| Show I 1 from alfrom the dollar weekly mar star MARRIAGE OF JOHNNY BEEDLE OK on misfortunes aj OF A aay raly laly r aly iy FA FAVORITE V 11 iwas I 1 was sp up to sally bally jones like all vengeance and aid threatening to give lier her the butt end of my sentiments well I 1 was as goodas good as byword my word the next saturday I 1 went right to work ork after meeting upon the outer man as deacon carpenter says and by sundown things looked about right I 1 say nothing but when I 1 stood up to the glass to finish and sort of th thy the hair air ain and whiskers and so forth I 1 saw sawa sawn A little feller there that looked wicked and says 1 I if sally jones knows which side her bread is buttered but no matter she shant say I 1 give her a chance well I 1 went over to the squires pretty well satisfied in my mind so after fluttering and crowding about her a little while I 1 up and showed her the cloven foot sally said I 1 will you take me for better or this put her to considering and I 1 gave a flourish about the room and cut a curly cue with my right foot as much as to say take your time at last says she id as alivs have you as anybody in the world joh john ri but I 1 declare I 1 cant you cant ha ba and why cause cause what cause I 1 cant and enough I 1 would in a minute john buffor but for only one reason and that im afraid to tell you poh poh says 1 I dont be bashful if theres only one stump in the way I 1 guess heres a feller well then look way john job n I 1 cant speak if you look at me oh yes there your time says 11 I 1 with a flirt the reason is r joe soe bowers the stage driver now you ou shant tell teil nobody johnwill john will ye who would have thought this of sally jones it seemed to me the very verb old boy had got into the women they fairly put me to the non plush all this time my popularity with the ladies was amazi amazing pg to see them flattering and soft soaping me all over you would have sworn I 1 had nothing to do but pick and choose 1 I had as much gallanting gallantine gal lanting to do as I 1 wanted everywhere and for politeness and gentility never turned my back to no man then en they were so thick and familiar with me that they care rare what they said sald or did before me and finally when they had any errands or chores to do who laut taut I 1 was the favorite bird to fetch and carry I 1 was forever and ever acting and cantering bantering cant ering from dain pain post ost to pillar to do their biddings rain bain or shine snow or mud nothing stopped me and I 1 in may 1 y say I 1 fairly earned their smiles by y the sweat of my brow then it was oh mr beedle what should we do w without mr beedle but when I 1 caught one alone and begun to touch on the matrimonial sentiments then how quick the tune was ivas changed oh tile the ways of women are curious patty bean was not riot the first that I 1 run against by a long shot I 1 never lost anything for want of asking and I 1 was apt to begin to talk taik turkey always when T got sociable if it was only politeness now one would promise and then fly off at the handle but most all contrived some reason or other for giving me the bags to hold one had taken a firm resold resolve ve never to marry no never never and the next sunday she was published another chicken thought she was a great deal too young to understand under tand to manage a family at last I 1 took a great shine to the schoolmarm school marm huldah hassam though she was ten years year older solder than I 1 aud and taller by half a yard of neck and and when ahen I 1 offered her heart and hand she fixed up her mouth and says she ive great groat respect and esteem for you mr beedle but and so forth nothing will ill lii cool a man down quicker than respect and esteem unless it is a wet blanket but let huldah alone she had bad her eye on deacon carpenter all ali a the while well as I 1 was going moping along home from squire joness I 1 fell in n with wit doctor dingley the doctor saw in a linit that something was the matter and he went to work and pumped the whole secret out of me then he be beseemed seemed so friendly that I 1 up and told him all my iny experience from froni beginning to end well john says lie he I 1 a advise you now to wait till the twenty ninth of february when the gals turn round to court the fellers its none of my business but if I 1 was you I 1 let the women n make fake a fool of me any more well I 1 took a resolution and stuck to 0 o it firm for when I 1 once set up p my ebenezer ibe nezer I 1 am just like a mountain I 1 I 1 stuck to it it all along pretty well in january jannary when I 1 had bad to go to sin singing I 1 school I 1 must go to