The Iowa patriot. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1839-1839, 1839-08-01

single screw would have saved it; butt
on meantl Mr. Bruce You naea,st!
won't pay the damage, nor Hawk Il Har-
pegs MOTEL ~ on meant, indeed!''
Bruce seized his hat and cloak. In a
few minutes he was on Change. No
body could read in his face any traces Of
the matrimonial breeze, and nobody would
suspect from his countenance that Hawk
and Harpey had failed in his debt. Easy
Joe Bruce!
''Well, Mr. Bruce, they've routed him.
"Who?''
"Our friendaCheck. Pingree was cho.
sen President Of the ---- Bank, this
morning. One vote would have stopped
him."
elbow deucedly unlucky. / meant to
have been present to vote for Check my
self!''
s'Never mind, Bruce" said another.-
.sYou are lucky man. The news Of
the great fire in. Speederville has just
reached town by express, and congratu-
late you that you were fully insured
Insured! my policy expired last week.
| meant to have got it renewed this
morning.
Joe posted home in no happy humor.
When an easy mar is fairly up, he is the
most uneasy and unreasonable man in
creation.
"Mrs Bruce, by staying at home to hear
you scold | have lest thousands. IIneant
to have got insured this morning. did
not; Speederville is burned down, and |
ain a begger.''
"SVhy did you not do it yesterday, Mr.
Bruce!''
81 was thinking of Hawk & Harpey."
Thinking! Why did you not secure
yourself?"
81 meant to, but
s'But--give me no butts"
You are in excellent Spirits, Mrs.
Bruce
''Never in better"
"Vastly fine, madam. We are beg
CARS" Mrs Bruce sat Gown, and clapped
her feet on the fender. after her husband 8
manner in the morning.
'SFe are beggars, madam Bruce re-
peated.
very good viii take the guitar, and
you shall shoulder She three children
We will play under Mr. Hawks window
first, and then under Mr. Harpey's; then
60 and beg our way to Speeaerville, to
play to the ashes Of what was once your
factory, which you meant to have insured.
/ should like begging of all things.'
you abominable woman--I shall go
mad
DO not, | beseech you, Mr. Bruce!
they put mad beggars in Bedlam.'
| Bruce sprang for the door. His wife
Interrupted him. Here Joseph, is pa.
per naeuat to have shown you this morn
/ ing
"A policy! and dated yesterday!
Yes. You meant to get it renewed
today I meant it should be done yester-
day, SO | told your clerk for you to do it.
Am not an abominable woman,'
when 1 said SO I was in pet! |
meant
mo more of that, Joseph. Now tell
me who is the first on Hawk & Harpev's
assignment
your Brother
Ills claim covers you BOTH
| sYou are an angel. Mrs Bruce!
/ Easy see became an altered man, and
his wife was released from her watch
over his out door business. She died
some years before him, but we are half
inclined to suspect that after her death Joe
partially relapsed into his old habits; so
true it is that habit is a second nature.
Both were buried in the grave yard at
Speederyilie. and our suspicious are foun-
ded on something like the following con-
versation, which took place between the
graye-digger and his assistant:
where are we to dig Mr. Bruce's grave?'
! do not know exactly. His will says
next his wife,
Where was she laid?'
THAT ] don't know. Easy Joe always
said he meant to place an obelisk over
her, but It never was done
SPEECH OF Mr.. LEIGH.
We publish below an extract from the
letter of the Hon. BENZ. WATKINS LEIGH,
to the Committee of Arrangements of the
Riyes Festival at Amherst Court House,
Va. We invite the attention of our read.
ers to it, for it breathes the pure spirit of
patriotism, that should characterize the
thoughts and feelings Of every freeman.
"While the doctrine stands admitted,
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