Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-06-03
A MOVING TALE
BY sTLvANUs SNYDER

What in the world is the matter,
Will r. asked / of my old chum, Will
Gates, whom I met coming down
Third Avenue, yesterday, with band
age over one eye, his right hand wrap
ped up in q cotton cloth. and smelling
strongly of kerosene. He limped bad
ly, and his once beaming eyes had a
sad, tired, far away look in them
He had been married only q couple
of weeks to sweet girl and my first
thought was that there had been a
family jar, and that be had got the
worst Of the. argument But then l
knew that his wife had a good disposi-
ton, and Will was never quarels0me,
so gave that idea up.
"Snyder, old boy" said he, ''dO
look bad ?" and as he spoke he raised
his feet alternately as if they were in
pain.
"Look bad / should think you did |!
Who has been putting head on you ?''
"NO one; but if you think | am in
bad situation, then YOU had ought
TO see Polly; she is a sight-tO be-
hold! r and a smile of satanic satis-
faction stole over his face.
/ Il IL GSAl you oll dDOu6 It3 llG GOHllL
ued, after he had hobbled into q sa-
loon, and taking chair, called for
some whisky to bathe his shoulder
which had heen dislocated, and drank
it up.
"Yon see, Polly and 1, after we got
married, kinder wanted to be alone
and as neither of US wanted to try a
boarding house, Polly came to the
conclusion that VIC had better go TO
house keeping. / wanted to get q
hired girl, but she had got confound-
ed economical fit on, and said that we
could do our ewn work, and that the
money we saved that way would help
buy house of our own, some day. [
agreed, and hired the rooms in house
with two other families, and got the
furniture patent, double barreled,
cylinder-escapement, backaction, gas
consuming stove, and fxings complete
chairs, tables, and so on-and after
the carpets were laid, and the furni
ture was all in, the rooms looked
scrumptious, ] tell you.
We took supper at a restaurant, but
determined that we would have break
fast under onr own vine a fig tree, as
it were.
, That night we slept in our own
rooms and we felt happy and indepen
dent as hog on ice. I felt tired and
, slept rather late next morning, but
! Polly woke me.
"Willy, DEAR" said she, ''arise, love
and build the fire, dearest -
I couldn't resist that appeal, so
bounced out of bed, and may be
lhanged if / did not step both feet right
into a pan full of carpet tacks.
l jumped up in the air about six fee
and when I came down / sat right il
the confounded pan, andI didn't have
my pants on either, and, if mus
:, confess it, 1 used some language tha
was suitable for the occasion.
n Polly helped me pick out the tackt
{: nearly quart of them-and then
s couldn't find my clothes. Things wer,
II all upside dOWn--moving you know
A. and / had forgotten where l had pm
d them.
'Never mind, Willy, sweet one,
said Polly, 'tmake the fire first, an
= come to bed until the room gets warn
that's darling
went for that stove, but there wer
in SO many plaguey fues and CRATES anC
Of ovens and things that Philadelphi;
lawyer would have went crazy tryiny
, to figure the confounded thing out
/ give it up in dispair, and use
some more hard words.
"Men are such stupid things!' sait
Polly, from the bed, ''and they neve
> can do anything without using ba
language. Now / will show you hoy
to build fire. and hereafter you viii
knOw!'
She jumped out of bed, right int
the pan of carpet tacks the first thing
ell and fell over, head first, against an o
toman, blacking one of her dear littl
eyes.
vs I could not help laughing if it kille
me; and she got her back up and erie
2 p awful, cause she was mad at me fc
= laughing. She didn't call me darlin
and sweet love, then.
After awhile we got reconciled, al
went courageOusly at that stove.
tie We got it open some wey, and .
rth in some kindling, and then some co
gu on top Of that, and poured little ke
in; osene on, so that it would catch goC
f5e f5a you know, and touched her off.
nm Did il burn3 Don't ask me!
LOT smoked and we could not stop it,
we could do. The way the smoke pill
ont Of that stove was fearful to beho
- The room got so full aster VIII
,nFt that / coulk not see Poly, and {