Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1889 — Not So Bandy-Legged as He Looked. [ARTICLE]

Not So Bandy-Legged as He Looked.

They sat on the sofa. They had just come to a mutual understanding, and he had measured her finger for the engagement ring, and they were in the first throes of tender reminiscence. “You do not remember,” he said, in a trembling voice. “You do not remember when you first saw me.” “Yes, I do.” ’ “Did any little thrill or throb tell your heart this happy moment would come? No, that could not be expected.” “Yes. Something did seem to whisper that we might become man and wife.” “My darling ,” he said, and he kissed her fondly. “Yes, I remember, I saw you from the window leaving the house, and I thought you were bandy-legged, and I thought how awful it would be to marry a bandy-legged man, but it was only the glass in the window that was uneven and made you look so.” —San Francico Chronicle.