LOVE-MAKING OF SAG AND SUSIE JANE.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXIV, Issue 3056, 24 February 1913, Page 4

LOVE-MAKING OF SAG AND SUSIE JANE.

Ea.% SkicJmire had been "spakia* " Surie Jane for nearly three years without coming to the point. At lrst Susie grew . weary, of wait■;nrc. ■•' ■ ' ;' ■ , '• ' 1 Saf," zhe said, "I want to know now pint tlin'i are yo' goin' to h«T me or not ?" " W-e-l-I, I dun'no'," Sag drawled ,— "sometimes I think I will, .'en' a L r'i-i I think I won't." "Now \vhut do yo' we about m« yo' d-n't like ?" "Well, I dun-no. Some pay yore a "mite near-sight«d." "Who sez thet? Jest tell me who s?z it." 'Well, Lizy Hooper •» it." " "She does, does she ? En sh« fa!n't see tcr thread a needle. Why, T c uld see the eye of it plumb out tcr thct gate." ' . "Well, it's gettin' purty dark, Shsie Jano, en yo'd hardly her a fair fh'jwln'; but gimme a needle en I'll jest "try yo'." Sag moved slowly out to the gate and went through the motion of sticking the needle in the top of the post. He stepped back and holloo«d: "All ready, Susie Jane." Susie Jane stood on the doorstep. She tent forward, stooped right, then left, raised on her tip-toes, and appeared to be striving fqr a sight of the n-cUj's eye. "Nrv/ I jest kin discern the light cem'n' through," she said at last. "Susio Jane," drawled Sag, coming forward, "there ain't no needle there ; but ef yo', want me bad ernough to look a hole through thet pin I stuck up in the gate-post, I reckon, by 'inks, T'u hey yo'."