The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-05-15

a0 bout lt, AG / SAID before.
"It does not matters Co De with y0u
Is enough
"Woal e does matter, too. I'm |
lone an lonely man. but II worse comes
TO worst / can perfect myself. You
may be stronger'n me, but you can't
lure me. What would the world say
II IL knew bout thisE
90 4 can trust my souls companion.
"By this time Is'bel had dismoun,ol.
an. selling Eeub's hand in her own,
she says
"Tm goln' 10 set right here til you
promise 20 be my own
"'Al I've got 20 say IS that you've
laid out a long program for Yourself
"They sot there, an sot. Isbcl
peared 70 be c'ntented Jus 10 set an
hold his hand, an Reub tried TO whis-
tie an act zif he didn't know she was
there Every once I'm a while he'd try
to pull his hand away, but she'd grip
1t the tighter. an then he could hear
her whisperln' low to herself, oh, my
b'lovedv
"After while the stars come out an
/ begun TO play hide an seek with them
through the branches Of the pines It
got chilly. too, an once Reub suggest
ed that he would git q blanket for
Is'bel calc'latin' that he could make n
run for It ii he could git a start, but
she only says. oh, my blovedp an
hung right onto his hand. She was
hard hit, Is'bel was.
"'Bout dusk, too, the bullfrogs over
by the spring struck up, an as it grew
darker an darker they became more
n more interested in the couple. FRS
a little fellow would chirp out an say,
What's he goin' to do bout it? Then
the little feller's ma would ask his pa,
whats he goln' to do bout iii? an his
pa would c'nsider for n minute, give it
mp an ask anybody that could answer.
What's he goin' to do bout it? Leas
that's the way Reub said it seemed to
him.
"Then, long bout ten or 'leven o'clock
a big gray owl come an perched in tho
branches over their heads, an pretty
soon he got Gurus an says 'Who-o-o"
an Reub was so mad by that time that
he answers right up. It's me, blame
you What you got to say about it,
But Is'bel only kinder sighed an says,
oh. my b'lovedv She was hard hit,
Is'bel was.
1T got to be midnight, an still they
sot there. Reub was most froze, but
Is'hel didn't seem TO mind it. Bout
o'clock, Reub says, he got sorter dis
couraged, bein' mostly an icicle by that
time, an so he says to her:
"'Waal, what Go you want me to
DO?
"'Only to be my own, my 'dogcd
one
"Reub want quite broke down yit
} so he SAYS, "Waal, I'm blamed if
willp But after an hour OF two more
he got plum tired out an made his las
argument. 4 don't want to git mar
, ried he says; 1 amt got 'nougl
t money to sport wife, anyway
"'You needn't worry bout that
r b1oved. Only say you love me an II
? sport you
"Reub see he didn't stan no show
so he inquiries, shlen like WAL
t where do you want to take meY
/. "'To Parson Elders an git married
e to once, b'loved.'
"All the way to the parson's-seven
teen miles It was-they walked, Is'be
leadin' the horse with one hand an
> Reub with the other. She didn't tax
a single chance till after he'd admitte,
g to the parson that he took her till dealt
S us do part an all the res of it. The
J. she heaved a sigh an let so of HI
hand, tenderly sayin' Ny ow
u b'lovedr She thought a cons&
S heap Of Reuben Is'bel did.
I I'd better meander"
/, The Old Settler "meanderedt
at the door he paused for a finS% g
n mark:
e 81 don't s'pose there's no happ.e
y couple in Californy than Mr.. an Mr.
Reuben Bannerton, or perhaps I ort
q say Mrs. an Mr.. Is'bel Bannertol
IS They've been married seventeen year
y an has five children, but she allel
II c'nsiders Reub the frs and tendere
II Of the lot. She's c'nsid'ble fond {
4, Reuben, Isbel is" Then he "meal
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