ASKING.PA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2457, 20 November 1886, Page 2

ASKING.PA.

However much nerve a young man must possess before he can ask a young lady to' become his wife, it certainly requires more for him to work himself up to that pitoh where he can uublushingly ask her father for his consent in the matter, One night hut'summer Bagby was drawing near the abode of his affianced when he saw her father-in tho yard, What bete opportunity could

ever present itself,? With a trembling step and a yiddy brain he approached to within ten feetof where,the. old gentle-' "taan was seatedi and'.gasped, '•'Please, sir." The person made no reaponae. If a been head at could not .besu worie. 'He sir, for his fedsUhick- :tis an ThaMd 1 ; did not rabiatened hit tongue; and then-began " Ilove yo—" He couldjet rfoiarth'er. Composing himself alittle,'with'a despe- : : rate effort he began at the, beginning;' "Please, sir, Ilove your daughter," and —" TMb .was about one-third of what he had to say, but it seoraed far less, - there was so muoh remaining. It was now getting quite dark. The old gentleman's indifference made Bagby more despertae, and he determined to finish what hehad to say, come life or. death. " Please, sir, I love your daughter, and I wish to make hor my wife. Do you give yonr consent?" and with the question he flung himself on his knees before the old gentleman. Just then came a gust of wind, and the old gentleman, which proved to be a scarecrow placed there-to frighten the robins, fell over on Bngby and tipped him .into the mud. Bapby is still unmarried.