Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-05

and skairt that he didn't lift up his
feet as high as he ort to SO that he
ketched one of 'em in the door sill
and fell right in amongst the COM
pany. He wuz too skairt to git up or
do anything, but jest lay there for some
| time. Deacon Ellis went to help him
up, and he looked up and SEE:
Deacon Ellis, I've come
YES" sez the deacon, Il see you
have"
Agin he begun agin: Deacon Ell
lis, I've GOMEZ have come to borry
your mouse trap"
His face wuz redder than blood and
Susy (who it wuz spozed wuz deeply
in love with him) she blushed redder
than he did, partly from bashfulness
and partly from Pity for his snfferin'
Deacon Ellis helped him up and told
him he could have the trap, and he sot
holdin' it in his hand for hours not
! dastin' to make a move to start till
the company went, home, and Mr.. FL
Uses folks got ready to go to bed
But when the deacon went to lock the
doors he got up the spunk to start for
home carryin' the mouse trap, though
his ma had three cats and hadn't seen
a mouse for years.
Well, SO it had gone on for months
and months, and two years and three,
both on 'em deep in love as anyone
could see by the looks of their line
ment, but no higher weddin' day
than they had been three years before.
| Though he had gradual come to have
gumption enough to go home with her
from meetin' now and then, he and
she walkin' On both sides Of the road
though little nearer together than at
first, not much more than a wagon
track between en- now, and he had
been known to take her out ridin' in
his new buggy. He with his eyes
fixed on the horses head and she
studyin' intently the distant horizon,
but both blissful so it wuz spozed at
bein' so nigh together.
The hull neighborhood looked on
with deep interest to see how it wuz
comm out, for they wuz both such
good young folks, and so we'll prepared
for marriage if they could ever be
brung to it. He had a nice farm all
paid for, we'll stocked, wuz a good
worker, handsome, good natered, and
not bad habit, only the habit OF
blushin' red as a beet if girl looked
at him.
And sSusy wuz a good housekeeper
industrious, eQuinomical, pretty as a
pink, and willin' to say yes, it wu7
spozed, if Ralph ever got up spunb
enough to ask her to have him. We
all on us wuz dretful interested, and
specially the relations on both sides
all on US wantin' to see the match &C
of, but all on us dubersome about hi:
ever gittin' up the courage to take
the step, and SO nobody know ed how
it wuz comm out. He had never
asked her to go to any entertainment
with him, though longin' to do. so folk.
thought, till there wuz a concert il
I Jonesville that wuz a grand affair
and everybody wuz goin'.
l And somehow, nobody ever knowet
E how he ever dasted, but he did max,
the venter some way, and took Sus,
Ellis to the concert, and they walked
in and took two of the reserved seat.
D way up in front of the hall. Maddel
red wuz pale in comparison to thei
$ faces as they walked in, and IT WI;
spozed they sot there dreadin' AMI
t wonderin' how they wuz ever goin' tt
e git up the courage to walk out befor,
d all the young folks. and be accosted b.
:. 'em, comm in as they did kinder lat,
T they got rid of conversin' with thei
). mates.
e They sot there lookin' straigh
t ahead. never castin' glance or
q word to each other. But their hearts