Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-01-14

"'There! Cruel I call 1t. ia
never treat man like that
"'No. Nell, and l won't be treated
that way, either. I'll give her up!
You can write and tell her l won't
lump it. All. Nell, my girl, I'm
regular done now. Thank you, lass.
I'll see you this evening
"'At the usual spot, l SUPPOSE
"'Ay, at the little stile; seven
sharp.
Ellen went away not taking any
notice o. me whatsomever. SO
came up 20 Tom, and said,--
You and Nellie seem pretty
thick, my lad
LAY, not bad that way. Phoebe
has turned me or
"I don't believe 1t now
"'What! When l tell you I've
seen her words, no, heard them
all the same. She says l may take
1t or leave it; lump 1t" is her
words
Phoebe Mayhurn never used
them words, I'll swear, Tom. She's
a lady, she Isl
"A nice lady. to turn over a poor
fireman. No; I'm going on the other
line. I'll put up Nellie in church on
Sunday, sure's my names Tom
"'And youp be sorry for it, Tom
mot me-, was his answer, in
them very words. 'Nell's splendid
girl, as handsome as paint
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was useless-like, so l said no more.
Oh, 1t was a shame!"
CHAPTER III. A COLLISION.
After that there was no disguise
about it, The banns were put up.
and Miss Ellen walked about as
proud as any peacock She had won
the game and was, l may say, in an
unmaidenly hurry to marry Tom.
Perhaps she was afraid of losing
him if she didn't immeditely secure
him. At any rate no time was lost.
BY February the day was fixed, the
banns having expired, and no one
offered any impediment.
agree with rather than originate
these arrangements. He was evil
dently dazzled by the young woman;
she had bewitched him but he was
not so demonstrative as he had been.
She had quilted The Den and gone
home to her fathers farm while the
wedding was preparing.
Il talked to Tom, and gave him
my mind. He made no defence! he
only said,-
why doesn't Phoebe write,
then! She's thrown me over. Let
her CO.
"'You haven't any proofs, Tom.
I said. But things have gone too
far to turn, l suppose
I'm marry Nell. We've arrang-
ed the whole thing. There's to be
a train wedding. We're going to
Rushtock by rail, on the main line,
in trucks hung out with ribbons and
flags, regular show! Well let 'em
see fireman's wedding" he says.
Fortunately the wedding day
dawned fair and frosty. AS the
morning passed the sun came out.
and at eleven O'Clock when the we'd
ding train started the weather was
crisp and bracing-a bright sun, and
hardly a cloud visible. The train
was sight! Any one went who
liked to pay a shilling. We had the
train of ballast trucks draped with
flags and with seats fixed across.
There was band in one truck and
the engine was the Firefiy. Tom
and his intended occupied a COM
partment in an otherwise empty
carriage next to the engine. A live
ly company we were, too. There
was refreshments and music, ban
ners, singing, and the weather love-
ly.
mo one was late. We had four
| trucks, one van, and the carriage
second-class cgrriage-in front.
| We had to travel on the branch line
| to the junction, cross there, and so
| over the up-metals for a while to
the down road. Tom seemed in bad
| spirits. his fun was forced-like, he
| didn't seem easy, and / fancied that
he was sorry for what he had done
| None of Ellen's fellow servants had
been invited, but she was as happy
as q queen, and would have made q
splendid queen, as she stood at the
door of her railway carriage, regal.
like.
II was sitting In the rear van with
| Charley Down U could tell you
something about him, sir, too)
when / happened 20 put up my head
to the glass roof, and saw steam In
the air at distance.
I'VE shall be stopped in a min
ute, Charley says l. There's q
train yonder'
Its going our way he said
We follow the mail. It's all right.
80 we went jogging along pretty
fast, and all the platelayers and sig
nal men stared at us greatly, anc
cheered us. The engine driver wa:
putting us along very sharp. wher
as we got near the junction the sig
nal suddenly went up bang in oul