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


| could sec that Anna Gayler was out
of his books forever. But what j
couldn't see was goin' on, jest in that
identical space O time. Brother June.
was findin' out his own heart at last
He looked at Ruth an remembered
what good true friends bim an herd
been during all their pfanks and
capers. He was discoverin' what
beautiful face she had; for she was the
handsomest of the three, an how she
felt at bayin' helped in mortifyin' him
She was a good, true girl, was Ruth,
under all her mischief. s,
q Ruth, says brother, coming up
closer to, her an holdin' out. his hand,
don't say no more; please don't It's
/ who ought to begpardon of Anna, an
all of you, / do lt-especially of. you,
Ruth L know now that 1 haven't ever
cared so much for Anna a2s-ras i have
for somebody else. What a blind
fool "a man can be. if he only tries,
Ruth, came down this road Tonight to
get maT4'ied- to woman / thought /
loved; please don't be angry, nor. think
me a -veather-cock as L We seemed to be.
l want to 60 back an tell Anna, an
your folks an mine an a1uthe~ village
that Pve married the girl love. There's
the difference. '. - .l'fF
'e'Ruth Gayler started back from
Brother june. I could see how white
her'face had grown in the clear light.
June, she says, sharply, Fl don't
understand. AS she spoke She tried to
draw away her hand, and June went on
qgiekly:. But / de, an I must make
you see it. o.
I'll quietly turned away, under pre-,
tense O. the horses bein' restless I was
dumbfounded. June an ]. she stood
there, with me little way Off. They
talked an talked. I would only catch
june S. voice now and them; not hers
at all. s l. knew now that she loved
brother. an that whatever he said,
she'd have to fight against herself, or
June would carry any point he chose
the han some, persuadin', shamefaced
fellow - e-rr.si 5
sfeAlI at once he turned round and
called out with laugh that rang over
the fields: 'Hurrahl Brother Eben; I've
won my wifei' An he came over to
The sleigh, half Ieadin', half liftin' Ruth
Gayler in his arms, with her a-laugh;n'
and tryin' to make him keep still an
goodness knows what all. I fined in
with all the fun, an we had real good
frolic. But it ended in our goin'
straight on to ParsOn Latham door an
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Ruth Gayler, blushin' and tremblin',
bein' married then an there, before my
eyes, an my driVin' home to the Gay
lers' in my best style.
you can imagine how the village
was stirred up when next day part o.
the story got out. Only part; for all
the widows folks kept Anna share in
it still as a mouse; an so did june" an
me. Everybody wanted to know why
in the world the two young folks'd been
married in that queer, sudden way
Nobody outside of us two families ever
/ found out. AS for Anna, she was just
as delighted as any woman could be.
/ Shed suspected how Ruth felt and
I June, too, all along, an had hoped that
after this joke was all over, brother
might think some day seriously o.
Ruth. But. of course, she'd no notion
of so sudden a wind-up of the thing, in
just the way she wished. AS for Ruth
why, she made June the best an
4 lovin' est wife in the world an he $
! been as happy with her as the day is
long, at the farm. Good Cheer.