Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-05-27
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this time, dealing blows right and left.
"Run away with my wife, will you?
You old william, I'll learn to whoop a.
round the Jones family trying to break
it up. Take that-and that! and oh,
great Jehosephat !"
Mr. Jones tune suddenly changed /;
the victim of husbands righteous
wrath had brought his cane to bear up
on his foe and was doing good work
with it.
''Smith-Dobson! help, helo!" shrek
ed Jones, as the cane fell upon his
shoulders in unmercitul blows. ''Mur-
der! help!"
The officers came to his assistance
and succeeded in securing the strar-
ger.
I'D like to know what this means!
he demanded. 81 supposed this neigh
borhood was respectable, but I should
think you have all gone crazy, or else
turned highway robbers"
We'll let you know what this means,
cried Jones. 81 don't believe you will
want to run away with Samuel Jones
wife again"
sis that you, Samuel Jones, asked the
prisoner. ~ thought your voice soun.-
ded familiar, before, but you beloved
so I couldn't make it out. Are you in
sane, or idiotic-or what? g
'Lord, bless me, if you amt uncle
Joshual" said Mr.. Jones family. He
felt small enough, just then, to crawl
through knot hole. "Im sorry this
has happened, but I couldn't help it, l
didn't know it was you. You see my
wife, Amelia has fell in love with some
fellow, and | came across letter this
afternoon that she had written to him,
saying she would meet him here at ten
o'clock, and I got these men to help
me, and we waited for him, and thought
you were the man.
"Fell in love with another man and
promised to meet him here at ten O'clock?
Stuff and nonesense!' exclaimed uncle
Joshua, Indignantly. "You were al
WAYS the biggest fool! You're crazy !"
"But, tell you saw her own letter.
exclaimed Mr. Jones. 81 amt crazy
now, but I shouldn't wonder if l was
before long"
"You've lost all the sense you used
to have, and that was not enough to
brag of" said uncle Joshua, rather un-
complimentary. "Come along to the
house, and We'll ask Amelia what it
means"
Uncle Joshua led the way, with a
pain in his stomach, caused by Mr..
Jones energetic attempt to teach his
supposed rival not to NEEDLE with the
Jones family, and Mr.. Jones followed
in his wake with sore head and black
eye"
There was a light in the sitting
room. Mrs. Jones was there.
'See here, Amelia" exclaimed uncle
Joshua, bursting in like thunderstorm
''Y our fool of husband says you have
fallen in love with some one, and that
you wrote him letter saying you'd
meet him at ten o'clock to>night and
run away with him, and he says that he
has seen this letter. Now, | don't be-
]ieve word of it, but I'd like to have
you explain, if you can"
Il never wrote any such thing" de-
clared Mrs. Jones, Indignantly
"You did!' exclaimed Mr. Jones,
ats no Use for you to lie about it Anne
liza. You've broke my heart, and you
did write that letter l found it on
your desk, and here it is. 1t begins
Dear Edward"
ooh, know all about it now" cried
Mrs Jones, beginning to laugh. ooh,
dear me You see Laura Wade and l
agreed to write a story, and had got
mine half done, and went over to read
it to her this afternoon, and when got
there l found that l had lost page Of
it. I must have left it on my desk. 1t
was about woman who was going to
elope-my story was-aud she wrote
that she would 60 with her lover, and
then when she thought it all over, cons
cluded to stay at home and do her du-
ty. The page that was missing is the
one that had the letter on it that she
wrote to her lover. You found it and
thought was going to run away! Oh,
dear, I never heard of anything SO fun
ny !" Oh, dear me !" and Mrs Jones
laughed until the tears ran down her
cheeks
81 can't see anything so funny about
it." said Mi. Jones feeling rather sheep
ish. How was | to know you were
writing stories You've no business
to spend your time in that way"
''That's so, growled uncle Joshua,
whose stomach began to feel sore and
bruised. "Yon're a fool for writing
stories, and Jones is fool any way
Which was poor consolation for Mr..