Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-09-19

ter her father; he hadn't got nobody.
but her, an she knowed 'twouldn't be
right ter go of an leave him. Then
Stan he told her she needn't leave
him he want home much O. the.
time, an when he was he could be
with her, jest's he allus had bin !; an
he did think-though he didn't say 50
that Of he could put up with tho
cap'n, the cap'n might do as much for
him. 5. s IKE
But Alice she told him her8father
didn't want her to marry nobody, an
ct she did he wouldn't have nothin'
more ter do with her; an 'twasn't ez
of he was like other folks who had
friends ter fall back on-ef she left
him he wouldn't have nothin' then
she looked ut him straight, and she
! seq: sts# &
EFF loved man ever so much, I
wouldn't leave my father ter go of
with him, cause he has fust claim, ;
SEE she and Stan he come u step
nearer, and he seq: Il 4
:" DO you love me, Alice?' r.
''She knOwed she got ter answer that
question, and she knowed 'twouldn't
do ter have him come no closer, if she
was goin' ter do her dooty by her ia
Their. She'd never told q lie in her
life, but she looked ut him, and she
said it slow, like ez of twas u lesson
she was sayin' s~... - g.
"'No. l don't love you; you must
co." .s1% Z.
"'Twas queer, hlt Stan b'lievcd her.
A woman would "a knowed in u min
ute she wasn't tellin' the truth, but he
trusted her as he would angel, an he
took her at her word.
can the gate hadn't no more'n
banged arfter him when the old cap'n
jumped right out O. Il bunch o. syringas
an stood in front on her in his tall hat,
with a valise in one hand and q ON
brill in the other, lookin' bigger, rod
der, more bristlin' AN ever; he'd bin
there the hull time, an heard every
word; but all he said was:
"'Good girl! Done right! That's
the way ter serve young scalawags.
Ye won't have no more trouble from
'em; yer old fathers come home ter
stay
AN so he had. He'd give up the
command O. his steamer, an there he
was. - ~.
| well, Alice she took him inter the
house, an she give him his supper,
an mixed his rum punch fer him, an
sot by while. he drinked it; then he
wanted her ter sing ter him, an she
went ter the pianner an played an
sung him his favorites-an' he had a
deal O. taste in musician all the
! while there was poor STAINS despairin'
face in front on her, an you'd "a
thought even the cap'n could "a told
her heart was broke by the way she
was singin'.
can Stan he went off an jined a
party O. naturalist fellers who was
goin' on three-years' trip to / don't
! know where, arfter outlandish species
O. spiders an caterpillers an SIGH. He
didn't care where he went ter; he
didn't know the difference tween bein'
a man an able ter kite off when We got
hurt, an flourish round tell We felt bet
! ter, an bein' a woman an havin' ter
settle right down ter hum, an make
the best O. things. 81. 49,
IF a woman's got grit-an' she
gen'ally has-she'll go ter work, an
she'll pull through somehow; some
times it malsas Aerour an Grabbed,
but more often she turns her thoughts
ter another country, where, eff she
can't have the things she missed here,
the comfort'll be she won't want 'em.
''An' Alice went on dom her dooty,
keepin' things pleasant, an kinder
maxim it up ter the neighbors when
the cap'n quarreled with 'em; but she
grew paler an thinner every day, tell
she looked jest like shadder o. girl;
but she didn't lose none o. her pretti-
ness; she couldn't-long's there was
any thing left on her, twas 'bligcd ter
| be pretty.
"Well, after the cap'n had bin home
q year or two he begun ter find it
kinder tiresome; he'd done every thing
he could think on ter his place, an
twas then he took it inter his head ter
buy his monnyment; that KEEP him
busy for months; he visited every
marble-yard in the country fore he
found any thing ter suit him. He said
his monnyment was like a poor mans
suit o. clothes-he wanted jest the
right thing, cause it had got ter last
him. -
HE was pleased 'nough when he
finally got it sot up; he'd walk down
with Alice ev'ry Sabbath evenin' ter
see it, an he hadn't bin ter visit his
wife's grave fore sence she died; he
clean forgot ter have her name put on
the tombstone.
swell, things went ON in this way
tell one day he was took with fit,
and went to lie beside his monnyment,
and Alice was left ter take her Sab
hofh nxyaps,,s l. ~ . .