The Van Buren press., 1875-08-17
have done, she pertinently suggested.


quet rs you do he said, still with q strait
face, If you had any fairness about
you, you'd let me have that strekc over
when | was up to the stake. You knew
l slipped As we'll as did, he said grow.
ing red in the face
I No, l didn't know anything about it,
she replied, taking on little color.
] say you did
And l say didn't But, if you are
going to play this game, why don't you
90 ahead p
I'll play. when I get ready he an.
swered, turning white about the mouth,
If you amt going to play, you'd bet
ter go into the house, and shut up she
suggested, raising her voice
Don't you talk to me that way he
cried, or I'll make you sorry FOR it, you
brazen faced busy
.Hussy, hnssyr she screamed. Ain,
You ashamed Of yourself, John Jacob
Collins. to call your wife hussy9 Hus.
sy, am l, you villainp Hussy, is it, you
miserable brute? I'm to be called hus-
sy, am |, after working my knueklcs off
for on, and slaving for thirty years.
Therer she cried in paroxysn, throw
ing the mallct on the ground, take your
old ercquet, and shove it down your
throat, and choke yourself to death with
it, If you want TO- And don't you ever
ask me to play with You again, or I'll tell
you something you'll remember the long
est day you live
And then she bounced into the house,
leaving him standing there, and rubbing
his head in benumbed sort of way,
But almost Immediately after she thrust
her head out of the window and snapped
out:
You needn't think you're going to get
any hot biscuit for your tea, in this house.
tonight, young man, and you can put that
in your pipe and smoke it, just as soon as
you nave mind to. '-Danbury News.
A Few COMMISSIONS - Habitues OF the
summer hotels and watering places, says
the Boston Commercial Bulletin, will rec
ognlze the following as a correct speci-
men of the domestic dialogues which
take place while paterfamilas is waiting
for the omnibus to drive up to the front
piazza, or his buggy to take him to the
steamboat landing, or for the whistle of
Unexpected locomotive:
You have got the pattern for the mus
lin, my dear?
Yes
And yon won't forget Charley's slip.
pers aud my bathing dress in the lower
bureau drswerp
No, darling
And the cold cream and camphor
from the upper shelf in the cleset, and to
bring US some books from the library,
you know, and bottle Of cologne
And baby's caps, you know, ana ten
my dress maker about having my dress
sent by express, for want it for the hop.
Aud do ask Aunt Maria to send my dri
wing gauntlets; forgot them
Anything elseY
3 No, darling, nothing. only it you could
step over to mas, and ask her to lend me
that purple and white hood. and bring me
down new sun umbrella, and my India.
rubbcrs to wear when We 60 out in the
boat, it is so damp that
Stop, darling; I've just thought Of
something ! want to do myself
What is it, my dcar9'
why, l want to run in my store for
FIVE minutes. for my own business, IL
there's any time left after transacting
yours.
'Lor' now, Charles, hope you are net
going to be disagreeablc about a few lit
tie erraAds, I'm sure.
'Oh, no, not in the least, only havn't
quite got used to this express business,
yet, and | can only give nine tenths OF
the time TO it this summer, that's all toot
sicums-there' the engine whistle
'Good-by, dear, don't forget the
But the rest Of the sentence was lost
in the rattle of wheels that bore Charles
on his way to town.