Weekly Trinity journal., 1878-11-16
THE STORY OF SOME GIRLS.

THIS truthful story is about some par
ticuIar girls that Erastus Bailey, ol some.
where out in NJ Michisan, had on hand
There were six of Mr.. Bailey's girls, all
daughters, and all willing to be married
As the old gentleman was willing they
should be. He bad put them on the
matrimonial market in one sweet bunch,
utterly regardless OF expense in the way
of curl papers, store frizzes, hooks-and
eyes, and hair pins. They were display
ed before young men and middle-aged
men, and all kinds of men, on all occa-
sions, but none of Mr. Bailey's six daugh-
ters fshsd for husband with any kind
of luck; not one of them made catch
Other mems daughters went of like hot
cakes, 1t seemed to Bailey although he
nor his girls could see no reason why
men should be so miserably stupid. Bal
ley's girls were everywhere, and yet no
man ever went where they were; they
were offered free of cost to anybody who
would take them off the old mans hands.
but nobody seemed to want cheap girls
with red hair and pug-Hoses. 1t will
probably never be found out how the
idea happened to strike Mr.. Bailey, but
he final ly resolved to withdraw his girls
from the market, and gave nstics that no
one of them would listen to any kind Of
an offer Of marriage. Only philosophers
will know why he settled upon such a
remarkable course AS this, but he was
himselfa philosopher. Mr.. Bailey con-
suited his six red headed girls and then
went down town and told every body that
he had put stop to ali fooling around
his daughters; that he had locked them
up and would stay at home with club
to keep the boys off, if less determined
measured failed. The effect was imme-
diate and tremendous. In two days
some the boys began to watch when
the old man left the house and then they
slid in to see his pugnOsed daughters,
but they always slid out few minutes
before pa came home. When Mr.. Bal
! ley was told Of these things he put pad
lock on the gate, and the boys jumped
over the fence, rather liking the romance
OF the thing. In two weeks one of the
girls lowered herself from second story
window, ran off with one Of the boys and
got married. Old Bailey tore around in
Il dreadful way before the public, put
some iron-bars across the windows to
prevent the escape of any more girls, and
congratulated himself on his cuteness. In
another ten days ths second girl had got
Of in IA mannof e.iesaly ineXplcable and
came back with Ina, and, and third
settled herself for better or worse with
bank cashier, only little further on.
Thi, is all the matrimoay that had
occurred ir het family at last advices
bu' heo o'3 -ar maa Is whiting with
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2Nd oet,oroUah the cellar,
% hy out ne chimney. and climb the
fence and eet married. With three girls
on his hauds ,lil' be has bought shot
gun ana chained an unusually .ernclOus
dog in the backyard, and put an extra
bolt on the back door. He gives regular
warning OF these thing, all over the town
every day-and hopes for the worst. 1t
will certainly DO realized for everybody
knows as well as Mr. Bailey, that when
you lock up something there : eaaalways
lots of people waiting for az oou chance
TO break in and Carry it off; and this al
ways works the more so with girl than
anything else. A man who wouldn't
steal your purse doesn't have any scruples
about carrying off your girl. There is
probably no moral to this story, but it is
an enduring lesson to all fathers dock up
your daughters Rhttadeiphia Times.