Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-07-18

under age. The law be on her fathers
side like. so to save trouble an gete the
job out o. hand, I've coined right along,
an If you'm ready for me, I'm ready for
you. IT'S q six weeks job, an the day
bein' Monday, an the hour noon, maybe
you cude make a note of 1t in wan o
your prison books
"If Bill had axed the man TO hang un
he couldn't looked more surprised
81 thot to come here quiet, an do the
time, an then go home along, an no
body any the worse he seq.
"'Caan't be- SEE the man. i wish
could take e in, for I'm sure you'd do us
all power o. good, but you must get
the usual introductions. daresay the
maids faither'll manage all that for e
right an regular when you go home
an tell un what you've done
'Ess, he will, sure 'nough,' answers
Bill, 'awnly I'd hoped TO save un the
trouble. Us was gwaine to keep the
weddin' secret till I'd took the punish.
mont of the law on it. Then when tn
auld man up an said as he'd send me to
chinli, should up and said back as I'd
bin
THAT was the end of Bills notion
! He tramped it home to Merivale, an
next day marched off TO see the innkeep.
er an tell un how matters stood. Apple.
bird was in q sweet mood, luckily
| enough, for win the hour he'd sawld
! the rick what Bill had saved for a
! i'-pun note more'n he'd reckoned 70 gete
! fort. But it made it harder for Bill in
a manner o. speaLin', because before he'd
got time to bring out his bit of noos
/ Applebird SEE: 'Ah, Bill Nogwell, you've
/ come at the right moment, my son.
/ Here's five shillin' for e along o. savin
| the wheat-stack awhile since
bill, he sEawk theer an then, wi'out
! takin' the money:
"'What you SEE be Fighter than you
/ knaws, master | be your son. Me an
/ Polly was of mind, an us married each
other in Exeter yesterday marnin'. Us
bant in no hurry, as youm so set again
| it; but us tho't as theer weern't no harm
in maxim the future sartin, so us was
married.
AUD Applebird sat back behind the
| bar, an he was tn surprised to be angry
| for awhile. Then, arter he grasped hold
o. what Bill had said he sent a stable
boy for a policeman an tongued Bill
proper.
"'ESs fay, I knawed you'd do that
sen Bill. while he waited an Applebird
dravcd breath. I knawed you'd have
the law o. me, an when l was in Exeter
artcr we was married, Polly an me went
down to the guol, an was for gwaine
| in theer an then to save e trouble but
/ they wouldn't take me. You'd got TO
summons me furst, and then I'm brought
up in due coourse afore a justice, an
he sentences me to six weeks for mar
ryin' a gal under age. 1 tho't to have
saved e all that confusion, but it can't
| he, they towld me. So you'll have TO go
/ through wi it, an get six weeks
"'SiX weeks, you damn young rip
bust out Applebird, sweatin' wi rage.
/ TIL have e theer for six years hard la
| Dor, if lawyers can work it,
"'They can't SEE Bill. Six weeks I'll
| get-then I'll come back TO Merivale.'
at happened that the p'liceman
couldn't be found just then, an Bill,
sayin' as he would be at his fathers
house, went Off. He waited till evening,
but no pliceman coined. Next day he
went to see Master Applebird again
an the auld man tawld un to get out the
bar, but he said nothin' bout the p'lce-
man. An four followin' marnins he
went TO lnaw when the pliceman was
comm. Then Polly coined home an
faced the mooSic, but you see, Polly was
wound too tight around her fathers
heart for un to cast her off or anythin'
outrageous like that. Then in the
spring Bill's father died, an twas found
he'd saved a matter of eighty-three
pounds in silver, which had took fifty
year o. fuzz-cuttin 10 do. But theer it
was, an when auld Applebird heard as
Bill meant buyin' fraish paper for the
cottage walls an improvin' the place
general he was interested; an when he
heard Bill was specially aXed to paint a
CERT elephant on a sign at Travistock for
two pounds ten he was 'mazed with won
der.
Eighteen months dawdled by, an
tH'i NplhNh tic TAI ~ lllt SlOlN dS !
said. Wan day Applebird sees his dar'
ter helpin' the servant gal downstairs
with two boyes, an he also sees a bwoy
wi barrow fore the inn door, waitin'
"'Whcer be gwaine?' he SEE TO Polly
"'DOwn long to my husband, Bill
Nogwell's house. seq Polly.
'Neyer-not while l can stop e,
he answers back. but rather tame like
for theer was many things in his mine
by that time.
God bless e, father she SEE, Coo
bless e, but you CANT stop me. d.
e knaw the day?' she SEE.
Ono he seq.
"'My birthday she SEE. Il be coined
of age, an loves e so dear as ever. an
Bill no less than l did when us was
married, IT'S my bounden dooty, deal
father she SEE.
1.-THE aud man answered never word
but he stood at the door with his ger