Show joshu joshua cheats Wh eats 1 and jand mar r nage niage did you iver ever see a bashful man reader layou if you have hake then you have seen one of the roost awkward ungainly creatures among hunan bipeds now there may be something attractive and interesting in the shrinking timidity of a blushing girl though 5 I 1 confess that I 1 have my doubts in regard to it but a bashful man who ever hi him 1 m th though 0 tie tte h desp despised isee by one sex and laughed at b by Y the other bother always doing what he never ought to have done and saying Z what he never intended to say he ia is one of the most pit pitiable Vable nabie objects in existence to be sure in these days of brass and assurance su rance when everybody thinks himself as good as his neighbor 0 and a great deal better they are very rare but still they are to be met with occasionally though they are quickly disappearing and probably in a few years there will be no trace of them left my friend joshua wheat was one of this unfortunate class of people I 1 say war wa for he has wonderfully improved of late years nut but I 1 will not anticipate no one could have seen joshua enter a room where there was company and especially ladies a without being abate of this peculiarity of his ile he generally either blundered along lookin looking red and foolish or shot hurriedly in with a white scared face hiding biding himself as boon soon as possible frein observation behind a door or in a corner if there was a chair or stool anywhere in the room which was very apt to be the case he generally managed to stumble over it which was not at all calculate eato inc increase eabe ease his self possession or add to the grace of his entrance if a pretty girl spoke to him he stammered and turned all sorts of colors looking as frightened and ashamed as if it he had been convicted of sheep stealing poor joshua there certainly never was a moan roan who had a higher opinion of the better part of creation or was more capable of appreciating precia itin 1 tin ting the blessings of matrimony yet he ire ere had bad ild reached the age of twenty eight without be being inh in 0 one na step nearer towards realizing them than h he e was eight years before ile he had bad five brothers rot hiers fiers but none of them had bad half his good looks or sense they possessed what he did not plenty of assurance and a tact of showing all they did know and were all married ais als and ahl happily settled in life while he remained a forlorn disconsolate bachelor it was not from the want of maans means to support a wife for he had plenty of this worlds a well stocked farm p a nice new house besides asides some money in the bank it certainly was not for want of girls for there were scores efthem of them tham in the town where he lived of all sorts borts and sites black eyed blue eyed and gray ray eyed and eyes of no color at all no joshua joshua wheal wheat remained unmarried merely because he be had not moral courage sufficient to loo lockany kany ny one of th khz girls in the face and sa say Y will wiil you marry me A These words are very simple 1 and to the uninitiated very easily spoken yet I 1 have known many a mans courage fail him at the thought of saying them who would have ridden into the the fiercest and hottest battle without the shadow of fear at last all the girls of joshuaa Jos huas acq aca acquaintance u aint were married to braver if not be better tt er men all but one mary dearborn the prettiest one among them all and as good and sin sensible sible as she was pretty mary had bad plenty of suitors but she turned a cold shoulder to them all bei g fairly determined in her own mind that ie if she married at all she would have bavi nobody but joshua wheat joshua had taken a great shine to mary ever since they were children they used to go 0 to school together in the little red schoolhouse school house bouse on the hill he drawing her to and from school in the winter minter on his little sled and bringing her hir apples as red and shining 0 as her rosy cheeks f 0 dhen they grew older he be exhibited his big preference artince for her though in a somewhat different mariar manner emy very sabbath after rne ine meeting eting was ovel ahe would post himself by the church door tise tiYe tS escort scort her home and in the eveni evening ilg tig arraya arrayed in his sunday best he might have been seen striking a a beeline bee bie line for squire dear VI ma about nine the old folk folks 8 would go ot off to bed leaving joshua and mar mary together and there here he would sit looking straight into the fire and scarcely daring to mover amov eor breathe with the momentous question on the very tip of his tongue yet li uever never heavill leaving it no nearer toward the object af his visia w hell heli herx he left the house than when re he entered it things went on in this way for a number of months but at last an event occurred which gave joshua quite a start A son of dr hale the vilf village tEge physician came home from co college I 1 why 1 re he had graduated it is said with considerable I dist distinction iric on ile he was a tall lank smooth facea fellow with avith more learning than br brains i achs and more brass than either ide ife he saw II luar JMar arAin yin church the first sabbath afternoon and toka tola a great fancy to her and commenced paying paving by considerable attention young nale hale had always beati bein marys particular av aversion elsion she had disliked dislike A him from ahia boyhood but she aid did not scruple to flirt sith with him a little hoping to rouse joshuaa Jos huas jealousy ja al lousy and brin i whim g him to the point I seemed t to 0 have ave its effect for learning that Lawrence Mr one of his neighbors in in tended to give a party and having obtained an inkling