In due time I married Mistress Marian
Straitways. I might have told more of trifling, and how she fared,
poor wench! in mine absence, even to the following of me in another
ship, in a shipboy's disguise, and how I rescued her from a
scheming Pagan villain; but, as a plain, blunt man, I am no hand at
the weaving of puling love tales and such trifling diversions for
lovesick mayds and their puny gallants--having only consideration
for men and their deeds, which I have here set down bluntly and
even at mine advanced years am ready to maintain with the hand that
set it down.
DAN'L BOREM
BY E. N--S W--T--T
I
Dan'l Borem poured half of his second cup of tea abstractedly into
his lap.
"Guess you've got suthin' on yer mind, Dan'l," said his sister.
"Mor'n likely I've got suthin' on my pants," returned Dan'l with
that exquisitely dry, though somewhat protracted humor which at
once thrilled and bored his acquaintances. "But--speakin' o' that
hoss trade"--
"For goodness' sake, don't!" interrupted his sister wearily; "yer
allus doin' it. Jest tell me about that young man--the new clerk
ye think o' gettin'."
"Well, I telegraphed him to come over, arter I got this letter from
him," he returned, handing her a letter. "Read it out loud."
But his sister, having an experienced horror of prolixity, glanced
over it.
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