Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-06-21
A FIREMAN'.S
COURTSHIP
By E S. CHAMBERLAYNE
Copyright, by Joseph Il. Bowles.

| Young man. said he to me one
day, Nv all tn curyus things in the
world. there's nothin' so dunn curyua
ez womun. thought SO thin an |
think so now, an know heap more
about 'em now than iver did thin.
1T come about like this. Nolan an
me wuz both down to tn ovid Kelsey
sthreet chimical-though 'twuz not
ovid In thin days. Captin Costello
had it thin. an dishagreeable man
he wuz to be under. An t. begin wild,
Nolan an me didn't hitch. Their wuz
really nothin' butween us at furst, but
only jist fwhat We might call standin'
difference Nv opinyun. But where
men're shut up togither day an night
In little brick coop wild work. enough
for half Their time, little differncs
Nv opinyun grows. Their isn't no ither
way to do.
But Nolan an me didn't need no
tngine house quarrel. We found wan
outside, an Maggy Hogan started it.
didn't know which saw 'er furst, tho
Nolan claimed wuz thryin' to cut in:
out whin furst l begun to go ther'
HoWiver that may be, go Their I did,
an 1t wud / took more than Nolan to
keep me away.
"'You an Misther Nolan don't seem
to love each ither,' says she wan
evenin' whin, it bein' my day off, |
wuz there ez usyul.
Their is only wan person on too
+ tn universe that love- says I, an
We know well enough who that is.
An | looked at tn person wild me two
eyes, stiddy.
'Misther Nolan is viry nice man,
says she, not lookin' up from tn boar !
where she wuz ironin'. He wuz here
only last night. We wuz talkin' abo.,
you. An says it wuz a pity you an
i'm didn't like each ither bether, both
Nv We uein' frinds i mine, so t. say.
$50 that's it, says l, startin' up
An Nolan is tn man, is he? Viry
we'll, Misther Nolan, you an me will
sittle this affair butween u.s. An |
started fer tn door.
"'Oh, fwhat re We goin' to do?' saws
she an see by tn look in 'er face She
wuz Hurried:
"'Do?' says I, I'm goin' to do fer
Nolan
An at that she caught me by tn
arm. DON'T she says, wild a scared
kind iv a pleadin' in 'er voice. Oh
Michael, don't do it. Don't. Wan
wan j. yell be kilt she says.
Are We pleadin' fer him.? says J.
pushin' 'er away, wild me eyes g:ttin
hard. Isl
Fer him? Fwhat FOOLISH boz
it is she says, I wuz thinkin' i yoE
An wild that she hid 'er face in Ms
coat, an cud only kiss tn top iv 'er
head. Ye may guess l wasted no tine
l. lookin' fer Misther Nolan that nigh:
But the next afthernoon, whin til
boys wuz sittin' round in tn dumps.
ez they mostly wuz under Costello, I
says to Nolan: 'Wud We like to pur
on the gloves wild me, N:isther Nolan?'
Wed a set iv boxin' gloves in tn
bunk room, an tn boys used to work.
out wild 'em occashun'l!y, tho Nolan
an me had niver come togither
"I'm not pertic'lar about tn gloves
says Nolan.
"'Are We 'fraid?' says l, mistakin'
his meanin'. If We be, may say that
it'll assist tn decision Nv a frind Nv
ours. 1t seems to me, sich bein' tn
case, tnat We might
"'Ye needn't sthop FER tn Gloves
says Nolan, pullin' off his coat. =,
"'Good fer ye,' says I, seem me mis-
thake. 'Ye're bether man than I
mistook We fer An l pulled a Goa.
mesilf. J. t
We'll, Nv course, we had to use tn
gloves to cover it wild; Costello wud
i had us ON tn books fer tishtin' in
quarters, else, an tn boys wuz not
really onto tn game fer tn furst few
rounds.
well, that wuz tn hurst an las
time we liver fought. The reason fer
which was this: Nolan, bein somn-
thin proud iv his looks, waited til
pay day to sittle fer III two storo
Lcclu uC pul 1uCO LIS 1llOuLu. But
havin' no compuncshuns ez to me ap-
pearance, wuz over to see Maggy tn
furst chanst l got. Wbin she see tn
ripe lookin' plum that ME eye wuz, size
says: ''Fwhativer hev we been doin'.
Michael, to git such lookin' eyer
I run agin slight obsthrucshun,
says l.
1T wuz niver done at fire. she
says. ..s. -
81 niver said it WIZ
Thin we've been fightin',' she cries.
am wild Peter Nolan, too Ye must
not do it. she says. 'Ye must not GO
it, Michael l shan't allow it. Do We
understand me?'
"'Ye towled us to sittle it, says l,
an sittled it will be- IA
"I'll niver hev it sittled like that
she says. Wan iv yell be kilt, an
II not hev it. Promise me- she says,
promise me, Michael, yell not fight
lgin.' S+5
We'll, she begun to cry ez she says
t, SO Their Wuz nothin' to do but make