Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-07-14

Many Innocent Ducks
Liveand Die Model Hus.
bands Under the Most
Aggravating Circum.
stances = A Case in
Point.
/ went to sleep'in the car ap
propriated to funky blankets
questionable shirts, close atmos
phere, and live stock generally
to be wakened by the colored per
son who glorifes your boots and
votes the Republican ticket under
the fifteenth amendment, as we
approached New York. AS trav
eled along the platform to the fer
ry boat, Juggling my valice, l fel'
in with a couple had just seer
disappearing behind stateroon
door the night before. ! had a
feeling that did not amount TO g
recollection that | had encountered
these dOns sight seeing at the cap
ital. Then he was an American
imitation of an Englishman, and
quite crazy at that. His auburn
hair was parted in the middle of
his chronological development,
while side whiskers of the NUT.
ton style threw out his intellec-
tual countenance that one saw at
glance that be had no brain
back of it. The woman was not
what one would call a spring
chicken--and yet had in her dress
and ways a certain girlish air of
dress and manner that went to
prove that, while she might lack
the charms of youth, she had yet
all its indiscretions. noticed the
two because the moment they APP
peared in sight. after New York
was announced, their manner
changed. From an easy, selfpos-
sesSed way, they passed to a eau
tious, unhappy way really ludi-
crous. 1t is odd that when two
people like unto this attempt to
avoid attention or suspicion they
do that which creates both. In
the cars when retiring to their
state room, not caring cuss
whether they are seen or not, |
had taken them to be man and
wife but themoment they touched
the platform and began to look
about uneasily, the facts came out.
Seated on the ferry boat the bag
gage man was beckoned to, and
the gentleman tried to tell him
in a confidential way all about
the trunks. But the stupid beast
of baggage master would not re-
ceive the directions confidentially,
but roared out his responses, with
demands for explanations that
brought the blood to the counte-
nances of the pair. | learned
much sooner than the baggage
master that the trunks were to be
delivered at different houses, and
read the hidden history that a
few words made plain. The poor
woman kept looking uneasily to-
ward the landing-and soon as
the boat touched l saw her unea-
siness leap on board and fight his
way through the crowd to where
he saw her. He was a matter
of-fact, ordinary looking duck of
husband, who kissed his en-
barrassed wife and thanked her
companion for his kindness and at
tention to her. The actors of my
little comedy disappeared in the
crowd, losing their only specta-
tor, the ugly Mephistopheles, who
had been eyeing them so closely,
with evidence of amusement in
his "blarsted dcountenance." "Ah,
me-" thought, "more water runs
under the wheel than the miller
wots of"--and it is well for the
peace of society and the purity of
domestic life that Ignorance is bliss
For one infuriated husband who
goes about pistoling his friends on
suspicion, how many innocent
ducks live and die model hus-
bands, under the most aggravat'
ing circumstances.