The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-12-22

the thin wall of your state-roOm, lust
where your bare feet necessarily touch
It, for your berth is always too short.
The pine board tingles with the sound,
and-and the sentiment, George, and
that tingles your feet, and so it tingles
all the way up to your ears. Now, you
know yourself, George, that's no way
to take your counting. ooh, how did
love Caroliner said, for the twentieth
time, that wretch of fellow Just out
side OF my state-room. oh, how | did
love CarOline!' was his deep chest
tone that were so aggravating to my
toe-nails-' and how Caroline said she
loved me! Then to think of her perfid-
lty! | never knew anything $3.50 per-
tidious as her perfidityr What an ass
he was, George, to be sure! 'She was
very beautiful, Mary he went on, Mary
beng, L hope, the only other person
who shared with me the wretchedness
OF listening to these things Caroline
was very beautiful, Mary. She looked
just like you. She was good girl, but
so perfidious. l want you to be all she
was to me. l want you to take her
place in my heart | want you to be
just like her. We were engaged for a
year. said he, in one of his idiotic
rounds, and then / insisted says he,
still aggravating my feet through the
thin paneling- and then | insisted that
Caroline should not only cut the ac-
quaintance of that spruce young Ran
SON, the leather dealer, but also write
Lot fol l. h. Il
him to be villain, and wanted nothing
more to do with him. She asked me why
| didn't write the letter to Mr.. Ransom
myself if WANTED it written. told her,
of course, that Mr.. Ransom was no
friend of mine, as he was of hers, and /
thought it was her duty to write the
letter, and, just because insisted, she
went off and married that fool of a
young Ransom herself. Oh, she was
so perfidiousr
"Well, George, coughed, but the
story went on. | upset chair, but
still the story of Caroline's perfidy never
stopped, except to repeat She was so
beautiful-just like you. Mary, and l
want you to be just like her to me,
Mary Well, Upset the other chair,
and bliStered my toes kicking against
the partition-all for no use. Finally,
about midnight, could stand it no
longer. | arose and jammed down my
lattice window. The words 'Caroline's
pertidy' came in with breath of salt
air through the opening as | stuck out
my head and saw two shadowy forms
seated On the guard right against my
state-room door. Look here | said,
frowning upon them, but | don't sup
pose they saw that-'just look here!
I've heard this here story of Caroline's
pertidy about forty times already. l
help hearing it, but didn't
want to hear it, and | don't want to
hear it. want to sleep. That's hard
enough work for man of my weight
on board steamboat in a berth at least
five sizes too small, but Caroline's per-
fidy is too much, too much. I've turned
over and over in bed, and came near
falling out more than once. I've kicked
over two chairs, and blistered one-I
don't know but two-Of my toes, to give
you warning. Now | wish you would
move away from here, and take your
perfidy with you and let me sleepr
They were thunderstruck. Just as they
were rising to go, couldn't help say
ing: And | should like to add'-this
was in my politest tone and l should
like to add that, in the internal story
you have forced upon me, my sympa-
thies are heartily and wholly with Caro-
line. There, good-night!'
George, they-they went. "-RalpA
Keller, IN AppIetonS' Journal,