"Quad's odds"; . nfidence I entered the neigh-bors house wherein Aunt Jane was employed to do house-work. I found her in the kitchen, passing some slices offat-pork to the hot spider, and I thought I had never seenher look so lovely. I walked straight over to her, threwmy arms around her neck, and said: Aunt Jane, I want to marry you ! Sakes to stars I she exclaimed, holding the last pieceof pork poised on the fork. I love you, and Ill marry you to-day! I went on. She put down the meat, gently slid out of my arms, andplacing her hand on my head she solemnly said : My dear boy, Im old enough to
"Quad's odds"; . nfidence I entered the neigh-bors house wherein Aunt Jane was employed to do house-work. I found her in the kitchen, passing some slices offat-pork to the hot spider, and I thought I had never seenher look so lovely. I walked straight over to her, threwmy arms around her neck, and said: Aunt Jane, I want to marry you ! Sakes to stars I she exclaimed, holding the last pieceof pork poised on the fork. I love you, and Ill marry you to-day! I went on. She put down the meat, gently slid out of my arms, andplacing her hand on my head she solemnly said : My dear boy, Im old enough to be your mother! Youmustnt think of getting married for fifteen years yet! THIRD TIME AND OUT. 221 I rushed out of the house, eyes full of tears, and I wentdown to the creek, fell upon the grass, and wept long andbitterly over my great sorrow. I made a solemn vow neverto marry any one as long «s?C£S»**- -% - as I lived, but four weeksafter that I was in lovewith a girl in a dollarstore. Ah! well, I suppose all. men can look back and call up just such recollections oflong ago, and yet we cannot smile over them—there aretoo many graves between us and childhood. HE SAID CUSS/
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