American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-02-10
From the Columbian
FEE A S S u II A N & T.

EtnG weather.
| Ugh!-ugh! damp, cold day my love
ughH
"A what! stopping on her way toward him,
with outstretchGd arms, and look of sotrowEul
Pastonishmeut,
4 'Well-what's the matter now?'
Y 'Oh, Charles" laying her little, soft, plump
= hand upon his arm, with 4 sweet smile, and
shaking her loose hair and prettily turned head
M him so p'teously-'Oh Charles, what did you
promise me?'
4 Promise you!-Whon = Where?
1 when we were married, Charles
| Upon my word, I've orgotten-what was
Itl'
'0k Charlesh and her large dreaming eyes
filled with tears and turned away from the
offered kiss
what was i Jonny?'-kickng Off his boots
and fumbhng about for his slippers, what was
it promised you at the time Of our marriage?
Really now-what was it Jenny?--to love, ho-
nor and obcyE
This was too much-''much too much''-
and the young wife hid her face in her peifum-
ed handkerchief and wept aloud.
! Whereupon her dutful and loving husband
feshed a long breath, flung off his coat, slip
ped into dressing gown, and went softly up
to her and sat down upon the sofa, and tried
| TO pull her INTO his lap.
/ But she only wept the louder--turning away
! her sweet lips, and refusing to be comforted;
I and when he would have put his arm round
4 her waist, or toyed with her little dainty hand
] US of yore, instead OF Jumping up with a cry of
! transport, in duty bound or dropping low
I courtesy, or whispering thank ye, sir, she only
pouted, and flung away from him and went
and buried herself in the farthest corner Of the
D farthest couch in the room--pulling shawl
il over her face and drawing herself up and turn
i ing her back to him, as much as TO say-.Nop
? for it!-IW see!
! Well! though her husband-there must be
! something TO pay; and I'd give triie to
! know what. 'Jenny!-Jenny dear!'
At this moment, the bell rang, and before
! Jenny could rlght herself, or get up decent
! excuse for flushed checks, rod eyes, and a
I rumbled drcss-the door opened slowly, and
in walked very slowly no less a parsonage
! than unclo Joe--a batchelor uncle, stout and
free spoken--stateIy and tcsty-upon whom
all the hopes OF the family were fiAed
'Hllloo' -hoty-totty -~hat's IN the wind
now?' sung out uncle Joe, as he saw the lady
Of the house hurrying off at one door, while
he entered at tho other. Aims ye ashamed
4 o. yourselves Charlos--hure!--vo u---
I great lubbor, you! Haven't ye been married
] long enough to behave like m0n--hey tut
tut-tut. Come hore Jenny! WHAT are you
| afraid of? Oh-ho-i see crying hey? Well
well that's some comfort. Had enough o
! billing and coong-hey?.'
| Take chair uncle
Take chair, uncle Too be sure | will,
Just thought OF it-pretty time o day
| What the plague have you been quarrclng a.
| bout9'
'Quarreling uncle:'
| 'Quarreling yes, TO be quaneling!-
pulling hair. Can't see? Don't / know
Haven't you been married we'll on to twelve
I month-hey? setting down his hugh knotted
|. cane, as if no meant TO force it through the
floor, and pulling out largo gold snuf:box
I from His broad tapped waiscoat-p pocket and
scattering the rappee right and left over the
| rich carpet, as he ontinuod-'Come, come
now-none o. that, if you please. Here you
Jenny-stand up there, and take your fingers
out Of your mouth-and you, you great BOBBY
| what are you grnning at! Look me IN the
] face now both of you-what in the plague
were you quarelng aboutP
No answer.
Uncle Joe fetched stamp that shock the
whole house.
'What!-ashamed to tell, hey? Pretty fellow
for a husband amt you?'
| Here Charles looked at Jenny.
| And you, you jade-pretty fellow for a
wife, amt your
Here Jenny looked at Charles
That such children should dare TO get mar.
RED Upon INV life wouldn't trust either OF
/ YOU with a rag baby
Here both looked at uncle Joe-and after
two or three wry faces, all three burst out a
laughing together.
And then the glorious old fellow, who was
! oE in fy nd
of mischief, giving Jenny pinch, and Charles
a wink, which brought the color into hel
checks, and made him look like Il smpleton
| flung himself back into an old fashioned arm.
chair and upsetting fancy table with lamp
on it that was never lighted, and quantity o
old china of no earthly use, fell a laughing
1 with all his might, and kept on-and on-as /
he would never STOP till the chair creaked ant
trembed in every joint, and the poor witt
looked at her husband in dsmay, expe citing
every moment to see his DEAR old, good for
nothing uncle Joe pitching head foremost amon!
the gittering fragments of her china, or spraw
ling at his whole length upon the floor.
And then there was lull-and then anothe
boisterous outbreak; and then there was a it'll
playful questioning, and then it turned out tina
the marriage promise referred to by the viii
was about swearing; and that when the hus
band came into the room and she asked hit
about the weather. and he answered, lttl
pevishly perhaps, that it was damp, cold day
she had mistaken what he had said for some
thing very naughty-very naughty indeed: an
when she reminded him of the promise made
her literally on her marriage day, and not be
fore, IN the season Of courtship-and she toun
not only that he had forgotten that promise
but that he was inclined to jest with it, an
turn the whole off with n Iau0b-no yonde
she had swelling of the heart, and lost he
patience.
This affair settled, and another long an
lasrh-annfEnr 9th