The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1878-10-11
Why They Broke With Him.

Why They Broke With Him.
Mr.. Busby was sitting upon the par
lor sofa, in the dusk of the evening
holding Miss Lazenby's hand, whicl
she was trying to draw from his grasp
He had just proposed. and she didn'
seem to respond very heartily.
"Oh, say you will accept me! Sa,
you will have me, Tilly! You don'
know how much L love you. I neve
loved any other woman but you"
"Never any but me, Mr.. Busby?
"Never, never, never You are m,
first and only love!"
"Why, Mr.. Busby, have heard tina
you have been engaged eight times al
ready"
Eight times, darling? Eight times
What wicked slander! I have beer
engaged only five times, pledge yo'
my word of honor"
.sAnd didn't you love any of th'
ladies %
"Well, now, I'll explain to you hoy
it was. The first, you know, was Mar.
McCosh. I was young then; didn'
know my own mind. After I was en-
gagged to her I used to go round to Nc
Cosh's at night, and just as soon as
got in the house they would want M
to help them, move the piano. Ihelpet
carry that piano up stairs one night ant
down stairs the next night, righ
straight along for three weeks.
thought it was mighty strange how &c
centric they were about the situation o
the piano, and one night, when
dropped the corner on my toe, wen
into the parlor suddenly to rest. Who
should I see there but Mary, kissing
young Ferguson. And when pro
tested, they both laughed, and Mary
said her pa had persuaded her te
change her mind about me. and te
take Ferguson. So I saw SHE didn'
love me, and I broke the engagement
on the spot"
''That was the first? ?"
eyes. The next was Henrietta Pea
body. I think Henrietta was fond Of
me. But she said one evening thai
her mother was resolutely opposed to {
man with light hair. I offered to dye
mine, but Henrietta's mother said thai
she hated it worse when it was dyed
than when it was light. I told her
would think what I could do, and
went home to reflect. When I called
next day they wouldn't let me in; SO
wrote to Henrietta to say that our en-
gagement was at an end. Subsequent
ly she married man named johnson
in the stove business"
fAnd who was the third ?"
s'The third? Let me see? Why, til,
third was Julia Dobson. You've me
her, I think? I was deceived in Julii
Dobson. After we'd been engaged only
three days she told me she'd had al
awfiaT dream abodf me. r-s 5
} dreamed that I was tattoooed Cam
bal, with wings, and that broke into Il
house one night, and after flying fro
the hat-rack to the upstairs entry, al
from there to the garret, I came dov
, and ate her ma, and her pa, and h
Aunt Louisa, and the twins, and Il
colored girl. She said that the drea
haunted her; she couldn't get rid of
asked her If she didn't think it a lit
} unreasonable to dream that I ate ii
colored girl, and she said she could1
help it.; the bad impression was just Il
J same. She could not bear the idea
marrying man whom she would nev
see without thinking of that cannib
with wings, SO broke off that engag
ment, too. Hanged if I believe Jul
| Dobson ever really loved me!'
"Who did you say the next one was
| "Let's see; McCosh, Peabody, Do
son-Dobson-oh, yesl The next w
BERTHE Magruder.. I never knew e
actly what to make of that girl. 81
declared that she was fond of me, b
she insisted that I ought to help b
and her mother with the house clea
ing. So for the first three days aft
we were engaged I was washing wi
dows, scrubbing floors, and mashi1
my fingers with the tack hammer, tr
ing to put down carpets. It struck n
asa mighty queer way for girl to e
press her tender feelings for ma
but they were peculiar family. o.
day / stepped in bucket of soap-su'
and upset it on the parlor carpet, al
old Magruder, her father, you kno,
was 80 mad that he said if didn't lea,
the house he would pitch me out of I'll
window. BERTHE said it would ser,
me right if he did; SO conclude
maybe her loye-light, so to speak, hi
fickered out, and I handed in my re
ignation:
"How about the fifth"
Oh, that was Nancy Bannister.
| few to her in despair, because felt
badly about the Magruders. I w
never really engaged to her. She a
| cepted me conditionally. Said 81
| would have me- when r made a fortun
| I began boring for oil in our back va
the next morning, but before I'd g
down ten feet she sent me word tn
she'd accepted another man; some kin
of an officer in the marine corps,
think. Anyhow, my affections we
blighted again. Now I've come to yo
You'll say yes, wont you? I nev
knew what love meant until met you
ssI'll tell you what I'll say" observ,
Miss Lazenby. ''I'll say MOI And
bid you good evening""
4 AS she walked out of the room Busl
looked sadly after her; then he pickt
| up his hat, moved slowly to the doc
and went ont.
"That, said he sis the sixteenth gi
I've proposed to, and SHE throws n
overi I'll try a seventeenth to-mo
row, and if she fails then'n I'll try su
cide.' -
But he is bachelor and alive yet.
1 Mac Adeler, IN N. T. Weekly.
/ Twenty-Five years ago, beginning {
Aug. 11th, and continuing until Il
4 14th, torrid wave swept over IL