Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1885 — A Sudden Proposal. [ARTICLE]

A Sudden Proposal.

“Well, ma’am, ’tis suddin. But it is all along of the funeral, ma’am. Oh, ma’am, I do be thinkin’ that ’tis a dreadful thing for a man to lose his wife. I niver see a man in such a shtate as he was, unless it was me brother Tim whin the pigs ate the baby. I couldn’t shtand it, ma’am, indade I couldn’t, and he cryin’ and moanin’, and lettin’ go a rap at some of the byes’ heads near him, an’ thinkin’ ’twas his own head he was strikin’ and not knowin’ the difference, he was so bate out wid sorrow. And so I put me hand on his shoulder, an’ sez I, ‘Don’t now, don’t don’t,’ an’ sthrokin’him like a cat, an’ sootherin’ him, as any woman' wid a heart in her buzzum would have done, and tellin’ him to take it asy. I did, ma’am; an’ this mornin* he towld me I was the liveliest gurl at the funeral; an’ we’re goin’ to be married, ma’am —the corpse’s husband and me."—Peck's Sun.