The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1894-02-24
Harter county don't suit her That's
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u argumentatively, do you think sh
has had her picko I'm not marrying
man myself lit was believed that h,
d had left wife east somewhere), "bu
it really seems to me that you gentle
Is men fell over each other, and stepped
e on each other. and naturally stood IL
l. each Others light in trying to please
o the lady. Candidly, have any of you
s asked her to stay?"
= There was somewhat blank silence.
r "Ah," said the Indiana man, u
!, thought as much I--thought-as-
muchl You see, each one of you has
!. been so afraid some one else would get
ahead OF him, that you've done more at
trying to defeat each other than at adj
vancing your cause"
Looks SO, said the storekeeper, de-
jectedly.
ut might be now" said the Indiana
man insinuatingly, that If the lady
was asked, she'd settle here"
Tho company looked furtively at one
another. as though each one was COW
ertiy calculating the chances of be-
ing the first to slip away and get
chance to put this momentous question
unulnuercQ.
The Indiana man laughed. mo" he
said, you're all in one boat now.
You're all watching each other, and
nobody's going to get the chance to go
out to Bar alone"
The best thing for this we're crowd
t do" said old Hank Pearsau from a
back seat, where he had been quietly |
smoking, sis to come long 18th me in a
body up to the Bar 6. Most all the |
available matrimonial timber O. Harter |
county's hyer Pm well 'quainted 18th
the lady, an I'll engage t. ask her. free
an contdenshull, if there's ennything
IN the lot she can make out with"
I'VE really ought to go over to say
good-by,' said the storekeeper anxious
~. "You boys can come in nv room
here and fix yourselves up"
If the storekeeper favored the plan
because he thought it might help him
to dispose of curious drift of '.gents'
furnishings" on his shelves. which
seemed to have accumul ted there some
time during the pliocene period, he was
highly successful
Purchases were solemnly and judi
clally made. The basin, towel, broken .
mirror and blase comb in the corner
were IN constant and violent requisi-
tion and for half an hour the rear end
OF the store looked like the greenroom !.
OF any amateur theatrical troupe Then =
the shutters were put up, the lights out
ponies mounted, and the cavalcade took
its way, with courage that ebbed at g
every step, to the Bar 6.
Miss Eula seemed somewhat awed II
and astonished, not at the visit-such o
'aus had been common during her u !,
'tay--but at the manner of her visitors.
They might, had the number been suf-
iclent, have been readily taken for the is
'all-bearers going in a body to a u
uneraL hi
When the party was finally seated. "a
here fell a solemn hush. Old Hank n
'earsall. who seemed n cons;dar H., lii
Elf elected chairman of the meeting bv
ne silent suffrage of the eye, deemed
MS fitting time to speak. Rising, he
'aved his hand toward his companions ST
Ike Snowman exhibiting COLLECTION Re
curious animals.
1--WE heerd, miss" he said, 'thet you at
uz thinlin' o. leavin' us Harter va
'unty IL miss ye. They amt nothin' ye
arter county wouldn't do to try to %,
sep ye. IT seemed 70 some o. us :
et eff yer wuz pervided weth sat 80.
factory pardner, ye might be more ~,
Their notion t. settle hyer Now
Is, ?" with another comprehensive Ces- -:
re, "ez the layout" He spoke with ''o =
me depression. as though the goods,
the whole. did not look as well as OIL oi,n
had expected 'tYou know Their -, ~
cks an galts by this time, ma'am, n uai
whether there's anything in the -
ove 'twould do we. Some's old, but 0oo
APPS they'r stiddier; none o. 'em don't A
ndsome very much, but they're all him
liable sound an kind. an if th' one cen
pick don't travel jist to suit We, here's CT
rest O. us to wallup him into shape in L
we. Can we trader" nor
'ome years ago, all well-conducted G,
aales were represented, in literature ~. 7,
least as fainting upon receiving a So. Q:
posal OF marriage. 1t is to be re- 81 a.
ded to the credit of Miss Eula's A,
yes that, on receiving a round half we
en- at one blow, she neither tainted 10.
screamed. ~
Why, the fact is, gentlemen" said D.
divided between amusement and
m, that your proposals overwhelm e.. e.
oxoress;o,, Iii, ,';.IIs w cent'
b of all of you collectively to ac- iurn
MS sounded we'll. hut somabow q land
rather unsatisfactory. The band of ,ooo'
,rs looked one at the other n 500 - dates
comfort might be extracted from and
nd, finding none. looked gloomily
n and twirled their hats.
eing unrelieved depression, Miss "N
tried again. 1.-THE fact is" she said
that your kind offers--or offer with
IS too late, anyhow Pm engaged r.