The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-01-04

Now, | won't ask you how much fol
the lot, but how little How little are you
thinking of ? Don't be ashamed to mention
it, because my fortune teller knows already,
Then making believe to whisper, | kissed
her, and she kissed me) Why, she says
you're thinking of as little three and
threepence | couldn't have believed it,
even Of you, unless she told Inc. Three and
threepence And set Of printed tables in
the lot that -calcu late your income up to
forty thousand year. With an income
of forty thousand year, you grulge three
and sixpence. Well, then, I'll tell you my
opinion | so despse the the threepence,
that I'll sooner take tho three shillings.-
There. For three shilling, three shillings,
three shillings Gone. Hand 'em over to
tina lucky man
AS there ad been no bid at all, every
body looked about aud grinned at every
body, while | touched little Sophy's face
and asked her if she felt faint or giddy.
Z" Not very father. 1t will soon be over
Then turning from the pretty patient eyes,
which were opened now. and seeing nothing
but grins across my lighted greasepot,
went on again in my Cheap Jack style,
" Where's the butcher p [My sorrowfuI
eye had just caught sight of fat young
butcher on the outside of the crowd She
says the good luck is the butchers Where
is he i? Everybody handed on the bushIng
butcher to the front, and there was roar,
and the butcher felt himself obliged to put
his hand into his pocket aud take tie lot.
The party 80 picked out i'll general does feel
obliged to take the lot-good four times out
! of six
y'"Then we had another lot, the counter.
part of that one and sold it a sixpence
cheaper, which is always very much en-
joyed. Theu we had the spectacles 1t
amt very profitable lot but put EN- on,
and l see what the Chancellor of the Elk
chequer is going to take off the taxes, and
see what the Bishops has got for dinner,
and deal more that seldom fails to fetch
'em up in their spirits; and the better their
spirits the better their bids
''Then we had the ladies' lot-the teapot,
teacaddy, glass sugar basin, half dozen
Spoons, and candle cup-and all the time |
was making similar excuses to give look
or two or say word or two to my poor
child 1t was while the second ladies' lot
was holding them enchanted that felt her
lift herself allttle on my shoulder, to look
across the dark street. What troubles you
darling ? Nothing troubles me, father. Il
am not at all troubled. But don't | see a
pretty church-yard over there? P Yes, my
dear Kiss me twice, dear father, and lay
me down to rest upon that churchyard grass
so soft and green | staggered back into |
the cart with her head dropped on my shout
der, and says to her mother, Quick. Shut
the door Don't let those laughing people
see. What's the matter !? she cries 'Ol
woman woman tells her, you'll never
catch my little Sophy 10y her hair again, for
she has flown away from YOU -
The child dies, aud the wife browns her
sell, aud DR.. Marigold is very lonely At
length, in conversation with giant, ('who
was languid young man, which | attri
butte to the distance betwixt his ex tremities
and who was called Rinaldo de Velasco, his
name being Pickleson, he learns of anoth-
er child, deaf and dumb girl, who is ill
treated 10y the proprietor OF show. This |
child DR.. Marigoid takes off the showmans |
hands, and how he educates her, and what
prescriptions" he gives her. and what be-
comes Of her in the end, are all told.