Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-04-01
Humorous.

a PEAcE-OrFERNe.-I was out late
one night, said Sqfills, so took home
dozen fried. If Mrs. Squills has one
weakness stronger than another,'it is
for a dozen fried, nice and brown, and
not too much butter.
I set The paciicators down. on the
outside mat, so es not to burst too gor-
geously on her all at once, but directly
1 got up in the room. 1 knew there was
something up.
- Mrs. Squills had piled up all the
pillows in a heap and was propped up,
aGosd evening, my. dear"
Mrs. -Squills replied not. She is a
woman of good deal of. natural dig
nifty, said >Squills, when she's getting
up steam. The silence was becoming
oppressive, so / remarked in tones that
were referential
lodge kept unusually late, my
dear"
/ thought this was good time to
introduce the dozen fried, said Squills,
but the storm burst.
$50 you went to the prize fight, Mr..
Squills ?"
1 pledge you my sacred word Of
honor, said Squills, the baby could
have knocked me down with feather.
Nature overshocked, failed to sustain
the legs of her Squills, and sat down.
event to what, my dear 2"
"Don't prevaricate, Mr.. Squills. In
the depths of your degeneration, be O
man. HoIU did 1 come TO k5tOU ii
That is my business. L know it, and
that ought to be enough for you"
"How can you sit there and look me
in the face?"
81 wasn't looking her in the face,
said Squills, "far from it."
'And not sink through that three-ply
into the front parlor, Mr.. Squills, is q
miracle. 4 nice lot of friends, you've
picked up. Mr.. Benjamin McLooney
and Mr.. Patsy O'Allen. Ho,O do !
knoW- their names ?. l read the news
papers. How should know?
1.-The next thing you'll be a stake
holder or second. Bother !? No bother
about it, sir. Where the difference,
should like to know, between your pay
ing five dollars aod -"
"YoI didn't pay fire dollars ?" Don't
tell me you didn't. And there's Ton
wants booting. What ? You think yoI
are getting the 6ooting. Don't cause
me to despise you, MIR. Squills, under
such circumstances. And Gussy wants
a winter bonnet to match her dress, and
the house wants painting next spring
and all the Goals not in, and then pew
rent is due, and Charlie ought to have 4
quarters dancing, and-what's that
You 90 IN for q dollar ? What ?"
'!You should have heard that what 2
said Squills.
.DGnotadare to sit there and tell me
that you sneaked your way into a dos
fight. for a dollar II tCdsn't q dog
Lfghte Yes, sueaked is the word, Mr.
Squills'; defrauding those poor fellow:
VINO were trying 20 make few dollars
to support their families. l should bt
ashamed. Oh, that the mother of chill
dren should live to hear her husband
sneaked his way into dog fight for ,
dollar"
1t was too much for her, said Squflls
and she sunk back in among the pil
loys.
ii ever there was a moment IN thi
history OF a. womans wrongs, when |
dozen fried could be Induced as atone
ment for the past and indemnity for tin
future, said Squiis, that moment haC
arrived.
/ placed a dozen. fried before her, an(
said affectionately, Fanny !"
She looked around and said:
''Squills -
The appeal was too touching to. b,
successfully resisted, and L never sav
the mother of family hoist in dozei
fried at two O'Clock in the morning
with greater determination.
The next morning, however, / had t,
shell out for Tommy and Gussy and tn
pew rent.