The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-03-09

n dandy piece of brc-a- brac 10 have |
around The house seven days ia the |
week always with white necktie, !
writing lectures on pink paper, houi
sisters nice woman. but don't think
much of her judgment when she tries
4 to pair YOU OF with that-that--
= "Oh. go ahead and say it. I've heard
it on the stage SO often that I'm be-
coming hardened TO it,
"Your sister has il in for me, hasn'
she?"
"Why. Harry. | don't think So"
"Ycs, you do think so, too, and yor
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, il 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 me-
do you really think so 2
"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 guynor-who is about the
last man on earth TO catch on to any
= thing-he heard about il. and asked me
if | had come to an understanding
"What did you tell him?"
r II told him that | would be able to
q report in day or two"
IA .Uow in the world do such stories
u get out? You haven't been paying
such marked attention to me, have
e your
Haven't ~
h "Iiave you?'
IF / haven't it's because i didn't
d know how"
"Why, Harry"
D. IL have logged your footsteps for two
| months"
n II hadn't noticed it,
N Everybody else has"
lie "But YOU never said anything
4 IL know it, but I've been trying dit
10 fe~ent kinds of nerve food preparation,
re to saying something.
C. "You seem to have found one at last.
"No. it was this Iiotchkiss news tina
Of aroused me to a sense of my duty. VI
IS to this time | have been restrained b.
re a sense OF my own unworthiness, bu
!" when Uotchkiss is named as a possibl
| riyal-well. that's different. AS com
~ pared with IIotchkiss. ] am GOO
ut thing. Any girl that is threatepe
to with Hotchkiss ought TO he willing
marry almost anyone in order to say
e herself. lie Is something dire"
W Harry. How dare you speak c
such thing"
err .Xho-what? lIotchkiss?'
m NO before that What else did yo
?" say"
tic "When?''
list "Why. just moment ago.
IL don't remember
ut was something about marrying
ra .Oh. that's what you want to tai
ut about. is it?"
NO. il isn't | simply want 10 kno
what YOU mean by saying that won
marry anyone. You know better tina
that"
NO; said you would probably
/ willing to marry me. If only 10 escal
: from IIotchkiss.
I THAT isn't what you said. az all.
"That's what I meant. anyway. |
, .ell YOU. you've either got to take II
or put me out of my misery. new
did have such violent attack before
H. "Oho? But YOU have had other
~ tacks? Only this one is more vioier
- is that it,
II "Of course. | had a good many gil
n at school"
a Indeed"
~ eyes. but never felt this way befo
s. This is the first time ever wanted
81 lick every man that even looked
her. don't think those girls ought
count Mt ALL OF course, we used to "a
Ho- them out boat riding and hug then
a little"
'azy "A iittle?"
.ver ..But. pshaw. What's the use OF tn
( it ing about them? Will you?"
mo- .Will lam TO understand that
me is proposal?'
At a II don't see what else you can ms
sub out OF it,
on? "Wcll. its the strangest propose
- is ever received"
And II thought perhaps you'd like TO hi
nub me vary the form. ] knew YOU W
tired Of hearing the other kinds. N
her il you will only depart from your us
custom and say Yes instead OF Not
the will help matters still further
adj. "Oh. very well. want to he just
AIRY original as YOU are.
M Then take il that am acccpte'
pom. "you haven't any of the symptc
, thcI OF a man who has just been accepte
, her pardon me. | didn't mean TO X
YOU waiting"
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