The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-03-01

Indeed! I'd ike 10 I1J nlE stiii
farther. Great grief! Wouldn't he be
dandy piece of bric-a-brac to have
around the house seven days in the
week-always with a white necktie,
writing lectures on pink paper! Your
sisters a nice woman, but don't think
much of her judgment when she Tries
to pair you off with that-that-'
"Oh, go ahead and say it. I've heard
it on the stage so often that I'm De-
coming hardened to it,"
Your sister has it in for me, hasn't
she?"
"Why, Harry, / don't think So"
eyes, YOU do think SO, too, and you
know so, too. She objects to my com
ing around to see you so often
"But you don't come often"
There are seven nights in the week.
| have been here six out of the seven
"Of course, you do come often, but
what / mean is, that you don't come
too often"
"Well, it isn't too often for me, as
long as you don't mind. But you can
depend upon it, when she says sarcastic
things about the young men of your
acquaintance, she means ne"
DO you really think SOP"
"Of course. You probably haven't
heard it yourself, but there is rumor
all over the South side that | am head
over heels in love with you, and that IL
you refuse me ! will probably throw
myself in front of an Illinois Central
train"
why, Harry How you go on!"
even the y'nor-who is about the
last man on earth to catch on to any
thing-he heard about it, and asked mo
if I had come to an understanding"
"What did you tell him?'
81 told him that / would be able to
report in a day or two"
"Iow in the world do such stories
get out? You haven't been paying
such marked attention to me, have
you?"
Haven't 70"
"Iavc you?'
"If I haven't it's because / didn't
know how"
"Why, Harry"
81 have logged your footsteps for two
months"
81 hadn't noticed it,"
Everybody else has,
"But you never said anything"
81 know it, but I've been trying oif~
ferent kinds of nerve food preparatory
TO saying something"
"You seem to have found one at last
mo. it was this Ilotchkiss news that
aroused me to a sense of my duty. Up
TO this time | have been restrained by
a sense of my own unworthiness, but
when IIotchkiss is named as possible
riyal-well, that's different. AS COM
pared with Hotchkiss, | am good
thing. Any girl that ia threatened
with Hotchliss ought TO be willing to
marry almost anyone in order to save
herself. He is something dire"
Harry! How dare you rrsak Of
such a thing?"
"Who-what? IIotchltissP
mo, before that. What else did you
say?"
"When?"
"Why, Just moment ago"
81 don't remember"
at was something about marrying"
"Oh that's what you want to talk
about, is it?"
"No. it isn't. ! simply want to know
what you mean by saying that would
marry anyone. You know better than
that"
NO; / said you would probably be
willing to marry me, if only to escape
from IIotchkiss."
"rhat isn't what you said, at all"
"That's what | meant, anyway. I'll
tell you, you've either got to take me
or put me out Of my misery. | never
did have such violent attack before"
"Oho? But You have had other at
tacks? Only this one is more violent,
Is that it?"
"Of course, | had good many girls
at school,
Tndecdl"
YES. but never felt this way before.
This is the first time | ever wanted to
lick every man that even looked at
her. | don't think those girls ought to
count at all. OF course, we used to take
them out boat riding and hug them
a little"
"a littlc?"
But, pshaw! What's the use of talk
ing about them? VIII you?"
"Will am to understand that this
is proposal?'
81 don't see what else you can make
out of it,"
We'll, it's the strnngcst proposal |
ever received"
81 thought perhaps you'd like to have
me vary the form. | knew you were
tired of hearing the other kinds. Now,
If you will only depart from your usual
custom and say Yes instead of No that
will help matters still further"
ooh, very well want to be just as
original as you are
Then ! take ii that am accepted"
You haven't any of the symptoms
Of a man who has Just been accepted"
Pardon me. | didn't mean to keep
you waiting"
Tableau.-Chicago Daily Record.
Dreadful Death Awaits This Tommy.
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