The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1872-05-22
Love Without Nonsense,
NOT a DIT LIKE A NOVEL.


Once upon n time there wns fair
young maiden, wh"sc name Was Mary,
although they called her Moll, for
short. She wasn't tall dark.cycd
ma iden, with clear, transparent skin,
ana lips like cherries, and cheeks
suffuaed with bushes. She didn't
have, glossy black hair, sweeping back
in wavy trcsscs from her quecnly
brow and her form wash't bit like
Hebe -. No, there was none Of these
things Ion the contrary, sho was
short and thin, and had red hair and
freckles, and she also sported snag:
gle teeth and wore pads, but still she
was right nice girl, and there was
young MAJ who fell in love with her,
and his na mo was bill, al,hotgh his
friends allied him William when
they want ed to hurt his feelings, for
he didu't ike it much. He wasn't
Gne lookin. :, and had neither curly
brown hal { nor n mustachc. Not
much. Bill laid himself out on soap
locks, and lore goatce that he had
dyed twice n week. .
Now this Bill was in love with
Mary, but lid he 60 and mako de.
liberate as 8 of himself2 Did he; I
say, 60 int grove with hei; and in
the soft me olight. by the streamlet that
murn ,ured. sweetly by, and with the
tende zephyr sighing through the foil
age fs il down on his knees, seize her
jewelt ID hand, and breathe his deep
affecti on in the tender accents of fond
attach nent, and swear "by yon bright
orb alb. ovo us, always to be tEine p
Did he, I say " You can just bet bo
didn't. You can lay ont your whole
revenue safely on that. William
knew t. 70 much about tho price of
pants to go Hopping around on Che
wet gras . with his good clothes on {;
besides, he never cared anything
about str eamlets or any kind of cold
water, ex cept to mix with his gin.
No, sir. it was exceedingly strange,
but this il fatuated William Met her
at the all, " gate, and he stood right
up on his old legs and says :: "Say
Mol, old gal, s'posen We get hitch.
ed 2"
But how did Mary behave : Did
she go drop ping to sleep over on the
bricks in q dead faint, or did she hide
her gentle + ,ehd on his shirt bosom to
conceal hor ,,Eushes : No, she didn't,
and she didn' say, "l'm ever thine,
my own love, dear William p IN,
my, no. She looked right in his yel.
low eye md Gays: "I'm in, Billy /;
I'm the gal ft n these sort Of things.
Go in !" A: id instead Of referring
him to her i'hther, she only said
"NVou't the ol d man bust right ou'
when you tell liin ? Ha ha |" and
she laughed. But she didu't ask
William to tr.1 to mollify her fond
father. No, mo. She very wickedly
advised him to spoke the old man in
the nose if he gave him any of his
lip" She WINS .unny girl, this
Mary.
Now, the old man wasn't wealthy,
for he sold soap.fat for living, ond
so he didn't think Bill was nosing
around after his stamps 80 whom Bill
asked him, he neither ordered him
dercely away, nor did the dewy mois.
ture gather in his eagle eye as he
passed his hemstitcbed up there and
said : "5less on, my children, bless
you - Oh, no, nothing of the sort.
lie just blow his old red nose 10 his
Dandapna and told Bill to tako her
along, Cor he was glnd get 70 rid OF
her, he was, and William wonldibe the
same way mighty soon, for she was
awful rough on viotuals, and always
broke plates when she got mad.
80, you see, there really was no
necessity for William to como at mid
nights solemn. haur, in Q cab,