Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-05-01
Married on Her Tenth Birthday.

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/ fact, to be guilty Of a very unjustihable
representation if the brothers
were on an equal footing Whereas
! the title "Tovey and BTOther'' explains
I itself, and enables any rejecting per-
son to understand at once that t'ToveY"
I is TOvey pure and simple the head of
the firm " Brother, . though ToYeY too,
is only TOvey with a Limitation.
When you enter their place of busi-
ness, YOU might wonder what &c Is they
deal in. A few scores of little bottles
ranged on the shelves, and hlled with
various colored liquids and powders
a few scores Of little polished mahOga-
ny cases, each with its printed Lain
label; this is all.
Iiemember I that ofiee as a model
of staid decOrum and gayetys Every
thing went on as If BY machinery
There was a time for everything, and
everything done in its time I have
found it easy to believe the very height
Of each clerks collar WAS regulated BY
Office bylaw. No starch has ever yet
been made, however, so stiff that a man
cannot laugh in 1t and s good deal OF
quiet fun went on amidst the monotOnY
OF business. Many a joke was passed
never called there once without hearing
some new Witticism, or some latest joke
of Mr.. Rasper's, whose Hhumor sup
pose, must have depended much ON
manner, tone, and a little accidents of
place which could not be rendered on
paper.
Mr.. Raspers's work, and his way OF
doing il, were ike his e0nWeEsatfO light
and sprfgnttysf he moved about with
an elastic quick sfsazss=LsL Il he haaz ilif-
ficuluy in restraining from dancing.
He adorned bis writing with d0urishes
until it was hardly legtble. Aud when
Mr.. Splutter tried to make him discOn-
tiuue these embellishments, he gave
such whimsical reasons for their con-
tinuance that he always laughed the
manager out of his attempt to find
fault.
Mr.. Bog was heavy and solid. His
handwriting was as regular as engraV-
ing. His ledger had not a blot in it
from beginning to end. And when any
figure in it had to be altered it was done
so neatly as to be almost an improve |
menC. He was a plOdding, thoroughly
reliable man, and had never been \
known by any one in the Office to make |
Joke and had not often, they said, |
Deen made to comprehend one. Mr.. |
,RaSper never made anything else, and /
saw them where others intended no such |
thing. Mr.. Bog made up, however, for |
his duIlness by the frankness with |
which he admitted it, and by his invar- |
liable good temper. 1t was quite impos- |
sible TO put him out, and when the sus- |
picion came across him as it did now /
and then, that Rasper had been ham |
mering at him Tor an hour or more, he /
bore DO malice.
There was, however, one matter in /
which all the Office concurred that they |
had right to find fault with Bog. He
was unmarried, and all the rest were |
married men. And on this shortcom- /
ing one and all were determined that /
he should have no peace. Not day |
passed but some new hypothesis was |
started as TO the reason of his cOntiuu- /
ing a bachelor, not a day without some /
new name being suggested to him as
that of lady with whom be might yet |
have chance. To all of which sugges-
tiOns Mr.. Bog perslstently and good |
naturedIy turned deaf ear. A respite /
came to him twice a year from all this /
worrying.
Twice a year Mr.. Bog went on his /
travels, for about month at time. /
For it was the custom of the house TO |
let their travelling be done by the clerks
instead of keeping travellers to do moth /
ing else. In this way one or two OF l
them in turn had a pleasant relief from
the monOtony of Office life.
HNOW Bog" Mr.. RaSper would say
''yOu must try and manage II this jour
uey. Represent your case once more /
to that Leicester girl, and perhaps she'll /
change her mind" It WAS one of Mr.. /
Rasper's friendly assumptions that Mr.. \
Bog had been rejected in every town he /
went to, and Leicester being in his /
round, it was usually the Leicester girl I
who was recommended for a second /
trial.
And thus the joke was repeated year
after year, till at last Mr.. Bog case |
was considered by all so thoroughly |
hopeless that if he had come down some |
morning in a pink vest and lemon |
cOIOred tights no one would have |
thought 1t half so surprising a s that he |
he should really take Mr. Rasper's ad- /
vice.
Let the reader judge, therefore, for
himself, with what effect this bomb |
she'll fell in the Office four days after
Mr.. Bog was supposed 70 have started !
on his Journey. The missile came by |
by post ia the shape of newspaper ad- !
dressed to Mr.. Rasper. 1t was a prov |
incial paper, not from Leicester, but /
from city in quite anotherquarter.
Mr.. Rasper had unf0Ided il and look |
ed 1t carelessly Over-hud read several |
items of local news, town council squab- |
bles, work house board meetings, and |
other matters in which he took not the |
slightest interest, and was about to toss
it into the waste basket, when his eye
caught sight Ofa couple of crosses evil |
IDENTIFY made for the purpose of attract I
ing attention.
But even then he did not at once hit |
the right column. Hunting fixtures /
for next week. what On earth do / care |
about them hops two pounds cwt
a ASa #O4As Al bAS9 uOAA \ LhlsG beeE ]
1t Is no matter to me. What does the /
old goose mean.
AT last, however, he did find it, and
was struck for moment 9 peechless.
"Well, by Jove," he said at last, 'slhis /
is something. But I don't believe it. 1
Here's Bog gone and put a notice in the (
paper to make us believe he has got /
married. Listen, here IL is.
''Same day, at st. Ambrose, in this |
city, by the Rev. Edward Wheeler, the /
rector, Mr.. James Frederick Bog, of /
Highbury, to Emily, only daughter of |
the late Theodore Phillips, ESQ, of
Kingston, Jamaica" And then, as If !
that were not enough, here's a note ap-
pended, editorially apparently.
"L'Unusual interest attached to this /
wedding from the fact of the bride be- /
ing mHrried--as we are permitted to [
station her tenth birthdayil
every fair Indeed, MIR. Bog" said |
Rasper, as he finished "VerY oreditR- |
bic for a first jOke-only C Is a little |
a