Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1872-10-03
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! f'sfher, not very far from here, -ssread Ii
I the paper the ether morning thar the .;Utica
girls who wsss their bealsx to go home The
!, same night they caIi, pull aIstripx at The
!, proper hour which reserscsfa bictnrc, on Inc
: back of which appear the words, sren o.
1 clock Is my bedtime 4,
: This fsther, who has daughter given 10
II bate hours when certain youth sits np and
: helps ber keep thenl, thought he would trr
the Utica plan, so he wrote il, large charac.
: ters. on the back Of huge portrait OF George
Washington. this inscription:
10 O'CLOCK IS s4LLIE's BEDT1Mg."
Then he arranged the picture 50 That when
he attached string to the frame. lie could
reverse 1t from his is.t-clialnber. But when
stlla ase,tcre,l the room Ain hour lstcr, her
/, 'estllesic eye was outraged bysotbserying the
J. portrait of George hanging slightly olit OF
/ Plumb, so to speak.a"d III Adjusting it her
fater's little game was revealed iii all its In
gcntity. si.ss
Salfie WAS not a Uiica girl however, so she
Just went to work ard neatiy..cffaccti the fia
iire q leaying 4. i stan,fhg solitary and
unright-whiel, you viii ohscrvcisIatI 4 few
|shonrs tliffereac.i in her bedtime. That night
/ as Usual, Salfic received Il visit from her
yoAllnsg .n'ail--Whlcil his front. name it Was
Henry--and hev patcrn,l parent attached tiss
string to G: WIS portrait and retired to his
downy couei,.
About fen e,clqck, while Henry xf1,f asilia,
were deeply absorbed iii seilc knotty probIeia
with their hsatis SO contiguous tifat ye,i could
not insert piece of tissue paper betwesn
them, the Father Of his Country suddenly
tuned his face to the wall, as if he was "a,
sllained to gaze upon such doings. Henry,
with sudden start, glanced at the picture
and saw the halidwriting on the wall, as II y
were which read Il o'clock is Sallie's bed.
time. !" Then Henry locked at Sallic with In
tsrrogation In his eye. which was partly dis
PEELED by the faIr maid ,nurlnuring- That's
all right. ~ Henry said Of course It was ali
rigl,t--tIas he had long known that ons.
o'clock was her bedtiAie, and he thought ii
was PLENTY late enough, too, for young
girl to be on OF .bcd-but what business, he
said, had George Washington's portrais
to be Topping round that Nays The, Sallio
explained d-and the twain resumed work on
the programme, Henry putting Ills arms
round Sallie to prevent her falling oil the
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Meanwhile the old man was listening for
the front door to open, and his woull-be SON.
ln-law's steps pattering over the pavement
with the toes Of his boots pointing from the
house. These sounds not falling upon his
ears, and thinking shat maybe the old thing
Hunt work right. be gave tl.e, string anoth- 4
n pull, and George w. again faced the audi. F.
,nce Then le listened. but he heard no toot
tcps--nntl.ing but a peculiar sotin,l--some-
hing resembling the popping Of champagne
orks.
Then he grew cross, and gave the string
mother pull, causing Il. w. to turn about
sith violent snddenness, us if lie was out Of II
umor too.
Still az is quiet below, except that pop
ing sound.
Then the string was pulled agsin--and q.
againI indicating that the old fel- &
las ready to explode with rage And for
silly fifteen minutes did he have the portrait
the man who could not tell ,lie turning
xcited hip-aaps and things on the wall. like
bewitched gylnnast. until he fell asleep ex-.
aus. .etl--Sallie's father fell aslecp--not shs.
ortsait.
Henry kissed Sallie good hight at once,
ock, q. M, remarking as he did 80 that Il
onll seem like 4 long. weary year c,e he
ould see her asain-becanse; you know. he
dn't expect 70 see her again until the eYe-
ng Of that day. II.
The next morning. mel. father examined the
'rtrait, ard when he fully understood the
nation he was gained. He shed q silent
ar, detached the string, spoegedlau thein
ription, and walked away with the weight
fifty-nyeryears on his shoulders, that being
5 age. He says girl WHO will go back ON 4
+ father that way would just as lief ~ not
sgrace her pareats by marrying Cone
essnan.