The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-10

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Captain" he says, 81 love her
I'm a-getting on very well. and have
you any OBJECTION to our being en-
gagedi'
"What are yer :" says.
"1'm something in the city, he
answers.
Every good" I says, az must have
a court-martial on this here matter s.
| says "ring that bell
lie rings the bel, and in comes our
ugly little servant girl.
Il want NJ IS Katie | says. "and
some rum and hot water
When Kate CONF in. 10 liking so
sweet and timid and bashful | thought
of her mother the poor dead lass
loved SO deep an | tender-and | felt
Il choking come up from my poor old
heart into my threat, but | only SAYS
to 'em as they stood before me,
shan't have no engagement Just yet"
| savs; II can't spare my little g RI
til I've seen more of the man who
wants to take h,r from me; but you
can come here, mate, occasional" |
says to young All, "only shan't have
no engagement just yet"
But Pm AFRAID they didn't quite
each hold of my meaning about no
engagement, for they was such a time
at the front do5r that night that
stepped into the passage to look after
that swelling of the wood and | 'eerd
what young All said. lie says to her,
k.a lac.
And after that he com in occa-
sional every n CHIT. and the swelling of
the wood in the front door got wor e
and worser
One morning at breakfast, as |
helped myself to another bit of steak,
| made the remark that the p stman
was very late in pa sing. Hes got
caught in Il squall, expect" saws /,
cor git throw,d on his beam en- Is by
the ice"
"Why. don't you know. papa says
Katie, this is Valentines day, and of
course the poor postman has such II
lot of letters to deliver he's sure to be
little late. | expect letter mys If
this morning. she says.
no from :: | asks.
"IIave another egg. papa, dear" she
answers.
Sure enougi there came a valentine
for Katie from the young man she
were not engaged to. 1t was hijeous
thing-a lot of flowers and verses, and
lubber with a torch, as Katie said
were a hymn n, standing by ready to
set fire to tn whole lot and at the top
was Cupid, in the most undelicatest
clothes | ever see. He wore nothing
but bow and harrer.
"Isn't it love'y 2" says Katie, "Oh !.
pa, isn't it lovely 2"
NO." 1 says, 81 don't see no sense
in sending thing like TINT and that
Cupid" says, "ought to BE- ashamed
of hisself. Now there'd allen some
sense" l says. "if he'd sent you say
the picture of a ship, with you and
him a-shepping on board, saloon pass
engers, passage pad; and picture of
me at the top as Il gardening hangel,
a-superintending everything. But nm
derstand me-" l says, ain proper
clothes, not to catch my death of cold
like that undelicate Cupid -
l remember that day well, because
that was the time | had row with
Charlie All, and forbid him the house.
We was sitting together in the par
lor that night, Katie away getting sup
per ready. All of a sudden he says:
capita ain, what made you so awfully
bald?"
Now, | never liked his laughing.
ridiculing ways, and L answers very
short:
"Dooty."
GLOW do you mean 2" he saws.
We was in the China seas, one
time when was cabin boy on board
the Morton Bay"
EYES," he says; ego on"
eve was attacked by pirates" 1
says, "and the captain ordered Inc to
stand forrard and never to leave Il GER
tain spot on deck till he give me leave.
They carried cannon, them pirates did,
and they opened fire at me-"
"You didn't move?" he says.
"Not a inch," an wers, looking at
him steady; "but a cannon ball hit me
on the port siGe of the head
"You never stirred?"
Not a inch," l says again; "only
the cannon ball carried off all the hair
that side. think the pirates got the
range after that shot" says.
"Why?" asks young All.
Because there come a second ball
and hit me on the starb'd side of the
head, and carried off all the hair that
side"
We diln't talk no more for a spell,
and then he says, very serious:
"And how did you lose the top?"
81 was AFRAID there'd come third
ball" L says, land the top come off in
the fright"
"You've seen deal Of life, cap
tasn ?" he says, after bit.
eyes" / answers.
"Most of you old travellers have"
he observes.
"Aye, aye" answers.
"Some of YOU" he says, shave not
only experienced great deal, but you