The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-08-17

hotter until Shiny was afraid he should
be melted again. But he wasn't, and
presently he felt himself carried some
where, aud there were very sweet voices
that he could hear--a little too sweet,
he thought, for one he was sure he rec
ognizcd.
= "Pass the biscuit, some one said. and
hc felt himself moving. Then there
was u dim light on one side II him, and
then il grew dark again. II was only
that the biscuit was cut ia two and then
bnltcrcd, but poor Shiny didn't know
but he was going to be baked again.
Suddenly be felt himself turned over
and over, and then somebody said,
"Oh' Yah! Ah!n and Shiny saw the
ligh, again. lie was lying ia mouth
full Of half-chewcd bread ia gen
tleman's hand.
The gentleman's face was quite rel,
and 50 were the faces Of the lady who
made the biscuit and young lady who
sat near the gentleman The biscuit lady
was telling how sorry she was that IL
had happened, but the gentleman said
il was no matter, which didn't seem to
shiny very polite when the lady ielt so
badly. The other lady kept asking him
il il hurt him, and he kept saying.
" Nothing to speak Of" Shiny was laid
down by the gcntleman's plate on the
table-cloth.
When the people left the room.
Bridget came in 10 clear or the table.
and seeing the pin in the haif-chewcd
bread she said, ;. Faix, an thin biscuits
must ben extry nice-extry- nary
nice" She took the pin and stuck II in
the front Of her dress, and, after the
dishes We're washed, she went 10 her
room, and said to herself, Z" Sure, an
I'll put on me blue ribbon. for Mick's
a-comin' tn night" So she took out 4
greasy blue ribbon and tied il into a
stringy bow and pinned il with Shiny
and another pin nj the throat Of her cal
leo dress. She wasn't very neat about
it, aud Shiny's head stood out so he
could see all that was going on. Bridget
went down stairs, and in short time
Mick came and she gave him nice
supper, and, while he was eating it, she
told him all about how the missis made
some biscuits, extry nice, bekase the
minister vas comm. and he found a
pin in one Of them, = which'll knock the
young lady's plans in the hid, I'm A.
thinkin','
After the "loonch," Bridget and
Mick had coy chat together, and
shiny, who wasn't stuck IN very far,
fell out. and Mick said he would kape
it 70 remember his gurril wild, and stuck
II under the lapel Of his coat. When he
went home that night, he hung his coat
in a little closet, and didn't take II out
again till the next Sunday morning,
when he was going 70 confess. He had
forgotten all about the pin. and when
he raised his hand 10 comb his hair, he
received a dreadful scratch.
"Och, We murtherin' villain" he ex-
claimed, and snatched the pin from his
coat and ground il down into the floor
with his hobnailed heel.
Then, poor Shiny was battered and
bent worse than he had ever expected 10
be, and il made him quite down hearted,
for he remembered the last thing Mash
ed had said to him, how as long rs he
was straight there was work ahead.
shiny lay there for week or more, till
one day the landlady came 70 sweep,
and, seeing Shiny. she picked him up
and stuck him into her dress.
When she went 10 the market the next
day. she saw Il piece Of picture-paper
blowing along in frcnt Of her, aud she
caught il and took il home to her little
boy, and cut out whole picture there
was ia the paper, and fastened it on the
wall with shiny. There he stayed for
months, and al last there was wake In
the house. and the picture was knocked
down and Shiny fell into crack in the
floor. During the wake another pin fell
into the crack close :, Shiny, and who
should il be but Mashed?
Shurc, ami is il yersilf?" cried Shiny
for h had lived with the Irish so long
that he had caught a burr in his tongue.
Mashed said nothing.
know you by your mashed head |
used To be Shiny, but, bcdad, think
I'm any thing but that now"
"Oh, 50 you are Shiny. are you?"
said Mashed. ..Comc down little,
haven't you? Don't feel quite 50 grand
n you did when YOU stood on that red
cushion, and wouldn't speak to your dc
formed neighbors? Serves you right, I
think"
"Shurc, an Wen let by-goncs be by
cones, How came We here in the likes
u this durty place.
II was kidnapped" sighed Mashed.
! was that dolls breast-pin. and the
little girl lost me asusual, only this time
il was in the street instead Of in the
house. There was woman picked me
up and took me home and used me as
q screen supporter"
Eh?" inquired Shiny.
~ held one corner Of a mosquito-net.
thcn--if You can't understand refined
language; aud then was stuck in a
cushion, and then the woman used me
70 pin up q hole in her dress. and She