THE ENGAGEMENT RING.

Dunstan Times, Issue 2489, 12 July 1909, Page 6

THE ENGAGEMENT RING.

The fust one usually doesn’t cost much; but it costs enough for all that. You are about twenty when you begin looking over the jewellers’ advertisements, and find yourself wondering if she will be pleased with what you save and pinch so to get. At length you have bought it. Then comes the eventful evening. You s roil down the street feeling your impop* tan:e at every step ; with thumping heart iuu pass into your love's sweet presence. Were site sits expectant. Before you know anything about it her hand is in yours, mci her taper fingers the jewelled oand is slipped, and what follows immediately you remember so well it need not ba recalled. Hank Hilliard was born and reared .way down in the wild Ozak region of C iriscian county, Mo., almost within guns ot of the famous Bald Knobbers of . .o'h Missouri. He had never been out . ■ v county, much less out of the State, d ; :t> ideas of engagement rings were iam.d. When pretty Sally Diggs—n;city in spite of her length, shambling wain.*and freckles—insisted upon a ring before she would consider the engage* mem binding, Hank was non-plussed. 11 ecx p< isi ula ted without avail, scratched his head, thought a long while, and finally went away. He came back the •mxi afternoon, his brown face wreathed in simiesi -I've got her!” he exclaimed; and rc u iiing in his pocket, he drew out M g. cat ring of brass. Sally smiled, and reached out hef hand. Hank slipped the ring over tbd gill s largest finger, and leaning near thd simple maiden, whispered : “ Now, Sal, are ye satisfied that wetllli Is engaged r” •• Yes. Hank,” Sal whispered, shaking the ring around on her finger. “ But, say, 1 lank, whar did ye git it?” “ Ve won’t tell ?” “ Nope.’’ “ Hones’ Y* “ Hones', Hank.” “Ef ye must know, I cut it oaten dad’s Sunday galluses.” Sal slipped over into Hank’s arms, and as their freckled, sun-burned cheeks touched, the girl whispered ; “Say, Hank, ain’t ye ’fraid yer dad’ll lick ye whenhe finds nis galluses busted V' ■—SI. Paul Pioneer Press.