River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-10-21

door closed, she stood with her back
against it and smiled, and | confess the
smile had naught of humor but only
scorn init. | trembled at that smile,
fearing she would drive me thence
speak up, Nathan Appleby," she
said, "for never, since your mother
bore you, did you speak louder than a
cat news
"IfI now remember right, ans
vercd her nothing, for my thoughts
were in confusion.
Cart dumb2" she said. Might as
Well be for aught you can say Your
face is ike a iack-o'-lantern, and your
tongue as full of speech. What's now
| say!''
u asked her if her father did not
tell her.
Had he told me, said she, you
would not see me here. | would like
t. know what you whose spunk is less
tlsan Il worms. could have to say to
n,e from your own lips. Not to give
advice, I'll venture Your no such
! idiot as to try that Come, III have it
ont of you. Belize YOU would marry
nee"
! ont S%ltl tlliS, III y AuIll littllb1 dS
! in sarcasm; yet ! ann glad she said it,
I for my spirit seemed to melt like an
April snow bank, and had | not taken
her words ON the echo, L fear | could
not have made known my errand. Her
/ glance as ! said this was terrible, so that
| | turned my eyes to the window us for
! a chance te escape violence. | cannot
recall all She said, but | do bear in
mind that she termed me 4 beetle, that
She said my legs we're spindle shanks,
which is untrue; that she remarked
contemptuously upon the paleness OF
1 my face, and likcned me to Sandy Sam,
the idiot. | perceived, however, that
| hcr violence was only of the tongue,
Though that is enough for one person.
| She called me padora, whatever that
may be, and said that | should marry
her, and right away, and sad day
would it be for me, too. She warned
me to have no delay, to cause the bans
| to be published next Lords day, and as
soon thereafter as the law permits to
come for her, and she warned me to
keep out of her sight till then. Other
1 painful words she said which will not
rereat, my Aunt Charity, and thus has
She promised me.
What think you all, neighbors, of
such a wooing as that ~ Mr.. Goodwing
/ inquired.
That your spouse did say rightly
when She called him Il stupid fool, y
said Mr. Pantry.
That it passes all comprehension, y
said Squire Whytynge.
Well, | say remarked Mr.. Pur-
chase, whose domestic experience was
sad. "that he who knowingly puts his
head in such moose deserves to wear
it always. Ninegary women are wont
| to lie smooth-tongued during courtship
and to make amends for it afterward."
Well, tell us the rest, neighbor. .
said Mr. Blumfield. They were mar
ried ?"
= Yes, they were married on the
Lords day three weeks, and those who
saw them as they quilted her fathers
| house say that she berated him all the
way to his home"
And did he soon wish he were
dead" asked Mr. Purchase in such a
! suggestive tone that Mr. Blumtield
again slyly nudged Mr.. Goodwing.
/ Gle bore shrewishness uncomplain-
/ ingly for six months or more, though
/ ne did grow pale and lose flesh greatly
4 and he did confess to me. upon one oc-
casion, that he did not bear in mind
/ when Q married that death only part
/ ed husband and wife His silence en-
ragged her; but never did he speak a
word in temper to her. Now | will
narrate to you that which is the most
l. n a
it, My spouse happened to fall in with
/ Nathan's wife about year ago, and !
will say, neighbOrs. that my spouse
though usually, smooth spoken, can say
a thing sharply if she so desires. She
did tell Polly Appleby that it was a
| &rievous shame for her to belabor that
patient man, Nathan"
.Man' Nathan's wife replied mani
Being of your blood, it's no wonder he 5
no man. He means like calf and
purs like a cat, and hath less spunk
than either. \ calf viii bunt and kit
ten will scratch?'
"'Well, as to that, Madame Appleby,
sharp speech never made calf to bunt
Tor = cat to scratch. Your speech is
Of no more account to him than 1t would
he to them, said my spouse.
with that Mrs. Appleby became
very wroth, and did call my spouse a
padora.
'IIEmph,' says my spouse, 1 could
tell YOU that which would make you
angry for cause. DO you not know
that the sharper speech you use, the
better does he like it?"
AT this Mrs. Appleby did open wide
her ewes, and neighbors, as | sit here,
for the first time in her life she answer
Ell not one word
9. DO YOU know why he married
YOU Are you so stupid that you have
not discovered that ?" my spouse asked.
| 4 know, for he made a contidant of me
/ previous to the wedding. He married
/ YOU because lie had no trials, these
we're his words, and he feared that he
could not reach Heaven unless he had
/ his share. Therefore he welded YOU .
"Aha. good one" said Mr.. Pantry,
as he tremblingly shook his head with
laughter.
"Aud what said she to that? asked
Squire Whytynge.
Never did she speak so quietly, and
for some time She made no response
ut last she said:
So that was his reason wa 1t. We'll
II -disappoint TT him. Ill-be-
even with him. I'll make him
another sort of a wife from this hour
for | will not be pack horse to carry
my husband to Heaven"
.When Nathan came in soon after
what did his wife do but approach him
and kiss him, and Nathan trembled
for never had she done that. And she
i said dear Nathan and she did loving
" carcss him, so that he was as one III
trance
"Neighbors." continued Mr. Good
wing. Il have seen their babe, rs | re
marked. and | saw Nathan gently
stocking his spouse's brow, and he die
say soft words to her, to which SHE
| made loving response, and as she look
cd covly over his shoulder to my spouse
and ne, She said My Aunt Charity
you sac what your words have driver
me to am not any packhOrse, am !
my huSband?' and Nathan did even II
our presence kiss her, and if she re
turned not the kiss of love, then
never gave one myself
Would that l had known that thu
could She have been conquered. Fo
she was the comehest lass in all thes,
parts ana ! would have put up Will
six months Of gall for life time o
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