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Show Did He Propose? "Did be propose?" said a down town mother to her daughter the other night. The young man had farewclled himself out, and Emeliue had locked the door and was untying her Ehoes when her mother came down Btairs with a bed quilt around her, and said: "Wantel to creep up stairs without me hoaring, eh? Didn't think I knew it was an hour after midnight, did you?" The girl had no reply, and the mother continued: "Did he propose this time?" "Why mother!" exclaimed the blushing daughter, "You can 'why mother' all you want to, but don't I know that he has been coining here for the last year? Don't I know that you've burnt up at least U.ur tons of coal courting around hen?" The girl got her shoes off", while the mother stood at the islair door and a&kid: "Erne-line, "Erne-line, have you got any grit?" "I gue,s so." "I gueso you haven't. I just wish that a fellow with false teeth and a nr.le on his chiii would come sparking me. Do you know what would happen, Emeliue?" "No." "Well, I'll tell you. He'd come to time in sixty days or he'd get out of this mansion like a goat jumping for sunflower seeds!" Erne-line Erne-line went lo bed to reflect over it. |