Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-02

woman from within. "He's alive yet,
and you've come in the very nick of
time !'-Hdrper' BGz0r.
How Mrs. D0bsOn Staid Out In the
Cold.
DOBsON concluded to write some letters
at home the other day, SO he told Mrs.
Dobson that he would spend the afternoon
with her, and there was delightful little
by-play of affection, and Mrs. DObson hus-
tied her dinner dishes into the sink, to
soak until tea time, SO as not to lose any
precious moments from Dobbie, dear, and
took out her sewing and sat down costly
for a chat. She was little surprised
when DObsOn squared round to the table
with his back to her, and commenced to
write, but he said he had letter or two
to write, and she concluded she would
wait for him. She did wait Itwas then
one O'Clock, and she stitched away brave
ly until half-p three, and then, as she
saw him draw out another letter head tab
let and open fresh box of pens and refill
the ink-Well and consult his memorandum
book, she wiped her weeping eye and
turned the other one cOmplacently on
Dobson and said she believed she would
go see Mrs. Bilderback "All right"
said Dobson, Pm going down town then
directly, and you will be back first. What
shall do with the key?" Mrs. DObsOn
al in nor ino fN
leave him, but studiously kept the weep
ing eye turned the other way and said,
You can put the key under the ma
| outside" and went out. DObsOn wrOte'
about five minutes and then got up. He
| never moved blessed thing but his hat and
coat, into which he insinuated himself and
| plodded off down town YEARLY on street
Car. About five o'clock Mrs. Dobson came
home. She looked under the mat. There
wasn't any key there. What should she
| do? She looked distressed and per
picked. Perhaps he put it under the
| other mat, and she went round to the
| back door, but it wasn't there. Then she
! reached her dainty little hand (she wears
a No. s Harris seamless) into each win
| dOW-shutter in succession around the
| house. She came back and took up the
mat and shook it and threw it into the
middle of the yard. All in vain. She got
a box and climbed up and looked on the
| edge of the transom; but the key wasn't
there, and the condition of the room in
side nearly drove her distracted, and the
box turned over and her striped stockings
were ruined by nail, and her temperwas
| gone, and she sat down on the box and
| cried. But she must get in. What did
| that wretched man do with the key? He
had it in his pocket, that's what; and it
would serve him right if she didn't get
him any supper, and then she cried with
veXatiOn, and then she got mad. She
would get into the house. She'd see if
any man would lock her out of her own
house, and she kicked and pounded on
the door until the neighbors came out to
see what was the matter. And when she
told them they offered her keys to try the
| door with. Big keys and little keys, door
keys and drawer keys, brass keys,
cooper keys, paddock keys, night keys,
watch keys, safe keys, trunk keys,
skeleton keys, key west and
steamboat quay, but they wouldn't any
of them do. Some wouldn't 60 in far
enough, and some wouldn't turn round.
and there she was, and she wouldn't 90
into neighh6rs, no she wouldn't; she'd
stay there, so she would, if she froze to
death. Thermometer sixty. five degrees
in the shade) She didn't care, so she
didn't. He'd have to bury her, she
| guessed. The laW'd compel him to do
that, so it would, and as the shades of
night gathered round over the settlement.
| she spitefully kicked over that box and
| climbed onto the fence to wait for Dobson.
| Dohsor came home about half-paSt nine.
He'd taken supper at the Commercial. It
was reasonably dark, and he didn't see
Mrs. Dobson sitting on the fence, and she
was SO mad that she wouldn't speak to
him, and he went right past her and
walked into the house. Mercltul Moses!
| Was the man sorcerer? He never even
took the key from his pocket, but opened
| the door without it, and Mrs. Dobson
nearly fell off the fence with rage, and had
barely strength to crawl through the door
| and feel the key on the inside, where it
| had been all the time, and get into the
next room, and throw herself on the bed
in a perplexity fit, when Dobson came
back from the kitchen with light and
found her. She wouldn't let him send
for the doctor nor any of the neighboYs
and he can't imagine what was the matter
with her and what makes her act so
strangely toward him.-BurEingt0R Rank-
! Eye.
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