Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-09-11


easy silence fell upon US, as was natural
under the circumstances, and we were
driven to exchange ideas concerning the
weather. "Well," said at last, when
is it to be -
1t was unnecessary for me to be more
| explicit there was but one "it" for those
infatuated people just then.
"On Thursday" said my mother
! Thursdayr' said I. "Why, to-day is
Thursday, and | am whole week too
SOON" . t
"You don't mean to grudge us a week,
james," said my mother.
| To this speech | made no immediate
answer. -
az suppose it's rather a sudden affair"
said I, Gas 1 never heard anything of it
before % r9 r..r o9 ~. L,
"No it is not sudden" replied my
mother. You know did tell you, when
you spoke of wanting Lefty with you,
that l didn't think she would be avail
able"
"Did your" said I. "But never
thought why. What is hes" (meaning the
/ wolf)
Well, James," said mother, "the fact
| "He is farmer" broke in Lefty.
was using my chair as the fashiener
! Of it never intended it to be used, and as
turned sharply toward my mother it
gave remonstrative crack.
ooh, James, your old tricks" she cried
"Pray don't break my chairs"
"But, mother" said I, "a farmer!"
A figure had rounded itself out from
| the air around me; such figure as | had
seen in omnibuses bound for the "Angel !"
at Islington; red-faced and wheezy, vio-
lating the Queens English, wearing-who
on earth could tell what or where the gar
| ments could have been made? sv
Yes, James" said my MOTHER quietly
"a tenant farmer" added Lefty Ec
What were my presentiments and fore
bodings to such state of affairs as this
My mother seeing my face fastened, to
speak first. 4f fA
1"He is very NICE" she said, every nice
| indeed. You must remember that there
are different sorts of farmers, and that
| none of them are altogether what they
| used to be-"
"I have seen few of them" I said drily.
81 was in the agricultural hall last Christ
| mas and when tell you that sat in an
| omnibus with three of them on my side,
and was squeezed"
Lefty broke into a laugh, and the pickle
said naughty word. In fact, he said
Blazes !" though what that could have
to do with the subject was not very clear.
Il don't think you quite understand,
my DEAR" said my mother. " You had
better see him before forming an opinion"
"He wears drab unmentionables, with
buttons like cheese plates" said the pickle
"And you won't see anything in town so
clean as his Sunday go-to-meeting smock-
frock" l..t.
cat least Isaid, she is respectable of
course"
",Quite respectable" said my mother.
Has he any" I'm afraid / was go
ing to say his. Sir John Coleridges
theory of secondary education had not yet
come into practical operation; and, if it
had, believe his list excludes tenant
farmers. l remembered, however, the
dishonor should be doing to Letty's taste,
and change the word Has he any
money" asked @s@
My mother answered me with queer,
deprecating sort of smile and q nod and
Dick stuck his elbows on the table and
pulled face at me.
," Well, Jim, I'll be shot if knew what
thorough paced cockney snob you were"
This was very grand, and of course in
dicated in the pickle the presence of noble
sentiments b,it still a little money tbourb
we know If to he the root of ali evil does
come ,,sefn1 to man esnac;a Iiv 10 ,,o,, ,,o
oha,1t 80 no ,,,arriaS 00i9 - -i'''''
7 don't tb;nk INV tanne had ;ronro1ed
s;noa a,tored tho hoIea woS a;sSot;S1
fed. and showed it; and when Letty had
naIlad mo q {, oavaga old lin 1sn1binH %
all the time like an exasperating monkey,
as she was, and had left the room, re-
turned to the charge. .se 9sa9
What's the mans name mother9n r
asked - = - - ~NsI
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Richard the fearless 'N
TuWeiI don't lilTait ~ sa;d aTican,t
helm SAVING that T don,t ike n IT can't
beip faoi;,s1 4Lat Sta,d =, so,oa so,t of
NV "a fathar,s Ma 30 toward the Girls wish
Iad done NV Srtv hettar 's ~ G1t
falt considarabiv imnortant and a;oni.
fed in saving tbis: II seemed to sdd at
least Ave vesrs' WEIGHT to INV standing
amonest them -. -
| ar th;,,lr 80 .ho+ r ,,;oh. ,a ,,o,,
to,d anri;nn ~, t;.od S.,iU i', 10 ns ooon
'oif, TN o",i., : ouno.iuou 3o"is :.
of wor @ mS;nh sei che up Io hot hand u5'
" woiA wnic, sue H1u eshen IN iier manu-
anu, anu saaa quietly, You see, ie IS settled
better to saw no more more ehnn Il hut hut wa;t G
nntil iii Won 9 have eean Mr. "Soo1s Soot, oo' "ai'
% af oonrss maee s1en m,st a q. 9p4o tp;nn
,1;od at So hI'V, ,,,4 as s,i az ~
p Weel could oome WI dowm .eag aaain nnS 1ltS
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