The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-08-28

! like him as do and take him in
Ebenis place"
ssIf he don't mind what he il about
I'll kick him out of doors.
The breakfast passed in absolute 81.
lience. As we were passing the pan
/ try on our way to the parlor, we heard
/ Teddy's voice, and / made Tom stop
to listen. tati
"It's a foine lookin' girl you are,
Sarah Ann, and I'd give you kiss,
would indade, if your bierth didn't
smell SO of ingions."
tIngions, indade; and who axed
] you for kiss? Do you 'spose I'd be
! wantin' one from the likes of you
when L can get them from my bet
/ ters ?"
"My betters land who do you call
my betters 2" Eas Fl
"Shure and isn't it the master him
self that kisses me every blissed
mornin' of his life !; and does he speak
much of ingions? Not much"
"The master! Now It's jokin' you
are, Sarah Ann; do you 'spOse I'm
fool enough to behave that 2" Haas
"Belave it or not, it's the blissed
truth I'm tellin' you. Shure, if any
thing should happen to the nlissus, it's
not long I'd be the servant here.Y4J-
"And it's kisses you, you say he
does; well, it's quare craytures you
wimmen are, anyway. Now men
think it disgraceful to kiss and tell,
and here you boast of it."
We waited to hear no more, bnt
Toms face was in blaze, and he took
his hat and left without word or
look.
The next morning Teddy and 1
managed to be in the same place on
the stairs where l had heard Tom
kiss Sarah Ann, and as he opened the
door, Teddy kissed me loud enough
to be heard all over the house, and
then hurried away while l went to
the dining-room. Tom came in pres
emily with an awful froWn, which 1
pretended not to see, and l held up
my face to be kissed, but he pushed
me rudely from him. -lt sHl
"Why, Tom amt yon going to kiss
me2"
"Do you think I'm blind. Mrs.
Wilkins? l saw Teddy kiss you Just
now, and it's not the first time either.
Do you think I'll stand such doings?
No! I'll break every bone in the ras-
cal's body, if / hang for it, and you
shall go home to your mother till you
learn to behave yourself"
''NoW, my dear Tom, where is the
harm in that? / believe in inbibing
sweetness when / find it; SO don't
make a mountain of a mole-hill."
You should have seen his face when
he heard me repeating his own words.
"Look here, JESSIE" he said at
length, you've got the best of me,
though it was a hard way of giving
nae my lesson" ~ ." s
"Not more severe than the case re-
quired, Tom. l only made you put
yourself in my place"
"Well, Jessie, if it filled you with
such intense disgust to see me kiss
Sarah Ann as it did me to see you
kiss that confounded Teddy, don't
wonder you were angry"
Well, we talked the matter over at
length and agreed to dismiss both
Teddy and Sarah Ann, giving them
months wages instead of warning.
/ heard Sarah Ann mutter to Ted
dy, "shure and / behave the missus
suspects the master is sWate on me-"
'Niver you fool yourself that way"
said Teddy; t'it's himself as is send
in US away" "-e
Well, at length they were of, and
the next day Eben came back and
had new girl but in all this time
Tom had not kissed me, and treated
me almost with aversion as though my
sins were too great for forgiveness.
While we were at dinner brother
John arrived. l was a little curious
to see if Tom would know him. He
looked at him with q puzzled express
sion, but said nothing but presently
he became immoderately gay, and in-
deed, almost brilliant. Later, when
we were alone, he took me in his
arms and kissed me, and whispered:
Oh, if you knew the relief it gave me
to see you had not degraded yoar-
SELF" taH
80, you foolish Tom! do you think
could have dared to have descended
to that, even to give you much
needed lesson? But see how incon-
sistent you men are you have no for
giveness for the least false step a
woman makes, even when she is only
your example to the letter 2"