The daily gazette., 1877-09-12
Rachel and The Other rWbIfaf,
JAKEY, HIS MA, AND THE SUNDAY
SCHOOL TEACHER.
FroD- the Baltimore American.

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Jakey crept up and sat down BY his
mothers side as she was -looking out of
the window yesterday morning. After
a few minutes OF silence he broke out
with +. ~. ..,aa' .o.i.....,. ~.
"Ma, amt pas name jacob"
~ eyes. Jakey."
HIf l was called young Jacob he'd be
called old Jacob, wouldn't he?p 4
eyes, my dear; what makes you ask
such question as that?" ..'...i
"Nothing, only l heard something
about him last night" r =
Mrs. Watts suddenly became inter-
ested.
"What was it, my SOM, IlaLH
sob, nothing much; something the
new Sunday School teacher said" .
"You oughn't to have anything your
mother don't know, Jakey," coaxingly
pleaded Mrs. Watts.
rWell If you must go poking into
everything, I'll tell you. The new
teacher says TO- me. Whats your name,
my little man% and said Jacob. He
asked me if ever heard of old Jacob, and
l thought that was pas name, so told
him guess had. but I'd like to hear
what he had 10 say about him. tie
said old Jacob used to be a little bow
once just like me, and had bean
shooters and stills, and used to play
hockey and get licked, and used to tend
cattle"
eyes, | believe be said his father
used to keep cow" interrupted Mrs.
Watts, ..,
"And he hogged his brother out of
something or other, and he got stuck
with young woman named Rachel !"
Mrs. Watts became still more interested) }
sand was going to marry her, but her old
man fooled him and made him marry his
other daughter; but pa said said he guess
ed he was nobody's fool, and married
them BOTH"
"The wretch" calculated Mrs. Watts,
shaking her fist at Mr.. Watts slipper.
ale said old Jacob had dozen or two
children and"
"Did | marry him for this?" exclaimed
Mrs. Watts, sobbing aud throwing her.
self on the sofa, making all the springs
hum like set of tuning forks. :.
Jakey said ne didn't know what she
married him for, but she wouldn't catch
him telling her anything very soon again
il she was going to Fick up such row
about it, and went out of the room highly
indignant. .H
% When Mr.. Watts came home he met
Mrs. Watts in the hall with very red
face, who pointed her finger at him aud
jerked out the word ''ViIlain!" and asked
him if he could look his innocent wife
and infant son in the face. Mr.. Watts
showed that he could by staring very
hard alternately at Jakey and Mrs.
Watts. 'I....- 80 ...
know where you 70, sir, when you
stay away from home," continued Mr. s
Watts. '1've heard The. story of your
perf'iy. Can't you tell me how Rachel
ar d that other woman ia to-dayP" she
asked with forced calmness. Mr..
Watts confessed his inability TO en-.
tighten her on the health of the ladies
about whom she was so solicitous.
Mrs. Watts said that she always knew
that something like this woul1 occur.
and ended with another hysterical int
terrogation after the children's health
but not receiving any satisfactory an
swer she threw herself upon the sofa
agein aud sobbed and asked herself q
few times why she had ever lett her
mothers house and then she called
Jakey to her and told him that they
would have to live alone In q little
house and be very ptor,and maybe not
have enough TO eat, which made that
hopeful utter a series of most doleful
bowls and and hasten down to the
kitchen to examine the larde:.
Later in the day Mrs. Lewis hap
pened IN, and Mrs. Watts cOntided to
her the story of her huSban iss villiany.
OF course Mrs. Lewis was very prop
erly schocked and tried to impress
upon Mrs. Watts the necessity of being
philosophical, and left with tLe obser-
vation that she had never seen man
with mole on his nose who did not,
sooner or later, prove 10 be rascal.
Toward evening Jakey was sitting
on the steps, having recovered from
his grief in the morning, when the
Sunday School teacher passed by, and
Jake hailed him with, "Say, mister, l
told my mother what you told me
about OLD Jacob last night and there
has been the old scratch to pay ever
since. Ma called pa william and
bloody thief, aud tried to break her
oack on the sofa, and said that there
wouldn't be anything to eat, and amt
bosn such time since pa offered to
kiss Aunt Jane goodbye. Maybe you
h I'd better drop in and see the old lady,
mister; she amt so bad as she was"
The teacher after some pressing ac-
companied Jakey into the mouse, and
was presented to Mrs. Watts in the
parlor.
Mrs. Watts began to thank him for
disclosing her husbands perfidy, but
he disclaimed having done any thIog
of the kind, and at length, after cob
siderable talking, it was discovered
thai Jakev had misapplied the story
the patriarch Jacob. Mrs. = Watts
started right out TO hunt W Jacob.
and when she found him astonished
him again, being as loving as she had
been distant. Jakey is contented 10
the fact that there is no imme ediate
prospect of lack of supplies in the
family and Mrs. Watts would be per
fectly happy If she could only shut
Mrs. LIE wis mouth.
In Centre Groton, Conn.,, on Monday
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