Peter Popped the Question.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 201, 30 April 1887, Page 10

Peter Popped the Question.

fflk awfi Sal got along fflSdVllin' well for f3«me % ttSme, but tlju¥g\s> wwsigettiif on no iferrewfer,. so I madt trp- my mind to fetch. 'Vamitro sl hod, ior 1 loved :acr hauler and ilisitifeir every day. But ftsw lo do the-* Itlring !' I got somi luv IVdolw, red how ffcHbre. got down* on t'iftJi marrowbones, and: talked like parsons, S7»«J howdiie gals wouW jgewtfljr fall into the -fellers anus. But 'scunohow that way di''n*t unft my notion. , I aslfced mann how dad'cmcmed her, b.jfr hhe- said it had beei «o» long since that ■slibMJi forgot all abc >w ii~ "" I'Unkle Jce* k stiy.s mann doi«jf)all' Sfus- courtin'.) 'At laat I made up m .T»im£i\)i try it anyhow,, for I could not taiitl iv, no longer.. ,Boi I goes over to hei "daddy, % house, and when- I pjol there I sc /■tiika i y>£mol thinkinr •how I sliould begin. SaJ she saw somthii ' an* Lirublin' moy, and, pest >«he, " Ain't yor =k»k.. Ftcter ?"' ' '"Yes— well, no," so T^ '"dissai is, I ain'Jr^ exactly icoll. 1 thouohi DiilGsc^ over 'as nigA\t,' v «ez 1, and there listueit. "'"Sat," se/ I, startin' : j^t'-a^joM. '~Ye^, n sez she. '"Sal,"' eez I, again, ai. i'stAact once me top. the perspiration eomin' c st<" ;idl over me. "Fetor," sez blie, ''tlc'ie'-- aumethin atroublin' you, I know,,a-iv£ its mighoy wrwig for you to keep it lYom a body, idi•an innerd giief, Peter, i« jiocaisumin' the.?"" Then I looks at her. "Sal," sez I, getting cievjierate, "does you luv anybody ?M? M " Well,'" sez she, "I luiwrfad and mr.^n, and- let me see," sez sh^ c yes, there": Old" Phyde " (that wa-. a ct\B of hern). "T caii't think just right c-rf," sez she, *-off anybody else just now." That wa=- orful for a felfd-V dead in luv^so. after a a^ hile I tries anothsv shnte. "Sal," sez I, wipin' iry brow with.im, % y pocket handkei'ehief, " lin powerful A 6ne^ t?omo to hum, and I somefcimes think iir I'd only a pretty m if e," sez C, "I'd be w bi'£>menjus feller." Well, with that what does she do bu-o begins and names over all tnb gals wither five miles of thar, and never wuiist.come a^nigh namin' of herself, and paid I ort to g©tr one of them. That soi tev got my danctdr rtp, and so T hitched my choet close to hern, and shot my eye^, and myself, and sez I des])erate, " Sal," f-aj> I, " you're- the very gal I've been hankerin'- after foi-a long time, and, if you say s>o, we'll 'be joined in the.happy lionds of matrimony, c phiribus unuin, world without end !" &ez 1.. And I felt like I'd throw'd up an allygati;tr, I felt so relieved. Sal, "he fetched a sorter scream ..and after a while, she sez, says she, "Peter !'*" " Well, Sal," sez I. " Which is it to be ?" " Well, yes," sez she. , " Glory, glory !" sez I, with a sitotit ; and with that I kissed her — and- such a kiss ! 0, Jehosifat ! Talk about yer sttgarcandy ! talk about yer molasses ! yer blackberry jam ! They couldn't come- ten mile nigh to it. — From " Popping the Question," by the Rev. David Maci'ae.