The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-06-13

big house to themselves. She takes
seat at one side of the room. and he at
the other. They are very still for
time.
1t is mean to play eavesdroppipg, but
an ex-reporter heard "the courtin'
agwine on.
After a long silence she says: '.I
hearn somethin' about you, Bill"
He says: '.Now, you didn't? What
did you hear?'
''Oh, I hearn that w ware a takin'
on about Mahulay Scrogs."
''l.aw sakes alive, Mary Jane, nuver
thought of takin' on about that thare
gal. I hain't seed her in coon's age.
Who tole you?"
81 hearn it.
"But who tole youP 1t amt SO, But
say, who tole you that?n
s'Nuver mind, hearn it."
"Law sakes alive, Mary Jane, it amt
SO at all. tell you | hain't seed that
ar gal in month of Sundays"
So they 90 on. The above is fair
specimen of the talk INDUCED in. And
Bill Stegall has been paying his adj
dresses to Mary Jane johnson ''nigh on
to two year" Sunday after Sunday
had he gone and INDUCED in just such
badinage, and had ''nuver come to the
pint.
Once. indeed. he had faxed Mary
Jane if she had her heart sot on any
pertiklar place in Upper War Eagle
what she would like for home. And
she had smilingly answered: mo, l
hain't, Bill. Any place is good huff if
everything else is right"
Bill had nerYed himself for desper-
ate effort to ''retch the pint that sunny
Sunday. All the auguries. were in his
favor. The old folks had gone on a
visit, the young ones had scampered
away, and the blooming Mary Jane
alone remained to welcome her lover.
Bill saw the situation. In the presence
of Opportunity his heart sank within
him. His embarrassment was plainly
evident to Mary Jane. She OWNED the
cause, fur she expected it ware COM
in" She encouraged him.
"Why, Bill" she said, chow purity
you do look this mornin'. l hearn that
you had got your weddin' close. Is
that so. Bill?'
"Weddin close? Who tole you sop
"Oh, | hearn that you ware a gwine
to marry Mahulay Scro IS right away"
''Mahulay Scrogs! Why, what a lie
somebody has tole. | hate the very
name OF that ar GAL"
And Mary Jane laughs and banters
Bill until he is two thirds mad, and
wonders why Mary Jane emit see that
he is ''dead III luve with hcr-she is
plum aggravatin, 50 she is" Bill fails
to see he drift of Mary James conduct,
all the while ''she's tryin' to help him
reich the pint. The bantering went
on until, in sheer desperation, Bill
''retched the pint. and told her with
stammering tongue that she ''ware the
only girl he could ever luye." And
then he taxed her if she would jine
with him. He felt "skeered" at this
point, but was speedily made happy by
the reassuring tones of his beloved, who
unhesitatingly replied:
CertinglY, Bill Why motif I've
been a-waitin' an willin' tur nigh two
year.
And he said, in an innocent sort of
way:
"You haveP wish I'd knowed it,
1 raley do. An you ware willin' P''
Certingly was, Bill. I've been
long time a-waitin' fur you to reich the
| pint. -
The next morning when the birds
were singing and the dew drops were
sparkling, Bill invited Uncle Jaky to
take stroll with him up "the mount
| in" and far into the gloomy pine for
est, in order to explain to him the state
of affairs between himself and Mary
Jane. Bill stammered terribly, but he
managed to reveal the awful secret at
last, and Uncle Jaky said, solemnly:
"pve a been expectin' this, Bill. [
rocking it's all right. Mary Jane is
mighty fine gal-she is, fur fack, Bill,
She can do most any ter work, an
she are good gal fur business. l sort
er hate to have her go, Bill, but then
rocking all the gals will marry some
time, an her time hev come. | recKing
you'll do right by Mary Jane. allus
liked you, Bill; did, fur fack,''
So it was settled that Mary Jane
johnson should take her place among
the matrons of the Upper War Eagle as
Mrs. Bill Stegall.
One day when the summer was in its
prime there was great wedding in
Johnson's Valley. C 1t ware a grand
affair, fur fack." The feast was sump-
tuous. Daddy Meals, an ancient hard
shell Baptist preacher, officiated when
Bill Stegall and Mary Jane johnson
''Ware lined. III d. DdclS. in The Chr