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

your whole revonuc 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 never cared
anything about streamlets 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 7"
But how did Mary bohavo7 7 Did
she go dropping to sleep on tho
bricks in q dead faint, or did she hide
her gentle hand on his shirt bosom
TO conceal her bushes 7 No, she
didn't, and she didn't say, 81 am
ever thine, my own love, dear Will
lam !" Oh, my, no. She looked right
into his yellow eyes and says
I'm in Billy I'm thogal for these
sort of things. Go in T.
And instead of referring him to
her father, she only said,
"Won't tho old man bust right
out when you tell him Ha! hal"
and she laughed.
But she didn't ask William to try
to molify her fond father. No, no.
She very wickedly advised him to
poke the old gentleman in the noso
if 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, and
so he didn't think Bill was nosing
around for his stamps 50, when
Bill asked him, he neither ordered
him fercely away, nor did the dewy
moisture gather in his eagle oyo as
he passed his he m-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 victuals, 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 up 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 tho other, and n bandbox
and umbrella under each arm, and q
whole lot of bundles, and then get
into the cab, and fly to some distant
shore. That's tho way it would have
been in a 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 slowing visage
and black whiskers, who flew at him
with drawn dagger and u horse pis-
tol in each hand, and n muttered
curse upon his lips, and cried wildly
for "Revenge ! Ha! ha! and said
death! n and "Villain, thou diestl'
Not any. Thore was another fellow
in love with Mollie, to be sure, but
he was q weak,eyed young man who
had sandy hair and wore spectacles
aud q choke collar, and always lonk-
ed scared when you hollered at him.
So, when he saw that Bill had the
best Of the girls affections, ho looked
all serene, aud said, "Go in Billy, If
you banker for )" aud as Billy was
some on the banker, he sailed right
in.
So William you SEQ, had no trou
BILE at all--and you couldn't get up
an agonizing novel about him II you
tried. He did't have any urgent bu
siness that called him to q foreign
land, and 80 he had to bid her fond
good-by, aud swear always TO be true,
and then 20 away aud forget her and
fall in love with o dark-eyed Italian
girl, picking grspcs, 10 vineyard,
with sqnaro towel folded on her
head, while this forgotten and forsa-
ken Mary gradually faded and pined
away, aud bafiiod the physicians
lskill, and grew paler, aud at last when
lbe June roses were in bloom, lying
gently down 70 die, while through the
open window Aoated 10 tho balmy
odor OF jeesamino and houeysackle-
Aud William did come homo ut last,
lsud, filed with doathless remorse
lnoes, daily to the sweet cemetery,