The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-24
KITCHUB.

ottAA sly sAAAo JOe
must remember, was an authority. II
was Timmins, the grocer, who tolC
Smuttyface, the blacksmith, and he il
turn revealed it to Geoffrey Glucose
Esq, the wealthy sugar refiner, wha had
built the most stylish villa in the pretty
country town where Christopher Chut
had lived all his life.
Glucose impatieAtly, perhaps conde-
scendingly, listened TO iSmuttyface, and
then curtly remarked that it was absurd
eyes, sir, absurd, and KIT Club will
find it out to his sorrow"
And then the great man paid Smutty'
face for one full set of shoes and two ere
moves" a matter-of-fact expense brought
about by the housekeeping of his favor
ite mare Starlight, whom he forthwith
mounted, and turned her sagacious nose
toward the vapors of the mighty city.
What was absurd?
What would Kit Club find out to hi
sorrow?
All, let's go up and ask Timminsl
The little dried-up spoon-visaged gro
Ger had known Club from boyhood
from Chubby infancy" he once face.
tiously told the school-master. In fact
until within year past, Timmins had
been the guardian of Christopher, wht
was full orphan. Too full for utteranct
when he lost his good mother.
At the age of twenty-one, Exit Club,
as every one delighted to call the manly
young fellow, came into possession of a
moderate fortune, that Timmins, and an
associate executor had carefully turned
and returned in obedience to the last
will and testament of Margaret Chub,
the widow of the late Zephaniah's Club
attorney and counselor deceased.
Zephaniah Club died when Kit was
only curly-headed prattler in the bib
and-tucker, and that, too, In such q
hurry that he had no time to bless his
only child. The upsetting Of pleasure
yacht and Zephaniah's inability to swim
had caused another name to be craven
on the family vault of the Chubs, and
deprived the frail young wife OF the
mournful privilege of lavine his marble
brow with "the fruitful river of the eye.
Her husbands body was never recov
cred. -.0. .,..... ,.
His life insurance, however, was.
After years seclusion, Margare
Club beamed once again on society, witt
house and lot on the most aristocratit
street in Hightone, besides twenty
thousand dollars in Government SKIES re
corded in her own name, and consuap
tions merciless grip on her vitals.
All this and more Except the fell NAL
ady) was her dear boys inheritance, anC
so one beautiful summer twilight sh'
lovingly laid her wan cheek next hi
stout young heart, and slept the unawak
ening slumber.
Everybody had liked Margaret Club
80 everybody grieved with poor Kit. ant
made his mothers funeral an event il
Hghtone., ot.. I'D .-.,- ..
School. 3".. a,..
Apprenticeship. .,-.. ..
Independence.
At sixteen he had been articled to his
fathers old law partner, who was cock
ecutor with Timmin-, and at twenty-onl
Ire was thoroughly disguised witt
"Greenleaf on Evidence" and red tap
on musty documents. 49,. ... BIZ.
But he dotted on the peach bloom o
Mabel Colby's cheek, and folks talket
Ifreely of the suitableness of the match.
| Mabel was his preceptor's daughter
and moreover, also, an only child with
heavy silver-lining to the prospectiv
cloud of her fathers positive dissolution
/ in due coarse Of remorseless time.
| So the well-mated young couple billet
and cooed, petted and pouted, sighed am
Isulked and courted under a fond oil
Iman's nose and sanction. ....
! Then came speculative temptation t
Kit. .... ..
six months of worry and only on
brief hour Of financial whirlwind.
He was penniless. -.
Glucose called him fool.
Timmins said: GLOW stupid!"
Old Colby remarked: "Not bit lik
his fatherw
Smuttyface groaned: "Ah, had he onl
struck when the iron was hotP'
She schoolmoster mutrered: "Poo
boy; but it will make him, though, {
Pm mistaken" '''
Mabel cried and vowed, like Mrs
Mieawber, that she'd never desert hin
The neighbors shrugged their shou
ders and advanced andhedged on doze
score opinions.
| Tanhide, the schoolmaster, was righ
and Mabel Colby proved herself
trump. ,a.s..s.. .s.. .s'|.: e..
Kit moped one week, and the ne,
scraped acquaintance with Connect
cut elock-peddIer, and engaged as b
first lierteuant Of the ~Dial Guards" I
! he denominated the metallic and fanc
veneered cases Of his "new and superit
line Of goods." ALI Hightone held u
its hands in horror. .-t. s. ,rt..
i Zephaniah Chub's son clock-peddlel
Who'd have thought it? ~
"Well, we'll, he has run down." chol
used the gossips. ".S f''- ,'7 p
|, Old Colby was incensed, aud Kit wis
\ ly avoided the house. ,...
Tinnlins, who was frugal and indus
trious himself, liked "the boys spirit"
lha called IL. .iIs