The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1873-10-30
aHe-never fear. he's sleepln, like

"My dear Jessie, amt you little-I
IL thought heard"
"Ah, yes," 1 interrupted; "tbat
door squeaks dreadfully. Pm sorry it
woke You; but then it won't make
much difference, for it's time to get
up, anyway. There Pm all dressed
before you have begun, so I'll go
down and get some flowers"
/ When Tom came down was arraug-
ing my flowers. Teddy was standing
by me, and as Tom came in he pre-
! tended not to see him, and remarked:
"Well, to my thinkin', there's not
a flower among them half so swate
as yOui'-then pereeiving Tom he
/ pulled his foretop and scraped his foot
in regular servant style.
] i itMornin', sir, it's the master sup-
pose you are; fOine mornin', sir, for
the time of the year"
Tom looked just furious.
SIT seems to me, young man, you
don't know your place very well; in
the future confine yourself to your
own quarters and speak when you're
spoken to-"
"Sure I meant no offsnse, sir"
"Will you go, and without reply
I lng?' Tom stormed.
0Why, my dear Tom,n remarked,
smiling sweetly, "What q strange dis
like you have taken to poor Teddy.
J was In hopes you would like him as
I do and take him in Eben's place" +"
'If he don't mind what he is about
III kick him out of DOORS"
The breakfast passed in absolute
silence. As we were passing the pam
try on our way to the parlor we
heard Teddy's voice, and / made Tom
stop to listen.
"It's a foine lookin' girl you are,
Sarah Ann, and I'd give you kiss, l
would indade, il your breath didn't
smell so of ingions."
'IBgions indade; and who axed you
for 2 kiss? Do you 'spose Id be want
in one from the likes of you when /
can get them from your betters?"
"My betters!-and who do you call
my betters?n
"Sure, and isn't it the master him
self that kisses me every blessed MORN
in of his life; and does he smell much
of ingions? Not much"
"The master now it's jokin' you
are, Sarah Ann: do you suppose Pm
fool enough to believe that?"
"Believe it or not, it's the blessed
truth Pm tellin' you. Sure, if any,
thing should happen to the missus,
it's not long I'd be the servant here"
"And its kisses you, you say he
does; well, it's quars crathurs you
wimmen are, any way. Now men
think it disgrace to kiss and tell,
and here you boast of it."
We waited 10 hear no more, but
Toms face was in q blaze, and he
took his hat and left without word
or look.
The next morning Teddy and /
managed to be in the same place on
the stairs where / had heard Tom
kiss his 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 went
to the dining-rOom. Tom came in
presently with an awful frown, when
l held up my face to be kissed, bat he
pushed me Tudely away.
"Why Tom, amt you going to kiss
me ?D
"DO you think Pm blind, Mrs.
Wilkins? / saw Teddy kiss you just
now and it's not the first time either.
Do you think I'll stand such doings I?
Mo- I'll break every bone in the ras-
CABS body If hang for it, and you
faarH fearIO 20 n0mS nonaye TO ySoR4E mother till you
"Now my dear Tom, where is the
harm in that? 1 believe in imbibing
sweetness wherever find it; so don't
make mountain out of molehill.n "
You should have seen his face when
he heard me repeat 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
me lesson"
"Not more severe than the case re-
quired, Tom. 1 only made you put
yourself in my place."
well, Jessie, if it filed you with
such intense disgust to see me kiss Sa-
rah Ann as it did me to see you kiss
that eonfounded Teddy, don't WON
der you were angry"
Well, we talked the matter over at
length and agreed to dismiss both
Teddy and Sarah Ann, giving them a
months wages instead of warning.
I heard Sarah Ann mutter to Ted
dy, "shure and 1 behave the missus
suspects the master is swate ON me. ;"
"Niver you fool yourself in that
way,n said Teddy, ats himself as is
a sendin us away.
Well, at length they were off, and
the next day Eben came back and /
had a 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 forgive
/ ness.
While we were at dinner brother
John arrived. / was q little curious
to see if Tom would know him. He
looked at him with a puzzled expires
sion, but said nothing; but presently
he became eimmOderately gay, and in
deed, almost brilliant. Later, when
we were alone, he took me in his arms
and kissed me, and whispered: '0h,
if you knew the relief 1t gave me to
see you had not degraded YOURSELF
"Oh, you foolish Tom! do you
think could have dared to have de-
scended to that, even to give you q
much needed lesson? But see how
inconsistent you men are; you have
no forgiveness for the least false steI
a woman makes, even when she is
only following your example to the
letter"