Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1877 — The Difference. [ARTICLE]

The Difference.

They were pretty, and there was apparently five or six years’ difference in their ages. As the train pulled up at Bussey, out on tho A., K. & D., the younger girl blushed, flattened her nose nervously against the window, and drew back in joyous smiles as a young man came dashing into the car, shook hands tenderly and cordially, insisted on carrying her valise, magazine, little paper bundle, and would probably have carried her had she permitted him. The passengers smiled as she left the car, and the murmur went rippling through the coach, "They’re engaged.” The other girl sat looking nervously out of the window, and once or twice gathered her parcels together as though she would leave the car, yet seemed to be expecting some one. At last he came. He bulged into the door like a house on fire, looked along. the seats until his manly gaze fell on her upturned, expectant face, roared, “Come on! I’ve been waiting for you on the platform filleua minutes 1" grabbed her basket and strode out of foe car, while she followed with a little valise, a bandbox, a paper bag foil of lunch, a bird-cage, a glass Jar foil of jelly preserves and an extra shawl. And a crazy-looking old bachelor In foe further end of foe car croaked out, in unison with foe indignant looks of foe passengers, “They're married I” —Burlington Hawk-Eye. —A sinful Rochester girl acknowledge* that she goes to church on purpose to flirt.