The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1879-07-18

He had just proposed, and she didn't
seem TO respond very heartily.
%, say that you will accept me. Say
you will have me, Tilly. You don't
knpw how much 1 love you. never
loved any woman but you
Never any but me, Mr.. Busby.
Never, never. never You are ny
6rst and only love-
Why, Mr.. Busby / have beard that
you have been engaged eight timts
already
Eight times. darling? Eight times !.
What wicked slander. have been
engaged only eve times. / Ipledge you
my word OF honor
And didn't you love any of the
ladies'
Well, now. I'll explain 10 you how
it was. rhe first. you know. was Mary
McCosh. Was young then didn't
know my own miud. After l was en-
gagged to her l used to 60 around to
McCosh's at uigh.. aud just as soon as
got into the house they weuld wan,
Ine TO help them move the piano. 1
helped to carry that piano mp stairs one
night and down stairs the next night,
right straight along for three weeks. !
thought it was mighty strange how &C.
centric they were about the situation of
the piano, and one night, when
dropped the corner on my toe. ! went
into the par.or suddenly to rest. Who
should see there but Mary, kissing
young Ferguson and when protested
they both laughed. and Mary said her
ps::had persuaded her to 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 fond Of
me. But she said. one evening, that
her mother was resolutely opposed to a
man with light hair. l offered to dye
mine, but Hcnrietta's mother said she
hated it worse when it was dyed than
when it was light. told her would
think what could do. and went home
70 reflect. When l called Eext day
thcy wouldn't let ms la, so l wrote to
Henrietta tn say that our engagement
WAS 1t an end Subsequently,shs mar
ried a man named Johnson, in the stove
basiness.'
And who was the third.'
The third! Let me ste. Why, the
third was Julia Dobson. You've met
her, l think. was deceived in Julia
Dobson. After we had been engaged
only three days. she told me she'd had
an awful dream about me. Said she
dreamed that was tattooed cannibsl,
with wings, and that l broke into the
house one night. and alter flying from
the hst-rack to the upstairs entry, and
10 the garret. l came down and ate
her ma and pa, and her aunt Louise,
aud the twins and the colored girl.
She said that the dream haunted her !;
sho couldn't get rid Of it. l asked her
il she didn't think it a littls unreason-
able TO dream that ate the colored girl
and she said she couldn't help it; the
bad Impression was just the same. She
could not bear the idea of marrying .
man whom she would never see without
thinking Of cannibal with wings SO
broke off that engagement. too.
Hanged If believe julia Dobson ever
really loved me-
Who did you cay the next one Was 2
Lets see; McCosh. Peabody, Dob.
-Dobson-O, yes! The next was
Bertha Magrudsr. l declared that she
was fond of me. but she insisted that l
ought to help her and her mother with
tho house cleaning. SO the first three
days after We we're engaged l was wash
ing Windows, scrubbing floors and mash
ing MY fingers with the tack. hammer.
trying TO put down carpets. 1t struck
me - . mighty queer way for . girl to
express her tender feelings for . man !;
but they were peculiar family. One
day stepped into bucket Of soapsuds
and upset it upon the parlor carpet. and
old Magruder. her father. you know,
was % mad that he said if l didn't
leave the house be would pitch me out
of the window. Bertha said it would
serve me right IL he did so; so I cou-
cluded may be her love light, 80 to
speak, had fiickered out, and handed
in my resignation
How about the fifthI'
o, that was Nancy Bannister. l flew
70 her in despair, because l felt 80 bad
about tho Magruders-I was never
really engaged to her. She accepted
me condi.ionally. She said she would
have mo when I made . fortune.
began boring for oil io our back yard
the next morning. but before I got
down ten feet. che sent me word that
she'd accepted another man, some kind
Of an officer 10 the Marine Corps.
think. Anyhow. my affections were
again blishted... Nov. I've come to you.
You'll ssy yes. won't your never knew
what love meant until met you.'
I'll tell you what I'll say. observed
Miss Lsxsnby. III say Nor and I'll
bid you good evening"
As she walked out Of the room, Busby
looked sadly after her; then be picked
up his hat, moved slowly to the door.
and went out.
That said he. is the sixteenth girl
I've proposed TO. and she throws me
over! I'll try seventeenth tomorrow.
and. il she fails. then I'll try suicide.
But he il bachelor and alive yet.