Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-03-23

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must be lonely here, Widow Thorn
go, not at all, sir, thanking yOu!'
she would reply.
II wonder you never married a
second time, Widow. Thorn?"
"Well it is a wonder, isn't it,
doctor? But you sec I'm such a
queer old body that I guess not
many could fancy me-"
Madam, there you must stop.
I cannot hear the divine sex dis
paraged," returned the doctor. He
was, as they say, of the old school.
She laughed.
"Can't woman speak against her.
self?" she asked.
"No; she never speaks against
herself unless she means to hatter
herself by contradictory disparage-
ment when some one is BY"
i" Sir, you are too plain"
Widow Thorn, I was always
called plain, and the wigs too big
for me-"
Then she laughed at him, and
what promised to be a quarrel ended
in a merry "Good-by."
Then there was the baker at the
corner. He was a widower, and he
used to come in of an evening for q
cheap cigar. Said he. "this lonely
state is miserable, isn't it?"
"Do you speak from experience ?"
asked she.
eyes; my Maria's been dead
fourteen years." said he.
"I shouldn't think it would take
so long time for you men to forget
anything" she said,
Ah, ma'am! man is wonderful
being-the most wonderful of Gods
creatures"
Except woman" said she.
"You're right, widow! And
that's the reason the Lord meant
that every man should have a wife
and every woman q husband, just to
make them equal. So I think you
and I must have new partners.
Now look here. Mr.. Johns!
You've had your partner, and I've
had mine, and death has dissolved
the partnerships. Now, we're both
bankrupt, and we can't carry on a
joint business; so We must 60 ON
pleasantly" she said, and laughingly
bade him "Good nightr' He had
to laugh, too, because she seemed to
expect him to do nothing else.
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over the way, who was learning the
bassoon. He used to come to his
window Of Summer evenings, when
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