The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-02-20
SALLY JENKlMS' LOVERS.

Sally Jenkins was the only daughter OF
la wealthy old farmer who led his focks
and hoed his row among the granite hill S
OF New Hampshire.
She was solid girl, with natural tres
ses and all that sort OF thing, and weigh
ed one hundred and sixty pounds avoir-
dupois, according to "Fairbanks' i'm
proved" When The farmer was short
handed she could hoe corn, load hay, dig
potatoes or swing the scythe as we'll as
n man, and old Jenkins used to boasting-
ly remark that he believed sSal could do
more than half OF the young men in the
county,"
Sally was not possessed of a classical
education, and she often used such phra-
ses as 81 be-" and "they am," but tor all
that she was just the kind of girl to
make man happy.
or course she had lover-in fact, she
had two OF them.
Joshua Rider, bashtul young farmer,
had been waiting on Sally for year or
two, beauing her to singing school, husk-
ing bees, etc, but had never proposed.
although he mad plenty of chances to do
so while walking with her SPY moonlight
alone"
But the fact was Joshua was rather
bashful, as l remarked before, and he
thought he would fool round until "leap
year," and then let Sally do the propos-
ing.
And Sally, when she saw how Josh
acted, thought he didn't mean business,
and her affections cooled down from
ninety in the shade to just a few notches
above zero.
At this inauspicious moment young
"snob' from the city sought summer
board at the jenkins farm, and the farm.
er took him in.
The snob was of the feminine order of
architecture; parted his oily, begamot.
scented hair precisely in tile middle;
wore q white, dOWny mustache, of the
variety commonly called "base ball club,
nine hairs on side," and in addition to
all this he sported a beaver and cane.
What female heart could resist such
charms? Not Sally jenkins!
She went to singing school with young
Augustus Noodle the first week of his
stay; and Sunday afternoon they rode to
church together in the back seat oil the
old Democrat wagon.
When Joshua saw how the thing was
working he knew his "cook was goosed."
SO he kept away from jenkins and let
young Poodle-excuse me, Noodle-haye N
full swing.
Along in the fall, when the frost began
to kill Oft the peach vines and the farm
ers were threshing their pumpkins, Au-
gustus Nooule suddenly proposed to
Sally.
1t was very romantic affair.
Sally was out in the garden pulling up
beets when Noodles rushed out and flung
himself on his knees in the dirt and de-
cIared his undying love.
Sally wasn't one of the sentimental
kind, SO she didn't faint nor blubber over
with joy; but she merely told Noodle to
carry that bushel basket of beets down
into the cellar, then go and ASK her dads
consent.
So Noodles wrestled with that basket
and finally got down cellar, then started
in search OF Mr.. Jenkins.
He found him down the fallow cutting
brush.
"Mr. Jenkins" he began, "will you
give me your daughterW
"What in thunder would give her to
you rW roared Jenkins, making play
full pass at Noodle with a brush knife.
81 love her, 'pon honor l do" replied
Noodle, retreating behind stump.
"You like the farm pretty we'll, too, l
guess" pursued the farmer, as he slash.
ed down a goodly-sized sapling and be-
gan to trim it up with his jack-knite.
"Young man." he continued, "years ago
| made VOW that no girl OF mine should
evermarry man who parted his hair in
the middle. Now gitp'
And he got-he jumped over the log
fence just as The farmer waited him u
farewell with his boot.
That afternoon Noodle left for the city
without paying his board bill.
Sally soon forgot him, and wondered
how she ever was foolish enough to think
anything of him In the first place.
Joshua and she are good friends now,
or at least they ought to be-they were
married Christmas.