The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-11-11
Leading a Lamb.
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at makes me tired" said Aunt la
vinIa. 80 see you girls going about
wastin' your time when you should be
gettIn' husbands. what y goln' to do
when y get forty or CITY years old
and no honest It's well enough
= longs yer young. but you forgit
that your youth n good looks is given
y for a purpose n that purpose Is TO
git married"
"But, Aunt Lavinia." said pouting
miss OF eighteen. I'VE can't ask the
men to marry US. And sometimes a
fellow II hang about girl for a long
while. keeping other fellows away and
never ask her. There's Ben Pitner
been devoted to lucy Soniers ever
since a year ago last January, and
they're not engaged yet"
"PshawI Lucy hasn't got any in
genuIty. Do you suppose a young
mans going TO make up his mind TO
give up bis independence and assume
the cares o. matrimony all by himself.
lie knows he's standin' over cold
water bath and has TO be pushed in.
Ill tell you about case | knew OF
once. There was a young man named
Jake--never mind his other name-who
was devotin' himself to girl called
Ruth. He asked her to go to all tho
parties and shows and such things
with him and looked sour rs vinegar IL
she went to any Of 'em with anybody
else. Sometimes he'd hint around
about matrimony bein' a serious mat
ter and shouldn't be entered without
countin the cost. Then he'd say he
was awful feared he'd never have
wife N home because they cost so
much money. The girl couldn't say
anything against this idea, SO she jist
agreed with him and told him that II
she married she supposed she'd have to
marry some one that was dom well,
whether she liked him on not.
$50 1t went on from month to month
till Ruth got mighty tired Of It. She
Just give Jake the cold shoulder for
awhile. Then one day she went into
the store--Jake was clerking for the
proprietor-and asked for some white
silk. The proprietor waited on her
and showed her lots o pieces, but they
weren't any OF 'em good enough for her
till they came to the finest piece In the
store. She told him to cut her a SAM
ple of 1t and asked him how much he
calculated 1t would take to make her
a dress.
"swith train7' he asked.
ayes, long train long as a comets
TALL
Trimmed with orange hlossomsY
"sYes. may MS well own that it's
to be trimmed with orange blossoms.
hut don't want you to say anything
about ii. Cot any stuff for veil?'
"He showed her some yelling. and
Bhe took sample OF that, and then
she went away.
nShe hadn't any sooner got out O. the
store than the proprietor called Jake.
who had been waitln' on a customer
Ill the other end, where they sold the
nfoceries. and congratulated him OH
being engaged. Jake said he wasn't
engaged, and then his employer told
Y,im that he must "a lost his girl
sehnse she'd been in to buy weddin
dress. Jake he turned white as a
ciofh and like to fell in tit.
~That night he went over to see Ruth
}usf S soon as the store was shut up.
she was expectin' him and was ready
f6r him. she sent word by her mother
fhat she wasn't feelin' very we'll and
she'd like to be excused. Jake, nearly
IS6side himself. sent begin message
NAT she'd come down for one moment.
as he had something very particular to
INV to her. She knew well enough
what IT was. but she wasn't 10 hurry
III come down. so she sent word that
she was very busy SEWN and couldn't
he call some other time2 At the
word SEWN Jake caught at the
piano. He considered It bis death war
INIT he sent up another message (
Ihat II she'd come down long enough
for him TO say half a dozen words or