Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1909-03-19
4 SCOTCH
~ MARRIAGE.

Bjuy and Fan were two New YORK
,-.,ies RfHx was about nlne and Fan
,S.,s about seven. though there was no
r..nrd If the birth of either and no
-, ra,,tS afa-t to testify in the cases
Want fa,i become % ths i fathers and
o.tbars does mol pertain 10 the story.
pulv remembered that once when he
vas pu, into the public schools for
few months he was known as William
Prree Fan bad = spelling book in
viii. j va written Fanny shaw
Rilly and Fan met one not summer
pi-ht IN Cify Hall park. where each
md gene for the purpose of sleep
inc ON the benches Billy had
rickel IN his pocket and Fan was
,.r,.i,,.. because she was hungry Billy
rook her over TO vender Of watfies
on PARK raw and appeased her hunger.
This vas filp seed of love-a Kindness.
II was not planted IN gentleman
arden Int any soil TO produce fruit
requires manure
So II care about that Billy and Fan
ha,.ame ehnms There were societies
ora nized 10 take care of stray chill
dren and BiIIy and Fan we're dread
fultv afraid That some Of these soeie=
ties would take them ana separate
them Billy eontided his fears TO MS
friand MacCluney. who drove a cab.
Naccluney facetiously told him that
70 prevent this they had better get
married Billy took the advice IN ear
nest and asked how the knot could De
tied
"OTm a Scautchman mesel',' replied
rho cabman in Southland if two peo-
ole stand up before third ana says
they marries that ties EN-.
IS pose Fan and stand up before
rou and say that?" said Billy.
The cabman laughed. and Billy went
off and called Fan. who was selling
| papers At the time The two returned
and asked for "A "Scauteh marriage.
MacGIunex thinking IL good JOKE.
asked the necessary questions and.
having received affifmatery answers.
with snafaw pronounced them man
and vie
puf me "Scantch' marriage didn't
save them from the societies. One
pi-ht when they were sleeping In a
/ coal yard hand OF slummers came
| down on them aud carried them eli.
/ -rboV protested that they were mar
] -ied witch brought a smile to the
! faces Of el4ir abdueters. bur received
no further notice After all. they were
separated
Eilv was sent off to a community CT
farmer havs. Fan WIS provided with
parents By adoption. Both grew up
in the vest. Billy a. tllier OF the
soil. Fan as the daughter Of store
| reener IN a country town. Billy.
though he would not have forgotten
! his wife would have forgotten that
| her name was Shaw had he not held
| on to the spelling book with the name
| written on the fly leaf There were
| inst Ms many tears she'd by both for
months after they were torn apart as
n they had been children Of wealth
Ar first beth sighed fer the parks. the
coal and lumber yards. sheds ana 9th
or places where they had slumoered,
not because they had been comforta-
Bile bur because they had been 10
-ether in these retreats As they grew
older they conceived horror of this
part of their past but they did net
forget each other Billy grew TO man
hood with one idea lie would save
M to enable him 70 regain his wife
Fan grew TO womanhood wondering
what had become Of her pal And.
remembering the "Scautch marriage
y4frFa Ia I'm
stand what it meant II made Billy an
object Of great Importance 10 her. she
| was continually dreaming OF what ne
| was like as a youth. wondering where
he was and If She would ever meet
| him
But Fan grew to be twenty-four
wears old and there WAS no sign OF
Billy She bad several proposals OF
| marriage. but answered all suitors
alike-that she was married already.
One Of them asked a lawyer II there
was anything in such marriage he
received the reply that only the courts
could tell. bur SO long as neither claim
ed the other there would be nothing
Illegal In either marrying some one
| else
One day man drove up TO Fans
home in buggy and asked for
young woman named Frances Shaw.
Fan WAS sweeping at the time. with
towel over her hair She tried to get
upstairs hut was too late. The man
approached her and said:
Fan"
Are You Billy"
Yes"
How did You know me-
Il wouldn't have known you II |
hadn't known you were here. As ir
is see resemblance to my little
He took her by the hand She rurn-
ed her face away. but did not with
draw the hand
wife" he added.
Billy had bought farm, and AZ
soon as settled upon Ii be had written
10 New York asking information as TO
where Fan had been sent The rec
ords Of the society that had provided
her with home showed where that
home was. aud since Fan had remain
ed In it there was no trouble in find
ing her
There was new. but very short.
courtship and new marriage, Just 70
be SURF thar they were legally mar
ried. ard Billy and Fan settled them
selves on his farm
The story shows that. however high
or low We are in The sphere of created
beings there Is one motive power in