A TEXAS PROPOSAL.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1970, 17 June 1880, Page 3

A TEXAS PROPOSAL.

This is how a fond couple came to an understanding, according to one who pretends to know. He sits on one side of the room, in a big white rocking chair; she on the other side, in a little white oak rockingchair. A long-eared deer-hound Is by hia side, a basket of sewing by hers. Both of them rock incessantly. He sighs heavily, and looks out of the west window at a myrtle tree ; she sighs lightly and gazes out of the east window at the turnip patch. At last he remarks : ' This is mighty good weather for cotton pioking.' * 'Tis that,' the lady responds, 'if we only had any to pick.' The recking continues. ' What's your dog's name !' asks she. ' Cooney." Another sigh-broken stillness. ' What's he good for ?' 'What's be good for?' says he abstractedly. •Your dog, Cooney.' ' For ketching 'possums.' Silence for half an hour. ' He looks like a deer hound.'. 1 Who looks like a deer hound V

' Cooney' ' He is ; but he's a sort o' bellowsed an' gettin' old and slow, an' he ain't no count on a cold trail.'

In the qniefc ten minutes that ensues she takes two stitches In her qnilt, a gorgeous affair made after the pattern called "Rose o Sharon." * Tour ma raising many chickens ¥ ' Forty odd.' Then more rocking, and somehow the big rocking chair and the little rocking-chair are jammed side by [side, and rooking is impossible. ' Makin' quilts?' he observes. ' Yes.' she replies, brightening np, for she is great on quilts. " I've just finished a gorgeous 'Eagle of Brazil,' a 'Setting Sun,' and a * Nation's Pride.' Have you ever saw the • Yellow JRose of the Parairy ?' •No.' More silence. Then he says : ' Do you lovo cabbage ?' *I do that.'

Presently his hand is accidentally placed on hers, of which she does not seem at all aware Then he suddenly says: • I'se a great mind to bite you.' ' What have yon a great mind to bite me for ?' ' Kase you won't have me.' 'Kase yon ain't axed me.' • Well now' I ax yon.' • Then now I has yon.' Cooney dreams he hears a sound of kissing, and next day tho young man goes after a marriage license.