Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-07-04
A PIECE OF RoMN ACE.
How . Young Lady from the South
and o Tramp Made Love
on Ksntuckey Soil.
rLittle Rock (Ark)Gazettel

Little Rock (Ark) azettel
Yesterday M. Robt. Preston and W if
q couple who were happily united fewe
days ago, arrived in this city en.route for
Texas. The story of their marriage is
rather romantic one; not that it abounds
in hairbreadth escapes or of blood in
large or small quantities, but thst--well
that it is romantic. s.. s-E
About four years ago Miss Emma
Roland, of Galveston, visited an aunt In,
Warren county Kentucky. 1t was sum-
mer, the season warm, and one evening
the girl sat in the yard. half reading ana
half regarding the enormous bum BILE
bees buzzing around. A Warren county
bum blepes will attract attention any wnere'
He can make you think that he Is tangIlng
himself In your hair, and looking around,
you see him ten fee. away, clinging to d
THISTLE bloom. That's enough about
the bee. a foot.tep didn't arouse the
young lady. 1t WAS voice. that said.
Can 1 get q drink of watel2'' Two arms
and the chin of q tramp leaned on the
tencs. He was dressed in the tramp's garb,
wardrobe at once SO describhbIe and
lnuescribable. II say, can l get some
water7'
"Yes," said the girl. -- .-- ..
must go round to the gate or climb
over the fence?" Tr ~
both, ii you choose .-# & .....r--
~ hats the way like to hear people
talk" said the tramp, climbing over aud
approaching. Now. wher's the water.
"Ill bring il" .r...
You'd better bring the we'll, for I'm
dryer than q barrel of bromophyre,"
The girl went to the house aud returned
with bucket of water. When the man
! mad finished drinking she did not tulnk
e. k,aA taA 70 Iref Il m
| fact, she aid not tnink that his comparison
| had been adequate.
+ what BOOK are you reading2"
/ Mill on tue Floss" g. :
| "Overrsted. l never liked it. All depth
| or no depth, don't know which. Str ain
1 ed Characters or NO Characters, don't know
| which. The move ist has tried TO write q
story without we'll defined plot. and has
failed. Goldsmith's success as q plotless
aud charming writer was bad example. -
| You shouldn't tear my favorite book
to pieces. l like George Eliot and her
| works. ..se.
You don't like Mill on the Floss You
| have been nodding over it for the last
half hour. You only pretend to read il
because you imagine that in doing so you
develop literary TASTE"
/ II toink, sir, you'll are impudent."
But truthful. Here's book you
|
his ragged At o tattered copy of Burton
Anatomy of Melancholy. DIR. johnson
/ said that this book was the only work that
could induce him to get out OF bed, morn
nlgs. sooner that his regular time of rising
And that's why you like il" remarked
the ri !, taking the book. IF DIR. John.
son handn't made that remark you would
not find the work so charming2"
That's all right Give II. Q some mole
| water"
! The conversation was pursued until the
tramp accepted an invirtation to supper.
| Ills idea of Burton and johnson was sOOI
covered up wi b butter cakes. THE tramp
Mr.. Preston, remained all night Mex
| morning, when he annouL ced his inten
| tiOn of leaving, the girl accompanied hi n
to the spot where she sat when he hailed
her.
| why do you tramp around; have
you no homer
YES, as to the home Don't know as t.
trampitg
/ Whisky"
I whisky"
! "Why don't you quit?''
/ "When?"
Nov, on one condition. That you viii
consent to be my wife. Meet me unde1
this tree four ears from to day"
Il will"
I "Good-bye," and ne climbed the 1enc
and was gone. No correspondence wa
carried on between them. fhe manly
handsome face of the tramp hung befor
the girl like portrait Deep, earnest eyes
merry laugh accompanied the tramp
Several weeks ago the young lady visitet
her aunt. One evening last week she So
under tree in the yard where four year
before she nodded over q book. Bees buz
zed around the same bees seemingly. o.
her lap lay "Mill on the Floss" near he
q tattered copy of Burt MS Anatom,
of Melancholy A buggy drove up. 4
man slighted and climbed The fence
"Mr. Preston ..... .-..
"Miss Roland"
There was no indication of tramp il
the. handsomely dressed gentleman. TIL
clear, earnest eyes showed no lurid ligh
kindied By Satsn's breath. Cissped hands
kisses, renewal of vows. THAT evenin
the buggy went .to Boiling Green. Mex
morning happy couple left on q south
bound train. They are now in the city
stopping at the Grand Centeral. To
morrow they will leave for Texas.