The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-10-04
WHY. SHE NEVER MARRIED.
AUNT sALLY's STORY.

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WHY. SHE NEVER MARRIED.
AUNT sALLY's STORY. a,
"Now, Aunt Sally, please tell US
Why you neyergot married. You know
you said once that when you were .
girl you were engaged 10 . minister
and promised you would tell about II
'o%%S S'Ss sSsi : Il s,i sssS Sg s,r,.
r from y5 SS5n qAS aSs tss ysc tes usl
know all about everything you haven't
~ bpsnsss f. know sScu It.
y were ersSt sSsl MINDED hss Su s
isS a whole sarnE 81 sssns
their heads filled with all Kinds OF
nonsense. I never dared to ssk my
aunts, married or single, about any Of
their affairs. Pretty mess I'd have got
in IN / had. When they Offered to tell
me anything of their own accord, l
kept my mouth shut and listened.
Everything is different now-a-days;
young folks have no respect for their
elders. But as I see PM not going to
have any peace till I do tell you, why
lust listen, and don't let me hear o
word out or any OF your mouths till
I get through .gyhqa ne a.r1
aThat's right, Aunt Sally, go right
ahead do cand we viii keep perfectly
still ~. J lliGA ~ Ga NNL
d. swell, y0p, see when was seventeen
years old, was living I'm Utica, I'm the
State of New York. Though say IL
myself, i was quite good looking girl,
then, and bad several beaux. The
one that took my fancy most was
young. minister, IA very promising
young man, and remarkably pious and
steady. He thought ~ good deal Of
me, and j kind ri took q fancy to him,
and things ran on till we were engag-
ed. One evening he, came to see me
/ remember IL as well as II 1t were
only yesterday. When he came into
the parlor where was alone, he came
up 10 me-but now, pshaw girls, l
don't like to tell the rest.pai g
a Oh, Aunt Sally, for. mercy'e sake,
don't stop; tell us what he did,
Well, as j said, he came up TO me,
and put his arms around me and rather
Rugged me; 1t was u long time ago,
and 1 don't know but what i might
have Rugged him him back q iittle.
Then i felJ--but just now clear out,
every one of YOU; I sha'n't tell you
my more!" ~ .es
HGoodness. gracious, no, Aunt Sal
ly. Tell us how you felt Didn't you
feel good? And what did he do
.next?"
"Oh, such torments as you are! /
was like any other girl, and pretty
soon i pretended to be mad about 1t,
and pushed him away, though L
wasn,t mad bit. You must know
that the house where lived was on
one of the back streets of the town.
There were glass doors In the parlor,
which opened right out over the street
and no balcony nor anything OF the
kind in front of the house. AS IL was
ia the summer season these doors were
open and the shutters drawn to. l
stepped back little from him, and
when he edged up close 1 pushed him
again. pushed more than L intend
ed to, and don't you think, girls, the
poor fellow lost his balance and fell
through one of the doors into the street.
Yes. fits so,~.As Ire fell Igave . scream
and caught himAbut declare 1 won't
tell anything more. I'm going 70
/ 7"No,' no, Aunt Sally How did
you catch him? Did IL hurt him
much ?" . -i N
"Well, If I must, I must. He fell
head first, and as he was going through
/ caught him by the legs Of his trows.
ers. / held on for minute and tried
to pull him back, but his suspenders
gave way, and the poor young man fell
clear out Of bis pantalOons into whole
parcel of ladies and gentlemen passing
along the street" = .f'
"Oh, Aunty, Aunty, Lordy
"TRere, that's right; squall and gig
gle as much as you want 20: Girls
that can't hear little thing like thai
without tearing around the room, and
he-he-ing in such way, don't know
| enough to come home when 1t rains
A nice time the man who marrtes ont
of you will have, won't he? Catch mi
1 telling YOU anything again."
"But, Aunt Sally, what became o
him? Did you ever see him again 2
"No; the moment he touched TIT
ground he got up and left that place II
| q terrible,hurry. i tell you 1t was
lsipht to be REMEMBERED to- see how
that man did run. Father happened
| to be coming up the street at the time
and he said he never saw anything Il
equal It in his whole life. heart
others say that he did the fastest run
nuinp ever known In that part of thu
country, and that he never stopped Il
look behind him until he was tw'
j miles out oft0wn. He sent me not
few DAYS afterwards, saying the en-
ansement must he broken off, and n
never could. look me In the face agaiI
after what had happened. He wen
out West, and believe he Is preach
i ing out in Illinois. But he neve
married. He was very modest, aud
suppose he was so badly frightene'
that time, he never dared trust himse!
near a woman again. That, girls,
the reason / never got married: l fel
very bad about it for long time, 70
i he was q real good man, and I've oftel
thought to myself that we should nav
always been happy IL bis suspender
hadn't given way" Ola i.i li.l 0l