The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-12-20
SOUILLS.
Mrs. :. Discovers that S. has been to Prize
Fight.
any country.

Fight.
WAS out a little late the other night, said
Squills, so took home dozed fried. If
Mrs. SQulls has one weakness stronger than
another, it Is for dozen fried, nice and
brown, and not too much batter.
set the paclicators down on the outside
mat, so as not to burst too gorgeously on her
all at once, but directly got into the room
knew there was something up.
Mrs. Squills had piled up all the pillows in
q heap and was propped up, reading
Good evening, my dear"
Mrs. Souill replied not. She is a woman
of a good deal of natural dignity, said Squills,
when she's getting steam up. The silence
was becoming oppressive, so l remarked in
tones that were defcrential:
lodge kept unusually late, my dear"
thought this was the time to introduce
the dozen fried, sad Squills, but the storm
burst
so you went to the prizefght, Mr.
Squills"
| pledge you my sacred word and honor,
said Squills, | think the baby could have
knocked me down with feather, Nature
overshocked, failed to sustain the legs OF her
Souills, and sat down,
went to the what, my love"
Don't prevaricate, Mr.. Squils. In the
depths of your degradation be man. How
did come to know it? That is my business,
Mr.. Squills. know it, and that ought to be
enough for you"
1t was, and some over said Squills,
How you can sit there, and look me IN the
face"-I wasn't looking her in the face, said
Souills, far from it--"and not sink through
that three-ply into the front parlor, Mr.
Sauills, is a miracle A nice lot of friends
you've picked up! Mister Benjamin McLoo-
ney and Mister OAllen. How do | know
their names? ! read about them in the RE-
PUBLICAN, Mr. Squills. How should | know? ?
"The next thing, you'll be stakeholder or
a second Bother? No bother about it, sir
Where's the difference l shouldlike to know,
between your paying five dollars and You
didn't pay five dollars? Don't tell me you
didn't And there's Tom wants booting.
What! You think you're getting the booting.
Don't cause me to despise you, Squllls, un-
der such awful circumstances. And Gussy
wants winter bonnet TO match her dress,
and the house wants painting next spring,
and the Goals not in, and the pew rent Is
due, and Charlie ought have quarters
dancing, and-whats thatY You got on for
dollar? WHAT
You should have heard that whats" said
Squlls.
ado YOU dare to sit there and tell me that
you sneaked your way into dog fight for a
dollar! 1t wasn't dog fight? Yes, sneaked
is the word Mr.. Squills defrauding those
poor fellows who were trying to make few
dollars to support their families. should
be ashamed. Oh that the mother OF children
should live to hear that her husband had
sneaked his way into dog fight for a dol
lar"
IT was too much for her, said Squills, and
she sank back in among the pillows
If ever there was a moment in the story OF
a woman's wrongs, when dozen fried could
be introduced as an atonemcnt for the past
and indemnity for the future, said Squills,
that moment had arrived. placed the doz-
en- fried before her and said atfectionately,
Fanny
She looked round and said: "Squills!'
The appeal was too touching to be success
fully resisted, and | never saw the mother OF
a family hoist in dozen fried at two o'clock
in the morning with any greater determine
ton.
The next morning | had to shell out for
Tommy and Gussy and the pew rent-t
Louis Rep.