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! A MOUNTAIN
COURTSHIP
By M QUAD
C o p y r ig h t. 1315. by t h e M c C l u r e
N ew sp a p er Syndicate.
"Of co’se she did—of co’se,” added
the " wife.
“Did they sot together?”
"Yes, on the log."
“Would you say. stranger—would
you say that thar was luv tbar?" ask­
ed the husband.
“Why. I sat there smoking and look­
ing into the laurels, and I neither
heard nor saw much. By and by I got
up and walked away.”
“Of co'se be did—of co’se." said the
wife.
“Yes, he un would git up and walk
away." sighed the husbnud.
“Would you like Jim for a son-in-
Inw?" I asked after a bit.
“Stranger," replied the man as he
laid aside his pipe so as to have both
hands free to gesture with, "that yere
young man has killed a h’ar with a
knife.''
"And a whoppiu' big b'ar at that,"
added the wife.
"He has shot three wildcats, sub.”
“Shot three and skeered off a
fourth."
“Aud he has swum the Cumberland
river, suh."
"And it was in flood too.”
“And he lias killed mo’ coons _and
foxes and possums in the last two
y'ars, suh. than any two men in tlxe
state.”
“Of co'se he has—of co’se.”
"And he made the elephant ruu
when the last circus cum along, suh."
“Aud it was a whopper of an ele­
phant, too—for snub it was."
"And, suh.” continued the husband
as he stood on ills feet, "that yere Jim
can outholler, outrun, outwrassle, out­
fight and outlift any critter of his age
fur fifty miles around."
"Of co’se he kin—of co’se,” added
the wife as she also stood up.
"And, suh. in a y’ar or two mo' we
ar* gwine to send him to the legisla-
tur. and he’s gwine to swell around
these mountains with a plug hat and
a cane. All this, suh. and you axes me
if I'd take him for a son-in-law!”
“Of co’se we would—of co'se,” said
the wife.
Tlie mountaineer mid hi* wife had
to go down the valley about a mile to
see a sick neighbor, and 1 was left at
the cabin with their daughter, a girl
of eighteen. As soon as she had clear­
ed olf tiie supper table and while I sat
on the doorstep smoking she put on a
clean apron, arranged halloa bit and
blushed very red as she siud to me:
"I Iim's cornin' to see me tonight—and
tiim's very skeery and—and—uud”—
*'L>o you mean that your young man
is coming?" I asked.
“ileckon him is."
"And he’s bashful?"
"Him can’t skeercely abide dad and
tun ui.”
"I see. He’d be scared off if lie
foyud me sitting here. Well, I'll take
a walk and be out of the way."
"No, no, no! You’s perfectly proper.
I'll go out and sit down on the log, and
you stay right yere."
"Oh, that’s it? Well, don't you mind
me in the least.”
The log was only thirty feet away,
and she hadn't been sitting there over
Hve minutes when "him" appeared, lie
had probably been in hiding some­
where near. All I could see was that
lie was a young man, very bashful
and awkward, lie sat down about ten
feet away from her. and It was about
live minutes before either spoke.
"Who's him?" queried Jim us be nod­
ded his head In my direction.
“Stranger, gwiuo further up," she an­
swered. "You hain't no call to he sheer­
ed of him nor nobody."
"Who's sheered?"
“Reckon you Is."
"Shoo! Never was sheered in all ray
life. Linda, does your old dad like
me?"
"Reckon lie do."
Tainted Money.
"And your main?’*
Eugene was not accustomed to re­
"Reckon she do."
ceiving sums of money coins of a larg­
"And, Linda"—
er
denomination than the nickel, aud
lie stopped there for a long, long
time, and Linda coughed and giggled pennies were more familiar. A wealthy
over Ills embarrassment. By and by relative who was visiting the family
and wished to talk over subjects that
she said:
"Dad says you come powerful nigh were not for young ears gave him a
quarter 2 nd bade him go dowutown
killin' a b’nr last week.”
and spend it. Llis eyes shone, in the
No reply.
"Main says you took up them ten three and a half years of his life he
had never had so much mouey. Tlieu
acres of land above Barker's.'i
No reply.
craft entered iuto his soul. “If I take
"lias you lost your tongue. Jliu?" she the money do I have to stay out a
asked after a long silence.
long time?" he inquired. On being
"Cose not; I was tbinklu'," he re told thut this was expected of him lie
plied as he heaved a deep sigh.
sadly but (irmly returned the money
“Reckon I know what ’twas. Te he and kept his freedom of uctiou.—New
he!"
York Herald.
“Reckon you don't."
"Co'se 1 do. Dad likes you. umm likes
Bright Youngster.
you. and I"—
“I’ve been a good boy today, haven’t
That log suddenly contracted again
and brought them close together, and I, mamma?" asked the pride of the
Jim’s arm Stole around Linda’s wuist household.
"Yes. Richard. You've beeu a very
as he tiulshod the sentence for her
with:
good boy Indeed."
"And we'* gwlne to be Jlued In the
“Aren’t you going to call papa up on
fall and live on them acres! Linda. the phone end tell him about it?"
If him wasn’t Imek tliar in that doah
"Why. no; 1 haven't thought of it,"
I'd stiorcly hug you. 1 would."
replied
Ills mother. "Don't you think
I got out of "that doah" and took a
It
will
lie
time enough to tell him when
long walk, and If Jim didn't take ad
vantage of the occasion Linda's looks he comes home?”
“Well.” said the youngster, "tie
be'led her when I returned.
1'he girl gave me good night and might want to buy me some candy or
passed to her room, and a little Inter something for being good, and I
thought we might save him the trouble
the old folks arrived hack.
"Stranger, was thnr a feller yere of going out for It after he gets In the
a-sparkin' Linda?" whispered the fa­ ; house."—8t. Louis Post-Dispatch.
ther as they sat down beside me.
"Of co'se there was—of co'se," said
the wife.
A Difference.
Linton — Didn’t docker's marriage
"There was a young man here." I
replied
come off? Clinton—No; it was declar­
"Did Linda call him Jim?"
ed off.—Chicago News.
''Site did."
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