The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-07-23
"Kind of YOU, and cheerful for me-"

ooh, l didn't think any thing about
that part of it. Just fancy: | thought
you were the most selfish man in the
world, and the most unhappy oma t;
and all men were selfish, and all women
were slaves: and-and that ebony and
gold cabinet was obscuring my whole out
look on life. l felt SC angry with you,
and with fate, and with every thing, that
hot, sc%alding-hOt tears would have shaken
down if you had happened to 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 something hOrrid."
"Should you, indeed? And do you
imagine | shouldn't have followed? /"
ooh, [ should have been running"
"And whose legs are longest, plss?"
"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 splin-
ters and lime and sand about, seemed to
make a sudden lurch into the ROOM, and |
couldn't see across it. And there | was in
my new hat. And made fer 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 ~scaffolding were
pitching through the air at such a rate
that | could neither stay there nor go
back andI saw that little shanty just
round the corner, and ran in"
THAT was sensible"
"Thanks. And there she was, pots and
pals around the door, and a hen Just
blowing in before me, and a parcel of dir
ty-faced, barefOOted children tumbling
round. And such a place! 1t fairly made
me lOw-spirited to look at it. | was in
motal fear of getting a grease spot on my
dress. But | was in before | 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?"
"Such a lesson. You'd have thought,
to begin with. that it wa a palace. She did
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occur to her, apparently, that things were
squalid. And that made it so much east
er than if she apolOgized, and you were
forced to tell polite fibs and make believe
it was all right, you know. She was a
tritle vexed because the face of one of the
children wasn't clean, and afterward she
repentingly gave him the molasSes jug to
keep quiet; but another Of the children
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
my tongue, but | find YOU like to listen TO
it :"
$50 do, my dear a; so | do. And then?"
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 a husband. whom she
loves a great deal better than | love you-
oh yes, she does. tor she seems never to
have thought one hard thing concerning
him, and | was thinking so many of you,
you know. And there she is, and has
been, with her cOOking-stOve and table,
her two chairs. a bed, and a crib, with a
cOntented spirit and a patient soul, and her
highest ambition and her widest day
dream just to have"
An ebony and gold cabinet?"
"Oh no, no! Do drive faster, Law
renee. How this horse does crawl! |
want to get it up to her tonight. A
bureau. To think of it, only a bureau
You needn't laugh at me. I've an awful
cold in my head. And / mean she shall
have it, if it takes every cent you gave me
for my new jacket. I'll wear the old one.
| think | can get what she'll consider a
beauty, though, for twelve dollars, or
dear. | do feel in such a hurry, when it
takes such a little bit to make a woman
happy"
San ebony and gold cabinet, for in
stance"
"Oh, nonsense! How you do love to
tease, Lawrencei Inever want to hear of
such a thing again. | wouldn't have it
now"
"Stop, stop, good wife! You'll say
too much. You silly little woman, didn't
you know that ebony and gold cabinet
which you and Mrs. Watrous saw was
made for the place between your win
dOws ?"-Harper Bazaar.
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