Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-08-01
describable manner, had spoken, as near
ly as can recollect, to the following eff

uGScrlDaDle manner, naQ spoken, as near
ly as can recollect, to the following eff
feet:
"Yes, George, 1 just got home from
l haven't slept much, l can tell you.
What's the matter? Well, I'll tell you.
In the first place, George, do / look like
a man that would take advantage of fell
low with one leg? Don't have trouble
enough getting my two hundred and sew
enty pounds along on two legs? OF course
do. Well, now, George, l am just the
same toward married people, or people
going to be married, as 1 would be to that
one-legged soldier over there on the other
side of the street grinding The Battle
cry of Freedom, and 1 wish he would
move the war into the next street. No,
sir, might have been a married man
myself once, but l am not, for rea-
but phsaw that was all thirty
years ago, and was going to tell you
about last night. I've noticed, blythe
way, George, that young people acH get
married on any provocation whatever,
and l don't object to it, mind, unless they
sit up all night and court afterward, and
rob me of my sleep. But what shall
say about that couple last night on the
Sound? / turned in about ten o'clock.
They hadn't even the excuse of being
married. They were just counting, and it
was the most tiresome piece of business
you ever heard of--that fellow, that idiot,
saying the same thing over and over.
They were seated on the guard, plump
against my state room door. Well,
George, it was awful. l came near get
ting asleep about eleven o'clock, and l
really believe if he had only changed the
PAGES of his story, if he had only trotted
in few lies, just for variety, 1 might
have slept through them. Now, imagine,
if you can, George, the sort of talk I'm
going to rehearse to you striking in end
less repetition against the thin wall OF
your state-room, just where your bare
feet necessarily touch it, for your perth is
always too short. The pine board tingles
with the sound, and-and the sentiment
George, and that tingles your feet, and
so it tingles all the way up to your ears
Now, you know yourself George, that:
no way to take your courting oh
how 1 did love Carolinel' said
of fellow just outside my state
room. oh, how 1 did love Caroliner-i
was his deep chest-tones that were so ag
gravating to my toe-nails-'and how Car
! Oline said she loved mel Then to think O
her perfidy! never knew anything So
so perfidious as her perfidyr-What al
ass he was, George, to be surei-'She wa
very beautiful, Mary he went on, Mar,
being, l hope, the only other person wht
shared with me the wretchedness of lis
: tening to these things-'Caroline wa!
very beautiful, Mary. She looked jus
: like you. She was a good girl, but s.
perfdious. l want you to be all she wa
tc me. want you to take her place i
my heart. want you to be just like hel
We were engaged for year, said he, i
: sisted, says he, still aggravating my fee
r throug gh the thin panelIing, and then
i insisted that Caroline should not only Gu
Y the acquaintance of that spruce youn
e Ransom, the leather dealer, but also writ
e him letter and tell him she believed hiI
: to be villain, and wanted nothing MOI
: to do with him. Sne asked me why
didn't write the letter to Mr. Ransol
i myself if l wanted it written. I tol
! her, of course, that Mr.. Ransom was n
i friend of mine, as he was of hers, and
r thought it was her duty to write the lie
e ter, and, Just because insisted, she wer
: : off and married that fool of youn
h Ransom himself. Oh, she was so pc
a fidiousp
n "Well, George, Icoughed, but the stor
e went on. 1 upset a chair, but still th
i story of Caroline's perfdy never stopped
except to repeat, She was so beautiful
a just like you, Mary, and want you to |
q just like her to me, Mary Well, ups,
% the other chair, and blistered all my toe
4 kicking against the partition, all for L
e use. Finally, about midnight, l coul
l. stand it no longer. l arose and jamme
e down my lattice window. The word
l. 'Caroline's perfidy' came in with breat
of salt air through the opening as stuc
C out my head and saw two shadowy form
seated on the guard right against m