Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-10-06
william Flunlrcd.


IL was a farmers wagon, and in 1t
was the farmer, wife and daughter and
a young man OF about %. He had long
hair and 2 dreadiully homesick express
sion Of countenance. As he set beside
the girl on the seat his back was bumped
ND and his eyes seemed to stare into
vacancy. The girl had red hair and q
complacent look. The outfit drove up
20 the Michigan avenue entrance 10 the
City Hall, and the farmer turned 10 the
Young mar and said:
Come William-you get a license
right In here"
~ don't wanter!" replied the young
man as the hump In his back got up
and bumped itself a little more.
But you've got 10. You asked Sary
20 have you over a year ago, ana 1 don't
propose TO have any more foolin'
around"
at haln't right by Sary," added the
mother.
"He's backed out three times" put
In Sarah, as she looked carelessly
around and chewed vigorously on q
Quid OF gum.
"Put'er off till Christmas" pleaded
William with vne foot over the side Of
wagon.
Not a burned put" Stoutly replied
license! II they want any Of US you
come TO the door and holler."
If you didn't want Sary what did
YOU ask her fur?" demanded the moth
err. 'Hain't she good 'nutf fur you?
Hain't we as good as the Beebes? I'd
like TO know II we hain't?"
~ could hev married somebody else"
said Sarah with a tess OF her head. III
anybody don't want to marry me don't
want to marry them. II he wants to
funk let him do it!'
"Sary. you shet upl" exclaimed the
father. 'Tm runnin' this ere morriage
bizuess myself, asis my duty to. When
! 4 Teller has spanked my gal FUR three
years-when he's sou in my parlor every
blamed night fur twelve months-when
he's sot the weddin' dSo three or four
times hisseli, and backed water every
I time, then TO take . hand In and ask
him what he means"
Cant l wait a month"; asked VIII
liam as he stood on the hub Of the
wheel.
Not q blamed mint! You git that
/ license! That's what you agreed TO do
last night, and that's what you cone TO
town FUR to-day"
William dropped to the curbstone,
shook some OF the hump out CT his
bsck, and toiled up the steps disappear
] ed within the building. Sarah chewed
gum and looked az the street cars,
while the old folks watched for Will
liam and talked about the wedding,
/ Hail an hour passed and the man be-
came nervous. AT the end OF smother
fifteen minutes he jumped down and
entered the building. To q policeman
in the corridor he said:
.Tm a-Iookin' fur q lop-shouldered,
/ h~ump-backed Teller about % years old
who had on a gray suit. He come in
here fur a marriage license"
How long agC?'
"Purty nigh an hour"
- met him on the Fort street side.
Yes, I remember him, He slmyly
passed down the corridor and out OF
the door"
Glow was he lookin'?'
Rather pale and Wild"
and breathlR' hard?'
"YeS."
And gIancin' behind him?"
'Yes-loo6ing over his shoulder"
And what sort Of a gait did he
have?"
almost on a run"
"FIuuked agin, by thunder" ex-
claimed the father as be struck the wall
a hard blow.
"How luukedP" querIed the officer.
"Nhy, he's shook my gal, beat the
ole woman and bilked me, and was pro-
baby safe In Canada half an hour ago.
I think III 60 down 10 the river and
look across. Mebbe I'll see William on
the furreign shore, and il l do want to
make q few moShuns at him. want TO
make q moshun Of pickin' him up and
moppln' him over ten acres Of plowed
ground and then breakin' him in two
across my knee and THROWN the pieces
into the hog pen! I turn TO the left and
keep right down, don't 1? Thanks.
William, I'm on to thee olSger'n a
house,"