Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-11-07

lars yesterday"
IT'S gonen
! Gone Oh, we'll, ifyou enjoyed your
self With it, Pm sure it's all right. How
much do yon want now"
How much oh, really suppose
| you will allow me to pay the bills y
You may, if it would amuse YOU III
/ give you two hundred dollars, and if you
want more you know where TO get il. :"
And madam began counting it out in lives
and tens
Stay" said Mr.. c., ueryouslv :;
There's Thompson and his wi.o on the
other side. They're looking at u.s.
care they ? I'll speak to them direct.
/ ~. Thirty, and ten is forty, and ten"
DO give me the portmonnaie" said
! the gentleman, reddening. They'll
think I'm an idiot under guardianship.
| "Oh, no, said Mrs. Corporal, cheerful,
| ly; sits done every day to persons who
are not idiots, However, here are two
more tifties I'm only afraid you'll meet
some more of your borrowing friends, and
| ! know what you are with money in your
pocket. Don't think I'm Seeding, dear /;
only" Bat here Mr.. Corporal tiouuced
away.
In time, however, the day passed, and
the next, and on the fourth the family re.
| turned TO their homes.
ANY letters for me, Nan ?" said her
| father.
Lots for you, dear papa" said Annie,
fetching them; "and--and' growing all
in moment flushed and agtated" and
one for ma"
Mrs, Corporal read it through with
ever increasing gravity.
Did you know this was coming, my
| dGughter?" she said, at the end,
Yes, ma faltered Miss Annie, 'IIe
was coming to you himself but | felt as
If | couldn't bear it, and so | told him to
write.'
"a most important letter. said Mrs.
| Corpora; sit is but right Vat you should
hear it, father And ma, adjusting her
spectacles, read as follows
"'DEAR MADAM; Kind and truly ike a mother
as you have always been TO me, 1t is yet almost
with trembling that come to you now, would
fain, from CowardCe, use a little Circumocution,
but am unskled at it, and must therefore say at
once that am devOtedly attached TO your daugh-
ter. and that She welt that she has referred me
to her mother.
"To her rdat2" said Pater with little
jump.
'ro her mother"
q" Dear Mrs Corporal, yon know have no in.
heritanCe, hut am strong, and very much in
earnest, and Annie is willing to put up with my
income and thinks she knows how 10 add to q
And indeed love her rs | never loved before,
He was then twenty-three, II you think it best,
we are prepared to walt awhile, hut II is our own
conviction that early marriages are desirable,
Dear Mrs Corporal pray believe that next 10 the
necessity Of being Anuie's husband is the hope Of
calling myself your son.
"'Yonrs In great suspense,
" 'FREpERIcB PoNDERET.
" p S.-Dear Mr.. Corporal, count upon your
influence with Annie's mother "
Good Heavensr' exclaimed the head
of the family; "and there are yet two
days."
"Father," said Annie, piteously, edo
plead for me, See how solemn she looks
Do speak"
My child, said the mother, drawing
Annie toward her, "are you sure You love
this young man well enough to live with
him, if need be, in poverty
Stop exploded the father, growing
desperate. Young woman, do you
know that this chick of yours has not
cent to rent house withs'
"He has five thousand dollars" said
Annie; land you know have five thous
and dollars
give thousand strawsl DO you think
| will allow"
"My love-" said Mrs Corporal "you
are getting excited: sit down and com
pose yourself. Annie, | confess that
should greatly prefer the husband of my
child to bea little torehanded; but If you
truly love him, there is no power in
money, or in the lack Of it, that oaG n
tluence me to interfere with your choice.
All ! ask of you is to wait year to test
| the quality of your attachment
ooh, thanks, mother, thanksm and An.
ME rushed. sobbing, from the room,
shortly followed by her mother
" Aha, my lady, muttered the sighted
parent, what's done in a week may lie
| nndone in wear. The impcrtinent
ackanapesl never was treated so;
never treated any one so; | wouldn't
Good gracious! | did: when proposed TO
Flizabeth's father / did it almost in that
identical way, and if any one had told me
her mother would be hurt. | shouldn't
have known what WAS meant We'll well.
III think more about these tbirfgs. Ihad
no idea SO much could be said on their
side"
Half in dread of what the twelve hours
might bring forth. and half in JOYOUS an
tcipation of freedom, Mr.. CORPORAL began
| the seventh day OF his experiment.
Through much inconvenience, chagrin,
and a constant sense of mild sufiocation,
/ AZ of lobster submerged in Luke warm
water, he had faithfully kept the condi-
/ tons Of his bargain, and he was rewarded
| by finding on the dinner table letter
/ after his own heart-or to speak with
! correctness, after the heart of his eldest
daughter, Julia,
/ Here's good news for you mother"