in some way that that college cha chap A as bermed his big rivals rival intended to take mar Mary Y h he e went over to square dearborne Dear Diar borns early eaily the next morning and asked her ber himself deli dell delighted 0 a at t the success of her ber manoeuvre mary imry gave a smiling consent and at the time appointed much ta the chagrin of the young colle collegian 11 ian lan abo had intended ho to appropriate her to himself she went accompanied by joshua alarmed at the bare possibility of losing her joshua appeared like a new man and instead of moping in some corner as was hi his s wont not daring to speak to her or any one alsehe remained by her side nearly pearly the whole evening scarcely quitting her for a moment and then only when she requested him to bring her r some refreshments mr hale who had bad viewed joshuaa Jos huas attention to mary with a jealous eye heard this r request and being well aware of joshuaa Jos huas blundering propensities very maliciously placed a stool directly in his way pretty soon joshua came around the stool as anybody else would have done he stumbled over it and sprawling full fall length upon the floor landed the contents pl 0 his lands hands which consisted of a cup of coffee and a plate heaped with doughnuts pum pumpkin il kirr pie larul various other eatables directly in marys lap this unexpected feat produced quite a sensation mary set up a loud scream and the rest of the company rushed to see what was the matter and it was sometime before order was restored when the tumult had in a measure subsided mary looked around for the unlucky cause of it 1 buthe bathe bat he was nowhere to be found mortified fi ed at the ridiculous figure be cut and the merriment of those who witnessed it he rus rushed h from the house and never stopped or slackened his speed until he had reached his bis room and bolted the door firmly resolving as he did so that he lie would never 1 speak or even look at a girl rl again as long as he lived bloor poor mary alary was more annoyed at joshuaa Jos huas evident discomfiture than at the loss of her dress which was nearly ruined and she conceived a stronger dislike than ever to the young coll gian gian glan who she was quite sure was at the bottom of it all she resolutely de dined his proffered escort at the close or of the entertainment g going home with one of her brother brothers leaving h him i m the alternative of attending seif in some other lad iad lady y or going home by himself two sundays passed an ami joshua never came near her and on monday following mary put on her bonnet and shawl and went over to the house for the ostensible purpose of having a gossip with old mrs wheat who lived with her son but in reality to find out what had become of her sensitive 7 lover much to her disappointment Joshua was not at home though 0 she saw a coattail coat tail quickly disappear through an adjoining ing disconsolately among the trees laden with their lucious fruit and looking ag as though 0 he be a friend in the world he started and colored as his bis e eyes Y es fell upon mary why mr wheat she exclaimed in a tone of surprise who would have thought of finding you here why I 1 seen you for an age have you been sick yes no that isi isi been very well lately stam merred poor joshua looking C as if he had half a mind to run away you dont say sol soi so you are looking pale paie said mary with the appearance of great sympathy glancing t mischievously at his face which was growing redder every moment I 1 and which certain certainly Y showed no si signs siris ris lis of ill health what a beautiful situation she resumed after a pause looking admiringly around on the well cultivated farm there is only one thing wanted to make you quite comfortable 11 she added slightly and that is a wife bif wh what at in the world is the reason you dont get married joshua the poor fellow colored clear up to the tips of his hair ill 1 I really dont know 11 he gasped there wont anybody have me fiddlesticks end was the lau iau laughing hing rejoinder 1 I know better than thail there are plenty th that atwould would if you would only take the trouble to ask them I 1 know of one at least she added in a lower tone no but really do you inquired joshua earnestly who can it be this was rather too much and growing in indignant at either his stupidity or want of courage age to take advantage of the opportunity she gave him she remained silent what a singular looking lookin 1 apple that is that you hold in your hand band s she bhe he remark remar temar edat ledat last breaking Z the embarrassing 0 silence that eric ensued yes returned joshua it is a new kind I 1 grafted last ye arand the only one that came to perfection wont you have it miss mary rya he added looking at her timidly will I 1 have you joshua of course 1 I will said mary with the most innocent air imaginable giri finable gi able abie joshua was wag thunderstruck scarcely daring to believe his ears are you in earnest mary he inquired looking anxiously into her face to be kure sure I 1 am she returned laughing and andi coloring and we will be marrieT married next christmas unable to contain himself joshua immediately threw his arms around mary and ratified the bargain with a hearty kiss at which performance mary man mah manifested infested not the slightest objection or displeasure on the following christmas there was a merry wedding in 9 at S squire U i r e dearborne Dear borns at which our friends J joshua shua and 1 a mary marx were the chief actors and now the staid dignified 1 looking man who walks into church with such an important air with his big wife anone on one bide side an and d a little boy on the other would hardly be reco recognized nihed as thau thai blundering awkward f fellow ellow joshua jashua wheat |