Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-05-16
How Her Father Helped the Bashful
Lovers.

There's no foolishness about some of the
fathers of Dubuque County who have
manageable daughters, and they know
how to precipitate business when the fruit
is ripe for the plucking, and hangs vast
ing its sweetness when it should be
plucked Matters we're brought to eli
max with a rush, at certain farm
ers residence in Vernon Township,
on Friday evening last. A young tiller
of the soil had for months and months
been paying assiduous attention to one of
his daughters, but he was such bashful,
modest chap, never having been much in
the company of girls, except this one, that
he had never been able to raise his cour-
age sufficiently high to pop the all-ip-
portant question. He had gone to the
house in which his admirer lived upon at
least twenty different occasions resolved
to know his fate, but when ushered into
the presence of the fair one into whose
keeping he had placed his heart his cour-
age would invariably ego back on him, !"
and he would return to his lonelyroom in
greater suspense than before. Upon the
evening in question he had determined
that come what would he would tell his
Mary that he loved her. He would once
for all decide tie matter; but as upon
each former occasion he could get the pro-
posal no farther than his throat. There it
stuck, and he had just determined to gulp
it down and give up the siege when the
door opeued and in stalked the girls
father, who advanced to where they were
sitting and thus addressed them:
81 came in to put a stop to this Internal
foolishness. 1t amt the courtin' expenses
that I'm lookin' at, for coal-oil's cheap
and wood can be had for the haulin'; but
I'm sick an tired of this billin' an cooin
like pair of sick doves; keepin' me
awake O. nights, an it's got to be stopped
right here Mary Jane, look up here
Do you love John Henry we'll enough to
marry him."
"Why, father, I-I-you must"
"Stop that durn foolishin'," yelled the
old man. "Answer yes or no, and mighty
quick too. It's got to be settled now or
never"
"Well, but, father, don't you know
| if you'd only wait and"
"Dry up; answer yes or mo- Speak,
reared the old gent.
"Well, yes, then. There, now," and
Mary again hid her face.
"That's business; that's the way to talk
Now, John, look here-look up here or
I'll shake you all topieces. Do youwant
that gal O. mine for wifel Speak out
like man, now"
"Why, Mr., amt this rather al
mean, can'tyou-"
"Speak it out, or out of this house you
90 headforemost. l won't wait minute
longer. There's the gal, an likelier gal
amt in the State, an you just heard her
say she wanted you Now, John, won't
stand bit O. foolin'; once for all yes or
mo-"
"Well, yes, sir, have been presump-
tuous enough to hope that /"
ooh, cuss your soft talk; the things
settled now. You two blasted fools would
have been six months more at that job
that I've done in five minutes. Inever see
such fooling as there is among the young
people nowadays. Amt like it was when
| was young-an' now goodnight. You
can talk the thing over, an you an me,
John, IL go to town an get the license
tomorrow Soon be time to go to plowin'
no time for love-makin' then. Good
night, goodnight; hope 1 wasn't too
rough, but l was determined to fix the
thing up one way or 'tother;" and the
old man went back to bed again.
Now that the ice was broken the young
people laid all their plans for the future,
and John felt just little bad at the CON-
| fort 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
skeerv; know'd all the time that you
wanted to ask me; but it wasn't myplace
to say anything, you know"
No cards.-Dubuque Times.