The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1902-08-22

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Two days later, as Tom Dingwell
came over to the potato field where
Uncle Ben was working and asked for
the loan Of a saw, he thought he saw
a change in LiZZie's father. The greet
Ing seemed cold and distant, and when
he was called Mr.. Dingwell instead of
Tom his knees began to quake. He
was too upset to ask for explanations,
| and as he went to the house to get the
saw Aunt Mary bowed to him stiff1y
| and said:
| Its hanging in the woodshed, Mr..
| Dingwell"
"W-what?" gasped Tom as another
| quake struck his knees.
And it's pleasant weather Mr.. Ding
well. and it looks as if all the crops
| would turn out we'll"
"Mr. Dingwell' swallowed a lump
| In his throat and hurried away He
had some queer thoughts as he crossed
the fields and climbed the rail fences.
| 1t took him two hours to arrange his
| thoughts on string and reach a con-
clusion, and that conclusion was:
by gum, but the old folks want Liz
| zie to throw Inc over and marry some
stuck up Teller with curly hair
The more he thought of it the more
firm was his conviction. and he finally
became 50 upset over it that he had to
knock off work and sit ON the fence
| and chew strawS. He was hard hit
| and full of trouble, but he proposed to
tie game. In other words he proposed
to marry Lizzie if he had to walk over
| the dead bodies of forty stuck up
young men and set barn or two OH
fire to give ChemunS county fair warn
Ing. An hour after dark he appeared
ut Uncle Ben'S with his Sunday clothes
on. He expected to find Lizzie seated
Oh the piazza. but she wasn't there.
The mother had seen to that. There
was a young man there. however. and,
curiously enough. he had curly hair,
and he was stuck up. He smoked
cigarettes and spoke with Il drawl.
All. yas. suppose you are the fell
low who has been hanging around
Miss Lizzie for the last three years.
You needn't mind hanging any longer,
Apu hild". IL SlNtS lllt "
form you that have won the dear
girls hand and heart and that we are
to be welded next month. Charming
evening. I'm suah.'
Tom stood there like a man turned
to stone, and for Il minute the quarrel
ing of the hens OH their rOoSt sounded
in his ears like the thunder of Niagara
In, l,n, In I In e.
see him. even for last goodby, and
Uncle Ben and Aunt Mary had no fur
Their Use for him. AS it all surged up in
his soul he turned, walked down the
path and out of the gate and paused
not us the stuck up young man called
after him:
Sorry, doncher knaw. but you were
too slow about it. I'll tell the deah girl
that you called
Tom reached home intending to cut
his head off with the AK or choke HIM
self to death on an early turnip. but all
of sudden he began to get mad about
it. He had been thrown down. and
thrown hard, without n1.Ice and hC
wouldn't stand it. Lizzie and every
bouN tlSC hlltN lliill Ie llittllutu W
marry her after awhile-aftcr the price
of corn got above 10 centS-and no
man should step in and take her from
him.
Hardly conscious of what he was do
ing. he went to the barn and hitched
the old bay mare to the forty dollar
Ohio top carriage Then he brushed
~,
pockets to see if his 81 was safe and,
lcaping into the vehicle. yelled
"G Tang III a way that sent the staid
old mare forward ten feet. She was
OH the @allop when she reached Uncle
B"n'S. and. without waiting to tie her,
Tom sprang down and banged the gate
open. -Four people were on the piazza.
and he came to the stuck up young
man first grabbed him by the legs and
threw him into bed of pinkS. Uncle |
Ben started up with whats this.
Tom" but Tom pushed him over his
chair and Sternly exclaimed:
Don't dare to fool with Il desperate
man! Come on. LiZZic,'
"Oh. Tom. What is it," she asked.
'
I'll chuck you into Woodchuck creek
and drown YOU
but, Tom
"Come OH.
And Tom almost carried her to the
carriage. and. climbing III after her, he
gave the Old mare Il cut and sent her |
along to Squire Joslyn's at a three
minute gait. The squire was at home. |
Ten minutes later the knot was tied. |
and Tom was saying to his bride:
BY gum. but I've got you, and you |
can't get away! Now I'll take you |
home, and if your folks or that young |
squirt has got anything to say they'll |
find themselves locked in the smoke
house, and I'll he saying. Sorry, don
cher knaw, but you were too slow |
about it,"