COAXING SARAH.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2229, 20 April 1881, Page 2

COAXING SARAH.

[Detroit “Free Press.”! Justice alley had hardly been opened to legal business yesterday morning when a sleigh oontaing seven or eight persons from beyond the city limits drove up to the door of a popular Justice and piled out with an air of business. His Honor was poking up the fire when an old man beckoned him into a corner and whispered,— “Got a job of splicing here for yo ! My darter Sarah hero is going to hitch to that chap there with the blue comforter, and then we’re going out to have some oysters.” “ All right—all right," was the reply, and in two minutes the official was all ready. The man with the blue comforter peeled his overcoat, laid aside his hat, and extended bis band to Sarah. “ I won’t do it—l’ll die first! ” she said, os she shrank away. “ She’s a leetle timid—a loello timid,” said the mother, “Now, Sarah, you come and git married! ” “Be keerful, mother don’t make ’er mad,” warned the old man. “ Now, Sarah, if I back out everybody will laff at us." “ I don’t keor ! I want to travel." “ You shall,” answered William. “ Where ?" _ “ We’ll all go up to the House of Correction.”

" Tain’t far ’nuff.” The old man beckoned William and Sarah aside and began : “ Now, Sarah, William jist dotes on you.” “ But I want a bridle tower.” “ Yes, but ye can’t have one. The railroads are all snowed under, and towers have gone out of fashion anyhow.” “Then I want a diamond ring.” “Now don’t say that, Sarah, fur I went to every store last Saturday and they was all out of diamond rings,” “Then I want a sot of mink furs.” “ Mink furs ! William, I know you’d buy ’em for her in a second, but they've gone out of style and can’t be had. Sarah, I’m yer father, hain’t 1 ?” “ Yes, dad.” “ And I’ve alius bin tender to ye F” "Yes.” “ Then be tender of me. I want to see ye married to William. You can’t have a tower, nor a diamond ring, nor a sot of furs, but I'll buy ye a pair of new gaiters. William will pay fur the oysters, and I’ll see that mother divides up the dishes and bedding with ye, Sarah, do you want to see my gray hairs bowed down ?" “ N-o-o.” “Then don’t flunk out.” “ Will they be two dollar gaiters F” she asked. “Yes.” “ And all the oysters we can eat ?” “Yes, all you kin stuff.” “And a tower next fall, if wheat does well!” « Yes.” “ Then I guess I will. Come, Bill, I don't keer two cents for you, but I want to oblige father." 6