Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1894 — GIVEN AWAY BY A GOOSE. [ARTICLE]

GIVEN AWAY BY A GOOSE.

Which Broke Up a Young Man. His Girl and Her Father, A young man over in Brush Valley Township was desperately in love with, i farmer’s daughter, says the Punxsutawney (Pa.) Spirit. She reciprocated the tender passion, but her fa--ther was sullen and obdurate, and’; »ave the young man to understand, in: the most emphatic terms, that if hel ever entered that house it would be at; his peril. He would, he said, “kick! the daylights put of him.” One night recently, when the old? gentleman had gone to Indiana to bej absent over night, the young man took) advantage of his absence to visit thei daughter. They were sitting, in the I front room, both beaming with joy. It' was nearly midnight. Presently the daughter heard a noise which she re-j cognized as her father’s footsteps., There was a bed in the room, and thei girl drew back the Called curtains and' told the young man to hustle under.l He did so. She had forgotten to tell’ him that there was a goose under! there engaged in a motherly effort to hatch out a dozen young gos-j lings. Scarcely had the young man’ gotten himself securely stowed away,’ when the girl’s father entered. Just l about this time the old goose made a hissing noise, drew back its long neck! and struck the already frightened intruder a smart blow on the left ear,* nipping a piece out. That was enough.; He was sure he had been bitten by at snake, and, with a blood-curdling yell,! the young man rushed from his hiding place screaming at the top of his voice: “Sn:ike! Snake! I’m bitten by a; snake! and I don’t care a dang whoi knows it!” And the clandestine lover made a break for the door and ran home with furious speed, yelling at every jump. The old man was at first very much startled at the strange apparition, but, he soon realized the situation, and both himself and his daughter laughed heartily. __ __ ' ■