's
solemn hour, III a cab, and throw rope
ladder up to her window, and whistle three
times on his fingers, and then 90 up hand
over hand, and bring her down in one hand
and her trunk in the other, and band
box and umbrella under each arm, and
whole lot of bundles, and then yet in the
cab and fly to some distant shore
That's the way it would have been in
novel; but Bill said he WASH on that Law.
SO he just went out into the ward, and out
OF pure JOY he skinned the cat three or four
times on the prape-vine arbor, and then
went and got his butchercart, and drove
her right along dewn To the old mag strate.
to get the job done for a bright quarter
Tor he said he was some on the low price
he wa-
But the very queerest thing Of all was,
that Bill had no tall, dark ruiliianly rival
with a scowling visage and black whiskers.
who flew at him with drawn dagger and
horse pistol in each hand, and a muttered
curse upon his lips, and cried for
Revenge Hal hal and said DeatLr'
and VILLAIN, thou diesu'
Not any. There was another fellow in love
with Molie, to be sure, but he was a weak
eyed young man who had sandy hair and
wore spectacles ami a choke collar. and al
ways looked scared when you holered mt
him. So, when be saw that Bill had the
best Of the girls affections he looked all
serene, and said
Go in, Billy, If you banker for her"
and as Billy was tribe on the banker
he sailed right in
! So William you see, had no trouble at
all-and you couldn't get up an agonizinc
nOvei about him # you tried. lie didn't
have any urgent business that called him
/ to foreign land and so he had TO bid her
a fond good bye. and swear always to be
/ true, and then 60 away and forget her and
IN love with a dark-eyed Italian sirl. pick.
! ing grapes in a vineyard, with a square
towel folded on her head, while this for
gotten and forsaken Mary gradually faded
and pined away and bailled the physician /.
skill, and grew paier, aud at last when the
June roses were In bloom, living gently
( down 70 die, while through the open win
| dow ioated in the balmy olor OF 1essa-
mine and hUneysucklc And William
/ didn come home at last. aud, filed with
I deathless remOrsc, go daily 10 the sweet
cementery and strew fragrant flowers on
the grave aud teach his dear children 10
| lisp her name MOI atall
That is the way Mrs Z b f y.
Southwort would have done IT, but che
WASH round Billy was - butcher who
wore white shirt and shiny bat. aud he
stayed 100 home and killed beef and sold IL
at big price AMI stuck to Mary aud she
I kept healthy and wa.n much on the pine
/ or lsde. while % an, OF the fellows 20 10
| lurking around, William went ont and bait
cd them boo the eve lle did