The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-04-30
How He Put Her
Under an Obligation.
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said she was cute.
There was young men that was fine
lookin' who was ambitious to git Sairy,
but somehow she didn't seem to fancy
none on 'em. and so / argyed that IL
they wasn't fine enough for her what
was the use of a redheaded, freckled
Teller like me putin in claim. We
was all about alike so far as worldly
goods was concerned, none of US havin'
anything to speak of. In fact, we
was all at an age when we was lookin'
out for good looks. That bein' the case.
1 hadn't no show at all, for l was the
homeliest young man In the town.
But I got Sairy. all the same, and
I'm a-goin' to tell you how I did it. |
wasn't nobody's fool, you see, il 1 was
homely. The way 1 did it was by put
tin her under an obligation. One day
1 said to her, Miss Baker"-her name
was Baker before married her-"Miss
Baker. why don't y git married?"
'Mr. Tucker she said, there hain't
no one for me to marry
whats the matter with these fell
lers that's goin' with your" I asked.
ooh, none o. these young men I'd
marry me-" she said. We've growed
up together. People that grow up to-
gether don't do much marryin'. They re
too used to each other. The men all go
off and marry girls from somewhere
else. None of 'em here I'D look at me-"
Now, / knowed better than that.
There was two on 'em dyin' for her.
But wasn't no SIGH fool as to tell her
If l did. where'd 1 come in? So I
M hI1f T fhnI1p oh
she'd ought to git married; that she'd
be happier married and it would be
better for her to have some one TO
lean on when her father passed out.
Then she said maybe l could find her
a husband. This staggered me a little.
considerin ! wanted her myself, but 1
said I'd try. Then she told me she'd
like me to attend to the matter at Onct,
SEEM she was gittin' on, and If / sue
ceeded she'd consider me the dearest
friend she ever had in her life.
1 saw the advantage o putin her
under an obligation. But what good
would it do me to put her under that
kind of an obligation? 1t would be like
tryin' to lift myself up in a basket.
Nevertheless l did it, and I've always
considered it a case of real onselfish-
ness. I found a widower about forty
five years old who wanted some one to
take care of his seven motherless chill
dren. l told him about Sairy-how
she'd like to get married and what a
good stepmother she'd make. After
awhile I succeeded in awakenin' an
interest in his breast, and 1t ended in
my taking him to see Sairy. She was
as polite to him as a basket O. chips,
seemin' to take to him from the start.
She cast grateful glance at me. and
l knowed she appreciated what I'd
done for her.
l couldn't quite feel that was act
In honest by her. for, as 1 was sayin',
l knowed at least two fellers far bet
ter matches than the widower that
wanted her, and I'd orter gone to one
on 'em and told him O. the chance
But somehow l couldn't. I've never
been able to tell jist why 1 put up the
widower instead. l leave it to them
fellers in colleges who study psychol-
ogy and that sort O thing.
Well, the widower called regular
once a month on Sairy. He was
watchin' her to see if she'd make a
good wife for himself and a good
mother to his children. Them widow
ers, havin' had q lot o. experience.
know jist what's required. From OBJ
servation and what people said he
soon learned that Sairy was one of a
thousand and just the one he wanted.
One evening l went to see Sairy to
find out how she was gittin' along with
the widower. She told me she had a
letter from him that day proposin'
marriage. He said OWN to his family
it must be a sort o. business affair.
Sairy was the gratefulest girl you
ever saw in your life. She TUX hold o
my bony hand with freckles spottin'
the back-hers was small and white
and soft-and looked up into my eyes
with sich an expression as never see
there before, and she said. said she:
This is the beautifulest thing you've
done for me ever heard of. You've
put me under an everlastin' obligation
Here was l with no one to marry me-
and you come along and list lifted me
out o the slough o despond. I'm so
grateful that I want TO do sometIin
real nice to show you how grateful /
am. Now, l want you to tell me some
thin you want me TO do most of any
thing. Speak right out aud don't be
afraid, no matter how unreasonable it
seems"
There's nothin' you can do for me-"
said kind o melancholy-like.
''Nothin' can do for you? Isn't |
there somethin' you want NE to do for |
your
Yes. there's somethin' Ia like you
to do for ME a heap. but that's out o
the question"
Tell me what it is she said. still /
holdin' on TO my hand and givin' it |
soft squeeze
We'll. I'd Ialther have you marry me /
than the widower."
Sba isSfS into my