The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-06-04
APERILOUS WOOING.
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grown up kuSEC WAS Io 4OuRGT aHg
peace or qc:et 3. Husa5y. In fact, all
tho hnndsoaest young fellows in the
village did nothing but fight and quar-
rel night after sight, and it was always
worse on Saturday nights. AsIang's
father, old Carute Husa5y, never went
to bod OH those nights without keeping
on at least his leather brooches aud lay.
ing good stout birch stick on the bod
beside hin. '1f ! have suck q pretty
daughter" aaid old Canute, ~ must
know how 10 take care OF her"
Thor Ncsscs was tho only sou Of a
poor cottAgef, and 80: foikt said that it
.wGs no who went p:ienest to visit the
farmers dAuahtorrl ausahy. o! course,
old Canute was not pleased TO hear this.
llo said 1t was not tIuo; that, ut any
ratio, no had neYor seen sim there. Still
they smiled and whispered to Zach
other that il he only had thoroughly
searched tho hay-loft, whittier Aslang
had many an GRAND, he would have
found Thor there,
Spring came, and ASKING went up tho
MO untain with the cattle. And now,
whom the heat OF the day hung over the
valley, the rocks rosc cool and clear
through tho SUMS misty rays, tho cow
bells tinkled, tho shepherd sdog barked,
Aslang sang her iiodeP songs and blow
the cow-horn, all the young men felt
their hearts grow sore and heavy az
they gazed upon her besuty. And on
the first Saturday evening one after the
other they crept up the hill. But they
came down again quicker that they had
gone up, for 1t the TOP stood a
man who kept guard, rc-
ceiVing each one who came IN
with such q warm reception that he all
his life long remembered the worda
that accompanied the action, "Come up
here again and there will be still more
in store for you"
All the young fellows could arrive at
but one conclusion, that there was only
one man in the whole parish who had
such fists, and that man was Thor Nes-
set. All the rich farmers daughters
thought it was too bad that the cot
tager's son should stand highest in AS
lang Husaby's favor.
Old Canute thought the same when
he heard about it all, and said that II
there were no one else who could check
him he would do it himself. Now,
Canute was certainly getting on in
years still, although he was past sixty,
he often enjoyed good wrestling match
with his eldest son whenever time in
doors fell heavy on his hands.
There was but one path up the
mountain belonging to Husaby, and it
went straight through the farm gar
den. Next Saturday evenings as Thor
was on his way to the mountain, creep
ing carefully across the yard, hurrying
as soon as he was well past the farm
buildings, man suddenly rushed at
him.
"What do you want with me?" asked
Thor, and hit him such blow in the
face that sparks danced before his eyes,
"You will soon learn that" said some
one else behind him, and gave him a
great blow in the back of his neck.
That was Aslang's brother.
"And here's the hired man." said old
Cmute, and attackedehim also.
The greater the danger the greater
was Thor's strength, He was supple as
willow, and hit out right manfully; he
dived and he ducked; whenever blow
fell it missed him, and when none ex-
pected it he would deal good one.
He stopped down, he sprang on one
side, but for all that he got q terrible
thrashing. Old Canute said afterward
that che had never fought with
a drawer fellow" They kept it
up till blood began to flow, then
Ganute cried out, "Stop" Then he
added in a croaking tone, "If you can
got up hero next Saturday, in spite OF
Cannte Husuby and his men, the girl
shall DO yours"
Thor dragged himself home as best
he could, and when he reached the cot
tasc went straight to bod. There was a
great deal of talk about the fight up on
Husaby hill, but everyone said, "Why
did he 90 there?" Only one person did
not say so, and that was Asiang She
had becn expecting Thor that Saturday
evening, but when she heard what had
happened between him and her father,
she sat down and cried bitterly, and
said to herself, at may not have Thor
/ shall never havo a happy day again
in this world"
Thor stayed in HIS bed all Sunday,
and when Monday camo he felt he must
stay on whore hp was. Tuesday came.
and it wins a lovely day. 1t had rained
in the night; tho hills looked SO fresh
and green, the window was open, sweet
odors were waited in, tho cow-bells
were tinkling on tho mountain, and far
ND above some one wos "jodling."
Truly, II it had not boon for his mother.
who was citing in the room, he could
have cried. Wednesday came, and still
he stayed in bed; on Thursday, though,
| he began to think about the possi-
bility OF being well again by Saturday,
and Friday found him on his legs again.
Then he thought OF what Aslang's father
had said, "If cGu get mp to her next
Saturday without being stopped by
Canute and his men the girl shall be
yours" Over and over again he looked
| up at Husaby farm. II shall never see
another Christmas" thought Thor.
As before mentioned, there was but
one path up to Husaby hill; but surely
any strong, able fellow must be able to
get to it, even though tho direct way
were barred to him. For instance, il he
were to row round the point yonder
aud iasten his boat at the one side, it
might be possible to climb up there, al
though il was so very steep that the
goats had great difficulty in climbing it,
and they arc not usually afraid Of moun-
tain work.
Saturday came, and Thor went out
early in the morning. The day
was most beautiful; the sun shone SO
brightly that tho very bushes seemed