Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-02-29
Tim higgins after Ia. Honey

Tim higgins after hs~ Honey
moon.
Seems 10 me things have changed
somewhat! Seems to me so-bust me up
If | don't. I've been married near six
months, and the fact is, Susan showed
! the least bit more temper than1 thought
she had in fact to speak the right down
| truth, she's Knocked about things geHer
ally for the last two mantlIs. She's
sIung the cat through the window by the
tail and would have thrown me out by
the--by the heels i'll had walked out
on fast run. She's got cross rs four
sticks and says shall use half dozen
sticks on my hack If don't quit smok-
ing in the house. AID she threatened
to throw the boot jack down my throat
last night because | spit in the fire.
If she'd done that, i suppose I'd have
had the collie or boot jack cramp.
Timothy p higgins, says / to my
SELF says /, lyon have gone and done
it, and you hive got to-putup witfrtha
consequences. you have. come what will /;
you can't git out of it. you cant.
A girl Loses her beauty mighty quick
after she gets to be Mrs. Susan Sun
flower who was pretty as venus, but
Jest rs soon as married her, her skin
turned yellow, her eyes lost their beauty,
her hair got thin, and she got to be just
the shape of an ale cask; she has, by
jingol
And oha what a temper she has got !!
Never knowed her mad before | married
her; never knowed her to offer 10 throw
the stove or chair down any body's throat,
no, never until she was Mr. higgins
Aunt SAYS she1 come all Alright after
awhile; but don't see why she can't be
all right, now l don't. If she don't
improve soon, the Lord help me. c
''Jist you spit in that fire again. says
she to me yesterday! 'jist do j: again,
and III throw this stick of wood down
your throat! What did l marry y,u
for? To run around after you aud make
up the fire after you had spit il out p
\ on tormenting beast. Did / marry
you to slave and work for you while you
smoSe and chaw aud chaw aud smoke,
and spit in the fire? There's them chick
ems ] had to feed too; and there's Ben
Dykes hog in the garden and dug up
my seed beets, aud you never saw it;
and you never see nothing you ought to
see, and see everything you oughtu't to
see. There's Ann Buster WHO was over
here yesterday. | saw YOU wink at her.
l saw you. Tim Nigginsl Don't say
didn't; | saw you-I saw you."
-.-Ssp-.-
MAsoERY.-"Was Uncle Paul Ma
son ?" Ike asked Mrs. Partington, as he
stood looking at the rigid profile CT the
ancient corporal of the "B o dy Eley-
enth" that hung on the wall 1850
mo, be was veteran sargent, nat
urally, though he took in gardening,
afterwards, and raised the most wonder.
fui squashes that always took the primer
at the Horticulture FAIR
81 mean, was he Free MasonY'
80, dear, no." replied she, sand I'm
glad of it, for they are great deal too
free in throwing their plasterin round,
which is very mortarfying, and takes the
color out Of things SO; and when they
whitewashed the kitchen didn't they
make free with the balmy bud rum which
they mistook for cordall and | wish
TO gracious it bad been 'meiic to have
taught lesson to be little less free
next time.'
But Free Masons," said Ike, petu-
Iantly, saint Masons; i mean the fel-
lows that built the temple"
"Ow she exclaimed; ''them? Well,
dear, have hcered a good many things
they did, and l have heered of good
many things thoy didn't, and so between
EN- both | don't believe neither. 4'
at is a great mystery" she whispered,
'and if they did kill Morgan, they ought
to have done it if they agreed to, tho
twas bad thing for him But never
believed the story of his scuiing up
Niagary Falls in potash kettle with a
crowbar, which is pteposierous, and as
for the gridiron-thereby hangs a tale,
and the Lord knows what thew do in
their secret cemeteries when they get
on one another's clothes by mistake and
cut up all sorts eapers to say moth NO Of
the ridiculous aprons which do make EN-
look so queer"
The interest of Ike had ceased, and he
had turned his attention TO amounting
the cat with an application Of soft soap,