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

spoze, jest runnin' over with love
for each other.
Well, spoze they suffered lot
through the concert. kind of a
strange sufferin'. made up part of
agonized joy at bein' with each other.
| and part of dread of what folks wuz
sayin' at SEEM 'em there together, and
| dread of bein' laughed at by 'em after
the concert wuz over
Susy had a pair of laced shues and
when the concert wuz only fairly be-
gun she felt that one on 'em wuz on
tied, and bein' the neatest of mortals
couldn't stand the idee of her shue
strings danglin' down, so she bent
down and tied it up good and strong
and forgot all about it.
Well, jest before the concert closed,
| Ralph, who sot next the aisle, got up
and made move to go out, wantin' :,
it wuz spozed, to git out with Susy
before the young folks had chance
to get at 'em. But when he went to
go out he couldn't stir, Susy who had
got up too, she couldn't stir either,
and there they stood most iyin' with
| bashfulness and modification.
But Ralph discovered that when
Susy moved off he could and SO they
hobbled out into the aisle, but he
couldn't git step away from her, or
| she from him, and at last they dis
covered what wuZ the matter. She
had accidentally tied her shue to hisen,
| his shue lace happenin' to bangle down
right by the side of hern, and she in
| her bashful agitation tyin' 'em both
| together hard and fast.
Well, by the time they had hobbled
| out into the aisle the concert broke
| up and the young folks gathered about
'em and when they found their shues
wuz tied together they yelled and
| screamed with laughter, and Susy wuz
so mortified she bust into tears and
| jest stood there stun still a cryin'.
Ralph wuz real smart materially, and
manly in sperit, and to see Susy a
cryin' there by his side, bein'
laughed at for tyin' herself to him,
lovin' her as he did, love and pity
rousted up all the manllness and shiv-
airy in him, and he put one protectin
arm round her, and faced their perse-
cutors and seq:
You needn't laugh, we're goin' to
be tied together for good next week
and we only did this to see how ii
would SEEM"
And as he said this he got down on
one knee and omitted the shues and tied
hern up agin and they walked out, he
actin quite bold and fearless for him
And sure enough they wuz tied to-
gether by Elder Minkley good and
fast the last of the next week, fol
their folks on both sides bein' so will
in, laid to and helped make her truese
and buy their household stuff, and
they wuz married and went to keepin
house in pretty cottage not fur from
his mas, and they make a first rate
couple.
Though them that see 'em say they
made a strange appearance at the altar
or ruther in Deacon Ellises parlor
they said that when the minister asked
Susy if she would take Ralph to be
her husband she said: Eyes, sir" Ant
when he wuz asked if he would take
this woman he said: eff you please.
Jest as if she wuz plate of nu
cakes or cheese or anything that wus
bein' passed to him, both on ZEN
speakin' in husky axents, caused b!
their tongues bein' as dry as a chil
in dog days.
But bein' so numb and paralyzed b.
bashfulness they didn't realize thei
sufferin's at the time, but when the,
thought back on it they suffered il
mind, so it wuz spozed.
But they have pretty home and ar,
) layin' up property and they're gittin
so they can face folks quite we'll, ant
act as if they knew sunthin' I'm glat
enough for 'em.