Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05

kept his boat tied, and as we scrambled
down the bank he peered anxiously be-
meath the foliage of the big tupelo, and
turning to me with look of disgust, he
calculated,
DUN my liver eff the boat amt gone!
Some cuss O. the earth has stole that boat.
| wish | had him 'twixt my thumb an
finger; | d crack him like nit-the good
for-nothin' hellyon!'
That's rough luck said |.
Eyes, an wen halter fish from the bank
The moon II soon be south, so here's at it,
dad drat it.
Suiting the action of the word, we
were soon seated in the shade of the over
hanging bank, watching our corks for a
bite.
''Hello-o,'
The challenge came from across the
stream, and the echoes went flying heller
SHELTER through brake and fen, and We
both started with surprise, for there APP
peared ON the opposite bank a man and
woman.
''HeIIow.' answered the Squire, what
dye want!'
1--WE want to cross" answered the
woman.
Boats gone!'' said the Squire.
Who are YEP"
Hits me an Bony,' cried the woman.
"Me an S'manthy," squeaked the man.
Great jeewhilikins' exclaimed the
! Squire to me. I'll bet hits a runaway
match-well, what in the thunder an
blue blazes aire We up top
'Who alre you?" squealed the maided,
whose ear-sightedness was such that she
! could not recognize him.
Squire Leatherhead- don't We know
me?"
She turned to her companion and we
could hear her repeat to him the name of
the Squire, for Bonys deafness prevented
his hearing across the stream.
''Is that 20, Squire?" squeaked Bony.
''In course hits me. What in the name
O common sense I've all want?"
We've run away, and pap's a ter us,
an maybe Bud Joab, with the gun. Oh,
Lordy!" squealed S'manthy, as she laid
her head on Bony's shoulder. apparently
heart-broken.
eve want to get married Squire, -
yelled Bony, as he pressed his arm around
her waist and tried to assume as defiant
an attitude as his bow legs would permit.
Can t we git across?'
kin We swim?''
"Bony kin, but I can't, sobbed
S manthy.
LET i'm take ye on is back
She repeated the suggestion to Bony,
who released bis hold of her waist and
drew back from the bank of the stream.
Hes afeared to risk it, whindled
S 'manthy. "Oh, mercy, Lordy, what
shall [ do--do-hoo-hoo?
"Have you got the icenses?' bawled
the Squire.
Eyes, sir, Bony's got 'em, " and explain
ing to her lover the purpose of the query
the latter pulled off his hat and removed
from the crown white paper, which he
held up yelling:
Here they aire, Squire; signed, sealed
an delivered, so help me God!'
81 m not a-swearin' We, We blamed idjit
Kin We read emp
Says kin We read emp" said S 'manthy
to Bony.
GI"Yes, stree. Eff We doubt my word, I'll
show ye," and he proceeded to spell out
the words, one by one.
"That'l II do | b'lieve ye're straight, but
eff ye fool me, I'll wiring ye're bla famed
neck, an yourn too, S'manthy Do you
wanter git married?' cried the Squire at
the top of his voice.
Yes shrieked S'manthy.
'"That's what we're here fur, yelled
Bony. who for the first time understood a
question.
"Well, I'm regular 'lected iestice O.
the peace for the twenty hundred
twenty ffth-deestric- UNDERESTIMATE"
Yes" cried S'manthy
81 do, yelled Bony.
Il tell We wi t I'll do--great powers O
Yeurip, I'm Ct lin a crink in my neck
hoilerin' so mi lief yell answer the
question I'll hairless we up 'thout cross n
the river, seem ye're in such connip-
ton"
"Wiil We, shore nough? Oh-ao-hoo
-hoo!' shrieked S'manthy, ''holl' me
up, Bony, fur, b'lieve that l shall surely
Did we hear me, Bony?'
Yes, an much obleeged.'
Look out then. Pick yer ears, so S We
kin hear the declaration, Bony, an min,
now, you've got ter come an gimme
two days work soon's We kin cross the
river, We hear?"
Yes, I'll be thar
''I'll come too" shrieked Smanthy.
all tIlSln 1lCtuSCS, 81 . ALL
sign 'em In form O. law
''I'll tend to that" cried S'manthy.
Here goes-Dearly, beloved, we have
met, tergtther-( watch my hook thar
to, silibrate-hn We hear?"
Yes answered S'manthy.
Yes answered Bony, bending for
Squire, in an attitude of intense attsn-
ton.
''A-hem! Whar wus I?"-(Ding the
luck! [ b'lieve | got bite. Pull up my
hook and self the bats eat off. Here we
go-Bony Driggers, do, you, take,
that, that, ere S'manthy. Slayback, to
be, your, lawful, an welded, wife? (Oh,
the devil, ! left out part, but hits only
form ~
What must l say?' yelled Bony.
You hol' your grip. I'm runnin this
ere shebang. The answer is, Il do. -
Mus l say it?''
I'm course. ye Internal idjit-"
Il do-oo?"
Now, s'manthy, hits your time
('Watch my cork thar, | b'lieve to my
soul hits red-belly)-S'manthy, Stay
back, will, you, take, that, ere, Bony,
Driggers, fur-yore- lawful-an' welded
-husban', to = stick to him ('Drat
the luck, I've strained my voice SOS I've
forgot the form
What mus | say?"
Don't say nothin', We blasted num-
skull till l tell ye-to, stick, to, him,
through, thick an thin-(Durn it, that s
not adzacdly the way; but hit soun's like
poultery an they don't know the diff
fer nee ~