The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-07-23
MIR. coLLrNs, oRoQUrT srT

SOlllnS arranged tne WlcketS. COl
Inns had learned to play while visit
ing in Gloyershire, last summer, ant
Mrs. Collins acquired an indiferen
knowledge of the game from tw;
elderly maiden sisters in Paxton
street And SO on that delicious
Friday afternoon they took out theil
mallets and balls and commence tht
game.
j "Now, Emeline, playfully OBJ
served Mr.. Collins, "don't you be
| gin cheating at the start. If you do
the game will be prostituted to mere
gambling, and we'll injure our mora
natures in trying, to build up oul
physical.
people who are so ready to
charge against others may need
careful watching themselves, young
man, said she, in the same spirit,
and / mean to keep sharp eye on
you sir. +"
Then they both laughed.
''But it will be good thing fol
you, he said, with tinge of tender
ness in his voice "you are kept
cooped up in the house so that you
hardly get breath Of fresh air.
This will give you exercise and keep
you out doors too. "
'You are always thinking of me, =
said she, as her eyes grew moist.
"You need the outdoor air as much
as l do, but you are too unseliish to
think Of yourself"
And thus exchanging sentiment
which did credit to both their hearts,
the game progressed.
After passing through the centre
wicket, Mr.. Collins used her balls
to help himself through the other
wicket to the upper stake. Then he
left her near the first wicket, and
struck for the stake, which, being
about eight inches distant, made
him confident. The ball missed
about an eighth of an inch.
81 declared" he exclaimed, in voxa-
ton.
Then she, having watched his
rapid progress, now struck for him
and hit him, and in minute later
his ball was spinning through the
grass to the other end of the ground.
She was now in position for her
wicket, and passed through it and
the others to the stake, but missed
it. Then he came up by well di-
rected blow to within two inches Of
the stake. But she went for him
again, and when she got through she
was three wickets beyond the stake,
and his ball was at the other end of
the ground again, and his brow was
finely corrugated. He stepped nefv-
onsly toward it. II was quite evil
dent that he was not unruflled
When bis turn came again he drove
back to the stake, but struck wick
ct, and rebounded 30 close to her
that she easily hit him, and again
introduced him through wickets he
was not for, and then sent him hy-
ing again. Her success caused her
to laugh and he heard it.
"You think you are pretty smart,
but I'll get even with you," he said
without smiling.
you'll have to play better than
you have done" she pertinently
suggested.
II think / know as much about
croquet as you do he said, still
with straight face. III you had
any fairness about you, you'd let me
have that stroke over, when was
up to the stake. You knew slipped
as we'll as | did, he said, growing
red in the face,
"No, I Sidn't know anything
about it," she replied, taking on a
little color.
II say you did"
"And | say / didn't. But il you
are going to play this game, why
don't you 60 ahead?"
"I'll play when / get ready" he
answered, turning white about the
mouth.
'If you amt going to play, you'd
better go into the house and shut
up" she suggested, raising her
voice.
Don't you talk TO me that way
be cried, "or I'll make you sorry for
it, you brazen-faced hussy."
"Hussy, hussyw she screamed
"Ain't you ashamed ofyourself, John
Jacob Collins to cali your wife a
hussy2 Hussy, am /, you old villain?
Hussy is it, you miserable brute?
I'm TO DO called a hussy, am l after
working my knuckles off for you,
and slayiDg for thirty years after your
crooked carcass There" she cried
in a paroxysm, throwing the mallet
on the ground, take your old GRO
quet and shove it down your lying
throat and choke yourself to death
with it, if you want to, you miserable
old wretch. And don't you ever ask
me to play with you again, or I'll
tell you some thing that you'll re-
member the longest day yon live,
you old devil"
And then she bounced into the
honse, leaving him standing there |
and rubbing his head in s benumbed !
sort Of way. But almost immediate.
ly after she thrust her head ont Of |
the window, and snapped ont
"You needn't think you are going |
10 get any hot biscuit for your tea ia
this house this night, young man, and !
you can put that in your pipe and |
smoke it just as soon as you have n
mind 10. .".-Ddabury NMos.
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The Milwaukee Ne,cs says that IN |
That city il il an insuperable objection !
10 female lawyers that they cannot
PIT their ieet on the table and sit 40,
while they are lonnging in the Court |
house, looking on while other lawyers |
IRE trying cases. No lawyer is re.
garlcd ~ at all up 70 bis bust
nrss who makes habit of sitting |
9Th lfs E4at ~, fha Noor