Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-11-24
DICK PROPOSES.

"Lo, Mag"
"That you, Dick?"
"Aye. it's me, Maggie-hoo ore yer"
I'm brawly,' said Mag, little saul
oily.
Its fine NIGHT"
AYE, there's naething wrang wi
the NIGHT.
"Fine NIGHT for walk, Maggie"
IF that sac, hoo, dae we no gaze an
TAX yer walk said Mag, poutlng.
Dick looked cautiously into Mays
Iyes ana stroked his chin Il heard we
were walkin wi Bob Spaldin. he said
Narily
Did We, tho"
IAN that you an him were tae max
match OF. "
Did we, tho'?'
list no true, Maggie?"
"Speer nae questions, Dick, an I'll
tell We nae lees.
Dick stroked his chin again, looked
up and down the road and changed the
leg on which he had been resting.
IF it's no true. Maggie, " he said,
"I'll stop the stories that are gain the
roonds.
I'm much obleeged tae we, Dick
Lang" said Mag, giving her head a
toss.
It'll be nae bather at a. Ye ken
me better than that, Maggie"
"Dae tho? And what ABBOTT yer
sef, wha kens mare ABBOTT me than ken
myself?'
IAN We say it's no true-noo dinna
thraw me, Maggie, but juist up an cot
wi the truth, an I-T'-
Mag was staring at him, and Dicks
tongue chung to the roof of his mouth.
"Hoo's Mary McDougal?" she asked.
Il haena seen her in sax months tae
speak tae--Mary McDougal-michty."
Did ye cast oot?"
There was nae casting DOT ABBOTT it,
Maggie. There was never onything
atween us. I've kent the lassie a my
days an gaed wi 'er at an anterin time
juist for friendships sake. Oh, no,
Maggie, yer clean aft there.
so we say, but maybe I've been
hearin stories ABBOTT you.
"Wha-what did We hear?"
IN, never NINA.
"Weel, there a doom RIGHT lees, every
ane o. them.
Say as sure's death, an I'll believe
ye."
AS sure's death"
"Ye ken what yer sayin, Dick?"
y dae, if | should dee this mint"
"Wha put on yer tie for We, Dick
81 : ,,,i-
thrown roond yer neck. Come ere, an
I'll sort it for We.
Dick smiled affectionately, took a
step toward Mag, placed his arms
akimbo and held up his head.
There, now, said Mag, after hav
ing taken Oft his tie and readjusted it
a la mode.
Got yer wark a done, Maggie?"
"Ouy aye-lang sine.
Lat 5 tax walk. -
Mag ran into the house to "snode"
herself up bit, and Dick walk | up
and down IN front. humming, "We'r re
Il John Tamsan ) BARNS. When Mag
emerged, tartan shawl was thrown
over her shoulders, and a small bonnet
adorned her head Her cheeks We're
rudy as the rose, and her hazel eyes
sparkled with the happiness she felt.
"Whaur II we gae, Dick?" she asked,
looking HIM in the face.
"Whaur dae We think 2" asked Dick,
returning the look with compound in
terest.
"Ony whaur We like, Dick"
Il think We'll gaze doom by the burn
an alang by the trees, whaur we used
tae gaze, Maggie, We ken"
1t was delightful evening in the fall
of the year, and Dick Lang was never
happier III his life, with Maggie Woth-
erspoon, the prettiest girl in the village,
by his side But Mag was a saucy girl
at times, for she knew her charms as
every pretty girl does, and when she
was in the mood she loved to tease those
whose admiration or affections she had
won. Nearly every young man i'll the
village had made advances to her. and
with one exception she had turned them
all against her ON account of her saucy,
coquettish ways. which the young men
failed to understand, and invariably
sent them off in huff The one excep-
ton was Dick Lang, whose love fol
. Mag was a passion He had begun by
eying her at distance and gradually
getting nearer. AT first she treated him
with Indifference, and in his presence
had always seemed to think more OF
= some one else than of him. Bob Spald
ing was a strapping young fellow and
to all appearances made the most prog
ress in his advances. OF course Mas
had as much as denied that there was
anything between her and Bob, but SHIT
was so full of fun at times that in Ordel
to believe implicitly all she said it wal
Necessary TO have it in black and white
The fear that Bob would carry off Mas
made Dick all the more anxious to viii
her before it was too late. And the op
portunity he was now given was al
that he wanted. 1t was common say
ing about the village that Dick wa
rather long headed and knew "A gooc
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