Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1888-02-22
A Sudden Wooing.
HOW THE RED-HAIRED DINING-ROOM
GIRL CAUGHT A KANSAS HUSBAND.

From the SedGliG BDzOO.
"Come in"
The invitation was extended in an
swer to a knock at the front door of
the Goat House.
A stranger stepped in, set his carpet
sack on the floor, threw the water from
his hat with jerk, and went up to
the stove.
damp out of doors?" said the
landlord.
eyes"
!Live in town ?"
"Me."
Eyes, SIR"
mo"
"Came in on a train this morning,
eh?"
"Me ?"
"Yes, sir"
ayes"
"Traveling's pretty dangerous now,
amt it?'
Eyes; been all mOrnln' coming
down from KnObnoster."
Live up there, do yOu?"
"Me ?"
" Yes"
"No, live in Kansas"
"Got any kinfOlks at KnObnOster ?"
"Nary."
Wife's people live there, maybe ?"
"Got no wife,"
Sweetheart, then?"
"No, darn the girls, anyway"
"Then may ask you what you
stopped at Knobnoster for ?"
"You may. Been living in Kansas
so long my throat was burnt up for 6
drink. and 1 stopped there to wet my
whistle"
"Going to stay in Sedalia awhile p
"Me ?"
"Yes, sir"
"lDon't know, lookin' for job"
"What can you do? What Occupa
tion?"
"Well, l worked on a farm awhil
and edited newspaper and dickere'
some as land agent and run a dru
store and peddled books and thing
and mussed around some with a res
taurant and carried on a prOtracte
meetin' and chopped some cOrdwOod.
Preacher, are your"
"Me?"
"Yes, SIR"
mo. Why?"
"You carried on a prOtracted meet
ing ?"
"Oh, yes. I built the fire an sweT
the aisles and rung the bell at tn
meetin-hOuse for my share of the CO
lection"
"Well, if you stay in Sedalia you
find this one of the best and cheape'
hotels in the city. Table supple
with the best the market-house afford
sheets and pillow slips changed as O
ten as necessary, water and a towel
each room, two inches of candle eveI
night"
when dye have dinner ?"
" Dinner time"
"Bill of fareP"
"NO, SIR"
1.-TWO kinds of sOup?"
"No, only one"
1.-TWO kinds of meat?"
ayes, sir: pork and SOW belly"
Anything to drink ?"
Eyes, sir: two kinds Ofdrinks-aq,
pura and Flat Creek"
What's aqua pura~
"A new kind Of drink"
!. ooh"
"Will you register?"
"What?"
"Put your name and address on
!. register of guests here"
The traveller wrote in a scrawli
hand on two lines of the book, JAG
= Francis Crumgull, Abilene, Kansa
L He ate his dinner, paid 81, and to
4 a stroll about, leaving his grip, a
promising to return to supper.
did, and the dining-room girl stood
n hind his chair ready to attend
81 every want.
Neither spoke for some time,
!. knife and fork beating kind of tat
:, between the plate and the young ms
teeth.
Finally he said, looking over
shoulder.
- "Nice weather."
'en "Looks like rain," replied the CIR
married ?"
Is "No, sir" returned the girl BIT
ing.
-, "Want to be, l s'pose?"
oys "Te he |" giggled she.
=" "Got any sweethearts ?"
"No, sir"
"Want one?"
IN "Te hel Oh, git outl"
SIS "How'd you like me for OneP"
81 don't know you"
"Don't take no time to get acql
ted said the bOarder laying down
knife and fork and wiping his m
on the table-cloth. II live in Ka
got little farm, own some cows
CT pigs, drink liquor three times a
'-1 when can get it, and have an
what belongs to the Baptist Chu
"But you amt been here
,, enough for me to find out much
you yet"
a Amt 1 good lookin' enough ?
eyes; kinder sprucy like"
"Don't wear good enough clot