The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1878-03-30
SHE "sOT" DOWN ON HIM.

son they met, no matter ii 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, eh ? Wonder what's
she's waiting for. Well, we can wait
as long as the room Can-eh, Nancy" ?"
81 told you," she replied as she de-
posted her heavy Satchel on one of the
wooden sofas-'1 told you to see all
you could and say as little as possible. "
"That's what I'm doing" he growled,
as he drew, his coat-tailS right and left
and backed up to the red-hot coal stove.
He had just become interested in read
ing, "Broad-guage, 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:
eff you were boy I'd spank you
good and sound The back of your
coat is falling right out, and everybody,s
laughing p
''It's no such thing-I hain't laugh
ing! he snapped as he wriggled around.
"How did l know there was any fire
in the stove? How could 1 see my
back ?"
In few minutes the troubled water
settled down. The old lady was hunt
ing her snuff box, and the old man was
sticking his four or five teeth into an
apple, when he complacently remarked:
"I'm going to git this coat off and
look at the mortal injuries -
"Youkeepstill!" shewarned. You'd
make nice spectacle here in yonr shirt
sleeves, wouldn't you?'
"Hain't this free country?"
"You keep right still p
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 sas-
sage he ever stuck his month into, and
Pm going out to find the place and buy
one.
"You won't do any such thing; you
are going to stay right here and keep
your head shut ~
81 am, am ?''
eyes, you are ~
And that settled that. He leaned
back, signing like the last turn of big
fy-wheel, and the old lady was almost
doing when he made a move that
the sole OF his left foot with the toe Of
his right boot.
"Them chilblains !" he whispered, as
she faced around
"You stop!" she commanded.
81 tell you they itch SO l can't stand
it !"
"And the folks are lookingr' 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 EN- with sand-paper again -
'T'm going to pull my boot off now
this very minit-and dig them'ere
chilblains right to the heart !" he said
in a determind tone.
"No, you won, u
eyes, | will -
81 see what I've got to do !" she said
as she rose up. "You foller me !"
"Why ?"
"Come right alo ng 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 looked
pale. AS he was going into the door of
the waiting-room merry traveller re-
marked:
"I'he old lady rather runs his house,
doesn't she ?"
"She does?" 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-mills, | hain't
got nothing-nothing but religion-and
that dont't back me worth a cent when
the old lady puts her foot down Yes,
I'm sot down on-good-by." :"
Five minutes after that he was lean
ing against the wall, doing off to sleep,
and big tear resting on either check
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