The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-03-03
The Euerir,e Story
Marrying Off Celia.
(By Claudine Sisson. }

marrying OH Celia.
(By Claudine Sisson.)
John Parsons, farmer. was digging
gravel from q hill on his farm. OF al
sudden the sparkle Of something
caught his eye and he stopped down
and picked up diamond.
by gosh and by thunder!"
In the kitchen door Of the farm
house, q quarter Of a mile away.
stood a girl Of twenty-Celia Parsons
at the sink.
"Great coons. mother. come here!"
exclaimed the girl.
what is it ?''
dad is coming for the house like 81
runaway borse!"
LANDS o. massy!"
The farmer was waving his hat and
making the dirt fly as he came. and
as he drew nearer he gasped out:
''Got 1t! Got ft!''
John Parsons, you are acting like q
crazy man or a .fool!" chided the
wife as he jumped over the last cur
rant bush.
pad. have you found that quarter
you lost three years ago?"
''See-see there!''
He opened his hand and exhibited
these small eggs the trust has coaxed
the hens into laying. It shone like q
hogs eye on q dark night.
| 'swhat is it?'' asked Celia as she
took 1t from MIN.
what of it?" asked the mother as
she took 1t in turn and held it to her
s-Its-its a diamond" harsely
whispered the finder.
John, you are crazy!"
dad, you are fooling yourself!"
eyes, it's q diamond" he said as he
reached for it apd let the sun glance
on it. Its what they call a diamond
in the rough, and II It hain't wuth q
l~11
straw hat"
"And you found it in the gravel?"
Fright In the gravel. I dreamed of
a black rabbit last night, and when
I woke ,a up , this ;. morning knew
All three were silent for a long
minute, and then the wife asked al
most in a whisper:
BE we rich, John?"
I'VE can't begin to count our
And what'n we do?"
well marry Celia to some rich
| man the first thing.
"But, dad, I'm going to marry Jim
| Rathbone," announced the girl. I'VE
t,have been engaged whole year, ana
the weddi-g day is set" .s-s-~
.Then you'n unset It! Dye sup
pose I'm goin' to let you marry old
Seth Travers' hired man when I'm
wuth a million dollars!"
.'Of course you will!
Don't you go to believin' any such
darned thing! This family hain't never
amounted to shucks thus FUR. but its
goin' to begin to now. Tho rust thing
I want is a son-in-law that'u do me
honor. Thar's five or six young fellers
over to Fowlerville thatn como here
on the dead run az soon as they hear
| of that diamond"
"And they'll go away on the dead
rum replied Celia.
You leave it to me to handle her."
whispered the mother. 1T won't be
three days before she'll be all right.
Jim il a good Teller. but he'd be no
husband for q rich wife. He can't use
grammar. in his talk and he'd walk
right into the parlor with his boots
all mud"
sure he would. and he'd be spit
tin his plug tobacco juice all over
| the thousand dollar oil paintings. Jim
has got to haul or
''And what are you going to do first
thing?"
Drive to town and tell about this
diamond. Thar's nobody thar rich
enough to buy the smallest piece OF
| it, but want the news to get to New
York and Boston and Chicago. Then
will come buyers thicker'n neas on q
dog Get dinner as quick as you can"
"Oh, John. hope it surely Is a dfa-
mond," sighed the wife.
| Don't you worry about that. ma.
Tn not the sort Of q man that goes
oh1,,,+ v,cLine nm nebbles ana calling
them diamonds."
Farmer Parsons didn't take his dia-
ea - +ou1n NTH him He would
talra hence. 81 being rol,bed He
drove first to the jewelers.. and told
| Of his fnd.
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