Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-11-22
wOolNcs o. MALvINA MARSH.

First anybody noticed that Glen Ham,
mond seemed to care
Fer Miss Malvina Marsh was at the Nor
gan County fair;
He bought her lemonade that day, and
after they'd got through
A-lookin' at the sights, they say he bought
he" supper, too!
Well, elem he could afford it, he'd the
best farm therea bout,
And money in the bank in town and more
that he'd lent out!
His wife who'd helped him save it all had
died few years past
And so Malvina was the one to ketch the
prize at last.
Glenn was close on fifty, she want hardly
half that old!
Why, his son Dick was twenty-four, and
laws! how he did scold
And tear around when he found out about
the old mans case;
He said 1t was a shame and called him
crazy to his face!
Aud, that same night, they tell me, Dick
hitched up the old gray mare
And started down to SINNERS crick-her
folks was Twin there!
But Glen he only stood around and smiled
when Dick druv out
And scratched his head a bit, and chased
the guinea hens about.
~
paw had went to bed;
They worked around the farm next day,
and not a word was said
About Malvina till along lords milkin'
time, and then
Dick couldn't stand It, so he brought the
subject up agen:
He went on telrin' how his nav had helped
his paw to save,
And how she'd always worked as though
she'd been a regular slave!
'Twan't right to go and bring that girl and
set her up In style
On what his mother earned, said Dick,
a-frownin' all the while.
But Glen had nothin' much to say; jist
smiled away al Dick,
And, after while, h1tched up the gray and
druv to SINNERS crick!
And SO they took it turn about-one night
we'd see the son
And next his paW>a -startin' out; twas quite
eXcitn' fun;
And everybody from Calhoun's as fur as
Fosters Fall
Was bettin' Glenn would win or else that
Dick would spoil it all,
Until one day Malvina and her folks went
in to town
And bought lot of costly stuff to make
weddin' gown
Dick he went round a-lookin' down, with
nothin' much to say,
And all the while his fathers smile got
broader every day:
The women kissed Malvina and then talked
around and sighed ),
And said how sad it was she'd got to be an
old mans bride!
They pitied the poor thing and told how
pale she looked. and some
Appeared to think she wouldn't hold out fer
the day to come
% hor art hro Il hofnr
the fatal words was said,
And blamed her parents cause they'd let
Clems money turn 'er head.
But nothin' startlin' happened till the we'd
din night come round,
And then the folks seen sometI1in' that sur
prised EN-, I'll be bound!
Fer when we'd all got present and the
preacher took his place,
Glenn stood among us with a smile that
spread all round his face,
And, purity soon, Malvina, leanin' on the
arm of Dick,
Come in, and we found out how things had
went at SINNERS crck!
The preacher got 'em safely tied and then
Dicks laughing paw
Went up and kissed the blushin' bride and
Rugged 'er smilin' nav!
He told me all about it, after all was said
and done,
He'd jist a-been a-courtin' Of Malvina fer
his son.
Dick he'd been runnin' after girls his father
didn't like
And so the old man he got mad and thought
he'd make strike!
He seen his chance the day he met Malvina
at the fair
And done some fancy playin' of a deep
game then and there!
They've a little girl up yonder and her
foolish grandpaw he
Declares she's jist exactly like Dicks
mother used to be,
And when he calls her by the name of her
that's dead and gone
The tears come in his eyes in spite of all his
lettin' on
That he's jist laughin-Clem's a case-he
RELY is, swan!
$. E. Kiser, In Chicago Times-Herald.