Salt Lake Tribune | 1903-04-05 | Page 38 | Patient

Patient An eccentric old deacon In a New England town was approached sometime some-time ago by a young man who sought his daughters band In marriage You cant have my daughter said the deacon i But I love liar dearly and she loves me pleaded the youth No matter you cant have her You know sir that I am amply able to support a wife and you know also that my reputation Is without a blemish blem-ish I could not ask for a more thrifty or a more upright manbut for all that you cant have my daughter Well since you seem to find no fault with me please explain your objection to my marriage with your daughter It IK I simply that she has an ungovernable ungov-ernable temper Hut Sarah Is a devout Christian pleaded the youth That may be true said the deacon dea-con But file here young man you will come to Imo before you are as old as I nm that the Lord can gut along with many persons that you couldnt get along with Philadelphia Ledger