The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-02-15
Helping Bashful Lovers.

Some fathers are rather severe on
their children 10 love affairs, and they
too often forget the pleasures they had
in their courtship. Matters we're brought
TO q climax in a hurry, at certain
farmer residence IN Vernon township
recently. 4 young tilleI of the soil had
for months been paying most asslduous
attention to one of his daughters, but be
was such a modest, bashful chap, never
having been much in the company OF
girls, except this one, that ne had never
been able to raise his courage sufficient
" high to pop the all important question
lie had gone to the housr where MS ad-
mired lived, upon twenty different ocea
,Eions. resolved tn know bis fate, hut when
rshered into the presence OF the lar
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. Upon the evening In ques-
ton he had determined that, come what
would. he would tell his Mary he loved
her He would once for all decide the
matter; but as upon each former Oeca-
sion he could get the proposal no farther
than his throat. There it stuck, and he
had Just determined to gulp 1t down and
give up the seige, when the door opened
and in stalked the girls father, who ad-
vLnced to where they were sitting and
thus ADDRESSED them:
81 come in to Iut stop to this infer
nal foolishness. 1t ain the cOurtlng ex-
penses that I'm looking at, for coal OILS
cheap an wood can be had for the haul
in; but I'm sick and tired tired Of this
billin' and cooin' like a pair of sick
doves, keepin' me awake at nights, and
its got to be stopped right here. Mary
Jane. look up here Do You love John
Henry well enough to marry himY
"Why. father I-I-yOu must-"
"Stop that darn foolishness, yelled the
old man. Answer yes or no, aud
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"
.iDry up; answer yes or no. SPEAK" "
reared the old gent.
"Wen, 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 to peices Do you
want that gal o mine for a wife? Speak
out like a man, now.
why, Mr. -, amt this rather a
] mean, mean can't you
"Speak it out, or out of this house
you'll 20 headforemost. | won't wait a
minute longer. There's the gal, and a
likelier gai amt in the State, and yeu
Just heard her say she wanted you.
Now, John, won't stand bit o fOolin'i
once for all, yes or MOI"
"Well, yes, sir, have been presump-
tuoHs enough to hope that u"
ooh, cuss your soft talk; the thing is
settled now. You two blasted fools
would have been six months more at that
Job that I've done in five minutes. |
never saw such fooling as there is among
the young people nova days. Ain
like it was when was youDg-and now
good night You can talk the matter
over, and You and me, John, will go to
toEn aud git the license tomorrow
Soon be time to go to pInwin'-no time
for love maxim then. Goodnight, g9OG-
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 tn, plans for the
future, and John felt just a little bad
at the comfort he had lost, when Mary
looked at him slyly, aa9 said:
This would have bgen ali right four
months ago, John, if You hadn't been SO
skeery; l know all the time that you
wanted to ask me; but it WASH my place
to say any thing, you know.
No cards.