Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1871-06-29


last word as if it was his only chance
and went ON:
In the hope that some day might
) enter wedloek, and bestow my earthly
possessions upon one whom 1 could
call my own. | have teen lonely
man, sir, and have felt that il is not
good for man to be alone therefore
Neither is it, PEBBLES; and I'm all
fired glad you dropped in. How's the
old man =
Mr.. Merriweather, sir said Pee
bles, i'll despairing confusion, raising
his voice to a yell, it may not be un-
known to you that during an extended
period Of lonely man, l have been
engaged to enter wedlock, and bestow
all my commercial enterprise on one
whom | could procure a determine
ton to be good for sufficient posses
sions-no, | mean-that is-that Mr..
Merriweather, sir, it may not be un-
known
And then again it may. Look
here, PEBBLES, you'd better lay down
and take something warm; you amt
we'll
| PEBBLES, sweating like a four year
old colt went in again:
Mr.. Merriweather, sir: 1t NAV
not be lonely for you to prosecute me
whom you call friend commercial
maintcnances, but-but-oh, dang it
Mr. Merriweather; sir, it.
ooh, PEBBLES, you talk as wild as
iackass. | never seen more first
class idiot in the whole course of nv
life. What's the matter with you
anyhow?
Mr.. Mcrriwoathcr, sir said Pee
bles in an agony of bcwilderment, it
may not be unknown that you prose
cute lonely man who is not good for
commercial period of wedlock for
some five years, but
See here, Mr.. PEBBLES, your drunk
and if you can't behave better than
that you'd better leave. If you don't |
I'll chuck you out, or I'm Sinner
Mr.. Merriwcathcr, sir said Pee
bles frantic with despair, it may not
be unknown that my earthly posses
sions are engaged to enter wedlock
five years with sufficiently lonely
man who is not good for commercial
maintenance
The bloody deuce he isn't. Now
you just git up and git, old boss, or
I'll knock what little brains out of YOU
you've got
With that old Merriweather took {
PEBBLES by the shirt collar and the t
part of his pants that wears out first !
if he sits down much, and shot him
into the street as if he had just ran
against locomotive going at the rate
of forty miles an hour. Before old
Merriweathcr had a chance to shut
the front door, PEBBLES collected his
legs and one thing another that were
laying around on the pavement, and
arranged himself in vertical position,
and yelled out
Mr.. Merriweather, sir: 1t may
not be known to you which made
the old man so wretched mad that he
went and set bull terrier on PEBBLES
before he had chance to lift a bro
gan, and there was scientific dog
fight with odds in favor of the dog,
until they got to the fence, and even
then PEBBLES would have carried the
bull terrier home, gripped like clamp
on his leg, if it hadn't been that the
meat was so tender, and the dog, feel
ing certain that something or other
must eventually give way, held on un-
til he got chops off of PEBBLES calf,
who went home pound lighter, while
Merriweather asserts, to this day, that
they had to draw all the dogs teeth to
get the flesh out of his mouth, for he
had an awful holt for such small an
imal.'
Of course Merriweathcr's daughter
heard about it, and she was so mad
that she never gave the old man any
peace until he went around the next
day to see PEBBLES about it. PEBBLES
looked pale as a ghost from loss of
blood and beef, and he had whole
piece of muslin wrapped around his
leg. Merriweather said:
PEBBLES, I'm sorry about that muss
last night, but if you didn't behave
like a raving maniac, I'm loafer. /
never seen such deliberate ass since
[ was born. What's the meaning of
it
l was only trying to ask you to let
me marry one of your daughters,
groaned PEBBLES. II
Great-what ? You didn't mean