People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1894 — How She Said “Yes.” [ARTICLE]

How She Said “Yes.”

A Lancashire lady has been relating a rather pretty story about a factory girl’s way of answering a marriage proposal made to her. The young woman could not write or read writing, and one day, says the lady, she brought a letter to me to read it for her. It contained an offer of marriage. I happened to know that the writer was a deserving young artisan, so I said to her: “Now, you must consider this matter very seriously, and if you like to come to me when you have made up your mind, I will write a reply for you.” A day or two afterwards I met the girl again, and asked her if she wanted me to answer the letter for her. “Oh, that is all right,” said ths girl, looking radiant and pleased. “I’ve settled it; I answered myself.” “Why, how did you do it?” I asked. And then sb® told me that she could make a capital “I,” and that she stuck on the paper a piece of wool after it for “wull”—-“I wool.” Surely one of the quainest acceptances of an offer of marriage ever penned!—Yorkshire Post.