Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1885 — She Slew Him. [ARTICLE]

She Slew Him.

He was a tiresome beau, and the girl couldn’t get rid of him to save her life. The other evening he called, and during the conversation, or rather near its close, she said: “I dreamed about you last night.” “No?” he exclaimed, with a smile as big as the mouth of a river after a thaw. “Yes. I dreamed you had proposed to me.” “And—and—” he hesitated, blushed, looked appealingly at her, and put out his arms in a dazed sort of a way, “and what did you think my—my” “I thought—l thought ” she also hesitated and blushed, and then stopped. “Well,my—my—what did you think ?” he stammered, in impatient hopefulness. “I thought it must have been—the mince pie I ate before retiring that gave me the nightmare.”— Merchant Traveler.