New-York tribune., 1907-01-13

be able to ave the pick O. the prettisst gals in
Clsybury3
""ow's THAR ses Joe Chambers. very sharp; mes
got to take the first woman that asks I'm. DON'T
matter wot 'sf age is.'
He got UP suddenly. ana. without even saying
soodby 10 Foxy, rushed ou. OF the 'ouse and of
the helds ard as e could 60
" "Wots the matter with i'm? ses Foxy.
Nobody could give any answer. and they sat
there staring at each other TIL all OF sudden
H.nery White Jumps up and goes off II anything
'arder than wot Joe Chambers had done
Anything wrong with the drink? ses Foxy.
puzzled like.
.aThey shook their 'eads agin. and then Peter
Gubbins who'd been staring ard with is mouth
open got up and gave the table bang with rs fist.
Joe Chambers as gone arter is sister he ses,
and Henery White arter is wifes sister. 'e's
been keeping for this last six months. That's wot
they've gone for
Everybody It then. and in two minutes Foxy
and the schoolma ster left alone looking at each
other and the empty table
Well I'm In for q nice thing ses Foxy Fancy
being proposed TO by Henery Whites sster-in-law!
Ughr
TtII be the Oldest that'll be the most de-
termned. said the schoolmaster, shaking lis cad.
'Wot you going to dor
I don't know, ses Foxy; it's sudden. But
they've got to ave three witnesses, that's COM
fort I'd like to tell Joe Chambers wot think of
i'm and Is precious sister
It. One an all OF EN- pretended as it in
suit to the and they said If Foxy Green waited
till e asked to marry he'd wait long enough.
Little chts gals fourteen and fifteen was walking
about tossing their 'eads up and as good as saying
they might ave Green's farm for the asking but
they wouldn't ask. Old women OF seventy and
said that If Foxy wanted marry them he ID
ave ask and ask a good many times. too
"Of course, this was all very well In its way,
but at the time three Claybury gals that was
ia
and several other women that was away took their
holidays before their relations knew anything
about it. Almost every 'ouse in Caybury ad got
some female relation staying in it, and they was
always explaining everybody why II was they
ad come 'ome. None of em much men
toned Foxy Green
women are artful creatures and think lot of
appearances. There wasn't OF 'em as would
ha' minded wot other folks sa'd If they'd caught
Foxy, they'd ha' gone half crazy with shame
II they'd tried and not managed IT. And they
couldn't things the quiet because of the three
witnesses That the ardship of it.
1T was the only thing talked about in Clay
bury, and Foxy Green soon showed as he was very
wide awake. First thing e did send the
gal that used do the dairy work and the 'ouse-
work off Then e bought couple o large. fierce
dogs and chained up the front door
and one near the back They very good dogs.
and they bit Foxy hisself two three times, so
as to let i'm see that they knew wot they was
there for
"He took George Smith, a young feiler that
used to work on the fuTm, into the ouse, and for
the fust week two e rather enjoyed the excite
rnent But when e found that e couldn't go into
tho village or even walk about is own farm in
safety he turned into reg'lar woman-hater
1.-The artful tricks those women 'ad wouldn't be
believed One day when Foxy eating is din
nor William Hall drove up to the gate in a cart.
aad when George out to know wot e wanted
e said that ne 'ad just bought some pigs At Rem