Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1874 — The Result of Writing Another Man’s Love-Letters. [ARTICLE]

The Result of Writing Another Man’s Love-Letters.

There, resided in the lower portion of this city not long since a swain whose heart dwelt iu a distant place, and in communicating with her her lover was compelled to call in the aid of a third person, as his early education was defective, perhaps from too. frequent indulgence in “playing hookey.” To guard against any temptation for the scribe's falling in love with his sweetheart the young fellow settled upon a. married man to perform the duties thereof, and so for a time things worked most harmoniously. The, scribe had been there himself, and, profiting by his experience, he penned such deliciously gushing letters to Mary Ann, in the name of George, of eoufse, that the little maid"soon surrendered the citadel of her heart to George, and promised in due time to surrender her hand also. Now time la its fiight caused the swain to move to a neighboring river town to pursue bis calling-, and it wigs necessary to keep up the correspondence with Mary Ann in the same handwriting, so George got a friend iu his new home to write the tender messages and mail them to the scribe in this city to copy and post. The plan succeeded admirably for a time, hut on one ill-fated day the scribe, after inditing a mos‘ loving epistle to Mary Ann, ending, of course, with a prayer for a reply by return mail, in a fit of abstraction signed his own instead of George’s name. The return was a female, and no less a one than Mary Ana's own mother, who searched out the scribe, and laying | his last tender effusion to her daughter before his astonished eyes asjeed him, in such tones as only an outraged mother can command, how dared he, a married man, with a family, write such a letter to her innocent lamb of a daughter. Then that scribe had to rise to .expLainhow he had been engaged in an amicable traud, and the words must not be taken as no, by no means—but as those of George, llis explanation fully satisfied the matron, and all ig again serene.— Rondou.t (N. Y.) Freeman.