Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-07-30

a drawer. Then [ took them all out and
fixed them all over again cts ours
Jim' says and then / just sat down
and cried.
| THE OTHER SIDE.
"Well, Lawrence, I'm so glad you've
come! | thought you never would. And
| I've had such lesson read mel"
Lesson? Who's been reading my wife
lesson, should like to know"
Who do you think? Nobody but that
little, absurd woman there-that Mrs. Jim
Bit I never had such a lesson. Drive
slow, please, and let me tell you all about
it--this horse does throw the gravel in
your face so! I'm expecting every mo-
ment to see the spokes fly out of the
wheels, There, now, that's reasonable
This horse is a perfect griffin--has legs
and wings too" t.as
"Well-steady, Frolic, steady!-now
let's have your lesson. If there's anyone
can read you a lesson, Mrs. Fanny Null
grave, I should like to hear it."
CHOW, Lawrence! However, you know
came up to look at the house, for I've
| been having my misgivings about that big
room And when | went in, it did look SO
big and bare! [ was dismayed. | paced
it off this way and paced it off that way,
| and thought about what / could put in the
corners; and how that window with the
sea view would be as good as picture
| and how the whole mantel-piece from
| dado to cor1ice, with its white marble
carvings and gildings and mirror, was a
perfect illumination; and how | must
confront it in that great square alcove with
| a mass of shadow, and we haven'ta single
thing to go there; and how magnificent an
ebony and gold cabinet like that Mrs.
Watrous and | saw at the Exhibition-the
one went into ecstasies over, you know,
that goes from floor to ceiling fill
the place. And the moreI thought of it,
the more indispensable such great ebony
and gilt cabinet seemed to be. And
knew it was perfectly impossible"
How did you know it, may [ in
quire?"
"Oh, they cost-oh, hundreds of dollars.
And, of course, the house itself takes all
you can spare. But felt that it would be
utterly out of my power to make that room
look anything like what wanted without
it. And I kept seeing how beautiful 1t
would be with those gold-colored satin
curtains ofyour Aunt Sophy's falling back
from the windows On each side OF it. And
[ sat down and stared at the spot, and felt
as if didn't want the house at all if |
couldn't have that cabinet. And thought
you might go without your cigars and
your claret and your horses a couple OF
years, and we could easily have it."
ooh, don't think anything about that
part of it. Just fancy! I thought you
were the most selfish man in the world
and was the most unhappy woman; and
all men were selfish and all women were
slaves; and-and that ebony and gold cab
met was obscuring my whole outlook on
life. I felt so angry with you and with
fate, and with everything, that hot, scald-
inc hot, tears would have shaken down if
you had happenedto come just then. I'm
so glad you didn't, Lawrence, dear; |
couldn't have spoken to save my life, and
should have run directly out Of the room
for fear if did speak, should say some
thing horrid"
"Should you, indeed? And doyou i'm
agine I shouldn't have followed?"
ooh, I should have been running"
"And whose legs are longest, puss?"
"Well, that's nothing to do with it.
Just then the whirlwind came up, and
the window-places being open all the
dust of the building, all the shavings and
splinters and lime and sand about seemed
| to make a sudden lurch into the room,
and couldn't see across it. And there l
was in my new hat! And I made for the
door as fast as my feet could fly
"Silliest thing you could do"
| II suppose so; for when | was out
doors the boards of the scaffoldings were
pitching through the air at such rate
| that could neither stay there nor go back,
and I saw that little shanty just round the
corner and ran in"
| ''That was sensible"
ssThanks. And there she was, pots and
pals about the door, and a hen just blow
| ing in before me, and a parcel of dirty
faced, bare footed children tumbling round.
And such a place! 1t fairly made me
| low-spirited to look at it. was immortal
| fear of getting grease-spot on my dress.
But was in before I knew it, and there
| was no help for it, and the wind was
| blowing so | had to stay"
"And the lady of that house read you a
| lesson? ''
I" Such lesson You have thought, to
begin with, that it was palace. She did
the honors like little Duchess. 1t didn't
occur to her, apparently, that things were
soualid. And that made it SO much easier
than if she apologized, and you were
forced to tell polite fibs and make believe
it was all right, you know. She was
trife vexed because the face of one OF the
children wasn't clean and, afterward, she
repentingly gave him the molassesjug to
keep him quiet; but another OF the chill
dren was such a little darling! Well,
presently her tongue was loose"
"Humph!"
Humph? Didn't you want to hear
about it? Oh, | know the whole story OF
nay tongue, but I find you like to listen
to It'll"
$50 do, my dear so do. And then ?"
g Well, as / was saying, presently her
tongue was loose, and | had the benefit of
her experience. And / know she has a
good-for-naught of husband whom she
loves great deal better than do you
oh, yes, she does, for she seems never to
have thought one hard thing concerning
him, and was thinking SO many of you,
you knoWl And there she is, and has
been, with her cooking-stove and table,
her two chairs, a bed and a crib, with
contented spirit and patient soul, and her
highest ambition and her widest day
| dream Just to have
q An ebony and gold cabinets'
Oh, no, no. Do drive faster, Law