Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1887 — His Birdling. [ARTICLE]

His Birdling.

“It ain’t ev’rybody I’d trust my little gal to,” said old farmer Skinner to the love-lorn young granger who bsd become enamored with iViiss Sally Skinner and wished to carry her from the loving care and shelter of the homo nest. The “littie gal,” who was five feet and eleven inches tall in her bare feet (as she was at that moment), hid her happy, blushing face on the dear, fond old father’s shoulder, and wept happy tears as he said to the deeply moved lover: “You must take good keer of my wee birdlmg. Jack. Bicollect that she’s been raised kind o’ tender like. Two acres a day is aILI ever -asked her to plow, and an acre of corn a day is all she’s used to hoeing. “She kin do light work, sich as makin’ rad-fences, and digging postholes, and burning brush, and Si that, bnt ain’t nsed to regular farm work, and you musn’t ask too much of her. It’s hard for her old dad to give his little sunshine up. He’ll have to split his own cord-wood and dig his own taters now. But go, birdie, and be happy!” — Tid-Bids. * ~