Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1854-06-04

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presume it is hungry; ; poor child !
The child continued to cry.
Perhaps, ma'am you could satisfy its
hunger
Sir said the lady, drawing herself
Iup.
'Oh, didn't mean anything, ma am, |
assure YOU said Edward Thornton, real
izing the Interpretation which might be
put upon his words.
The lady looked as if she didn't believe
it, and said no more.
At length, after two hours of the slow
est travelling, as it seemed 10 Edward
that he had ever experienced, he arrived
al the termination Of his journey.
1t was with a Iudicrous air of embar-
rassment, that Edward issued from the
cars with the baby i'll his arms, aad the
carpet bag in his hand. He had thought
of leaving the child on one of the seats,
| but the conductors eye was on him, and
he could not get chance.
70 make the matter worse, three 0l
| his most intimate bachelor friends stood
in the station house, as he issued from the
cars.
Good Heaven!' CALCULATED one; Thorn
ton, were did you get that baby. You
aint married, are you?
'Married-non
sOh, it's freud's.'
| 'NOr
'Ah! | understand ; and the friend
looked particularly knowing.
| Edward grew desperate. No., said
he, hurredIy, you are wrong. 1t isn't
so-you may be sure.
Isn't howe
why, as you understand stammcred
Edward.
His friends looked politely incredulous,
and left Edward Thoraton more wrctched
than ever. What was to be done
The reader must be informed that our
bachelor kept house, and employed a
housekeeper, a stad maiden of forty,
who, for consideration, sewed the but
tons on his shirts, darned his stockings,
and kept the house in order.
With a nervous hand Edward pulled
the bell. Martha opened the door.
Goodness gracious me ! shrieked the
astonished handmaiden; "a baby! what
is the world coming to! /!
1T isn't mine, Martha it amt mine.
said the bachelor, in distressed tone.
You may be sure it isn't mine; | don't
know whose it is, bat here's the carpet
bag that belongs to i'll mean, that came
with it. Iou can open it and see what's
in it; | believe It's clothes
The housekeeper wasn't generally
troubled with a cough, but she coughed
very significantly.
And Just get dinner ready as quick as
you can: the child's hungry, and so am
H.
'What shall l get!'
well, you might cook me some beef
steak. Let me see-I suppose the baby
cant 60 beelsteak yet; you may bring 1t
some bread and butter and cake, or pies,
if you have got any
what does the man mean = calculated
Martha, in astonishment "a baby like
that eat bread and butter and piesr
We'll, get what you like; | don't
know anything about such matters
Luckily it was found that the child
would drink milk.
WELL said the housekeeper, after a
pause, what do you intend to do with
your child beg pardon, the child? ?
Why said Edward, I've been think
ing, perhaps you had better adopt It,
i adopt itr CALCULATED Martha; |
would not do it for the world
But something must be done with it,
you ought to have thought of that be-
forehand.'
well, how could tell that the woman
was going to put ii into my hands, and
then leave ?
'O!'
1t was a small word, but there was a
sentence full of meaning in ii.
Without stopping to detail the coniu-
sion, Inconvenience, and embarrassmenis.
which this newcomer introduced into the
bachelors household, it will be sufficient
to state, that family were found who
were willing to adoptit. 1t was joyfulIy
resigned by its transiet proprietor, who IS
more confirmed in his bachelor habits than
ever. He has come TO the conclusion,
from sad experience, that no two things
are more unsuiied to each other than
: RncbeJor 0lJd n BnJ1y'
CoHvICTIoN.-George McCauley was
found guilty Of the murder Of George
Lilly, in Rockingham Circuit Cou1 on
Friday I2h. The verdict was murder
in the first degree and, the Register
says: