The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-01-09

out interruption, and she and everybody
else retire. MIR. Trollope says little
salt is sometimes put in by somebody to
make the wick burn slowly, but when
the flame reachesthe pin, mamma comes
in, the "freying" is over, and day or
two afterward the pair are made one.
TIE TEXAS WAY.
They manage these things differently
in Texas. This is how fond couple
come to an understanding, according to
one who pretends to know. He sits on
side of the room in big white oak rock
ing chair, she on the other IN a little
white oak rocking chair. A longeared
deer-hound is by his side, basket of
sewing by hers. Both the young people
rock necessarily. He signs heavily, and
looks out the west window at the turnip
patch. At last he remarks:
This is mighty coed weather for cot
tOn-picking."
Otis that" the lady responds, IF we
only had any to pick" The rocking
continues.
"Whats your dogs name?'' asks she.
"Coony." Another sigh-broken still
ness.
whats he good for?''
'What is who good for ~ says he alb
stactedly.
- L our uOg tOO0y.
Fur kctching 'possums."
Silence for half an hour
HE look like deer-hound."
who looks like adeer-hound ~
"Coony."
HE is; but he's sort o. bellowsed,
an gettin' old an slow, an he amt no
count on a cold trail"
In the quiet ten minutes that ensues
she takes two stitches in her quilt, gor-
geous affair, made after the pattern call
ed Rose # Sharon"
"Your ma raIsin' many chickens ?"
Forty odd"
Then more rocking, and somehow the
big rocking chair and the little rocking
chair are jammed side by side, and rock
ing is impossible.
"Makin' quilts he observed.
''Yes," she replies, Frightening up, for
she is great ON quilts. "I've just finish
ed GORGEOUS Eagle of Brazil a Set
ting Sum- and Nations PRIDE Have
you ever saw the yellow Rose of the
Prairie ~
mo"
More silence. Then he gays:
do you love cabbage?'
Il do that"
Presently his hand is accidentally plac-
ed on hers. of which she does not seem
to be at all aware. Then he suddenly
says:
f'I'se a great mind to bite you"
"What have you great mind to bite
me for?"
"Kase you won't have me-
"Kase you amt asked me-"
"Well, now | ak you"
"Then now l has you"
Coony dreams he hears the sound
| of kissing, and the next day the young
man goes after marriage license.
| CAT AS A MEDIUM.
Some of our readers may have already
seen the following, but il is so good that
we cannot resist giving it. A bashful
young peasant was greatly captivated by
the charms of a pretty girl in his own
station in life; he was exceedingly anx.
iOus to ask her to marry him, and had
often resolved TO do so, but so far his
courage had always failed him when the
opportunity arrived. However, one
night he resolved to hear his fate in spite
of his modesty, so he started off to spend
the evening with her. When he arrived
to his joy her parents were from home
and she was seated knitting at the kitch
en- fire, with big gray cat lying at heI
feet.
Jamie sat down beside her, but not q
word could he say, till at the end of hall
an hour he Inwardly resolved to finish
this business - so, acting on a .happy
thought" he placed the cat upon his
knee, and stammered forth:
PUSSY, ask Lizzie will she marry
mes'
Lizzie blushed and smiled, but man
aged to say:
PUSSY, tell Jamie I'll take him.