Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1913 — RAPIDITY OF BASHFUL YOUTH; [ARTICLE]

RAPIDITY OF BASHFUL YOUTH;

Bpent Six Months Making Sheep’*| Eyes at Maiden Without Speaking—Finally Finds Courage. “Miss Crupplngton —Sybil—! lovsj you,” he sattt —- “Oh, George,” she sighed, “this is so! sudden! Speak to father,' will you,, dear? He’ll be in soon.” And ten minutes later the nervoual young man was facing his adored) one’s father. '‘l Jove your daughter, sir,” he com-! menced. “Rather sudden, isn’t it?” interrupt-! ed the old man with a twinkle in his? eye. “Love refuses to he checked by l time, sir,” declared the youth. “Iti was sudden, I admit.” Then the old man laughed. “Take her, boy, take her,” he saldJ “You ain't a bad sort of chap at aIL George; but you ain’t over swift, and that’s a fact. For six months you. 1 made sheep’s eyes at the girl without speaking; for another eight yott sent 'er enough flowers to stock Convent garden; and this last year you’ve been round ’ere every night squeezin’* ’ands, sighin’ like a steam siren and sitting with the gas out. Sudden! Good ’eavens, George! You’ll be takln” a ’earse ’orse for the Derby winner next!’’—Tit-Bits.