Beadle's Dime Novels No. 215: The White Hermit — page 57: what you’re looking at

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y “> #Or perhaps he would prefer to have it done by proxy, In ee nS ee Oe fee 7 a oe 4 A KISS REFUSED. So * i water there, the old man is ready to do the job, or bu’st some- thing trying.” $ “ What for, Bill 2” demanded Perdita, merrily. Be - “What fur; what fur? Didn’t the darned brute offer to | kiss you? I’m sp’iling fur a chaince to lick some one and I'd a lettle ruther lick him than not.” | “Thank you,” said Perdita. “ You shall kiss me if you like, you dear creature. I am sure you have done every thing for us.” “ What!” roared Bill, flushing to the very tips of his ears, “Now quit that, you. What’s the use of plaguing the old Zi man. You don’t think I'd kiss a gal, do you?” * Would you kiss me, if I asked you ?” said Perdita, wick- 4 edly, approaching her merry face very close to his. 433 “ @ way!” shouted Bill, desperately. “Don’t; darn it, Sy don’t. You plague me, and I take to the woods, now that’s = a fact. The old man ain't used to it.” - *JT never thought you would refuse me,” said Perdita. “T have no other way to reward you.” . “ Condemit!” yelled Hungry Bill. “Git away! Darna — woman, anyhow ; they ain’t no right in the woods. Lemme "Jone, will you ?” 2 cee The embarrassment of the guide was so obvious and his blushes so vivid that a general laugh passed round the circle, which stung Bill to madness, and casting a look of fury at ae his fair tormentor, he darted into the woods in the direction = of the hut in which Chenango had been lying when they = first visited the island. Hungry Bill was famous for hig bashfulness all along the Mohawk, and it was related of him” that, when living at home, when a boy, the appearance of = any neighboring female was enough to cause him to take to the woods. 1 — Ais? “ You will frighten him away,” said the captain, endeavor- = ing to restrain his laughter. “When you approach Bill in. that way he is taken upon his weak side. Tll go and speak - to him.” oe; . * Well, tell him he need not kiss me if be objects so strenu-— = ” said the young lady. oe ees. which case he could readily find a volunteer who—” x