Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-05-09
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A PEACE OFFERING,

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was out late one night, said Squills
of the ever7glorious Fifteenth Ward. 70
I took home dozen fried. If Mr.
Squills has one weakness stronger than
another, it is for dozen fried, nice and
brown, and not too much butter. fo
I set the pacifcators down on the
outside mat, SO as not to burst too gorge
ously on her all at once, but directly,1
got up in the room, I knew there was
something up. ~ q" ' -'o a''afg
Mrs. Squills had piled up all the
pillows in a heap and was propped up,
reading. ii; -.
Good evening, my dear" 80
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
we're referentail: '' o''i
"Lodge kept unusually late, my
dear" ~ nw rtl.4 gs5 u. sit % 81
Thought this was good time 10
introduce the dozen fried, said Sqpills,
but the storm burst. 7,
$50 you went to the prize fight, MI.
Squills?". t.P eEa" 9.tGs odr
/ pledge you my sacred word of hon
or, said Squills, the baby could, have
knocked me down with a feather. Ma
ture overshocked, failed to sustain the
legs of her Squills, and I set down.
"Went to what, MY dear?" "15ub
/" Don't prevaricate, Mr.. Squills. !, In
the depths Of your degeneration, be, a
man. Ho,r did I come to knoO IT, That
is my business. I know it, and that
ought to lie enough for YOU" Bog soig
How can you sitthere and look me
In the faceg '1ucli M yitnau sisai bas
II wasn't looking her in the face"
said Squills, &c far from il. "
"And' not sink through that three
ply into the front parlor, Mr.. Squills,
is miracle. A nice lot of friends you
have picked up. Mr.. Benjamin Nc
Looney and Mr.. Patsey O'Allen. .He,o
do 1 knov their names I read the
newspapers. How should I know?
go The next thing you'll be q stake
holder or second. Brother? No
brother about it, sir. Where's the diff
ference, should like to know, between
you paying five dollars and ''a3
You didn't pay .fre dollars = Don't
tell me you didn't. And there's Tom
wants booting. What? You think you
are getting The booting. Don't cause me
to despise you, Mr.. Squills, under such
circumstances. And Gussy wants q
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 dollars What?" ESQ
"You should have heard that what T."
said Squills. rxat
"Do not dare to sit there and tell me
that you sneaked your way into dog
fight for dollar! II ,casnia dog fight !
Yes, sneaked is the word, Mr.. Squills;
defrauding those poor fellows who
were trying to make q few dollars to
support their families. I should be
ashamed. Oh, that the mother Of chill
4dren should live to hear that 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 pill
lows. - aas51 .'j-il q @stE
If ever there was moment in the
history of woman's wrongs, when
dozen fried could be introduced as an
atore1iient for the past and indemnity
for the future, said Squills, that mo.
ment had, arrived. ~ tnas les Sl'aiL
Iplaced q dozen fried before her, and
said affectionately, " Fanny ,awb
She looked around and said: ,zy
"Squillsw '0
The appeal was too touching to be
successfully. resisted, and I never saw
the mother Of q family hoist in . dozen
fried at two o'clock in the morning with
greater determination. -
The next morning, however, had to
shell out for Tommy and Gussy ahd
the pew rent. 10 ythfisis' eaI