The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-06-13
WHY THEY Broke WIN nIs.

WAS Trying 70 draw from lis grasp. lie
had just proposed, and she didn't seem
TO respond very heartily.
"Oh, say will you accept me. Say
you will have me, Tilly. You don't
know how mnch love you. / never
loved any other woman but YOU"
Never any but me, Mr.. BusbyP
Never, never, never You are my
first and only love-"
"Why, Mr.. Busby. I have heard
that you have been engaged eight times
already"
Eight times, darliDgl Eight
timesi What a wicked slander. I
have been engaged only five times /
pledge you my word Of honor"
"And you didn't love any of the la
diesf'
well, now I'll explain to you how
1t was. The first, you know, was Mary
McCosh. / was young, then didn't
know myown mind. After wasengaged
70 her | used 10 90 around to McCosh's
at night, and just as soon as got into
the house they would want me to help
them move the piano. ] helped carry
that piano upstairs one night and down
stairs the next night right straight
along for three weeks / thought il was
mighty strange how eccentric they were
about the situation of that piano, and
one night when dropped the corner
on my toe, / went in the parlor sudden
ly 70 rest. Who should there be but
Mary, kissing young Ferguson, and
when 1 protested, they both laughed,
and Mary said her pa had persuaded
her to change her mind about me and
take Ferguson. So saw sbe didn't
love me and | broks the engagement on
the spot"
"That was the first"
"Yes. The next was Henrietta
Peabody. think Henrietta was fond
Of me. But she said, one evening, that
her mother was resolutely opposed to 9
man with light hair. j offered to dye
mine, but Henrietta's mother hated il
wOrSe when it was dyed than when i
waslight / told her would think whaf
could do and went homo to reflect
When / called the next day they wouls
not let me in so wrete to Henristti
TO say that our engagement was at al
end. Subsequently she married maj
named johnson, in the stove business.
"And who was the third r
"The thirdi Let me see. Why
the third was Julia DObson. YOu'v
met her. / was deceived in Julia Dol
son. After we had been engaged thrs
days, she told me she'd had an awfu
dream about me. She said che dreams
that L was a tattooed cannibal wit
wings, and that I broke into the hous
one night and after flying from the h'
rsT rsen e % 1ns me q cane do%n SHa M al
! ale her pa and her ma an
> her aunt Louisa and the twins and th
colored girl. asked her if she didn
: think il little unreasonable to dReaI
that ate the colored girl, and she sal
she couldn't help it; the bad imPressis
was Just the same. She could not be,
the idea of marrying man whom 81
could never see without thinking
+ that cannibal with wings; so broke {
= that engagement, too. Hanged if b
d Iisve that Julia Dobson ever real
l. loved me-"
!, "Who did you say the next one was
Il "Let's see McCOsh, Peabody, De
1t son-Dobson-Oh, yes The next o
was BERTHE Magruder. I never kns
g exactly what to make of that girl. S
I" declared that she was fond of me, b
I" she insisted that I ought to help h
10 and her mother with the house cleG
,e ing. So the first three days after '
in were engaged, Twas washing windoy
scrubbing floors and MASKING my (
=. gers with The tack-hammer, trying
- put down the carpets. 1t struck
- as a mighty queer way fer a girl to
Z press her tender feelings for man;
hs they were a peculiar family. One da!
"a stepped in a pail of soap-suds and up
~ it on the parlor carpet, and old Mag
= der, her father, you know, was so n
that he said if | didn't leave the hO
he would throw me out of the wind'
BERTHE said it would serve me right il
did; SO concluded maybe her Ia
* light, SO as to speak, had fickered I
'er SO handed in my resignation"
Chow about the fifthf'
I'D "Oh, that was Lucy Bannister. | I
to her in despair, because ! felt SO
81 ly about the Magruders- was ne
really engaged to her. She acceE
me conditionally. She would have
our when made fortune I began
ing for oil in our back yard, but be
hat I'd got down ten feet she sent me "
that she had accepted another fell
y is some kind Of an officer in the ma
ow corps, think. Anyhow my affect
were blighted. Now I've come to
up You'll say yes, won't you'll l n
knew what love was until / met ,
low an tell you what I'll say" obs
ed Miss Lazenby. "I'll say No? a
low viii bid You good evening"
As she walked out of the room,
mt. by looked sadly after her and thel
am picked up his hat, moved slowly to
'nly door, and went out.
ssThat," said he, ''is the sixte
girl I've proposed to, and she throw
over I'll try seventeenth toner
,aw- and if she fails then I'll try suicide
fes- But he still lives and is yet b
Al. / lo,