Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-02
THE SQUIREs PROPOSAL.

LIE OQUlRh D ThUfUOAh-
''No, Samantha Jane Peabody, you won't
stir one step to the singin' schools amt
goin' to have you gaddin' about the hull
blessed time. You'll stay to hum one
evenin', jest to see how it seems
s'You h'ain't been out single evenin' this
sceek2 Wal, what of it +? If you should stay
IN another week, ,twouldn't hurt you none,
I guess.
''No, I Rain't forgot avhen I acas young,
nuther. 'Tain't so long ago that I should
forget it. When I was at your age, staid
to hum, and made myself useful; I didn't
spend the heft of my time spinnin' street.
yarn, as the girls do nowadays. used
to spin fax an wool, an make butter an
cheese, an wash, an iron, an bake. An
all did was done as it orter be. But as
fur you, you jest furry round, half doin'
what you purtend to dew, SOS to be a-kitin'
off some'eres, an I'm goin' tew put stop
tot. I knew how 'twould be when your
garden sent you to the 'cademy.
"What's that? You told Sam Skinner that
gould go to the simgin' school, an he's sOnain'
fur ye2 Let him come here on SIGH an ar
rant as that, an I'll tell him suthin' he
won't want to hear agin! I've had as much
as want of the SINNERS sence your father,
who never had no more judgment than
baby, pinted the deacon tew be your gar
deem. He's for ever meddlin' with things
that don't consarn him, an 'Lijah, Sans
father, is off the same piece. Itwas 'nough
tew put me out of conceit of him few see
him sidlin' up tew the Wilder Peters las
Sabbath-day evenin' an his wife not in her
grave six months yit.'
'.MisS Peters is has wife'S brothers. acidow?
What's that to dew with it? I like to see
folks show some respect to their deceased
pardners Your father has been dead eight
years come March, an there amt none of
Of the male sect dared few hint at SIGH a
thing as my takin' anybody in his place.
sYou should think 't,vould take considerable
couraqeP You'd had a new father long
afore this if I'd given some folks any
encouragement.
''There's Sam Skinner comin' cross lotS9
Yes, an maxim a straight Decline fur the
door. That's what you've slcked yourself
up so scrumtious fur, with that red ribbon
in your hair, an Sunday go-tew-meetin'
dress on. I've as good mindas ever I had
tew eat to make you go an take it off. %
In walked Sam, a tall, strapping fellow,
with curly black hair and eyes of the same
color, with sly, roguish CLEAN in them,
which reminded one of his uncle, the dea-
con.
"Good-arternoon, Mrs. Peabody. How
dye do?"
81 amt any tew well, nor any tew glad
to see you, Mister Sam, to speak politely.
| see you over tew the elders t'other night,
an you seemed few be very merry. Yer
uncle thought he'd got good joke on me,
bit he amt quite so smart as he thinks
himself
ooh, pshaw Mrs. Peabody; there don't
nobody mind what Uncle Ike says. He
will have his joke, you know; it's jest as
nat'ral to him as to breathe; but he don't
bear no malice. Good-arternoon, Miss Sal
mantha, Gale late we II have a nice clear
evenin' fur the singin' school. I called
to say that I'd come fur ye a leetle arter
seven"
"You needn't trouble yourself, Mister
SAM; Samantha amt goin' few the sing
in school So if that's all the arrant you
have, you'd better be goin'."
"'Twon't be no trouble, not the least
mite, as I'm goin' the same way myself.
That amt all my acrant, nuther. Dad
sent message to ye, though don't s'pose
you care to hear it"
eff yer father sent me a message, Sam
Skinner, I'll thank you tew deliver it,
oval, he told me to tell We that he was
comm over to see ye this evenin'. But 1
don't suppose you'll care to see him, SO I'll
tell him not tew come"
why, how you delc run on, SAM Inev-
er see the beat on't-never! Strange you
can't take joke. OF course I'll be glad
few see yer father Him an me used to be
great cronies when we was at your age, an
there amt no KNOWN what might have
happened if Jonathan Peabody hadn't
come along"
81 s'pose the old man thought the coast
would be clear this evenin', Ell, Samantha?
On his account Pm really sorry you are tew
busy tew go. P'raps you'd better consider
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