Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-08-02
Backward Andy's
Coortin'
Gan IRISH LOVE Story
A,thorcf Through the Turf Smoke. etc.
Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles
(Ak IRISH LOVE Story


dry money, there was. as We may we'll
suspect, tremendous traffic of boys
come afther her.
But it's little encouragement thej.
got from Liza Jane; she considered
coortin' ridiculous waste of time
that a pair of tomfools, only, might
engage in; an as for marryin' the
most of the lads that presented them
selves, she said she wouldn't make
dishclouts of them, to wipe pot.
I. This, l say, she thought Of most OF
the neighbor boys, but not OF all
There was one, Andy McClarnin, or
Bab's Andy, as he was better known
by raison, as his fathers name was
Bah. Anyway, this Bab's Andy
was no eyesore to Liza Jane, for
he had a fine farm that fed five
milch-cows, an give him ten head If
stock to sell off every harvest; his
father, poor man, was five years dead
An Liza Jane Bohunnan saw that,
all things considered, she couldn't
get, an wouldn't ask for, a better or
warmer sittin' down than Bab's
Andy's. An accordin'ly she made up
her mind that she'd marry Bab's Andy
in case the boy was anyways mid
dim willin'. ~ '~rr
At the tail:end O. four years coort-
ship Liza Jane begun to be not too
plaised with proceedin's. An fair
good raison, too, the poor girl had.
Mother" says she of night when
both herself an her mother was sit
tim over the kitchen fire, II have let
him fool round me for long enough.
l mean," goes on she, Ito have him,
once an for all, make up his mind on
this matter whether he wants to
make wife of me or not-I mean
that he'll make it up, or I'll make it
up for him purity quick"
Brave woman We are, Liza Jane"
says the mother, says she.
AN on next Sunday night, too, he'll
make his dicision."
THE jewel We are, Liza janet"
An when, on the next Sunday night,
poor Andy, poor sowl, come ploddin'
10 Liza James, it's little he suspected
the thraps that was laid down for him
10 walk into.
'Are We all alone?" says he.
my mother an them" says she,
went one road an another, to see the
neighbors, an left me to myself" e.
Which says Bab's Andy, says he,
was noways kindly of them tor'st
ye.' 'ss s.s... ..- L..
Which, says Liza Jane, says she,
calm, an lookin' steady into the fire,
was very, very good of them"
Good of them" says Andy, says
he. ->.,- - 81.
h, WAS very, very good of them says
she, "considerin' that they knew l
needed quate hour to myself to dis
cuss in me mind a very serious mat
tern fact, l may say, an exthraor-
binary serious matter" -.
Bab's Andy he was all taken aback,
an the face on him got lengthy at
onct, an he says, ooh! beg, yer par
don, Liza Jane" S.-
"An' extraordinary serious matter,
es was sayin'," she went on, as cool
an calm, IAN one that wants a good
deal of deliberation; an one, more
over, that I'm mortal glad to have We
here, to talk it over with ye."
"Oh!" says Bab's Andy, says he,
settlin' himself to hear it, an, lookin'
pleased that he was to be consulted.
For" says she, "it's such a matter
that there's only one man in the worp
! could talk it over with-an' that S
you" f. ~
I'm proud" says Andy. I'm
proud to know it, Liza Jane"
For better, for worse" says she,
nlayin' a thrump-card, "for richer, for
poorer, for good or for ill"
Poor Andy, it seemed like a dhraim
to him that he'd heard something like
them words somewhere or other afore,
but it puzzled him for a minute to
mind what it was about. So he gave
it up, an remarked, Just 50, Liza
Jane. Indeed, so?' 81
An then says she, For richer,
sayed, for poorer, for good or for i'll,
from this time henceforrid." Then
she waited a wee bit, to give him an
other chance-though if she'd waited
durin' the nine lives of a cat it would
never get into Andy's skull. ANDY
McClarnin," she says, don't We see
what I'm dhrivin' at?" ,.... =#
Poor Andy looked confused an
ashamed of himself, an (; says he:
Faith, an I don't, then, Liza, know
from Adam down what we're dhrivin'
at, at ALL
Il don't doubt it, says Liza Jane,
sevairly.t well, will We understand
me when say that I'm thinkin' l had
best marry an settle down."
Troth, that was plain enough for a
palm post I'd understand. So it's very
little wondher that Bab's Andy did.
Marry" says she, an settle down.
perfectly cool an calm. an never
seemin to see Andy's raptures at all.
An, says she, i was waitin', very
anxious, to have your opinion on it. 4
IAN my opinion, !" says he, with his
head hangin', SIS that though we've
done many wise things in your life,
We never done anything wiser; an ~ -
z FleIs 8 - I. "