Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-03-13
She "Set" Down on Him.

/ son tnoy met, no maGler III pedestrians
were only ten feet apart, old Mr.. and
Mrs Jones reached the Detroit & Mil
waukee depot yesterday in good order,
and were shown into the waiting room.
They did not enter, however, until the
old man had read the sign over the
door and remarked:
Waiting-room, Ell? Wonder what's
she's waiting for, Well, we can wait as
long as the room can-eh, Nancy"
q told you," she replied as she de-
posted her heavy satchel on one of the
wooden sofas-"I told you to see all
you could and say as little as pos
sible."
"Thats what Pm doing" he growled,
as he drew his coattails right and left
and backed up to the red-hot coal stove.
He had just become interested in read
ing, Broad-guagc, double-track-three
hours time saved to New York" when
the back of his blue coat began rapidly
fading to brindled brown, and several
parties called out in warning way.
He leaped away, pulling his pants away
from his legs, and the old lady pulled
him down beside her and hoarsely whis-
pered:
&" If you were boy I'd spank you
good and sound The back of your
coat is falling right out, and everybody
laughing!"
ITS no such thing hain't laugh
ing" he snapped as he wriggled around.
How did | know there was any fire in
in the stove? How could l see my
back?"
In few minutes the troubled waiter
settled down. The old lady was hunt
ing her snufEbox, and the old man was
sticking his four or five teeth into an
apple, when he complacently re-
marked:
I'm going to git this coat off and
look at the mortal injuries
"You keep still she warned
You'd make q nice spectacle here
in your shirt sleeves, wouldn't your"
"Hain't this free country !"
You keep right still"
That settled that. 1t was all of ten
minutes before he suddenly announced:
When the old man Barnes was here
last summer he got the best blony saus-
sage he ever stuck his mouth into and
III gums ot'o W 1iiii IlC pl1oS ulIu
buy one"
"You won't do any such thing; you
are going to stay right here and keep
your head shut ~
&c I am, am | 81
" Yes, you are =
And that settled that. He leaned
back, signing like the last turn of bic
fv-wheel, and the old lady was almost
doing when he made a move that
startled her. He was trying to scratch
the sole Of his left foot with the toe Of
his right boot
Them blasted chilblains." he whis-
pered, as she faced around.
EYou stopn' she commanded.
" / tell you they itch SO | can't
stand it,
Cali the folks are looking'' she ex-
claimed, "and you'll soon be the laugh
ing stock Of everybody in the room!
Let your feet go till night, and then you
can rub 'em with sand-paper again"
"Pm going to pull my boots off now
this very mint land dig them ere
chilblains right to the heart !" he said in
determined tone.
81 ''No, you wontn'
eyes, | will p
II see what I've got to dop' she said
as she rose up. "You foller me ~
"Why % ..
"Come right along without word"
He followed her out into the depot
and to the lower end. Her clenched
hand was seen to tick" his long nose
as she INDUCED in emphatic gestures,
and when he followed her back he look
cd pale. AS he was going into the door
of the waltlng-room merry traveller
remarked: s2f
The old lady rather runs this house.
doesn't she !"
"She does p whispered the old man,
as he halted for an instant. "She's my
third wife, and she's got heaps Of town
lots, piles of pine land and wagon loads
of mill-dams and saw-m ills and saw
mills. [ hain't got nothing nothing
but religion, and that don't back me
worth a cent when the old lady puts
her foot down. Yes, Pm sot down on
good bye.
Five minutes after that he was lean
ing against the wall, doing off to sleep,
and big tear resting on either cheek.
Detroit Free Press
A NEW species of frog has been dis
covered in southwestern Texas. 1t lives
in the assures and crevices of the lime
stone rocks of that region. The eggs
are Matched in the winter, and the tad
poles live in the shallow pools Of rain
water held in the hollows in the rock.
The adults are very noisy at this season,
causing the rocks to ring with their
croaking. The frog referred to is the
genus Lithodytes, and named by Prof
Cope l.. Latans.
An elegantly-dressed lady of Brooklyn
handed a car conductor dime, request
ed him to give her pennies. She was
on her way to a fashionable church, and
a collection was to be taken for paying
off the church debt.
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