singing scho school ollin for cor I 1 was leader in the treble and there was no carrying on the parts without me but that was nothing if it fell to my vot lot lotto to go home with hannah peabody four times politeness before everything well she kept growing rowing prettier and prettier every time but ut I 1 only grit my teeth and held on the harder by and by sabbath night came round roundy and I 1 felt sort of uneasy moping about home and says 1 I this resolution will never set well upon my stomach without air and exercise ami and before I 1 was done thinking of this I 1 was more than halfway half way to captain peabodys ys it was about daylight down as I 1 was passing by the kitchen but hearing a sort of snickering I 1 slipped up and peeped into the winlow window just out of curiosity there was no candle burning for mrs peabody is saving to tallow but I 1 could see hannah and poll partridge the help telling fortunes in the ashes by firelight nire lire light agin jack robinson jack robinson was come to sit up with the them help and would insist upon it I 1 should go in and see hannah she had a spark asparo this month says he and in you shall go or ill lick you well there was no dodging here and all I 1 had to do was to grin and bear it so in I 1 went and once once onee in good by to resolution the short and the t T e long of it is I 1 was soon as deep in the mud as I 1 had been in the mire but I 1 had another guess chap than sally jones to deal with now and here was the difference between them when you got a slap in the chops from sally hannah kept ye off with a scowl anu and and a cock up of the nose and madam bear handling with her it was talk is talk but hands off mister BL bub but I 1 rather guess I 1 had cut my eye teeth by this time if I 1 learnt something about the of women the kicks I 1 had taken from all quarters fell on barren ground there is no wal way of dealing with them but to coax aw and ana flatter you gain nothing let me tell you by saving of soft soap and you must be sly about it it is no way to ketch a wicked wicker devil of a colt in the pasture to march right up bridle in hand you must sort of sidle along as if you was past and whistle and pretend to be looking way and so round and round till at last you corner him tip up then jump and clinch him jis the fore lock oh im not so great a fool as might be but it was a long and tedious business before hannah and I 1 could come to any sort of an understanding there was gid old oid captain peabody who was a stump in in my way he was a man who had no regard for politeness he traveled roughshod through the town carrying a high head and a stiff upper lip as much as to say I 1 owes nobody nothing he had been a skip ship skipper er and sailed his schooner all along le the shore till he got forehanded then went back up the country and set down nanning fanning but I 1 never knuckle to a man if hes as big as all out doors and after hit poked his fist in my face one lection we never hitched horsey together well as I 1 was afraid to go to the house and court hannah in the regular way I 1 had to carry on the war just when and where I 1 could sometimes of a dark night I 1 could steal into the kitchen but my safest plan was to track her to the neighbors houses where she went to spend evenings skulk about till she started home and then waylay her heron beron on the road pretty poor chance this say but as if this enough hannah herself must join in to plague me half to death ye see I 1 wanted to let her know what I 1 was arter in a sort of a delicate underhand way and keep myself on the safe side of the fence all the time if there was to be any kicking but hannah had no notion of riddles she would not understand anything short of plain english I 1 hinted plague suspicious about truelove true love iove and cupids cupida aarts darts and all that then I 1 would heave a ion lon iong long g t sigh and say what does that mean nannah hannah but no she see sae imor soul she looked as simple simpie and innocent cant all the while as if butter would not melt in her mouth she was close too as to her goings and comings and if she happened at any time by accident to let drop the least word that me where to fine her next time she was so mad with herself that she was ready to bite her tongue off one day she was going to her aunt molly hollys s to spend the evening evenin gand handshe sho she went all themay round to doctor ding leys to tell teil tellers mrs not to tell me for says she I 1 dont want him to be dodging me about everywhere well mrs dingley promised to keep dark but she told the doctor ardd arid what does the doctor debut ames comes right over