The Grange advance., 1874-05-20
FAMILY CIRCLE,
A Peace-O1 Offering.

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I was out late one night, said Squills
of the ever-glorious Fifteenth Ward, SC
I took home dozen fried. IF Mrs
Squills has one weakness stronger than
another, it is for dozen fried, nice and
brown, and not too much butter.
set the pacifcators down on the out
side mat, SO as not to burst too gorgeous.
ly on her all at once, but directly I got
up in the room, / knew there was some.
thing up.
Mrs. Squills had piled up all the pil.
lows in heap and was propped up read
ing.
"Good evening, my dear"
Mrs. Squills replied not. She is wo-
man of a good deal Of natural dignity,
said Squills, when she's getting up steam.
The silence was becoming oppressive, so
l remarked in tones that were referenti-
al:
"Lodge kept unusually late, my dear. -
I thought this was good time to in
troduce the dozen fried, said Squills, but
the storm burst.
So you went to the prize fight, MIR.
Squills?"
I pledge you my sacred word of hon
on, said squills, the baby could have
knocked me down with feather: Ma
ture overshocked, failed to sustain the
legs of her Squills, and I sat down.
"Went to what, my dear?"
"Don't prevaricate, Mr.. Squills. In
the depths Of your degeneration, be a
man. How did I come to knop It :?
That is my business. I know it, and
that ought to be enough for you.
How can you sit there and look me
in the face ?"
II wasn't looking her in the face,' -
said Squills, far from it,
"And not sink through the three-ply
into the front parlor, Mr.. Squills, is a
miracle. A nice lot Of friends you've
picked up. Mr.. Benjamin McLooney
and MI. Palsey OAllen. Ho,o do /
knoso their names? I read the newspa-
pers. How should I know ?"
"The next thing you'll be stakehold.
er or second. Bother /? No bother
about it, sir. Where's the difference,
should like to know, between you paying
five dollars and
-" You didn't pay foe dollars? Don't
tell me you didn't. And there's Tom
wants booting. What? You think you
are getting the boottmg. Don't cause me
to despise you, Mr.. 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 a
quarters dancing, and--what's that ?
You go IN for a dollar? What?
"You should heard that what ? -
said Squills.
"Do not dare to sit there and tell me
that you sneaked your way into dog
fight for dollar II soasn't a do9
.jeght? You sneaked is the word, Mr..
Squills; defrauding those poor fellows
who were trying to make a few dollars
to support their families. I should be
ashamed. Oh, that mother of children
should live to hear her husband sneaked
his way into dog fight for dollar"
1t was too much for her, said Squills
and she sunk back in among the pillows.
II ever there was moment in the his
tory of a woman's wrongs, when dozen
fried could be induced as an atonemen1
for the past and indemnity for the future
said Squills: that moment had arrived.
l placed dozen fried before her and
said affectionately, Fanny!"
She looked around and said
"Squills -
The appeal was too touching to be sue
cessfally resisted, and I never saw thu
mother of family hoist in dozen fried
at two o'clock in the morning with great
er determination.
The next morning, however, I had tt
shell out for Tommy and Gussy and tht
pew rent.
An Innocent Granger-How Farmer
Smith, OF Madison, OutWittcd \
Money. Lender.
farmor-wo mill all h:,n C.,,:, u.