The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-10-17

Mr.. Busby was sitting upon the par
lor sofa in the dusk Of the evening,
holding Miss Lazenby's hand. which
she was trying to draw from his grasp.
He bad just proposed, and she didn't
seem to respond very heartily.
S'oh, say You will accept me. Say
you will have me. Tilly. You don't
know how much I love you. 1 never
loved any other woman but YOU
Never any but me, Mr.. Busby =
Never, never. never. You are nv
first and only love-
why, Mr.. Busby, have heard that
you have been engaged eight times
already
Eight times. darlings Eight times,
What q wicked slander. / have been
engaged only five times. Ipledge you
my word Of honor.
And dida't you love any OF the
ladies 2
We'll, now. I'll explain to you how
it was. the first, you know, was
Mary McCosh. I was young then:
didn't know my own mind. After
was engaged to her I used to go round
to McCosh's at night. and just as soon
ss got in the house. they would want
me to help them move the pisno l
helped carry that piano up stairs one
night and down stairs the next night
right straight along TO, three weeks.
/ thought it was mighty strange how
eccentric they were about the situation
of the piano, and one night, when l
dropped the corner on my toe. / went
into the psrlor suddenly to rest Who
should I see there but Mary, kissing
young Ferguson; and when l protested
they both laughed, and Mary said her
pa had persuaded her 10 change her
mind about me and take Ferguson.
SO saw she didn't love me and l
broke the engagement on the spot.
That was the first =
Yes. The next was Henrietta Pea.
body. think Henrietta was foud of
me. But she said, one evening, that
her mother wa: resolutely opposed to
q man with light hair. l offered to
dye mine. but Henrietta's mother said
that she hated it worse when it was
dyed than when it was light. l told
herI would think what l could do.
and went home to reject. When l
called next day they wouldn't let me
in; so wrote to Henrietta to say that
our engagement was ct an end. Sub
sequently she married q man by the
name of Johnson,in the stove business.
And who WAS the third?'
The third, Let me- see. Why the
third was Julia Dobson. After we'd
been engaged only three days. she
told me she he'd an awful
dream about me. Said she
dreamed Was Q tattooed Cannibsl.
with wings. and that broke into the
house one night. and after flying from
the hatrack to the up stairs entry. and
from there to the garret. came down
and ate her ma, and her pa, and her
Aunt Louisa, and the twins. and the
colored girl. She said that the dream
haunted her; she couldn't get rid Of it.
/ asked her IL she didn't think it lit
tie unreasonable to dream that ate
the colcred girl, and she said she
couldn't help It; the bad impression
was Just the same. She could not bear
she would never see without thinkino
of that c.nn;hai With wings: 40 I
broia Of that anoarement too Hang.
cd if l think Julia Dsbson ever really
who ala vou sav tia next .,ne va.,'
I,st.s sse: McCosh. Psahodv. Dob.
.on-nosson-oh ves ma nsxt 10
Rsrt;e Ms0rudsr 4 never knew ex
.ctiv vh.t to make n that o;rl Shs
declared that she wss fond 81 me but
shs,;ns;sted that Tomeht Ia hsln her and
her mosher with. home cleaninc So
tha f3rst three dava sfter "a vese en-
eave.i I vas vsshins v;niovs scrnb.
S;nc Aoors sni msshins NV 6noer.
with the tack hammer. irving TO put
down carnets. It struck me a. a
mighty eueer vav for : cirl 70 express
her te.der fsalinss Tor : man. but thev
we're q peculiar family. One day /
.tsnnsd % IN : bucket Of soapsuds and mn
sst i an tha nerlor csrnet and oid
Mserudar her fsther Won KNOW. Va,
- nd th.t ha aid if I did.'t ieaye
sns . house hs vouId mitch me- out Of the
~;ndov III Rertis aid i would serve
w. w. -;cht - h. Sa;d "a I conoluded
ms,hs NJ har lova.liOht. 70 TO sneak. had
a;cier.d @ ar do out and I handed IL nv re-