Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1879 — A Great Story. [ARTICLE]

A Great Story.

Burlington Hawk eye. , “Serena, darling,” he murmured, and the okl gate scarcely creaked as It swung to andafro beneath her light weight, and the silent stare locked down with tender glances, and all South Hill seemed to hold Its breath to listen. “Serena, sweet,” he said, and the radiant blushes that kindled over the pearly brow and cheeks, softened the sileut lovcliglit fn her lustrous eyes; “Serena, my owu, If every glittering star that beams above, if every passing breeze that stops to kiss thy glowing cheeks, il every rustling leaf that whispers to the night were living, burning, loving thoughts; if every—Oh h-ho ho! Ow ow! Wowow! Aw-w, ok, uh, oh! Oh, jimfny pelt! Oh, glory! Oh, murder, murder, murder! Oh, dad rang the swizzlea old gate to the bow wows!” And she said stiffly, that no gentleman who eould use such language in the presence of a lady was an aoouaiutanoe of hen, and she went into the house. And he poshed the gate open and pulled his mangled thumb out of the crack ol It, and went down the street sucking the Injured member and dedaring that however lightly 150 pouuds of girl might be upon the heart of man.it was a little too much pressure when applied to an impromptu thumb-screw. Aud the match is drawn and all bets declared otf,