Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1913-02-07
STEvE'S LUCKY TUMBLE
By OSCAR DAWSON.

vAIS CdAlel on my OiQ IIleuQ5 steve
Collard, and while there the CONVEX
sation turned on courtship; and at my
/ request the old gentleman told me an
Incident in his own love affairs, which
I ! give In his own words:
Wall, seeing it's you, / don't mind
telling you about a scrape that hap
/ pened TO me when was counting
Nancy here. That are is something
that / never tell anybody. But ye shall
have it,"
NO, don't Stevei" broke IN the old
woman. Il should think you would
be ashamed Of yourself telling your
love scrapes to everybody"
IF you can't abear to hear It. said
Steve, you may 90 out Of doors, So
here goes
When ! was nigh about twenty-one
/ came up here alone and built me a
cabin.
i hadn't naber nearer than five
miles, so ye see didn't quarrel much;
but as il grew 70 be near winter I got
kinder lonesome. and begun to think
ought TO have q woman 10 keep ne
company; SO one morning I started
down to Lenway 70 take look at the
girls. TO see Il could find one TO suit
me
When I got down TO the village I
asked young chap II he knew OF a
girl that wanted to get married, and he
told me that he guessed that Nancy
Knox did and if I wanted wife had
better try and hitch On with her; and
he said that if was agreeable he
would go TO old KnOxs and make ne
acquainted with Nancy. and he was
as good as his word; and 'twasn'c an
hour before Nancy and I were on the :
best OF terms
Afore night had hired out with old
Knox for TWO pounds a month with
board and lodgin. and was TO work
all winter
#aA for about TWO months I felt
a neat as a mouse Ill q new cheese. +
I courted Nancy every Sunday night,
and was determined before another (
month 20 Pop the question, and hadn't .
q bl- Of doubt bur what Nancy would
be oFerioyed al becoming my bosom
companion
Wall about this time there came q
fellow from London to keep school
and he hadn't been there m0re'n
week aiore I found that he had q nat
ural hankering arter Nancy.
Wall, one sunday night. Bill Smith,
for that was the critters name. came
in jest at dusk, and when the clock
struck nine he didn't seem ready to
go. Old Mrs Knox and the young
uns all went OF te bed, and there were
none left but old Knox, Bill. Nancy,
and /, and there we sat. round the fire,
without saying a word
Always afore old Knox had gone
OFF TO bed and left the coast clear for
Nancy and I, and kept speeding ev-
cry minnit that he would tell Bill to
clear cut, but he did no such a thing;
but jest as the clock struck ten he
is up
Steve says he. let's go to bed,
or We must be up bright and airly.
Want that a hint, Ell? I looked
t Nancy. but she turned away her
led. and at this I up and marched
ut into the entry, and up the ladder
o bed ! was boiling over mad with
reation-BIl, Nancy. and old Knox in
articular got into bed and kiYered
lyself up but I felt so bad that I
ouldn't so TO sleep. Like as not. the
was kissing Nancy down 4
7 the kitchen. and couldn't shet ny
yes for the life Of me.
Wall. all at once It occurred to ne
lat there was some big cracks in the
cor over the kitchen, and I could 4
atch and see all that was going on 8
Glow; so out Of bed I got and crawIed
ong close to the chimney on al 8
'urs, and finding a big crack / looked
7Tn through BIZ and Nancy we're &
tting about two feet apart. though
-ery now and then Bill would hitch
IS chair little nearer to her. How I g
'uld have ch0ked him them 4
Wall. / watched them for about 3 81
larter OF an hour. and by that time 7
as near about froze. as II was an aw- =
cold night. But I wouldn't 90 TO =
d. for I was bound 10 know II
ancy was true to me. By-and bye
Il httched up his chair a little closer
d could see that he had made up
5 mind and was just going TO kiss
T.
How it riled me, But 1 was bound
see il through. so I moved q little
get a better view, and that minnit
3 plank was On tipped up. and
WI went right atween Bill and
ncy.
Bill thought for oEee that Old Nick
! come, and he bolted out O. doors.
l started out OF the kitchen as
ok as you could say 'seoot, and as
las going up the ladder heard old
S Knox boiler, Nance, scoot the cat
vn, OF she will break every dish on
dresser
The next morning. when We went
I popped the question to
lcy, and she said she would have
for she didn't care for Bill Smith.
We have been married forty years
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