Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1879 — How He Won Her. [ARTICLE]

How He Won Her.

A radiant young fellow shook our hand with a vise-like grip yesterday, as he ejaculated, in volcanic words: “Congratulate me! congratulate me! I am tne happiest man this side the Elysian Fields. At last, at last! Why, lam a walking lo triomphe! What is it? Won alottery prize? Faugh! She has consented—she promised to marry me—the prettiest girl in Kentucky—the girl who jilted me seven times before she said yes. Five long years have I loved her. I wooed her ardently, tenderly, gallantly. I had money; I was young. I was not bad-looking. But sne refused mo. I sought honors and eminence in my profession. I gained them: I laid them at her feet; she declined them. Seven separate times had I addressed her, and seven separate times had I been refused. I was in despair; I was losing my own respect, and probably hers; and" I determined to quit, to go away, to look upon'her face no more. I packed my trunk for Leadville. I started out to buy my ticket, when a plan flashed to me—a plan,-a plan, a plan! I went back. I tried it. 1 won!” “And this plan ?” “I hired myself to her father as a coachman!” —Louisville Courier-Jour-nal.