Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1859-04-21
.OTHER FISH TO FRY.
A STORY OF THE TINES.


! s~es yoe"8 usouf 1--WE
dare to speak to me again. Marry him
If ever you so much as speak. look at him
or think Of him, don't you speak to me
said Mr.. Jonas Myway to his loving daugh
ter Eunice, at the breakfast table, at th
same time salutins the tabby. that lay up
on the hearth rug, with spasmodic kicl
that elevated that demurs animals bod,
and ideas amazingly.
i have never admitted that wish /,
marry him. remarked the bius-eyed Eu
nice.
OF course not never kaew q woman
admit anything, except that she was righ,
and pretty, and every body else wrong
and ugly said Mr.. Myway, hammering a,
an egg, as if he held cocoa nut. 'You
are fool, Miss Eunice, and one Of these
days you will believe it. Who am IT.
Why, ! am Jonas Myway, of Tchoupitou.
AS street-am man said to be worth two hun,
dred thousand dollars. / am worth more
Have | a wife ? No! But by. hem
won't swear to i'll will marry young
wife Immediately, if you let that sharp
eyed, broad headed. Jack napes say sc
much as good morning to you, from thi.
day, now, heuceforth and for ever-Amen.
So help me Jacob Z
Whom wonld you marry. father? asked
Miss Eunce, in u tone as mellow as q
flute.
Whom why, any body cried Jonas
Myway, wrathfully crushing biscuit t.
atoms. Let me see-why any body would
have Jonas Myway.'
Not if they knew him a. we'll as /. do,
said Eunice, passing the sugar bowl to him
as hint to look less sourly over his cof.
fee cup.
That's pleasant! that's flial! I shall
certainly lose my temper. Ny temper il
q race hor Sc, Q bulldog-I bite when am
angry, said Jonas, fourishing his silve,
fork, and trying to look very determin-
ed.
No, father, you bite only when you are
hungry, but then you growl amazingly a.
all times. l am sure that no lady of your
acquaintance would have YOU therefore,
| am safe there
you are? Then I'll marry some lady
not Of my acquaintance. Miss Slap me in
the face roared Jonas. I'll see, you will
see, everebody'll see.'
THAT is good news for the blind, bland
y remarked Miss Eunice, as she arose
and swept gracefully from the room leav-
ing her father to finish his breakfast
alone
Hold on where are you agoing won,
you remain and keep me company p ex,
claimed Jonas.
You are too fond Of pepper, father be,
sides, to use we'll worn phrase, but very
expressive, 4 have other fish to fry re,
torted Mss Eunice, as she disappeared
humming an operatic air.
Too much pepper! fish TO fry?' growl
ed Jonas, cutting savagely at his mutton
chop; you'll see pepper I'll pepper tina,
blackeieye'd, loye.sick, moneyless Float.
fast if he ever intrudes his Sinking Wis,
age into this house agaln. Hah. he'll be
the fish that l shall try-fry him to a
crisp. She's just like her mother, sait
he, pausing to look at the portrait of hi
deceased wife, which hung over the man
tepiece.
Mrs. Myway had left Jonas a widowe
some eighteen years before the scene just
described, and when Eunice was abou
two years old. While she lived, Jonas
was by no me ans the head of the family
on the contrary, he might aptly have bee,
called the tail-end for Mrs. Myway wa
one Of those firm and self-willed danes
by no means common nova days, who
will have their own way or die for it. Jo
mas was naturally and plant as his better
half was inaexible, and he found it con
duced much more to his comfort to So
nothing and shake his ears, than to re-
tort and have them boxed.
And his only child grew up to womar
hood she had imperceptibly swayed her
mother; but withininitely more sweetness
Jonas used to say that his wife s.eepec
him il vinegar, While his daughter coates
him WITH money. He had yielded to ever
whim and wish Of the latter for 50 man,
years that he found it rather tough now /
thwa art her. But he had resolved to hsv
his own way for once ia hi, life. not onl
because he could not bear the thong,
that Floatfast should carry of his daust
ter, but because he had lately di-covere
that a certain spin.ter, Miss Quay, wa
very loving towards him, and he imagine
she had the sweetest temper in the woman
world. Now, Miss Gauzy detested Mr.
Bob Floatiast principally because tha
young gentleman had insinua,ed that th
red of her cheeks was artistcally laid OF
and the whiteness OF her cutice Of Chimes
manufacture. She enphaticaly declarei
to Mr.. Jonas tina! she would give all sh
had in the world If that fellow Floatfas
were chased out Of New Orleans in ia.
banished to some st. Helena. She sal,
besides, that whosoeyer liked Floatiai
hated her, and vice versa. Therefor.
Jonas, 10 show bis devotion, detested hin
The spinrter, whose age was---ancertai,
let US say, forty five, was reported TO |
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