STORY: Proposing Diplomatically by B.T. Botkin

Story title: Proposing Diplomatically
By: B.T. Botkin


      The man from the outback was very shy; the maiden was beautiful and seemed to him too wonderful to be asked for. He went on loving her silently for ten years. He built a fine home, with garden and barns, but he had not dared to propose.
       When everything was finished and furnished, he invited the maiden and her family over to see his
state. They all went through the house together and visited the barns and other buildings. Finally he managed to get Anna separated from her family. They went together to see some of the outbuildings. At one stage they stood silently looking into the pigpen. He looked up to her sweetly and said, "Anna, shall WE keep a pig?" And Anna said, "Yes"