Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1879 — She Didn’t. [ARTICLE]

She Didn’t.

It was plain enough to all other passengers on the ferry-boat that the two were in love and engaged, yet the girl seemed to doubt his fervor, just a little. Therefore, as the boat reached midstream, she leaned over, and tenderly said: “Johnnie, I am going to test your love. lam going to jump overboard, and, if you really love me, I know you’ll jump after me and save me.” “Yes; I’ll jump after you,” he slowly replied; “but—but—” “But what, Johnnie? ” “But, if I were you, I’d take off my shoes first. Just the minute they haul you out of the water, every woman in this crowd will rush to see whether you wear No. 2’s or No. s’s, and, if you are in your siocking-feet, they can’t get the size.”. The girl drew her feet under the chair, sighed once or twice, and did not regain her old enthusiasm until the boy came along with peanuts.