Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-03
THOMAS BLUMBLE, MERCHANT.
HOW He Fiirted and Got FIirted,
aud How He Got Married at Last.

aud How He Got Married at Last.
Blumble boosted of being a confirmed
bachelor, and took pride in being called 3
woman hater. l mean Thomas Blumble
of the importing and jobbiDg house Of
Hood, Silver & Blumble." He was very
fond of letting people know that he 6isre-
garded the charms of the softer sex, and
was frequently heard to say that he would
like to see the woman that could get him
under her thumb. There was q time, of
course, when BIumble was susceptible to
the overtures Of Cupid; because when he
was plain HTom," of fifteen years of age,
and left Crock Cove" came to the city and
en- cred the employ of "Mensor, Tigby &
Hood" he left behind him young "Polly
Ann" with many a sigh and tear, and more
vows than both put together, to be true til
death. For two years he wrote constantly
to bis Polly Ann, repeating the man
fold vows of boyish love; then he was pro
NOTED from boy TO entry clerk, and soon
after was introduced to very bewitching
young lady, whom We msy be allowed to
call Hattie Elton. Then he forgot bis Polly
Ann down in Rock Cove, and b4caae very
attentive to Miss Elton; he accompanied
her to the theater and made her presents;
he got trusted for bis new coat, and with
the money that be should have paid for it,
they took a sic igh-ride to Brighton, and
Toasted On hot Oh ckens and champagne; to
please her be learned to polka and waltz;
the schottische and varsovienne were not
in vogue then. Things had sped along
very smoothly for about a year; 50 Tom,
thinking he might as we'll have the matter
sattled at once, popped the question. Miss
Elton appeared very much surprised; for a
moment she remained silent, then lifting up
both hands, she exclaimed:
"Why, Mr.. Bl lmble"-she had constantly
called him Tom for six months previous -
"I've been engaged these two years-didn't
you know it?"
"Nnow it? No." replied Bundle in utter
establishment.
"Why, yes, I've been engaged to Charlie
Dudley for long while, and thought You
knew all about it, and were only paying eli
teution to me out of polteness. Charlie is
in New Yorksnow, but we are to be married
next Christmas"
GMarried next n
We may guess what Bumble was about
to say, but we shall always be in doubt, for,
instead of finishing his sentence, he took
his hat and rushed out of the house, not
"olubS W AbohO euO P1iIiAS oalutctlOu Vi
'good evening" Perhaps be was afraid to
trust bis crashing teeth, for fear they would
change his well-meant words into some
wicked expression.
Tom, in the privacy of his own chamber,
with his door locked, his elbows upon bis
bght-stand, and his face quite buried in his
hands, reverted 70 the years time and the
many dollars he had thrown away on Miss
Elton; then he thought of poor Polly Ann,
whom he had 'cut" so shanefullv, down in
Rock Cove, and lie decided to write to her,
to offer pressing business as an excuse for
not having written before, to sue for pardon
for past negligence, and to assert that his
affections were still unaltered and unaltera
be. So he unburied his face, and penned
the tender missiYe full Of falsehoods and
stale love, which he dispatched with the
fullest confidence that Polly Ann would be
very happy to receive it. But alas for poo
human expectations! Poly AIMS letter
came. 1t was brief; she 'old Blumble she
had heard of bis attentions to the city LADY,
that she had almost forgotten him, and was
going to marry jerry Smike, the village
blacksmith, the next week. She returned
to Tom his earliest efforts in love-le te-.
writing and lock Of bis hair, and request.
ed him to return TO her sQndry articles in
that line that he had received from her.
From that day Blumble announced him
self 10 the word as a woman-h batter. He
had been false to one woman, and one wo
man had tricked him. So he cried down
the whole sex. The time which Blumbls