The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-06-23

MISCELLANY.
TRUTH WILL OUT.
JAKEy, HIS MA AND THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
TEACHER.

Jakey crept tip and sat down by his moth
er's side as she was looking out of the window
yesterday morning. After few minutes OF
silence he broke out with
g MAJ amt pas name Jacob9 q
eyes, Jakey.''
eff | wds called young Jacob, he'd be
called old Jacob, wouldn't he ?''
Yes, my dear what makes you ask such
question as tliatss
Nothing, only heard something about
him last night"
Mrs. Watts suddenly became interested.
"What was it, my son2 p"
"Oh, nothing much something the Sun
day school teacher said"
"You oughn't TO have anything yotir moth
en- don't know, Jakey," coaxingly plead Mrs.
Watts
"WelJ If you must go polsing into every
thing, I'll tell you. The new teacher says to
me, what's your name my little man2 and
when said Jacob, he asked me if l ever
heard Of old Jacob, and tho't that was pas
name, SO told him guess I had, but I'd
like to hear what he had to say about him.
He said old Jacob used to be little boy once
Just like me, and had bean-shooters and stills,
and used to play hockey and get licked, and
used to tend cattle.''-
Yes, believe he said his father used to
keep cow" interrupted Mrs. Watts.
"And he hogged his brother out of some
thing or other, and he struck with young
woman named Rachel MRS. Watts became
still more interested), and was going to marry
herr but her old man fooled him and made
him marry his other daughter ; but pa said
he guessed he wasn't nobody's fool and mar
ried them both.'
"The old wretch . CIRCULATED Mrs. Watts,
shaking her fist at Mr.. Watts slippers.
He said old Jacob had dozen or two
children and
ssDid marry him for this q'' exclaimed
Mrs. Watts, sobbing attd tlitowi & herself on
a sofa, making she springs hum like set of
tuning forks.
Jakey said he didn't know what she mar
ried him for; but she wouldn't catch him
telling her anything very soon again if she
was going to kick up such a Tow about it and
went ont Of the room feeling highly indignant.
When Mr.. Watts came home he met Mrs.
Watts in the hall with a very red face, who
pointed her finger at him and jerked out the
word william y and asked him if he could
look his innocent wife ana infant SON in the
face. MIR. Watts showed that he could by
staring very hard alternately at Jakey and
Mrs. Watts.
~ know where you 60, sir, when you stay
away from homej continued Mrs. Watts I;
"rse heard the story of your perfidy. Can't
yo,a tell me how Rachel and that other wo-
man Is today" she asked with forced calm
ness. Mr. Watts confessed his inability to
enlighten her on the health of the ladies about
whom she was SO solicitous. Mrs. Watts said
shat she always knew that something like
this would occur and ended in another hys-
terical interrogation after children's health,
but not receiving any satisfactory answer, she
threw herself on the sofa again, and sobbed
and asked herself few times why she had
ever left her mothers house, and then she
called Jakey to her and told him they would
have to live alone in a little house, and be
very poor, and maybe not have enough to eat,
which made that hopeful utter a series of
most doleful bowls and hasten down to the
kitchen to examine the larker.
Later in the day Mrs. Lewis happened in
aud Mrs Watts confided to her the story of
her husbands villainy. OF course Mrs. Lewis
was properly shocked, and tried to impress
upon Mrs. Watts the necessity Of being
philosophical, and left with the observation
that she never yet seen man with mole on
his nose who did not, sooner or later, prove
to be rascal.
Toward evening Jakey was setting on the
steps, having recovered from his grief of the
morning, when the Sunday School teacher
CHANGED to pass by, and Jakey hailed him
with say, mister, told my mother what