Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1845-05-22
That Hole ia the Pocket.

rejecting that penny day is more than three
dollars year We would complain loudly il
TAX oil that amount were laid upon us; bu
when we come TO add all that we uselessly lax
ourselves lor our penny expenses, we shall find
'ha' we waste IN this way annually quite enough
10 supply family with winter fuel.
II is now about year since my wife said 10
me one day. Pray, Mr.. Slackwaler, have you
that half dollar about you lha, gave you this
mofnIng?" fell in my waisicoa pocket, and
fell in my breeches pocket, and turned my
purse inside Out, but it was all empty space
which is very different from specie; so | said
TO Mrs. Slackwa,er. " I've lost it, my dear; pos
i'ively, there must be hole in my pocke, ~
q" I'll sew 1t up" said she
An hour or Two afer, met Tom Stebbins
" How did that ice-cteam sell" said Tom. Ill.
SET" said |, like the sun, gloriously." And.
as spoke, il flashed upon NE that my missing
half dollar had paid for those ice-creams how
ever, | held my peace, for Mrs Sackwaler
sometimes makes remarks and, even when she
assured me at breakfast next morning that there
was no hole in my pocket, what could do but
llft my brow and say" All isn't there really! ="
Before a week had gone by, my wife, who
like duillul helpmate she is, always gave
me her loose change TO keep, called for twen-
iy-hve cent piece that had been deposited in
my sub-treasury for safe keeping; There was
poor woman at The door," she said, ",ha, she'd
promised it 10 for certain" Well, wal, mo-
ment," | cried; SO pushed inquiries first in
this direction, then in thai, and then in the
other; bu, vacancy returned horrid groan.-
!" On my soul" said |, thinking it best 10 show
bold front, you must keep my pockets in
better repair, Mrs. Slack water; this piece, with
know not how many more is lost, because
some corner or seam in NY pIaguey pockets is
left OPEN"
Are you sure?' said Ms Slackwarer.
Sure ay, ihal | am, its gone!" My wife
dismissed her promise, and then, in her quiel
way, asked me to change my panislooms before
wen, oui and TO bar all argument, laid auo-
lher pair on my knees
That evening, allow me 10 remark, gentle
men OF the species husband" was very loath
TO 60 home 10 tea; | had half mind to bore
some bachelor friend, and when hunger and
habit, In their unassuInlng manner, one on each
side. walked me up TO my own door, the touch
made my blood run cold. But do no, think
Mrs. Slackwa,er is Tartar, nay good friends,
because thus shrunk from home The fact was
lba, had, while abroad, called TO mind the fate
of her twenty-five cent piece, which had in
vested in smoke, that is to say, cigars, and
feared to think OF her comments on NY pauta-
loon pockets.
These things wen, on for some months; we
were poor 10 begin with, and grew poorer, or at
any rate no richer, fast. Times grew worse
and worse my pocke, leaked worse and worse,
even my pocket book was no longer To be trust
ed, the rags slipped from il in manner mos,
incredible to relate Insh song says.
a. And such the fate of Poor Paddy o':ore,
That his purse had the he had the fewer"
Al length one day my wife came in with a
subscription paper for The Orphans Asylum.
looked at il, and sighed, and picked my tech,
and shook my head, and handed IT back TO her
Ned Bowen" SAID she, ha. puI down ten
dollars"
"'Ihe more shame TO him. replied. He
can't afford ii !: he but ust scrspe along any
how, and in these times il ain, righl for hlm TO
DO H." My wife smiled in her sad way, aud
took the paper back to him thar brought 1t.
The next evening she asked me if would
90 with her and see he Bowels, and, as had
no objection, we started.
knew that Ned Bowen did small bu.
ness that would give him abo.a, 5000 d wear.
and ! thought il would + e Won while to see
what that sum wo"' ID d., in he way of house
keeping ere admitted by Ned, and wei
e"'ls. by ..eJ's wife very neat liiile body,
II " .enm Mrs. Slaekwaier bad told me gtea'