Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-10-31

go in for another chance; / was
afraid she might roll over on me and
| fiatten me out.
Then she said she didn't believe /
loved her, and / told her that as q
guesser 1 never saw her equal
Would / swim out to save her if she
was drowning? she asked. Thought
not, as hadn't my life insured, and
no horse power about me.
When sae came out you ought to
have seen her. She left the bar high
and dry all along the coast, and in
I.her clothes there was enough water
to float an iron clad.
Then you ought to see her at q
hop. She has an idea that she can
dance, and when she expressed her
self to this effect, / went down stairs
to see the man who owns the place,
and advised him, as friend, to shore
up the floor with any spare timber
he might have around, for / knew If
she got to hopping there would be
an earthquake somewhere in that
neiyhborhood.
She wears a gaiter that takes a
whole side of leather, and if she once
puts her foot on yours you are q
helpless cripple for life. So was
unwell that night and couldn't
dance.
But she danced. She got her hand
on another of pas victims and tried
to waltz with him.
You ought to have seen that man.
You recollect when you were a boy
seeing other boys try to climb very
large and smooth chesnut trees with
no branches within quarter of q
mile of you. You know they could
never 9 1T their grip on it. Just so
with this fellow; lie would clutch and
grah0a hold on the place where
MariS> Raist ought to have been,
but he would slip off every time, and
you never saw a more miserable man
IN your life. / believe that he com
mitted suicide three days afterward.
She wanted ne to drive her out in
a carriage yesterday, but there was
not man on the island who was vii
ling to take her. And they were
right; no man wants his vehicle bro
ken to pieces. So we went round to
the light house, and she insisted upon
going up to the top, but the keeper,
he said the thing was not very steady,
anyhow, and didn't want it made
top heavy, and have any accidents
happening while the Government
debt is so large.
If you can do anything for this
man l will feel obliged. l consider
him valuable official
Would | take her out in yacht
and let her catch some fish? she said.
/ told her no, there was no use, be-
cause there wasn't any canal boats
down here, and / didn't want her
father to have to pay for raising any
sunken yachts But she had set her
mind on it, so bribed man to take
her out in a schooner
1t seemed to me we must have
fished for a week without any good
result. except that million or so of
green headed flies gathered around
Maria, and seemed to enjoy them
selves cutting out chunks of super
fious flesh.
like these insects, they are intelli
gent animals; you just leave your
green-headed fly alone to hunt out
foraging ground. They go right to
the spot by instinct.
When l got Maria home she was
covered with bhsters, and swelled to
twice her natural size. The hotel
man thought 1 was bringing home a
mass meeting of woman's rights
convention.
But what am / to do? Here / am
with this woman on my hands and no
means of relief. Can't you sue out
a writ of habeas corpus and get the
government to send out feet to
bring the corpus home? Something
has got to be done or will die.
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