Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-04-01
WAY IRlrED MORRISON.
Bx W. Hr. BuHpErr.

bsrinx babe upoa her lap and vowed, IN an
animated whisper, that IL was "a dsrliog,
beautiful, innocent tOOlleums, and it should
have = name ss good as i'selfl' In" IN
cidsHt took place some thirty years before
/ grew 70 h,ts Joshua Morrison. "Morri-
sea- uas the name OF some painfully pros
trsttuv Wills once took, which did cot fol-
Rl their hand bill contract with me. So
wasn't prepared TO like Morrison,--if only
on aoeoanI OF his name.
Thea, kis hair was kind Of unApps liz. !
ing, brickduSty, dead hay kind Of color,
and suggested the presence upon his era
mum o. how l sh1dder
When hrsI sG~ him he wore large
green nsektie, With m eruption Of white
spots upon IL, Artfully eudeAvOrlng to I'M
press the holder with q sense that the
vearer vas wije-A-Ake; yellow vest aud
paataloous black coat; aud cloth boots,
with httle glass buttons 90 them, all Of
which eoatrassed with the color OF his pot
blue ey.s II there vas AuJthing eadurA-
bic about the man, u must have been Pu.sly
accidental, for 1 took such . Sudden disiIkz
10 him the 6ru time saw hin. 'Oh
PytAoyosaa mentally rjscnlsied. I'll
thy doctrine OF metsmpsychosis be true,
this msus soul mast see its IeKt state 10
some dss picabIe reptile "
l frat met him ~ D,guerre's. DAguerre
himself mads Us known. Bye the bye, -
though forbidden By Daguerre-I vas court
Ing bis daughter. Hs had said 10 me,
"Meestairs Smit, u is no use for you to
CON to see ZlpAh you rot reeshe enough J
Bot snll went knowing that faint heSrI
never won fair lady and resolved
20 win her, 10 l could. / bad once
eneiroled her waist with my arm, and
stumble over foOtsto5l in trying 20 dodge
q slAp from her "hvs aud half hand.
Once | had landed . kiss on her chin, And
scratched my own on her brooch pin 10 do
ing 80. / had, once, got her 10 the pitch Of
agreeing TO Join me 10 serious conversNtion
for Eve minutes; vhsn-suddsniv- she had
burst iato q merry, ringing, peal Of laughter
81 ny sOber face, aud exclaimed :-"Oou't
look such y muH, Tom, FOR gracious sAke;
or | must laugh sooul" had stolen q lock
Of hair iron her, once; And,as she stood With
her back 70 me, quis: as a lamb, while did
IL, I thought aha Acqniescsd IN tbs senti-
ment OF the arrangement. But, 10 aud
behold a. soon as had seeursd ths trrss,
she turned round, and Swapping sarcastic
little thumb an finger 10 my face, told me
that she and / were playing one another
false / have since found out that her back
hair is ute. | had boughE cardy for her.
ani new clothes for myself, TO my last cent;
aud all the thanks got fov ii was when she
drew me on Que side, when she saw the ~
clothes, aud sAid;-puttiug finger in one
Of the imprao,ieAbe button holes Of the
coat, and looking liquid violet a. nej-
"Tom, you dear old goose | have two
tvsniiss 10 my pocket, aud | only want one
Of them. Wouldn't you like TO have the
other2 Eh7 Don't you Wish you may get
h2' So saying, with her other hand she
Aourished twenty dollar bill in my face
then orAmmed il into my pocket And ran
away, laaghing. Il was very kind of her,
bat, Slso, very insulting; ADD told myself
that shs couldn't care red cent for me or
she wouldst have done so. Houeser,-l
bslisvs,--I kissed the paper, Hnd-it went
TO my tailor. determined to repay her,
bat, when / said go to her, she denied oil
kuovlsdge OF my indebted aess; And, when
insisted, added nAively;-"l thought you
knew that wanted TO bride you to lsAye
the alone. I'll tell voc What, Ton, you dom
know - muoh IS . las, years BIRDS nest Z
There was such . mocking little cit il
her voice, aud such witobery IN her Rlanc
thA.-- But here old DAgusrre brought
Joshua Morrisoa into the garden, and
made him kaown. | saw . glance pass
between Il lpah and Dsxuerre, and smother
glance between the latter aud tue ns~
conner; aud then mated Morsoo.
Il didn't take long for me TO learn ,hG,
was, hgurAiively nobody. Morrison had
made sixty thousand dollars 10 some shodly
manner, ami iaL bought himself "a httly
place" Everybody said that Morrison
waited . wife; a bird for his new cage
and DAgusrrs himself had dreadful inter
visu wish ZlpAh upon The subject, frOu
which she emerged with a crest fallen look
and an overheard promise Of implicit obedi
encs. Aud 40 Morrison, the awkward, yul-
gar gEvky, came and eour,ed her, aud sh,
smiled 90 him swssty; though she torment
cd him nearly TO death with sArca,ms
oouohsd 40 a. 10 pierce biz thick hide blu
she did smile on him that was certain
Dagusrre began 10 treat me conaiderAtsl
Whenever NO met. az IL ! VAS . sick sub
jsei. Ny vest began TO slsoken little, an
l. more than onco, paced my chamber i
the dead Of the night, very sCantiliy clad
and rseitsd bloodihirl,y scraps from 10
tragic poets generally ending With -
''Bswsrs Of jealousy 1t / the green ere
monster
Tia, doth make tho meat j, feeds on 2"
was, certainly, hit.
Morrison took ZilpAh around every where
often accom- panied by . very beautiful
bot hsArtless girl, bSued CorAIine Dsux
temps who uas sxtrAvAgant but not At 81
.rieh, --aBd dressed himselfup, aud slick
ed himself down 40 outrageousiy thai
could not bear 10 see him. tie was nu.
uoHict to mo, aud prussic acid was mild n
his presence. Ant ZlpAh my frat an,
DOLLY love, the obj-cJ OF my sd1rSuon,-
ZilpAh devoted herself entirely TO Coralin
and Morrison, and would not even look n
me. then took to writing poetry, and fAu
cisd that N face grew pallid. 10 my poet
cal lucubrAtons was fond OF Hddressin
he moon as "chasts goddess Who Rlsamet
DER q storm swept SOUL and 40 forth A
Length, having jast completed = long poeu
ending -
She left me, lonely. without tsksu;
And that 10 why my heart il broken.
I determined TO throw up my situation
and 20 elsewhere; TO be where The surround
Jugs would not remind me OF her, aud hiB
Fall Of this determination, | went up I
DAgusrrs's house.
1t was lovely evening, late 10 June, an
as l walked up the carriage drive an
across the oroque, AVN, the soft south win
came sighiag through the -illows, ssayin
them gently back aud forth, making the
Pickering shadows trace transient an
Khostly in pressions on that lawn which
myself had last moved, and which was nov
-ss plaiuly visible in the mopnligh',-us'
less tOr the purpose Of oroqusi without IL
iutsrp 1sitior Of scy,he. There wa,
light In the sitting room, and tbs sound.
CorSinss ringing soprano voice aud
piano accom- pain meDt we're distinctly aud
10. She vas singing-l vas so mi'er'
bic that can hardly recollect-a CON
song known as Captain links Of the dor'
Marines" Morri,on'a fAvorite song. an
sang IL, too. With much svrigbiliness an
usrce. A few PAGES took ms to the windoV
There sat Zilpah At the piano, playing III
accompaniment; and Coralius stood besid