The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-09-05

"Whose caticus did you say was dead9"
SEE he.
81 was only quotin' from Shakespeare"
SEE I.
shakespeare was powerful nice sort of
man, but never herd tell of him
havin' that; did he suffer much 2" SEE he
1got so much disguised at his stupidui-
ty, that concluded not to enlighten' him
any further, so after getting out of the mud
hole, started agen fur Punkinsville, the
place where the pettyfogger L mean the
fortygratfer-resided, reaching that place
without any more calamitous axidcnts.
81 cum to hev my picter took" SEE to
the picter man.
"Certenly, ma'am," sez he, "jest walk
right in and I'll tend to you right away,
do you want gem2"
ga jem," SEE /, "who on airth is that 2
Eff Jed was here and heard you say that,
he'd be very apt to cane you"
mo offence, ma'am," seq he, II only
wanted to know how you wanted your pic
ter taken"
ooh" seq I, want you to Civ me the
best picter you can take, and will foot the
bill"
"Jest set in that cheer" SEE he, "raise
your eyes little, now push your chin in
slightly, now look perfectly natural, there ;
do you want to hold any thing in your
hand ?"
81 will take my umbrellcr," seq l.
SNOW be right STILL" sez he, San look
straight at that picter OH the wall"
"No you don't, SEE |. "I'm goin' to look
where please, SOS kin see how the old
machine works."
Well after bit he pulled up his machine
an putin somethin' on it that looked jest
like cannon, he pinted it straight at my
head.
Gland O. Goshen" screamed "I'm killed,
i'm dead" and Jumpin' up, and giviu' my
umbreller whirl over my head, brought
it down on top of his old cannon hard
enough to smash it to pieces, an then Civ
in it another whirl took him one 'longside
of his jaw that made his teeth rattle, He
jumped out the door, an runnin' down the
street, begin to holler "perlice" like mad.
Bring them on" SEE l, IAN I'll hev you ar
rested:" The idea of any body calling him
self man pointing cannon at a helpless
temail /; its mercy that was as quick as
Twas to knock his cannon over, or it might
have went off an killed me dead. Pretty
soon, long comes three perlice with about
two hundred and fifty people following af-
ter them. Sez l, ~ want that man arrested
an put in Jail, fur threatenin' to kill an I'M
protected femail."
"Madam," SEE one of the officers, II have
q warrant fur your arrest, an if you'll 60
long with us right quiet, all well an good,
but if you go to cuttin' up We'll hav' to
put the bracelets on you.
'But it wasn't me-" sez l, sit was that
fortygraffer. guess you've made mistake,
an efyou don't take keer you'll get your
self into trouble
"Therell be time enough to explain all
that when your trial comes off," sez he.
To think that woman must be insulted
by being dragged off to Jail. l wondered
what Jed would say. But there wasn't
any thing for me to do but submit, an !
had to go with them. sent a note to Jed
telling him how things were mixed up. an
in the evening he got there an by paying
fifty dollars to the fortygratfer, they let me
60.
"Did you get your fortygratf took p seq
Jed, after we got home.
"No" SEE |, "but guess took his picter
with my umbreller."
Jed often tries to get me to go with him
to get our likenesses taken, but | ais tell
him I've got more respect for myself than
to go among SIGH roughs again, at least till
they establish 'woman's rights when we
won't be afeard to do anything.