The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-10-22
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.


CaR3ss1sy and is Consequenees.
Ahaesuf I'll O. o.. F.. at woodstown, determined to
Ons resolved unanimously that ArA K should be
Employed 10 do the job.
znR The meeting adjourned, the Guardian. who's
ns. Tie inquisitivs character Of Mis- =. nroce Hsa.
kspt - . reservoir for the secret thingA he then
6AEmsd the lady Of the wishes of the Lodge, and
requested her to come early next morning, a. he
Vuah thm be at leisure to show her what was and
Morning came. and with it Madam K, with broom,
hrushss. peils, tubs, Sc, prepared and armed fr the
jpo. snd hund the Guardian waiting 5r her.
want done, and how we came to employ you The
6rothes sid it was difficult to get anybody to do the
Sob and mot be meddling with the secrets in that little
saosst; We have lost the key. and cannot find it to
lpek the door. I assured them that you could be de-
pended o."
"Oepnded ON =" she said I; "IguesI can. Ny
poor dead and gone husband. who belonged to the
1Hee Masous, or AntiMasons I don't know which,
used 10 tell me all the secrets Of the concern, and
when he showed me AL the marks the gridiron made
vA0 he vas initiated, and told me how they fixed
poor Morgan, I never told q living soul to this day ;
r nobody troubles your closets to find out your Sc
vim"
thought Co." said the Guardian, and now I
want you to commence in that corner and give the
whole room q decent cleaning, and I have pledged
ny word end honor for the fidelity to your promise.
Nov, don't 90 into that closet and he left the lady
- herself
No sooner had she heard the sound of his feet ON
Tie last step Of the stairs, than she exclaimed
"Don't go into that closet IN warrant there is
gridiron, or some nonsense, just like the Anti-Ma-
sons for all the vorid-Iu be bound. 1 will just
take one peep and nobody viii be any wiser, as / can
kssp IL TO myself"
6uiting the action to the word, she stepped lightly
20 the forbidden closet, turned the button. which
va no sooner done than bah! went the billy-goat,
With . spring to regain his liberty, which came near
0psetting her ladyship. Both started for the door,
bot it was filed with implements for house cleaning,
and AL were swept clear from their position down to
he bottom Of the stairs.
The noise and confusion occasioned by such uncere-
nonious coming down stairs, drew half the town to
witness Mrs KS efforts to get from under the pals,
oube, broom, and brushes in the street
Who should be first to the spot but the rascally
AoorkeePer, who, after releasing the goat. which was
. cripple for life, and uplifting the rubbish that
bound the good woman to the earth, anxiously in
quired Il she had been taking the degrees
Taking the degrees !" exclaimed the lady ; eff
yoa cal t.mbling from the top to the bottom of the
0hirs. with the devil after ye, taking things by de-
Groo, have them {; and if you brighten folks as ye
Aa,s me. and hurt them to boot, I'll rarrant they'll
81 hope you did not open the closet, Madam
0id the doorkeeper.
"OPen the closet Eve ate the apple she was
1rbidden ! II you want a woman to do anything,
eeu her not to do il, and she'll do it certain. I
could not stand the temptation. The secret was
thereI wanted to know it. / opened the door, and
~ popped tne nrnai critter nght INTO my lace. 1
thought the devil had me, and 1 broke for the stairs,
With the devil butting me at every jump. fell over
ne tnb and got down stairs as you found ms, all in q
hap"
But, Madam, said the doorkeeper, "you are
IN possession Of the great secret of the Order, and
must be initiated, sworn, and then 20 in the regular
v.yn
"Regular way!" exclaimed the lady, &c and do
yUu suppose am going near the tarnal place again,
and ride that are critter without q bride or lsdy's
0ddle? No, never / don't want nothing to do
With the man that rides it I'd look nice perched on
s~blly-goat, wouldn'tI? No, never iii never 20
nnr il again, nor your Hall nuther. If 1 can pre-
vsnt It. no lady shall ever join the Odd Fellows
Why, I'd sooner be a Free Mason, and be broiled on
ogridiron a. long as FIRE could be kept under it, and
yulled from garnet to cellar with q halter, in a pair
= old breeches and slippers, just Is my poor dear
husband WAS And he lived over it, but I never
eould live over such another ride as I took to-day"
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