Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-07-29
BUYING A BRIDAL ..rROssY..



from the Country.
At about 8 O'Clock yesterday morn
ing. a powerfully built young man, to
whose right arm was linked a tall, thin
young lady of eighteen, with a sharp
nose, pale blue eyes, and sorrel hair,
entered one of our popular Main street
dry goods stores, with both eyes full
Of business. AS the pair took seats on
the revolving stools, a handsome clerk
with his hair parted In the middle in
timated that he was ready to sell at
bedrock prices any goods in the store,
from the finest silk to the glaziest
calico.
"This is kinder delicate business for
u.s." replied the young man, casting
sleeps eyes at the girl.
THAT is to say-that is-yes, ahem!"
stammered the clerk.
But / guess we'll live through it,
Molly, and so here goes. What we
want is a trossy for this girl-a bridal
tro>sy, / believe they call it,"
THAT'S exactly what they call it,"
replied the clerk; land tell me what
article you want, and I'll give you the
lowest figures"
The pair looked at each other in a
half foolish way for a minute, and
then the girl hid her face behind a
stack of goods.
"a little skeery, but she'll git over
it," unused the lover. "The first thing
l s'pose, is a dress"
From one to sixteen dresses, as
you like. You'll take a black silk,
perhaps?"
And perhaps l won't. There's no
style about us, Mister. We marry for
love, and we've got to make a little
money go a long ways. Is calico
purity low"
.Oh, Zekew gasped the girl, sud-
denly showing her face.
"Well, we'll go a little better, then,
though calico is my motto. Hand us
down something about 20 cents per
yard. Give us dove color, for doves
are meek and lovely, and so is
Molly"
Twelve yards of dove colored goods
were N of, and Zeke looked around
and said:
LESS see; l s'pose a black comb,
two yards of blue ribbon, a bunch of
hair pins and two or three collars,
ought TO figure in some place."
The Clerk agreed, and they were
figured in.
Less see. She'll wear her sisters
hat to stand up in. and her sisters
shoes won't show if she has a long
dress on. | guess that's about all,
it, Molly?"
The girl blushed very red, beckoned
1s-. . - L. l.
to the clerk and said:
It's kinder throwing money away,
but she's purity good aud gentle, and l
don't mind. She thinks she ought to
a fifty cent corset and two pairs
of stockings"
The articles were bought, inspected,
and placed with the ''trossy," and
the lovers held another whispered
conversation, Zeke observed:
"Weli, that's all. Figger up, and
there's your cash. We've got TO go
and git some hair Oil and a pair of
buttons and some shoe strings,
and you see the outfit is going to
squeeze me bad"
when does the marriage come Off"
asked the clerk.
" In about ten days. She's a good
girl and loves me, an I'm trying to do
the fair thing by her. faint many
young men who would put seven dol
lars on a bridal trossy for his girl;
but when l make up my mind to mar
ry any one Pm almost reckless of
wealth. She didn't need the corset
any more than l need s~uspenders, but
she had a sister married with a corset
on, and she didn't wan to be behind
her."
II hope you'll be happy"
ave shall be-can't help 1t. This
ere girl al sling more enthusiasm
a mess of taters than any queen
in Europe. 1 had to take her old dad
by the collar and jerk his heels to the
before he'd consent to this mar
riage. Well, goodbye"
After visiting Monaco's art gallery,
and one or two other places, the couple
departed in a two-horse wagon for
home in Huntington Valley.
Eron sonf