Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-09-02
How Her Father Helped
the Bashful Lovers,

! max with ruSn, at a certain
} farmers residence in Y rnon
D Township. A young tiller ofthe
soil had for months and months
} been paying most assiduous atten-
/, ton to one of his daughters, but
J he was such a bashful, modest
chap, never having been much in
the company of girls, except this
one, that he had never been able
raise his courage sufficiently high
to pop the all-important question.
He had gone to tire house IN which
his admirer lived, upon at least
twenty different occasions, reSOlv-
ed to know his fate, but when
ushered into the presence Of the
! fair one into whose keeping he
had placed his heart, his courage
would invariably ego back on
him." and he would return to his
lonely room in greater suspense
than before. One evening he had
determined that come what would
he would tell his Mary hes loved
her. He would once for all de-
eide the matter; but as upon each
form occasion, he could get the
proposal no farther than his throat
There it stuck, and he had Just
determined to guIp it down and
give up the seige, when the door
opened and in stalked the girls
father, who advanced to where
they were sitting and thus address
ed them:
81 came to put stop TO this in
fernal fooliShneSs. 1t amt the
courting expense that I'm looking
at, for coal oils cheap au' wood
can be had for the haulin'; but I'm
sick an tired of this bilIin' an COO
in like a pair of sick doves; keep
ing me awake o'nights, an it's got
to be stopped right here. Mary
Jane, look up here. Do you love
John Henry well enough to mar
ry him?"
why, father, I-I--you must
"Stop that durn loolishin',"
yelled tie old IAN. "Answer
yes or no, and mighty quick, too.
It's got to be settled now Or new
er."
"Well, but, father, don't you
know--if you'd only wait and"
Dry up; answer yes or no.
Speak," roared the old gent.
swell, yes, then. There, now,"
and Mary again hid her face.
That's business, tha''s the way
to talk. Now, John, look here
look up here or I'll shake you all
to pieces. Do you want that gal
o mine for a wife? Speak out like
a man, now"
"Why, Mr., amt this rather
al mean, can't you"
"Speak it out, or out of this
house you'll go headforemost, l
won't wait minute longer
There's the gal, an a likelier gal
amt in the State, an you just
heard her say she wanted you
Now, John, | won't stand a bit O.
foolln', once for all yes or 'no.'
"Well, yes, sir, | have been pre-
sumptuous enough to hope that
L"
"Oh, cuss your soft talk; the
things settled now. You two
fools would have been siS
months more at that job that I've
done in five minutes. never
see such fooling as there is among
the young people nowadays. Amt
like it was when | was young
an now good night. You can
talk the thing over, an you an
me, John, ii 60 to town an git
tie license tomorrow. Good
night, hope l wasn't too rough,
but ] was determined to fix the
thing up one way or 'tother;" and
the old man went back to bed.
Now that the ice was broken
the young people laid all their
plans for the future, and John felt
just little bad at the comfort he
had lost, when Mary looked at
him Slyly and said:
"This would have been all right
four months ago, John, if you
hadn't been so skeery; / know'd
all the time that you wanted to
ask me; but it wasn't nay place to
say anything, you know"
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