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

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What aOwre IS like my Ladye?
Along the Ineaflo espapke Iroye,
= And searcbe the howFes Ger ~
~ ne er searched before.
There is noe towre, wecne, ~
In allie the meadowes greene
Foe faire and swecte
That il is mcete
To serve as symbolic fore the one love.
What fowre is like my Ladye2
- Not daisy = mid tae grasses tale ----
lis but a couutrie lass
Laughing wthe ale ghOe pass II
Mhoe scOrne or piuck at wales -
Pure, fnnocente, but stille
Mine IS well borne,
And hath a thorne,
Net rude bptPhe'Fing shee is not fore allie.
What fowre is like my Ladye2
The vioets have perfume swodte;i e-t Z 4
Modesto, an yet they locke
t4aiRtg in shady n00ke.
30 r uhoughtlesse, 4ho'fore the reste.
Their eyes of blue
Like hers are true: s--
But fore nylove theSsare not symbolic meete.
What aowre IS like my Ladye2
IN g purple ro fSfS aaeene, Bt III
Mitne leaves Of shining greene, -~
The headey Of Thoa WHO iove p ,'- "
Soc does not mine: $500 e. #T.a
She is noe vine,
TO proudlystFetch-oF rounde rude sticleslen-''l
---Fss1at4iovre isiflre.rny I5aiyee -----
1t music be "A howerete most rare,
Not foundc by evcrytaue,r
ESget g9teS sf 62T Rl'fSasf ~ s ndvne E4
AadsvFe soc 'Eafe y eSroa4Ge. A. = i
All mel knowe
There does not bl)we
q how're ike my Ladyo, halle soc fairC.
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JUMPERS WIFE.
~ say it--again, L-th inIS- that when. a
man iAa4 OIL as yon4 ara as-&ell-to-do
he 0Ngl4t~-t0- have Il wife, 'lATepeated
young Parson Frank, stoutly.
Ebenezer dropped the ak. " Look-a-
here, Master Frank. Don't ST. Raul
give kind of gineral order that men
folks are better single? Hain't | had
the hull superintendent + this big
farm for your ma while you vebeen off
TO your commentaries and Hebrew?
CONS now! BE Reasonable. Besides,
the KitterYszhain't never been Inarryers-
-haih' troubled none of your cloth
much. -
There's your brother Juniper
interrupted the young man, pertina-
ciously 2. =. q
time he had tyin' himself up sHnmpht
Not but that he done we'll enough
very well in fact, when be d accom-
plisbedjt@' "s. & 4sgTs
The Young mans ears itched at once
Tell me about that, Ebenczer," he
said artfully. q never heard how
Juniper came to be married y
Ebenezer began his narrative with a
pretense atchopping while it proeeededs
Ia, tn Ial tI,,,
on its head; from that to sitting down
opposite the reverend Frank and carv-
ing n letter of the alphabet absent
mindcdly on n bit of pine
You see, Master Frank, Juniper
was not of the same disposition as me
and brother Dan. He was the best
loOkin' of the three; straight an supple,
an with assparkle in his eye that he
hahn lost yet The girls to our village
1T WAS when we was all Twin at the
homestead, with father an mother all
liked him; an twas recipperated. First
Juniper was gon' to singin' school with
katey Parker, an then twas all over
the place that he an Liberty Ann
Myers was engaged. Next, twas Gin
l-~erad-JorBa nis's eldest daughter disre-
aTienlber her name-an' before we'd
fairly began plagu'iu him on the sub
ject o. Gineral JOS daughter, he was
attentive TO Mimy Bunce. Brother Dan
an sister Lie an me finally paid no
heed to the town gossip, but quietly
went our ways an let June 60 his n.
We was satisfied that he was merely
nibbln' here and experimental there
didn't mean to settle down on anybody
yet awhile.
" Now down to the lower end of the
village lived Widow Amanda Gayler
an her three daughters. The widow
was very smart, capable woman, an
her three daughters swell three hand
somer, cleverer, livelier gals never
grew. Everybody liked EN- Before
long, juniper was a frequent ealler
there. He rode out with Anna. the
eldest; or he'd come to church with
Jenny, the second; or he d be heard of
Syer 10 n dance at tho Corners with
Ruth, the Youngest. The three sisters
We're wonderful fond of each other-an'
fond of little quiet mischief together.
too, don't think they kept any
secrets from one another 1t didn't oe-
cur to me, Master Frank, for some time.
that brother Juniper really wanted to
marry one O. these agirls.-an couldut
make up his mind winch he wanted
But that was just the state 1he= was in.
on sec he 4 grown up with 'em all
FthHee an been 50 int mate with en-,
even while he'd been keeping up his at
tentions to half a dozen otler dirls. that
nv NaA' " -'AAh AttAO dDIldlGIlly ever
made deeper impression ON him than
the other. Fhey0was all alike-so friend
a---ly an, SO kind an, SO full of fun When
he came to settle down to goin' TO theh
house more than elsewhere, he was bet
ter pleased with TEN than ever; bun
whether twas Anna or Jenny or Ruth
that was the pint poor June was a
wrestling with internally, for weeks an
weeks. That fall his uncle, Jared
Kittery, died an left him the Stone
farm; AN brother said that he really
ought TO pick out a wife and settR
"0ne night / found it out He let
Va me understand, very sheepishly, inst
how he felt. You see, Brother Eben-
ezer' he said, L am terribly porplexed
an suppose | should lind utter wa,
married that I made mistake
"Well, June says /, Il don't Sc,
that yolt're likely to get far enough OF
tomake a mistake. A man who dom
know his own mind had better draw
lots for a partner / spoke rather
cOntemptuOus. l dare say. p
Brother Juniper jumped up from
his chair by the table with a sort o
angry sparkle in his eye; but no gave
short laugh. Not bad notion, Eben,
said he. l sat by the table, occasional
w sayin' word here an there will
reference to the three girls: how Ann: