Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1881-03-31
Wanted it just Right.

How much will this cost in,,y our ps.
peri askep quiet looking man, az hs
handed in the following advertisement
at the Eagle couuting-rooru yester-
day:
SMrrH-Busted trace. ID this city,
Friday just after dinner, Mary Smith,
wife Of the undersigned. aud daughter
of old Sim Pratt, the leading black
smith Of Denver, Colorado. The
corpse was highly respected by the
high-tonest families, but death got
the drop on her, and she took tho buck.
ct with perfect confidence, that shs
would have square show the other
side of the Divide. The plant trans
pires this afternoon at her boarding
house ou~'WiAow street. Gems one,
come all.
Dearest Mary, thou has left u.s.,
For you on earth there wasn't room,
But it's hea, en- that hath bereft uG
And snatched our darling up the auns,
Denver papers please copy aid send
bill or draw at sight.
BY her late husband,
=. Smith.
i don't believe you want it iu juss
that way, do your asked the clerk,
rubbing his chin dubiausly.
! why not, stranger!' asked the quiet
man.
1T don't real quite right, docs its'
asked the clerk.
WAS you acquainted with the corpss,
stranger!' demanded the quiet tnan.
WAS you aware of the lamented
while she was bursting around in soei-
ETY. Down at the boarding house?'
i don't know that l ever met her,"
responded the clerk.
so rcckoncd, Jedge. You WASN'T
up to the deceased when she was in
the living business, Now, Jcjg-, the
deceased wrote al oratiou herself aforc
she died, and want 1t in. Do you
hook on pardDer:'
But 1t isn't our style Of notice. OBJ
Jected the clerk.
Nor mine either acquiesccd the
, quiet man. Il was for having a picture
of her, ard lot more talk, but sbs
wanted it quiet ard modest. and so she
whooped that up. Say, stranger, is it
going INTO your valuable space without
any dlfliculty.'
Il don't know said the cerk dole
fully.
Il know. pardner. This celebration
comes off tomorrow afternoon, and
that's going in in the morning, itit goes
in out OF the cannon. l got grei
. enough on my hands now, stranger
\ without erecting fort on the sid dewall
= but if you want war, | got The impls-
= ments right in the back part of thssl
! mourning clothes. What dye think
E Jedgc?
q 'Does it make any difference where
J it goes 2 asked the clerk.
Il want it in the paper, replied ths
mourner. sand its going in if it takes 4
: spile driver. Think you twig my rack
L ct stranger?
'All right replied tho clerk. I'll
put it in the Salad among the othsl
: mourptul remarks. Four dollars
please
: That's business and the quiet mat
q paid the money. III you amt busy
e come around Tomorrow. Fun goiul
to give tn" old woman a scnd-oR ane
4 if that Gospe Her don't work up pret-
!, " good programme before he gets 4
u the doxoi"gy, his folks will think he'
l. been doing considerable business with
saw mill. She was a good one
Jedge. and she was pious from the
j back of her neck to the bunion on he
. heel. Won can tell that from the notice..
|. and the mourning Iwidower wiped hi
q eyes on the sly, and later in the ia,
was fined so for hrashiug the under
,aker, who had put silver bsnd.rs o1
the casket instead Of gold.