A SHY YOUNG MAN.

Otago Witness, Issue 1355, 17 November 1877, Page 21

A SHY YOUNG MAN.

MrKilpatrick selected as the hero of his story a shy young man of Scotland, who for fourteen years had wooed the lassie of hia heart. One night Jamie, for that was the young man's name, called to see Jennie, and there was a terrible look about his eyes — just as there is sometimes when they've made up their minds to pop the question. And Jamie came in and sat down by the fire just as he had done every Tuesday and Friday night for fourteen long years, and he talked pf the

weather, and the cattle, and the crops, and the stock market I was going to say — but no, they didn't talk about that. And finally Jamie says : " Jennie, I've known you now for a long time." ■ ' ' j "Yes, Jamie," said she. "" l ' - .% . "And — I've thought I'd. always like *to — know you, Jennie." " /« Y-e-s— Jamie." " And so I've bought — a lot — Jennie." " T-e-s — J-a-m-i-e." " So— that— when— " " Yes — Jamie — yeß." " We're dead we can lay our bones together." - '

The fool had gone and bought a lot in a graveyard, .but Jennie wasn't discouraged. She knew her man well — after fourteen years she ought to — and so she said gently :

"Jamie, don't you think 'twould be better to lay our bones together while we're alive?" _ . . , . :