The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-02-04
POOLING.
4 Domestic Comedy, Seven iets-

4 Domestic COmedJ, seven ACTS
SCENE /.
emma, darling -
"What j. il George ~
"Just come here Il moment
The first call WAS made from the
fourth story Of a pretty, comfortably
furnished house, situated in fash
ionable suburb of a large city, and il
was answered by the callers wife, who
was in the basement.
After a lapse of about twenty seconds
she stood before him
"What do you want, dear ~ she
inquired.
Nothing" he replied; 81 was only
fooling"'
SCENE IL
George and Emma had been mar
ried about six weeks. Their honey.
moon bid fair to have a heightened
duration. So the young wife, only just
little bit teaSed, and out of breath
with her rapid run up stairs, went back
again to the basement smiling. And
very remarkable smile il was. II
seemed to intimate this: al will bt
| even with you, Master George, fol
this" We shall see how she sol
even.
SCENE III.
George, dear"
"Well, my lOve?'
fPlease come down here a moment y
This time the call was made from
/ the basement, and was answered by
/ the callers husband in the fourth
story.
'No, you don't" this dreadful MAJ
chuckled to himself, and forthwith
went off into a most eXcruciating fl
of laughter.
SCENE ".
You couldn,t t take George in,-nO
much; and he knew it. So he haC
two or three little explosive Laughs
first, and then became busy. He first
took his gun to pieces, cleaned eacl
barrel very carefully, oiled the lock
put it together again, FURNISHED it up
and made it fit for use. Then took hi
! fishing-rOd to pieces, examined th'
Joints, unwound the line from the
reel, put on a new one, looked at hi!
artificial flies, made two new one:
| from q peacock's feathers, introduced
Misunderstanding hook into the
body offs make-believe frog, and PLACED
| his tackle all ready for use at a mo-
ment's notice. George was a greaf
sportsman.
SCENE V.
AIIthis took very nearly two hours.
And then George began to wonder
what had become of his wife.
1t was very rare, indeed, for hin
to be leftso long alone. So he thought
he would go and see what she wa:
about. On each landing he called out
"Emmaw
No answer.
But, when standing listening on the
first floor, he thought he heard a sol
in the basement.
Down he went.
SCENE vi.
There on the floor his wife was
lying. Rushing toward her, he pro
ceeded to shake her, for the obvious
reason of finding out what was the
matter.
4" Pray don't move me-" she said
81 fear my arm must be broken. II
was very cruel of you not to come
when | called you" Here another
sigh and sob,
"Good graciousr' he said, "a
thought you were only trying to pay
me out for my little joke. Keep quite
still, dear" Here the servant came
in. "Mary, just you do what you can
for your mistress. I'll go for the doctor.
"Cheer up, darling! l shall be back
with him in less than an hour"
ayes, do! there's a dear" said
Emma "but tell him not to say a
word to ma about it-and don't YOUR
The doctor was Emma's hrOther,and
resided with her mother; hence, ,proba-
bly,, she did not wish to alarm heT
unnecessarily.
She was told nothing, and conse-
quently was not alarmed,
SCENE VII.
George rushed off, and in about
fifty minutes carriage dashed up to
the door.
1t contained George and his broth
erin law, the doctor.
Emma met them at the door.
She was smiling, and a little imp
of mischief seemed to be lurking in
each of the pretty dimples of heI
round, plump cheeks.
"DOn't be angry, George dearv'
she said; ''I was only foOling."
And George acknowledged the
corn very gracefully, and Emma had
on a most bewitching hat next day
which was the little penalty that
George got for fOOling.