Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1846-03-14
(Ffom the Columbia Magazine }
LIFE ASSURANCE.
BY IltfN NEAL.

An! is that youl-bow do you feel!-how'9
the weatlefP
Ug5!-ug1! a damp, cold day my Love
ugh!
"a what stopping on her way toward
him, with outstretCAed arms, and a look Of sor
rowfuIl astonishment.
We'll what's tho matter now?
'Oh, Charles! laying her little, soft. plump
hand upon bis arm, with q sweet smile, and
baking her loose hair aud prettliy turned
soad at him 50 piteou5iy-'U CtarLes, what
hid you promise met -
Promise you'll henl Wherep
'TVhen we were married, Charles.
Upon my word, I've lorgotten-what was
itr
'Oh Charles!' and her largo dreaming eyes
filed with tears and TUNED away ir0ln Inc oI-
fered kiss, -.#
What was it JaunA'-kicking OF his boots
and f]umblIug about for h > slippers, What was
it | promised you at the time OF our mtfrlagH!
Really now-whal was it JengyI-to love, ilo-
nor and oLey?
This was too much-'much too much'-and
the yount vile bid her face IN her periumed
handkerchief and wept aloud. .
Whcreupon her dutilul and loving husband
fetched d long breath fang oil his coat, slipped
into dressing gown, aud went softly up to
her and sat down upon the sofa, aud tried 10
pull her into his lap.
But she only wcpl the Understanding away
her sweet lips, and refusing to be comiorIed;
and when be would have put his arm round
her waist, or toyed Win her little dainty hand,
Ms Of yorc, instead Of jumping up with a cry OF
transports, as ndaty b0uud, or dropping a low
courtesy, or whispering thank ye, sir, shs only
pUuted, ard flung aWay rom hun and went
and buried bersuIl u the iarthest corner OF the
farLheBt COucn IN the rOom-paiitng 4 sha ~ o.
yer her face aud drawing herself up and turn
ing her back 10 him, as much as 10 say-4N0U
fr iH-IH SEE!
Well! thought her hasband-fhere mnst he
something to pay; ard Id give a rifle to know
what. 'Jenny!-Jenny dear?
At this moment the bell rang, and before
Jenny could right herself, or get up decent
excuse for flushed checks, red eyes, and a
rumbled dress; The DOR opened slowly, aud III
walked very slowly no less a parsonage than
| uncle Joe; a bltchelor uncle, stout aud free
| spoken; stately and tcsty upoa whom all the
| hopes ri the tamjly were liked
'Halieo!-hoIB-t9Ity +; what's IN the wind
now! sung out uncle Joe, as be saw Tho lady
of the house hurrylng off at one door, while he
entered At the other. Amt ye ashamed o.
| yourselvcs!-hcre Charles ; here!-y0u grea
Iubber, YOU! Haven't yet been married long
enough TO behave like a a man hey!-rut, tut
tut. Come here Jenny! WBat are yJu afraid
of? Oh ho; | ses Cr}l ng hey I! Well, well
that's solne comfort. Had enough D billing
and coolng-heyPs
'Take a chair uncle
Take a chair, u%ncIe!' To be sure I will.
Just thought OF ii-pret'y time O day. WHAT
the plague have you been gnarreiing about
'Quarre ing, ~uncle!'
QuarreLing! yes, TO be sure ; quaFrei1ng!-
pulling hair. Can't lsce! Don't | knOwf
| Haven't YOU been married we'll on to a twelve
month hey = setting down his hugh knot
ted cane, as if he menI to force it through tbs
| floor, and pulling out a large gold snuff box
from his broad Mapped waistcoat- pocket and
scattering the rappee right and lett over the
rich carpet, as he contInued-'Cotne, come,
now none o. that, If you please. Here you,
Jenney ; stand up there, and take your fingers
out of your month, and you, you great booby!-
what areyou grinnlng al! Look rae in tie
face now, boihof you; what in the plague
were you quarreling abou /
No nswer
Uncle Joe fetched a stamp that shook the
whole house.
sWhaf!-ashamed to tell, hey? Pretty fellow
for a husband, amt youP
Here Charles looked at Jenny,
And you, you jade /; pretty fellow for q
wife, amt you?
Here Jenny looked at Charles.
That such children should dare TO get mar.
ried! Upon my life l 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
laughing together.
And then the glorious old fellow, who was
a bit of a huuOTist m his way, and very fond
Of mischief, giving Jenny a pinch, and Char.
les a wink, which brought the color mo hel
cheeks, ard made him look like a simpleton
H flung himself back into an old fashioned arm
chair and upsetting a fancy table with a lamp
on it that was never lighted, and a quantity
of old china Of no earthly use, fell a laughing
with all his might, and kepton i; and on al
if he would never stop, till the char creaked
and trembled in every joint, and tine poor wife
looked at her husband in dlsmay, expectini
every moment to see his dear, old. good for
nothing uncle Joe pitching head foremost a
mong the glittering fragments OF her china
or sprawling at his whole length upon tIt
floor.
And then there was a full and then ano
Their boisterous outbreak and then there wa
a little playful questioning, and then It turned
out that the marriage promise referred to b
the wife was about swearing and that wheI
the husband came into the room and she ask
ed hfn about the weather, aud he answered
alittle pevishly perhaps, that It was a dam
cold dan, she had mistaken what he had ssit
Tor something very naughty !; very naugbt.
indeed; and whenshe reminded him OF tl
promise made 10 her literally On Der nafriag,
day, aud not befare, ia the season .! c~ourislnI
] aud she found not only that no had fnrg otIel