The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-02-14

not Jenny-d nor Ruth-d, Don't YOU
recollect last Mohdavs eyenin' Ell That
settled it. I've abjded by Chat piece o,
paper. She said she'd have me. It's
done; an 81 IN glad
- Well said I, i give you JOY,
juno though 1 must say your way o.
clearin' up your doubts amt to my
taste for common usage. Annals a fine
't =. But III that ain,t.all. Brother Essen,
he went on. Annals got an amazin'
queer notion b, gettin' married. 'Tseems
she's been a =rcadin' some novels or
stories and so forth; an I guess they've
made her fanoifuk She thinks that it'd
be grand fun"to surprise our folks along
with ma an the other TWO girls, by US
two bein'. married on the sly, the night
before Thanksgigin'y-an' then comm !
ihon9e en- delliRL'eTn. ! dot4't see anv
fun in that-not a Bit l think it looks
rather foolish 9d3Vt "A nn5st = decIafe l
don't know what's got into Anna!-she
Win hold to it! The long and short of
it is that You've promised to do
it. saws ].
q Yes heanswers. sTssappese t'lla
make a Stir; but that can't be helped.
. I've promised. None of her fOlKss nor
ouusmust know anything abeut'ourien-
gagemept yet, On .TbanksgiYin' even
in' Il IN % eall f6r Anna viii sleigh
! want .yP0u tJ come along too Eben.
WeH 20 straf6ht down to Battle Hill,
toAP ASoff 1AtbAfir's;I an have tlie khot
tied, ~ TbenrWe'lL come back, and let it
Quito the widow an Jenny an Ruth.
After that the whole crowded. US viii pile
down here, an have the pleasure Of
seein' father an, mother an everybody
heEe opeA their eYes.f ThatS gamma
fJeak EA1 f-said,- fdon't specially ad-
mire it. but, still, | give in to it
Thinks me, Master Frank, there's
some gaue herefhat clever girl up to!
Mebb9 Ean' hot8 sBnt told Juniper
I'd 60 with him on Thanksgivin' night.
You two can sit in the back seat and
a II drive, l SAID. iBUne laughed. s~TSee
Here, June, 4 saySafmoh1ent latertiust
ias we went up-the stairs, L hope that
you'll never let Anna know how it as
that you picked her out from her sis
! terS- II a-~~.f
"June blushed an stammered some
thing like Cert inly mott would have
come out this way in any ease, AM
went into his room. II m, / Thought,
I'm not so sure of that...Lmust give
YOU good talk tomorrow.
'sFWhen i tried to talk, EhOwever,
L
what he was doing so he persisted.
Apng was the girlewho would make
him lust the wife he wanted; an the
Stone- farm was all ready for EN- to
move in right away. He had rather
takenla fancy, he remembered, toRuth
at one time, but that hadn't amounted
to anytbing1 | said no more, but |
Kept Stp1guiIe a-thThkiif{ Il rsgF5
The night before Thanksgivin' of
that year was as clear as q bell There
was three feet o snow all over the
country. At seven O'Clock June an [
drove to the GavIer's door. Almost
before, I'd got the horses stfff a figure
all tightly wrapped up slipped out the
gate. Poor Anna! She seemed terrible
nervous rs June helped her into the
seatby him. ft
''' Oh, June, heard her say. 1 al
mostrwish. I'd never thought O. this
silly plan
June did almost all the talkin' while
we spun down the street and out on the
| Battle Hill turnpike. Anna sat with
his arm half round her, and seemin for
the first time to realize that she was
| talSin' an important step in life.
q hardly looked at EN- after Anna
was in her seat by June The horses
was in a complete gale. L had to give
them my hull attention. 1t required
! whip an Teins an everything else to
make lem behave. The parsonage at
/ Battle djl is only two miles an 4 half
| from eour.yillage. We fairly flew over
the road. Then, Just before we passed
the big gates that led to Squire Lotus
! place, Dollar gave a lunge. That set
4 Prince a-goin'. Before L could help it,
| they wheeled sharp, Overset the sleigh,
| an ran themselves up to their shoulders
in snow bank, There they stood. We,
| meanwhile, were pickin' ourselves up as
best we could.
"In the name of goodness ]
/ heard Juniper shout IN Il voice that
] frightened me half to DEATH, 1 scram-
bled up and looked at the other two. 1t
was bright moonlight. There stood
| Brother Juniper. In front of us was
the person who'd come with us in the
4 sleig h--Ruth Gayler. -
- Before either of us couldsay a word
she burst right out cryin'. Then fol
lowed the queercst, most miXed-up and
ginerally surprisin' explanation of what
had took place an how it had come
about, that ever | expect to hear in all
my mortal life. Most of the time Juni.
per Just stood there pale and bewildered
/ put the best part Of the. bad questions
\ there was to ask, holding the horses
heads. 1t must have looked a curious
/ pieWreM E<.ATFiEs
!. Our hired help and Lucrctia Tabb,
1AwhOat been dreSsmakin' at the Gaylcrs'
for a couple o weeks, off an on, was
great friends. That night when Broth,
Ser June had drawn that lot-we' d ought
both TO have been ashamed of our
I selves for such sfoOlishness- our AL
II mira'd overheard the hull affair She
told Lucretia Tabb. And what does
p -Eucretia debut tell Annsr;- an AnnatolU
her sisters.
FAT first Anna was pretty well put out
ut Brother-June. aThen when she an
Jenny an Ruth talked it over, they
couldn't but laugh an call it all rea
Joke on June. Then they put theil
heads together directly, 10 find out ,
way to punish June for coming to on,
of them with an offer under such cir
Ecumstmces. That was why Anna'C
Fcontrived the stolen wedding.
Z, ''Wben they first planned it out. Rutl
(whO had plenty of mischief in herr
was perfectly willin' to undertake the
part arranged for her-she to NEE
Brother June, instead of Anna, in the
dark. That'd be easy; the girls haC
all much of a height, figger. and voice
When we'd reached larson Latham
steps, shewas to pull of her wells anj
. hmake allow bow TO poor June an say
MIR. Juniper Kittery. I've brought my
sisters compliments an she hopes tina
! the next time YOU ask girl to marry
Won, vou'n know whether YOU love he
or whether-anv of her sisters mfghtn
do just as well-Eespeeially, she hope
j You won't toss up for her Then sh,
was TO hold out the identical piece o