and tells me gone all stark alone says he but its none of my ray business this is the day I 1 have marked with a piece of chalk hardly was daylight down before I 1 was snugly in my skulking nest in aunt hollys barn it was on the haymow hay mow where there was a knothole knot hole handy to look through and see all that went in or out of the house I 1 had a scheme in my head that hannah little dreamt of and I 1 lay and thought it overfill over I 1 tili 1111 slid sile come out and when I 1 got sot ilar liar her under byarm my arm and walking down own the lane thinks I 1 ill lii set the stone a rolling anyhow let it stop where it will so I 1 set in to talking about this and that and ana thing and happened by mere chance ye know to mention our old hatters shop that stands at the corner my father used to work in when he was alive and says I 1 speaking oj of the old shop it always p puts ats me in mind of you hannah of me nie john says she why oh its just the thing fora forn for a stor store e says well sweep p dirt and old hat parings and the truck well I 1 take the sign and rub out hatter and put in its place merchant and you see that spells john needle beedle 2 merchant then get rum and molasses and salt fish and ribbons and calicoes cali coes oh says she ris ais ies my new calico gown you was a thinking ot of it pretty oh says stis atis E tt tisa is veix pretty gound says bayh Y I 1 but the upshot of the matter is hannah I 1 have finally concluded elk eik ded to set up storsand store and get married i and settle myself down as a merchant t for life at hung down her head i and gave a suie sule snicker I 1 hai and how does that put you in mind of me john says she 1 i 1 4 1 e U guess I 1 wont guess nor teach to do gues sonee W A I 1 wont so there now I 1 never what I 1 said and what she said next is all lost forill treat if afi I 1 can relner remember it is all buz buz in my head like a dream the first I 1 kne knew w we were right against captain peabodys ys barn walking as close together as we could with comfort and our arms round each others waist hannahs tongue had got thawed out and was running like a brook in ina lna a freshet and abd all one steady stream os ot hon honey dy I 1 voial vo I 1 was ready to jump out of my skin it was a mile and a half good from aunts aunt hollys ollys to captain peabodys ys and I 1 thought we had been about a minute on the road sosaya so isaas 1 ii hannah lets go set down under the great appletree apple tree and have a little chat justko just to taper off the tho evening we now sat down and began to talk sensible we settled all the fredica ments of the nuptial ceremony and then talked over the store tiel till we thought we saw ourselves behind the counter I 1 gand measuring and dickering and dealing out and she at the desk pen in inland hand hana bruring figuring up the account accounts st 14 r 1 and mind john says she im noi noe not going to trust everybody at the corner I 1 tell ye I 1 I 1 but just as we were beginning to get sociable as I 1 looks up and says she t t 11 what can that air great red streak be in the sky away down there bey beyond and Sacca rap I 1 rather guess says 1 I it is fire in the woods fire in the woods ill 1111 be skinned if it daylight a comin quick john help me into the window before father i is a stirring or here hervill he lill be a P retty pretty how d dye e do 4 the he next job was to tell tall the news to I 1 ca captain ta in peabody hannah had settled i it t that ti at she could speak to her mother and said she could manage her well enough and it mas was my business to ask herfa her father this was a thing athing easier said than doab 4 it stuck lumy lu in my crop for I 1 days like a raw onion I 1 tried to pe persuade il ade hannah to marry first and as ask aksa afterward f ter d says 1 I you are twenty one and free according to law but she hear of it she had no notion of doing things clandestinely then I 1 asked dr dingley to go and break the ice forme for me but bub no he would not meddle with other folks business lie lle madest a S f ls 1 well says sass I 1 if I 1 have got to come tj tc i th the e scratch the less I 1 consider onit on it the better so one stormy day I 1 put my head down aga against I 1 ast a north northeaster gaster easter and set my feet and the next thing illing I 1 was standing right afore CaRt captain cartain aln ain peabody he was in his grain house shelling corn sitting on a tub with an old frying pan stuck through the handles and he made the cobs fly in every which way hit or miss he care but it tickled him so to see me dodge ern enn em era that he got into uncommon good goad humor TO BE CONTINUE DJ |
