The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-01-07
mr and slrs. squ,l,s.

Il was out little late the other
night" said Squiils, $50 | took home
dozen fried If 3lrs. SquiIis has
one weakness stronger than another
T it is for a dozen fried nice aad brown
and not too much batter
Il sat the paciEcaters down on the
outside mal, 50 aa not to burst toe
gorgcously on her all at oace bat di
rectly I got into the room / knew
there was something up.
Mrs. Squills had piled all the pil
lows in a heap, aud was propped up
reading.
"G0od evening my dear
Mrs. Squills replied not She is
woman Of & good deal Of natural
dignity when she's getting steam up.
The silence was becoming oppressive,
so / remarked in tones that we're def
crential:
lodge kept unusually late, my
dear.
4 thought this was q g, 0 time to
introduce the fried said Squills,
"but the storm burst"
$50 you went to the prize-fght,
Mr.. Squills."
y pledge you my sacred word
and honor" said SquiIis, Il think
the baby could have knocked me
down with 2 feather. Nature over
shocked failed 20 sustain the legs Of
her Squiils, and ! sat down
Went TO the what, my love ?7
Don't preTaricate, Mr.. Squills.-
u The depths Of ycur degradation be
q nan. How did I come to know 1t.
That is NY business, Mr. Squills. ]
know it, and that ought to be enough
for YOU"
1T was -aid Squills, "and some
over
How Won can s.j there and look
me IN the tace'-I was not looking
her In tie face. said Squills, far
from it,--and not sink through that
thTeeply into the front parlor, Mr
Squ.IIs. IS miracle. 4 nice lot Of
friends you've picked up! Mister
Benjamin NcLooney and Mister
Patscy O'Ailca. How do / know
their names! Tread them in the Re
publican. Mr. Sguiiis. How zhouldi
know
"The next thing y0u'ii be d stake
holder or q second. Bother. No
bother about it, sir. Where's the
difference, / should Ike to know, be-
tween your paying five dollars and
You didn't pay five dollars p
Don't tell me you didn't And there
IS Tom wants boo,inr What? You
think YOU are getting the booting.
Don't cause mc 90 despise you,
Squili-. under such awful circumstan-
ccs. And Gussy wants a winter
bonnet to match her dress, and the
house wants painting next spring ald
all the Goals not in, and the pew
rent is due, and Charley ought to
have quarters dancing; and
what's that2 You got in for a dol
lar? What ?"
You should have heard that
what :'' said Sqgills.
DO YOU mean 30 st there and tell
me you sneaked vour way into a dog
fght for Z dollar. 1t wasn't Il dog
eight Yes, sn.aked IS the word,
Mr.. Squilis, defraudiHg these poor
fellows who were trying to. make a
few dollars to support their families,
| should be ashamed. Oh that the
mother of children should live to
hear that her husband had sneaked
his way into dog fight for dollar. :"
1T was too mGca for her." said
Squills. "and She sunk back among
the pillows"
If ever there was monument in
the story Of a womau's wrongs when
a dozen fried could be introduced as
atonement for the past and indemnity
for the future, said SquiIl, that mo-
ment had arrived | placed the doz-
en- fried before her and said, Affection
atelv, Fanny =
she looked around and said
'Squiils. The appeal was too touch
ing to be successfully resisted, and
never saw the mother OF a family
hoist in a dozen fried at two o'clock
in the morning with greater determin-
alton. The next morning l had to
shell out for Tommy and Gusscy and
the pew rent"
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