Show r- r t That's What hat Happened to Lem Lon Ion Peters and As a Result Lems Lem's Wedding Has Been Declared Off Oft All III Being Over Betwixt Him Kim and Matilda Brown As we go to press Lem Lern Peters who is one of our most promising young men and Miss liss Matilda Brown of Happy Hap Hap- py Valle Valley who have been engaged ed to tobe tobe tobe be married for lo 10 these many years which happy event was to of took place I next June are arc not now to be married at all The engagement is is I broke and all is now over betwixt them Sad Sid sad sadAs sad I As everybody knows Lem Peters and Lon Peters is brothers and twins twins they they was horned on the same day about 35 years ago and Lon is anI only about a half halfa a hour older than Lem Lem and Lon looks as much like each other as 2 peas do and to make matters worse they have allers dressed alike As a result of their similarity their own owls mother didn't even learn to tell cm em apart un- un till they got to be about 15 IS yrs old Lem often used to get licked for things which Lon done and vice versa Well Vell Lem has been a courting Matilda Matilda Matilda Ma Ma- tilda very persistently for years ears and at last up enough courage to ask her to be hisen which she agreed to do with great cheer Lem Lein has made it arule arule a arule rule to allers go to see Matilda every Saturday night Last week however Lem was took down with what Doc Livermore called the grip and he lie felt so miserable that when Saturday come corne he hc I he couldn't make the trip to Happy VatIc Valley so he asks his brother Lon to kindly hitch up and drive over overto overto overto to the Valley and md tell Matilda that he was too sick to come so she wouldn't i ibe be disappointed Lon hitched up the old gray mare marc last Saturday and over ove to the Browns When he at the house he hitched outside and went watt and on the door Matilda Malilda who was looking for Lem answered the nock and thinking thinking thinking think think- ing of course that Lon was Lem Lent she says O 0 Lem I am ant so glad to sec your you ou fIt l and before Lem Lent could say sayar or do anything she throw cd her arms around his neck and kissed him right S smack on the front piazza piana then she pulled him into the parlor r and Lon set down with his hat in hi his hand wondering what was vas a oin to to him next After Matilda had kissed him Lon ton was to tell her he wasn't Lem Matilda Matilda Ma Ma- Ia- Ia tilda set down beside him on the thc sofa and held his hand iland and told him how much she loved him and nul talked a rc reg- reg lar Ia- streak about her wedding and how low happy they would be after they had went to Housekeeping and run upstairs and brat brot down her bridal gown which I she w wap a to wear to show to him and alj alb the time Lon set there like a bump on a log wondering what the he was a ding to do to get nit of such a M r. iilda ilda noticed that Lon wasn't astall as tall talky as and she asked him Binh i if C he lie war nt feeling very well Lon says lies Im I'm Im I'm feeling pretty well thank you but my brother is is sick Matilda latilda says Poor Lon Im I'm sorry to hear hes he's hessick sick sack ck Yes says Lon lie he sent me fiver to tell tetI you that he he's hes s so sick he couldn't come corne to sec see you tonight Goodness sakes ly I says sars Matilda I wasn't expecting him him l I was expecting you ou Lon he picks up his hat and kind of hitched over the front door so he could get ct out if necessary and then he says sas I am awful sorry Matilda but I Iam Iam Iam am not who you ou think I be bc Who Vho be you ou then says Matilda growing kind of white around the gills I be Lon hays ays ays Lon Then he dashed from the house unhitched the horse jumped into the thc buggy and back to Bingville split Matilda has give out word that she shevon von wont won't t marry Lem never She says saS she's not courting the whole Peters family and if the they think they can make her they arc mistaken Lem is feeling pretty bad over the thc matter matter and md says he wouldn't stop from giving his brother Lon a good thrashing after he ltd recovers from the grip Lon says he wouldn't be begrudge rudge being licked any day for a kiss from front as pretty a girl as Matilda Matilda Matilda Ma Ma- tilda Brown |