The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-09-04

seemed to care fox any st them unit
one day at a log:rolling she met Prim
us Kinked, = dapper young son O
Africa from Alligator. e, ;.
The following Sunday he came: *
see her, bringing IN his plaid hand
kerchief some big potatoes and d jim
Grow card to comb her hair. /.
When. a week afterwards, he again
made his appearance with his hair
standing out in i mop almost as big
as a half bushel measure and glisten.
ing and perfumed With cinnamon oil,
Aunt Anarchy smiled Land sententious.
~ remarked. 81 COX a heah, Josh,
dat boys comm coartin'!''
''How you know!'' said the colonel.
s. ..Cuz his hair am plum soak with
cinnymun .ils--shinin' man!-an
Prime Kinked amt de nigger to be
wastin' cinnymun ils for nuthin'."
+ claw, Anarky, you's allns surmisin,
somethin'. An's'posen he is courtin'
amt M'lindy ole 'nnff to git married!' !.
"Yes. reck'n she is," said Aunt
Aharey sadly. ..Ehe'lIbe about 20 or
80 year ole next roa-san:year time. y
"We'll lose a powerful good hand
when she goes; but I reckon it can't
be hep'd: folks gals will marry"
Aunt Anark's impression was con-
firmed on the following Sunday, when
Primus called again, for to the CHINA.
mon--oil extravaganza. Was added a
wonderful stove.pipe hat. which-if
it did have a tendency to depart from
the perpendicular in true Tower-of-
Pisa style-was still almost as black
shiny as the wearer's face. Indeed
had it rested against his forehead it
would have been difficult to say where
Prime ended and the hat began.
But that 'contiguity ofshsme'was
happily prevented by an interesting
tuft Of sun burnt kinks that jutted
out around his head like messy knolls
on a hillside. And what necktie!
Joseph's coat would have blushed
with conscious insigniacance by its
side! The moment all this gorgeous
ness blazed upon Miss M'Lindy's vi
sion, she knew that tho momenteous
question was coming that day, and be-
gan repeating to herself the answer
she was going to make; for like most
darkies she knew her courtin'
speech very we'll. In many neighbor-
hoods are old negroes, Chesterfields in
matters of ceremony and etiquette,
who take much pride in drilling the
young ones, and teaching them sets OF
questions and answers suitable for
courting. Frequently one set of big
words. strung together without a
particle of connection, serves the
whole community for years. Col.
Joshway Jyars Dingybury, and his
own ehildren's education in ''courtin
speeches. hadn't been neglected.
though he wound up by saying: ''Now
gals, you remember dis speech in yo'
mine, but take pappy's vice and don't
never marry till you can better your
perdiction."
As'Mr. Kinked entered, he describ'
ed a quarter circle 6nSthe floor with
his right foot, and with out-spread
fingers.gingerly removed the tower OF
Pisa, said: "Good mornin', Miss
M'Lindy, how is yo' health promul-
gated to-day"
"Bery serennihle nc cording to my
consillorities, Mr.. Kinked. I hope to
see you inja win the same blsssin'." "
"I'm very humbunctious, thank you,
marm," said he loftily, as he wiped
the cinnamon oil from his brow.
After a long silence Prime ran his
fingers thoughtfully through his wiry
tresses and said: miss M'Lindy
Jyars if a young gentleman of my
stability was to Come from his place of
residium, at Alligator, to call on a
yomg;lady of your stability at her re'
sidium at Dingybury, what might the
be!'
'.Dat 'pends on what yo' purposes
might be, Mr.. Kinked.''
"S'poses my purposes was courtn'
then what might you an
swer be, m arm!'
':Call on me a few evenings after
now an I'll tell you. My mind might
be more rocomcis ed then"
Now, M'Lindy knew then, as we'll
as she did 80 few evenings AFTER
that she would accept Prime, and he
knew it too, but was willing to abide
by the formalities of their lote-mak-
ing programme. After the ''few
had been counted OF he
smiled himself back, and after the
usual scraping and. courtesying and
exchange of *:sabilities" Miss M'lindy
turned her head to one side, put her
finger in her mouth coauettishly, and
said: 20, my kind dove. May be
y ou might be like the bird that few
up into the tree with basket of ber'
ries; when he came down the basket
was quite empty"
"Oh, mol" said Mr.. Kinked with a
tender, six inch smile. II never
adaviate nor neither accovait!"
At this satisfactory rejoinder, Miss
M'lindy smiled as if the lucid and in
telligent remark had been original and
replied: 30, my dear, kind, affection
ate dove; I came acrost the ocean on
the horn.beams Of love, and I picked
10 the rims horns and plowed 4 thohs-
and acres, and only dropped one grain