The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-12-03

he'd no scrupleS about niggers, except in
the matter Nv goin thro the formally NV
marrying Nv en-"
And when l thought Nv comfortable
home with a muscular female iurnishin
the supplies, a'great deel Nv the disgust
that l felt at margin Niger evapora.
ted, and determined to do it. Fatal
conclusion: ,
proposed the next morning at 0; she
accepted, and before ten We wuz ez firmly
married ez Justis Nv the Peece Good do
it, l wuz wunst more the he'd Nv q
family.
The Justis and the witnesses left the
house, and we wuz alone with our luv.
Melindy sot there with her hands fold.
ed, and broad grin disteHdin her capa.
cious mouth, aud / sot there regardin her
with teelins w gratitood for yooser.
per whose policy had led to u result SO
pleasant Tor me to contemplate. That
woman could earn dollar q dey-I Good
feed her and myself on ten cents day
i eat very little and bacon is cheap
here, et it is poor-and the other 90l I
saw before ne unlimited drinks-I saw
before me long life in Bascoms bar
with occasional trips 10 Louisville. And
that human masheen Cubbin away fur.
nishin the meals! 1t wuz gorgeous
dream-wood that he'd never been
awakened from it. That wuz a good
time to die, while I felt well, and l wish
/ he'd.
Melindy, darlin," I spoke gently, g In
the new reIashuuS we hev assoomed We
must not forgit that life hez its dOoties.
Very pleasant is loves young dream, and
well would it be for us ef we Good linger
in it, aud pass our entire lives under its
beWi,chin spell. But, Melindy, we can't,
Love is reprisentid ez with a pertikerler.
~ plump stumick, wich shows that il hez
bin filed. We can't exist on Ioye-we
need bacon, and sich. Therefore Melindy,
awake from your dream, and git 10 thai
wash-tub. Them clothes must be out and
on the line by noon. And, Melindy, give
me, yoor legal lord and master, wot loose
change 700 bev III yoor possession, for
hev bzniI uptown"
Wat did this woman do?
She remarked:
''Duz ye s'pose Tze a gwine to sport
700 by wsshin"
Certainly do, my deer,-wat other
perIeshn hev yep
aye duz, dnz yen
"UV course, and 700 don't want to lose
no time. Wat does Solomon say NV the
model woman? She glitch up while Il
is yit mite, and-phe weaveih fine Eoodt,
wich she seileth to the merchants, and her
husband sit.ith in the gates with the ell.
dere,' or words to that effect. We can't
be exactly scriplooral, for 700 don't
weave, but you wash, wiCh il the same
thing, ard yoor husband is a goin to do
eE the IsraeIite husband did, he Is a goin to
sit in the gates at Bascon's. To your tub,
MeIindy."
That wretched woman rose deliberate.
ly and regarded me intently for a mo.
meht. Then she walked to where that
tub wuz standinp and tippedit over, on the
woman wat does this meenf' ex-
claimed.
"Meen? 1t means dat I didn't msrry
10 sport husband-I married to be
'sported. 1t meens dat you hev got TO
git de 'splies-I'll cook EN-, and help you
eat em, but no mo- washin for dis chile.
You git out to your work"
nd sba nicLa1 M shat All 81 L.
washboatd, and wat soap Their wuz left
and went to Pollocks and tradid EN- off
Tor some artifshelslow for her bride
bonnit, and reiooSed to do thing till
| went out and got snlhin Tor her TO cook.
II wuz bitter mite I past. Melindy
he'd some peryishens hidden away, wich
| Good not git at, and by mite wuz ieer-
fully week, while she wuE ez strong ez
ever. ! attempted coershuu, wich ended
in my bein dragged over the floor for an
hour or two, aud finally bein kicked GU.
Nv the door in 4 cold rain. In vain /
begged for admishun. That onieelin wo.
man went quietly to her couch, and /
stayed out all mite in the wet, listenin to
her comfortable shores.
But my cup Wuzu't full. Joe Bigler
and Pollock went afore Justice Nv the
Pesce and complained Nv me for not sup.
portin my family, and I wuz given the
choica Nv goin TO work or goin TO iale.
and Melindy she appeered with a charge
Of assalt and battery, and general iuhu.
man treatment and the Juslis-they took
me atore the Niger Justis at Libesiyville
-hued me $40, and committed me ill Il
wnE paid. l write these lines in lock.
up; thank heaven, while I stay they hey
got TO iced me.
More than ever do I hate the yooserp.
er. More than ever do curse the ieIl
'petit Nv ablishism, Wich hez brot this
room upon me. In the good old DAYS II
Good hev compelled that woman 10 hey
me without going thro The
tornis Nv marriage, and without takin Guy
obligashen upon myselt. And BiRler and
Pollock, who put up the job on me, are
IaiIin and ieerin, and l ain't shoor but
that BAscom and the Deekin wuz in il
also. While | am langishin In jaIe !
ain't running up my account at Bascoms
bar, and TO all my frantic appeels for re.
EEL, even for pint he crooeily turns a
ieet ear. I'll make il warm for EN- vf |
.ver get out Nv this.
PkTRolzuN V. NAsaY,
Deceived, but not Crushed.