Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1891-01-16
No. 3.
POLLY MADE A MATCH.
Bashfui Youth Helped Out by bird
That spoke Up.

IA parrot is usually regarded, know,
as a very mischievous, meddlesome bird.
and all the stories are of their interfer-
ence and trouble making, but ! have al
ways believed that | owe my life's hap
| piness to one of them" remarked Mr..
1 NJ. c. day or two ago 10 the st.
Louis ohe-Democrat's Attica IN. W
correspondent The story being en-
treated, Mr.. c. continued:
II was the most hashful youth you
over saw, the very shyest imaginable,
especially where ladies were concerned.
| was fond Of their society, enjoying II
so that sought 1t as often as could,
and yet at the same time in perfect
agony OF bashfulness II required to an.
swer the simplest question, or to express
an opinion on any subject while to be
asked to button glove or any such lit
tie service would throw me into such
state Of nervous excitement that usual
ly ended in making an awkward Ounce
OF myself, | visited at one house where
the girls or rather, two of them, romp.
ing, high-spirited misses, took the keen
est delight in playing upon this bashful-
other sister--the eldest--I bore this pa
tiently, for, while she could not always
refrain from laughing at her sisters
pranks. and the confusion they threw
me into, she herself never teased me.
But to get TO Miss Polly. She was a
green bird with a yellow head and
wicked eye and habit of walking in
the flower garden, where in little sum
mer house fitted up as a parlor the girls
were fond OF entertaining their COM
pany during the pleasant months, This
bird was sitting one day on a trellis
near by, when in state OF the greatest
excitement | came to this summer
parlor, and, meeting servant, sent Miss
Nellie word to please meet me there. /
had heard that rival had appeared on
the scene and that it was thought that
the girl had loved so long in silence
was fayoring the newcomer, but | had
made up my mind to find out the truth
OF tho report by speaking at last In my
own cause. ! had fully determined in
doing this, which seemed an easy task,
till caught sight of her sweet face as
she advanced toward me; then my cour-
age iled and in abject terror | waited
for her. | stammered out some foolish
speech intended for an apology and sat
looking at her, dismayed to see how un-
usually quiet and doprosse she seemed,
while Polly, walking up and down the
trellis, watched us both suspiciously. AT
last, just as | decided to put it of, as
had decided hundred times before, that
parrot paused in her strutting, and,
leaning over, urged: Kiss her kiss
her, quick you goosel My heart
stopped beating and ! scarcely dared
steal "a glance at Miss Nellie, but when
did she was blushing so divinely, her
lips were SO tempting and, we'll, there
was a look in her eyes that told me a
delicious secret; so, with sudden cour-
age, leaned forward and with a May
/, Nell? followed Polls sage advice.
"Ycs, my wife's name is Nellie, and
Poll, now gone the way of all flesh now
stands upon our mantel, beautifully
stuffed and priced most highly. In all
probability | would have allowed the
treasure | coveted to slip through, my
fingers had she not helped me out, for
my wife has since told me she had just
decided 1t was lost time TO continue to
love a man so bashful that he would not
take his own, and that sho would try
and like the other fellow"