POPPING THE QUESTION.

Manawatu Herald, 5 November 1889, Page 4

POPPING THE QUESTION.

-♦• It was seven long years since Jonas Hiir< is bad Ingan to " keep Cora- any" wthMi s amiab 1^ >I. aud yet n\ all tl.at. ti:ae he had i.ot mastered eoovage to p'.vp-se a ccv. t .in impoitunt qnesiion. His lioa c . jagg )ouely-ft-- d wait ngj_ hers _..w_as lonely enough to be vaca'cd, and Jonas could not bring himself tospeak the decibive words. Many n t.me he had walked up to, h«r door ■with ihejpsp>¥BsQ-s>s a|';,Ji6|ij l '. < nij^vto,. ilnd him^lff a*lye3^ i^biis^whea'isht^. appeared. v i c hnd never f tilled in dropp r ngin to che^r lur lone ne*s on Christmas eveuii'g, and ibis year ,!.e; ji ;e-<u td 1 himself as usuul. Thfe hai h was swept, fire burned br ghtly and Miss Hii'nmili Wtts adorued with cmiles and a rod bo-.r. >;) ,- - Co lversaiioi.! wenf.'sorsne'y oh v i6r'. »n hour or so, mid iben, when, they bo b sat paiiug red cut eked' 1 applet with grent c< ntentment, Jonas ToegMn to call lip -n his recoil, ctions. 1 It's n good.m»tuy J pai\Sc,'Uu'.c > -it. l Haunali, since yoii" and I " first got here to ether? ", . " Yes, a g jorl many. " " I woi.der if I *ha 1 be set in here this time another year.? " •'Maybe I shan't be : at Perhaps 1 bhall go «.-ut to t-pend t! c eve mg myself! ,;B§i«lj^^!S#Hupijtfh;--biiwkly. •& !$..&. Iv"aX\/1,1 v "aX\/1, This was a blow, indeed, and Jones A It it . " Wher. ?" heg^ed. ■■■ \j ? i j. i I ..Y/. 4( Oh, I don't Unovv," &he re'urned, beginning to 'quarter her appl . * ' I might be out to « ea— over to your house, for instnucev' ■rfngr''^ '. "But there w. uldh'^MAnlWjo.ftv ovov there to get .-upper frr youJ: " Maybe I <Jpn^?geKit(in^el'P' "So you ♦cou'fflr^*jW Jf could!" cried Jonas, his eyes beginning ,to 3pnrkle. " Bu there > jyw> Id^njt le anybody to ccok she yiesTfand/^aktfa bfcfo.ehond." " Maybe L.coy v a f cQO. l^e^-." r ! > A tlh tuadTQ'^t Joi'jfcj' j-jatb^fel between his* un c' to"tlie > YiearbPi nnd broke in two, but neither of tlit in noticed it. 11 HiuMih/uCried ; liq[,^^ ; jfch^ pen' up enijjhi»fis of lie". eiVlbi'g yeui s '• could you l.ring yiiurst-lf-to tiling r-f grttn' marr:«.d?" .\ s nw ., smi'f cnived. her lij s: surely she h^^fo^fijj^^pr aWidaut tme or fephsijfej^ti.i?.^^* . j - •• Mayb » £ coulcf,"' slieretuiriod demurely, and, Jouas •, htts, ( »i4'»nu'cc himself fp. this day .for ieajnig uy to the suijec('sq(f[ev^j;i,- 7 ',•',,,:' . . ,