The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-01-23
A Sudden Proposal.

come, you'll marry. Some Is marked
out for It, some isn't. Now there was
Fenella jackson; you'd have thought IL
ever gal was cut out to match she was.
But there she Is, an old maid. Pret-
ty and accomplished and. rich, engaged
four or five times, but 'twasn't to be.
And there's Jane Jones, that hain't
but one eye, and went out a dress
making for liven', and she's got the
richest man in town. There is no
telling, and you can't fix things-they
fix themselves.
Didn't / ever tell you about my
cousin, Neptany Ann Camberllng ?
Sho why, thought / had Well, I'll
tell you now, for it's considerable curl
Gus.
Neptany Ann, she was widder, and
she wasn't left very well off, and was
sort of good loolxin' and not morn
thirty so she says right out and out,
soon as her mourning was off: "I
mean to marry again." And her rela-
tions they all thought twas quite sensi-
BILE, and the most of them being mar
ried themselves, they gave her all the
chance they could; but nobody pro-
posed.
Then Neptany went to see her friends
in Boston, and her friends in New York
and there IL was the same thing. She
did her best, too, must say. No one
could do better; but all the same the
years rolled on and on, and Neptany got
to be forty and folks began to say it
WASH t any use for trying any more,and
she began to think so herself, and she
went home to her own house and didn't
board nor visit any more, and stopped
dressing up. She was good looking yet,
too, mind you and one day when /
was over there taking tea, she just ups
and outs with it,:
"I declare, Aunt Millikin," said she,
"it's just the funniest thing to me that
I've got to set down and take care of
myself when folks that amt no better
than 1 be anyway, step off and settle
down. There's Mrs. Flint-lean as %
guide post, married to Squire Becker;
and Fanny Jones, with her little turned
up nose--a real old maid, too--she maxi
| ing her weddin' dress and lots of 9TH
ers are going and gone, and here am t
and you know I'm handsome-and not
an Offer What does it mean 7"
SIT means your time hasn't come"
says 1. "Now, if 1 was single, 1 s'pose
/ should like to step off as well as any
one, but wouldn't try. If he's COM
ing he'll come if you go and sit on the
top of mountain. You may hunt the
world over for him and just when you
make up your mind you can't find him
he will come flying in at the window"
He'll have to hurry if he's coming
here" says Neptany, laughing; just
then smash -bang-crash something came
flying through the big bow window;
and first we jumped up and sbrieked
and ran away and then we came run
ming back; for what had come through
the bow window was an elderly man
with bald head.
He'd had his hat on when he come
through, and when we'd picked him up
we found he wasn't as much hurt as we
should have expected.
Neptany was a master hand to fix up
folks that were sick or anything, and
she bandaged beautifully, and 1 made
him a big bowl of bone set tea right of,
and what's more, made him drink it,
And then, and not till then Neptany
says to him:
And now, sir, may ask you how it
was you came flying through my win
dow instead of knocking at my door?"
i" didn't fly, was thrown, !" says he.
In fact, Pm not much of horseman
anyhow, and the first thing knew /
was over his head.vai
Might have killed YOU says
Neptany. a aess1I
Well, NJ says he, {" that wouldn't
have made much difference to this
world. Pm only "a miserable old bach
elor. What goodis bachelor, lonely,
unloved, uncared for;" and then he
groaned, and then i gave him another
swig of bone set tea. ..
"iaWell,' says Neptany Ann, live
heard old bachelors complainin' before,
but never pity them. It's all their
own fault Why haven't you proposed
to some nice, sensible girl and settled
down with q wifeY Any man can get
married. Its all in his own hands"
When she said that the old bachelor
sat up on the sofa and brought his fist
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