Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-06-25

fast for It and Il appeared 70 impress the
natural leg with hopeless conviction OF
iuferiority. |E C..I
"Atler profusc apologies for keeping
me waiting, and several conciliatory
hourishes which his cork-leg seemed TO
get up independently Of him, and entirely
on its own account, Mr., Bernotu said
This Is your size, l see by my books
No. 1913 Hazel, taking one from a case
of several hundreds -'and very neat eye
II is Shall put you up an of eye for
spare use Thank you, sir. Am doing
pretty well In eyes' Thank you, yes;
nothing to complain Of You would
hardly have thought II No; probably
not-few persons would, in tact. You see
that the triumph of art Is so perfect one
does not really know who has glass eyes
and who has not Scorces Of people, In
every town, wear them who are never sus
pected of such thing, the Illusion is so
perfect Yours l am proud to own, is a
very successful case. There are others no
less so. Among the list Of persons who
have obtained respectable damages from
various railway companies for the loss OF
an eye, and even pensions ffom govern
ment, could point TO at least few in-
stances in which the eye so damaged has
been one of my make. No one has been
the wiser. In fact only the other day l
was deceived myself A French gentle
man was introduced to me by friend as
requiring an eye This Is his eye, sir
No. 81 Gray. Well. sir, after carefully
matching the artificial eye by the real one,
l directed his attention to the extreme
lightuess Of our manufacture, and begged
him to hold 1t up TO the light and observe
its transparency. II you will believe me,
sir, that geutleman's other eye, which l
took for real, was glass. He was blind as
bat. / never knew 1t till he told me-
"With renewed apologies, Mr.. Bernotti
followed his leg, which flourished off,
down stairs Having wished him good
afternoon, set out to prosecute my search
after my wife.
"I need not detail the particular steps
by which sought to carry out this pur-
pose; but may state that drove to every
metropolitan railway station, and made
most careful inquiries Next day, after
fruitless search, determined to return TO
the Waterloo terminus, and endeavor to
elicit something which might guide me in
fresh Investigations. l found waiting
for me there telegram: From Mr.. Tired.
gold, Stepminster, to Penuel Orossley, ESQ f,
London.-Come down. 1t is all right,
Laura Is here
81 was so thankful But what could
she have meant by having deceived me,
and for longH' l thought, referring to
her note. And why should she have writ.
ten me such note at all, and aroused such
cruel suspicionsS There was good deal
to be explained, at any rate.
al returned to Stepminster by next
train, and hurried off to Mr.. Tredgold's
Laura received me at the door in an costa
cy of delight and ! was about putting
twenty different questions to her at time,
| to know the reason of her singular con-
duct, when old Mr.. Tredgsld said, Wait q
bit. None of that. Just cast your eye
this way, Pen, my boy here's little bit
of round want you and Laura 10 try
over with me before allow word to be
said about this little mystery.-No; in.
sist,' he said, seeing me about to remon.
strate Pleasure first business after.
wards
"The cloth was laid for supper, and we
sat round the table, plate in front OF
each of us, while Mr.. Tredgold handed
Laura and me the notes Of the round
keeping copy for himself.
"When l had glanced at my copy, fell
ready to sink through the floor with NOR
ti6cation. 1 could not believe my eyes
eye, mean.
"' Now, then,' cried Mr.. Tredgold
smartly. Laura begins-one, and two
and .
"Laura bagan blushing, and in voic'
very unlike her natural one, to sing:
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