The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1876-08-03

ina hustle. Oh wasn't it.a BEAUTY
1t justmopnted right up to a pima
Gle, layer on, layer, circleswithin cir
cles, steels, straps, tapes, buckles, and
all complete.
Bright and early the following
morning, arrayed inmy new cambric
suit and hustle. l started for the
South Side, quite sure that l knew
just how to control the concern upon
established mathematical principles,
Stepping serenely into the street car,
l made grand side sweep and sat
down-up flew my hustle almost in
to my face. | made two or three in
efectual attempts to down it and
was, growing very red in the face
when a mountainous Dutchman came
in and planted $50 ayoirdupois upon
it. 1t stayed down for quite awhile.
He didn't go so very far though, but
vacated his seat shortly in favor of
long, lean biped from the country of
baked beans and Johnny cake. He
didn't sit on top of it. oh, no! he
just slipped in behind it, and the
first thing | knew he was so tangled
up in bustles and hounces so that it
took all the ingenuity couldmuster
to get him out. l can't begin to re.
late all the tribulations through
which l passed; how the wind mis-
took me for a sailboat on the corner
of Clark and Madison, and blew me
the wrong way; how it thought l was
a balloon. on the corner of State and
Randolph, and attempted to take me
up, but was discouraged on account
of the amount of ayoirdupois carry;
how | tumbled out Of street cars, got
hung on door-knobs and how various
CANNES and other Chicago animals
found a home in the lowest circle
and had free ride around the corner.
But the climax of my hustle exper-
fence came in the evening. After
dinner, with the gas turned low, |
sat in the parlor and waited for my
Walter Henry. He is young man
who took me to the circus and matt
nee; I've seen him twice besides that
and folks have been saying his atten-
tion were getting very particular, so
when he said he was coming to spend
the evening with me, l knew what
it meant, he was coming to propose.
met him with a blush, of course;
he led me to the sofa, and-oh horror!
sat right down on the hustle side of
me.
He reached out his hand to take
mine. Alas! there was n mountain
Of hustle between us,
He hitched little closor-snap!
went tapc-"My darling" he whis-
pered--crackl went a strap-"What
the deuce !" he exclaimed in an un-
dcrtonc. Then he placed one arm
around my waist and drew me to-
wards him-snop! snapl ka-phu I!
went straps and buckles,
Walter Henry isn't a man to be
put out by tridcs when he's in the
proposing business, he just sighed Il
little and then proceeded.
"You cannot be entirely ignorant
of the fact that ] have for a long
time secretly cherished a,--rip-
crock--snap-went the hustle,
C'Coniound itD 1t is ofyou l am
dreaming day and night, | am mis-
cradle every moment away from"
snap-crack-jing anda buckle fell
to the floor.
"Oh, what if my hustle should
come off The thought went to my
heart like a dagger. / was in an ag-
ony of fear, my check turned from
cold to hot and from hot to cold. The
perspiration ran down my cheek in
streams while the cold sweat stood in
drops upon my forehead, and the
friazles just walked out of my hair.
ooh, if | could but get him on the
other side of me | timidly suggest.
cdthathe might feel the draft from the
window My anxiety for his health
only moved to greater enthusiasm
He wound his arm more closely about
me- Rugged me more close,
ooh my dearest my angel, tell
me, tell me that you Snap snap,
crack and up flew liberated steel