The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-10-15
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\ A RUSTIC IDYL. /
BY N. P. Murphey.

| Spendln his eVenln reaQln the DOokS
that do tache him how to coort in The
best style. What chance have av Parnir
the business, an me at work from morn
in to night?'
'That's thrue, Larry, but shure if "
only think repeatedly av the person "
love, thin afther time we get to do the
right thing to'ards her unknownst tt
yersel."
"Arrah, where have 1 the time tt
think ?" said Larry. "No sooner nor
light me pipe an settle down at the fire
an commence to see yer face, acushla
in the burnin sods on the hearth, whin
! yerrups, in comes the masther. Larry,
SEES, he, there's somethin on a sheep there
below in the field. Go down an give hel
this dose av physic.' An that's the way
it is wild me-"
tits bad to be set for time like that,
said Celia; ''but, talkin about coortin, il
must be very nice to have it done the
way the quality does it."
"Shure, I'd Farm" said Larry, eff
had some wan to tache me. Tell me how
they do it, you that sees thin at it."
'Wel, they use the grand manner az
talkin that you read av in the story
books"
'Musha, how could l get into that al
all? Shure, me tongue I'D be threppir
over itself wild iviry word. But I'd
sthrive to Parn just to PLACE yerseP
though, to tell We the thruth, I'm just
as happy to be walkin beside We wild the
tongue tied in me mouth an divil a word
pasSin atween US, good or bad"
Celia tossed her head.
" SGVUhofhOa chfrro That's moi
coortn at all. Ye might as well be q
pigs in the yard there below takin tt
coort."
"But, shure, we can talk widout spakiI
in the same way as the quality. There's
no ind av subjicks l have in mind
There's the childher below at Fagan's
wan av thin has the maysles, an there's
Paddy ConnelPs COW was taken wild the
murrain ere yistherday."
''But. shure." said Celia, there arc
things the quality do that we might
initiate. Now, l seen Misther Lambert
the other day do thing that | read a1
often in the story books. | saw him put
ring on Miss Rosy's finger"
"Blur an 'ounsp cried Larry, searching
vigorously in his pockets. IF it's a ring
that'll mex us be doin the thing in quality
style, be the lar, we shan't be amiss av
that" He produced a little ring, after
first turning out of his pockets a pipe, a
prayer book, pack of cards and a guam
tity of hay. Here Celia, take this grand
ring from me. Tessy Hanahan there be-
low gave it to me. She got it in wan av
thin penny prize packages"
| With great solemnhy Larry invested
| Celia with this testimony of his homage
and fidelity. While the ceremony was in
progress, Celia blushed and assumed an
| air of coyness, faithfully copied from
Miss Rosy, who had so recently been q
participation in similarly happy trans
action. She gazed with delight at the
ring, the diamonds of which baZed mag.
nifcently in the rays of the setting sun.
ITS rael good av We to do all this fol-
my sake" said Celia, reproducing a phrase
from her favorite novelette,.
Larry scratched his head In frantic
search of an appropriate quality reply.
"In throth it is, an divil a lie in it," he
said, unable to think of any better re-
mark.
"Shure, that's not a properly quality
answer at all, Larry" said Celia re-
proachfully. Eye should put yer hand
on yer heart-not there, shure, that's yer
chesht; aye, that'll do-an say Celia ses
ye, that's a mere nothin- I'd pluck the
stars out av the sky for yer sake ses
We, AN lay thin on yer pure white
browp"
"Begor, that's an iligant spache. Av
coorse. I'd give We anything have" said
Larry, laying his hand on his heart in
pursuance of his tutors instructions. "The
ring is nothin, Celia; it's only wan av the
soort that's found in penny prize pack
ages, an
Dear, oh, dear, Larry, ye're terriblel
| Shure there'd be no vartue in it if it was
chape Ye must make out that we've sac
rificed everything to buy me this ring to
show yer devotion, dye mind? It's not
the ring itseP; it's the love it shows in the
thrubble We put over yeseP gettin it"
"Tubbe shure," said Larry penitently
"What a gom | am, all out! Now, thin,
Celia, I've been through fire an wather
an crossed hidges an bitches an gripes to
git at that ring for We. Thin, whin / seen
It at the bottom av the lake there below,
about a thousand feet, dived in an pick
ed it up wild me teeth at the peril av git
tin a sevare cowld."
"That's not bad at ALL" said Celia en-
couragingly. Larry, thus stimulated,
proceeded, with increased vigor:
"Tubbe shure. But that's nothin-
nothin at all to what l would do for re
If | wor put to it."
Celia hung her head and in every way
comported herself like any other young
lady in receipt of declaration of love as
depicted on the front page of family nov
elettes.
"But what am / to be at next?" said
Larry.
''Ye must thrimble wild violent love, SO
as to make me believe that ye'd die for
] me sake
81 see" said Larry. making laudable
efforts to excite tremor in his substan-
tial frame. "Musha, wouldn't die for
yer sake, alannaY'
"Stop!'' cried Celia. aye mustn't say
alanna That isn't quality, ye know"
'Well an whatT'
''Ye must say me darlint or some sich.'
every well. Now, Celia, I'm ready to
die for ye me darlint or some SIGH, an
even when I've done that no fear av me
to stop there itseP. I'd go on wild me
sacrifices. I'd cut off me tobaccy an por'
ther just to be able to buy We penny
packages wild dimon' rings secrayted 18th
in thin an goold bracelets, me darlint oil
some SIGH. I'd walk from here to Amer
ky on wan foot, so | would, for We. In
fact, | don't care what | do so long as
We say that ye're satisfied, me darlint oil
| some SIGH.
Celia looked up with a languishing all
and deep sigh.
aOh Larry - she said drooDinR heI
head like a swan in the last stages of dis
solution, "this is so suddint! This IL
come upon me like the flashes av the tun
dher an the lightnin. Shure, l nivil
knew that yer affection was so powerful
sthrong."
"Arrah, don't be goin on that wayv
cried Larry Indignantly. "Shure, didnf
We know that same months ago|
"Be aisy now, Larry; that's thru'
enough what we say, but it wouldn't do tt
let on to it if We want to behave like thu
quality"
every WELL" said Larry, with dissat
isfed look. 600 on; I'm lestenin."
"As was sayin whin | was INTERRUPT
ed be yer unmannerly INTERRUPTION, Lar
~, yer proposhual is quite unsupported
1t has quite startled me out av me siviI
sinses so it has, an l feel bewildhered al
together Now, Larry, dye mind, if
was 'ithin wild the damask curtains an thu
settees an the divans covered wild plush
I'd make it me business to swoon."
"Arrah, what's that at ell?"
"Id fall down in a dead faint, an THU
ye'd run over an dhrag me to me feet"
CAV the fiure, is itV'
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