The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-01-28

discovered 30 that he could have his whis-
| kers colored.
! Another circumstance rendered them
shy of him. He was having a wedding
every once and awhile at the castle, but
! no ftvlerulsI Wedding cake had been
| ordered from confectIoners several times,
! but no undertaken had had JOB there
yet. No matter how many times n man
is left widower, if he correspondingly
patronixes some respectable owner of a
| hearse, but repeated wedock without
| funerals is certainly Suspicious circum-
| stance.
Blue Beard cunningly invited the fam
| lily and their friends TO the caetle, where
they passed a week so delightful that the
! youngest daughter began 20 think blue was
pretty good color for whiskers after all,
particularly when their possessor could
keep such an establishment as that, where
they had three meals day, besides
lunch every morning from ten O'Clock un-
til eleven. She looked with contempt on
a red>whi$kered beau of hers, she used TO
think ''perfectIy splendid" and actta!ly
| asked him why he didn't Grub Indigo in
to 'em - The upshot of the business
was, she concented TO become Mrs b.
Beard, and the wedding WIS celebrated
with great sc!at.
At the expiration Of the honeymoon,
Blue Beard pretented TO his wife that bus
iness of importance called him to dis
tant city He would be absent for sev-
eraI weeks, End in the meantime she
could invite company and enjoy herself
as much as possible. He gave her
bunch of keys, enabling her at any time
to open his safe, and feast her eyes on the
diamonds, (he loaned money on ''coilaier~
al" some,imeS,) greenbacks, seven-thir-
ties, revenue stamps and receipted gas
bills deposited there-also giving access
to the wine cellar, store room, ten-pln al
ley, corn house, &C., &c But one little
key opened "a room in the basement that
she must not approach save upon her
peril. She promised, and he took tie
street car for the depot.
From the time that Mother Eve disre>
garded the injunction against certain
tree in Eden's orchard and partook of the |
Rhode Island pippln, thereby introducing !
various things in the world never before !
dreamed Of, curiosity has been An absorb !
ing passion with the fair sex, and we
need hardly inform the intelligent reader |
that her husband WAS hardly out of sight |
before Mrs Is. B had unlocked the door
of The fol hidden room,
But what a spectacle met her alright |
ed gaze! There, suspended on hooks /
like 30 many gowEs in a clothes press, |
were the bodies of the murdered Mrs. /
Blue Boards, whose funerals had been in
defincntly postponed. while the floor was ,
clotted with their blood She would |
have swooned, but the phrase wasn't |
known at the time. Terribly agitated,
she dropped the key on the floor, staining I
il with blood, which was aiterward una
BILE to wash out, even with the aid of
patent wringer.
Blue Beard returned unexpectedly, as
everybody might have expected, and the
blood upon the key told the story Of his
wife's disobedence, for blood, you know,
Twill tell"
s'Must - he cried, wringing his bands |
IN anguish, "must | again become wid~ /
over, and SO soon' After one short |
month of welded bliss. drawing his cim-
eter and carefully feeling its edge) must |
this latest and dearest one be torn from
nv arms and left alone-alone Bo-
ho-ho- II
'sNo; if can help it," remarked Mrs.
B. to herself.
81 never nursed dear gazelle." Blue
Beard blubhered, AS he proceeded to whet
his scythe on the stove hearth, ''to glad |
me with its soft black eye, but when 1t !
came to know me we'll"
Now, Blue Beard, don't want to
die"
'.Prepare :" yelled Blue Beard enraged
that she did not at once accept the sltua- |
tion.
s.Since 1 must die said she, ''grant
me quarter of an hour in which to write
a farewell letter 10 the press"
He could not refuse 30 reasonable re-
guest, 80 he granted it, although he was
not ordinarily a Grant man. Going to
her room she told her sister Anna 10 as
cend to the top of the tower and see if her
brothers (who, supposing Blue Beard
avav. were coming to smoke up his ci~
xars and drink up his whisky were yet
;n SIGHT. There was a cloud of dust in
the road, but it was only flock OF sheep
on their way TO the State FAIR
sETime's upp' shouted Blue Beard,
who didn't think much of writing letters
to newspapers, anyhow.
"OnI7 one moment more. Anna, oh,
Anna T.; she softly cried, "do you see
anybody coming now !"
~ see two horsemen. They see me
wave my handkerchief. 1t is-it is Sam
and Bill u
Then Blue Beard rushed in with his
drawn sword (hO had drotcn 1t a gift
show,) and was about to dispatch her to
the happy krokoy-ing grounds of her sex
when her brothers Sam and Bill dove IN
and blew old Blue Boards brains out
rith double-barreled bowie knives
The widow b inherited his money to-