The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1873-04-03

a gave t# NnA @hAatN gao
IL wasn't, bat never mind.
Wc began housekeeping iu \ street
There was a luminous door plate eugrav.
ed "Juukctt." There wcrg two door
bells, aud a plate under the second pro-
claimed that Max Junkett, NJ D., kept
certain onice-hqurs For wear we lived
like people who meaut TO have a good
time. The blue rings about kittys eyes
grew red, aud slid down into little mot
ties on her cheeks. Also dimplcs came
in her hauds aud wrists, aud one in her
chin. BY aud by something happened At
our house. Eleven women flew up and
down aud AL about, ike eleven cats In
eleven ilts, and Kitly-well, she lay stin
and looked amazingly set.up. It was
about that time that we wsXed ambitious
and bought carriage. The locomotive
power was the nurse.
II was that year, at Christmas that
Kit delighted her blessed little heart by
giving me a gorgeous wrapper-wadded,
and quilted. and corded, aud irogged aud
tasscled TO Kill
The thermometer had gone into a dc.
cline Just then, aud as there was an erup-
ton Of measles and scarlet-fever in town,
| was routed out of bed every hour Of the
night, every night Of my life.
| thought OF it first, Max, that night
Mrs. Days twins had their seizure, and
the house was 50 cold when YOU got up.
Isn't it nice?
O, magnificent! The grand mogul
couldn't desire a smarter. ! should have
been worse than the Arabs, not to gush
little. But the money, dear? II must
have cost fortune.
o, that's my secret, Max, aud my wife
looked as treacherous as her namesake oI
Medici herself Wild horses shall moi
draw it from me.
And so two minutes after she told mt
the whole. OF course she was dying tC
do It all the time, and ! saw she was
She had painted picture. Oils hat
been tabooed when we were married
Kitty had come too near killing hcrsel
with 'em,
But it didn't hurt me at all, Max.
gained flash all the while was painting
Don't you see.
She put back her hair to show her ia
cheeks, and stretched the round arms on
Of her loose sleeves, and came up anC
made me feel how hard her shoulder was
and put me through until ! owned sh
was in good condition, and then she toIC
me-
Barney & Co., want me to paint othe
| pictures for them, Max.
So we had housekeeper and seam
Kitty hated sweeping and sewinI
and my wife gave her leisure to he
painting. So far, all went smooth
enough. We had our home TO ourselves
| had my wife, we both had the baby
and we envied nobody. Then came th
assassination. The funeral cortege ha
not reached Springfield, when the senio
Barney came putting in, one day, cover
ed with enthusiasm and perspiration.
A picture! 1t must be painted directly
Mrs. Junkett, directly. We must get th
inside track. Sawder & Batherum wi
get ahead of Us, else. ! wouldn't hav
that firm get the inside track for fortune
Moneys no object, ma'am.
Perhaps this doesn't sound artistic
Alas, that the loltiest flight must stoo
for bread and butter.
The tenth of May, Ammo Domil
eighteen hundred and sixty-fve.
This was the morning when Kit
woke up and found herself famous,
woke, too ! wish hadn't
That picture, 1t would be little to II
purpose here for me TO tell how it W.
engraved, aud Autographed, and phot'
graphed, and every other "graphed
how it was chromoed on canvas an
chromoed on paper; how it figured
stereoscope and stereopticon; how
stared from every shop window fro
Alaska TO Cape Horn, and from the &c
den Gate to the cod-bank Of Newfoun
land: how it was copied for railroad car
. for the tai-board of an omnibus; how,
, short, il was reproduced in as MAJ
: STYLES as a Victoria medal, or the spic al
span crest OF paryenu. 1t narrow
escaped being engraved on a bank bi
as IT was on series OF red and whi
} cotton handkerchief and had DollyVa
dens been heard Of in those days, ma
a no doubt the lineaments OF our best be
: stead would have adorned the back al
: front of beauty on high days and holida
= to the end of the chapter. With snca vi
lencc did fame swoop down upon MS
. upon my wife, mean.
The first glimpse youchsated TO me
fOfihe barden Of an honor
u Unto which war not
u married, was the 18th day Of May Of
: year Of grace aforesaid. Coming hol
z to dinner. tired aud hungry as q be-
i 10. line Of carriages up and down
d street. | thought, at first, ia made
D. mistake and come 20 my own funer
Il Looking back at it now, think ! was
2 so far out Of the way. DIX is hayi
q an auction Of furniture, was my seco
a conjecture. But I glanced up at Di
% windows. Az was quiet az, for two
al three years back, the public had b'
given to understand that IL was along
ir Potomac, just then met footman
g wonderful majesty and calves stand
e. sentinel at the curb-stone. Whew, | E
20 10 ms self. MY wife II receiving, aud the