The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-05-28
Shocking Stories About Old Jacob.

sHoChihs StoIitN Adult Olu Jacob.
Jakey crept up and sat down by his
mothers side AS she was looking out of
the window yesterday morning After
few minutes OF silence, he broke out
with
Ma. amt pas name jacob"
Yes, Jakey.'
If | was called young Jacob he'd be-
colled old jacob, wouldn't hep"
" es, my dear; what makes you ask
such question as that?"
Nothing, only | heard something
about him last night
Mrs. Watts suddenly became interested.
'.What was il. my son "
"Oh. nothing much something the
new sunday school teacher said.n
You oughtn't TO have any thing your
mother don't know, Jakey," ooaXingly
pleadsd Mrs. Watts.
"Well. if YOU must go poking into
every thing. TN tell you. The new teach
cr says 10 me. what's your name. my lit
tie man !. and when said Jacob. he asked
me If | ever heard of old Jacob. and
thought THAI was pas name. so told him
| guess had. but I'd like 10 hear what he
bad to say about him. He said old jacob
used Ia be little boy once just like me.
and had bean shooters and used to ply
hockey and get licked, and used 10 tend TO
CATTLE
"Yes. believe he said his father used
10 keep "A cow interrupted Mrs. Watts.
And he hogged his brother out OF
something or other, and he got struck
with young woman named Rachel
Mrs. Watts became still more Interested.
and was going 10 marry her, 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 married
them both.-
The wretch ~ exclaimed Mrs. Watts,
shaking her fist al Mr.. Watts slipper.
He said old Jacob had dozen or two
children and
Did marry him for this ~ exclaimed
Mrs. Watts. sobbing and throwing herself
on the sofa, making all the springs hum
like "A set Of tuning-forks.
Jakey said he didn't know what she
married him for. but shc wouldn't catch
him telling her any thing very soon again
II she was going to kick up such row
about IL. and went out of the room feeling
highly indignant.
When Mr.. Watts came home he met
Mrs Watts i'm the hall with very red face.
who pointed her finger at him and jerked
out the word William - and asked him il
he could look his innocent wife aud infant
son i'm the face. Mr.. Watts showed that
he could by staring very hard alternately
at Jakey and Mrs Watts.
II know where you 90, sir, when YOU
stay away from hcme.m continued Mrs.
Watts: .'l've heard the story OF your per-
hdy. Can't you tell me how Rachel and
that other woman is to-day 2" she asked
with forced calmness. Mr.. Watts con-
fessed his inability to enlighten her on the
health of the ladies about whom she was
so solicitous. Mrs. Watts said that she
always knew that something like this
would occur. and ended with another hys-
tsrical Interrogation after the 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 10 her
and told him they would have TO live
alone i'm little house, and be very poor,
and maybe not have enough to eat which
made that hopeful utter "A series OF most
doleiul howls and hasten down TO the
kitchen to examine the larder.
Later in the day Mrs. Lewis happened
I'm and Mrs. Watts confided to her the
story OF her husbands villainy. OF course
Mrs. Lewis was very properly shocked,
necessity Of being philosophical, and LETT
with the observation that she had neveryet
seen a man with mole on his nose who
did not. sooner or later, prove to be a
rascal.
Toward evening Jakey was sitting on
the steps. having recovered from his griei
Of the morning, when the Sunday-school
teacher chanced TO pass by, and Jakey
hailed him with: Say, mister. told
my mother what YOU told me about old
Jacob last night, and there has been me
old scratch to pay ever since. Ma called
pa villain aud bloody thief, and tired
TO break her back on the sofa. and SAID
that there wouldn't be any thing to eat,
and there amt been such time since pa
offered TO Kiss Aunt Jane goodbye. May.
be you had better drop In and see the old
lady. mister; she amt so bad a. she
was
The teacher. after some pressing. ac-
Jakey into the house, and was
presented to Mrs. Watts In the parlor.
Mrs. Watts began to thank him for dls-
closing her husbands pertidy. but he dis
claimed having done any thing OF me
kind, and at length. after consderaoie
ialking. ii was discovered that Jakey haa
the story Of the patriarch
Jacob. Mrs. Watts started right OUT "
hunt up Jacob, and when she found nm,
him again by being as loving
~ she had been distant Jakey IL con
,ented I'm the fact that there IL no I'M
mediate prospect Of a lack OF supplies III
he family, and Mrs. Watts would be per
'ectly happy If she could only shut NIT
Lewis's mouth.
Nrs reward Tavlor II tranalating her