The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-11-04

lib pHlnluly cue similar treatment OF
the previous evening.
"Oh, Bobby, what have you done,
You bad, bad boy? Excuse him, Mr.
Thompson, he didn't meon anything by
his ridiculous question. did you, Bob
by?r
Yes, did. want ter know, dog.
gedly replied Bobby. "He looks like
one Of Nouhs sons. NIebbe he is one
Of EN- Tell mo I" ana Bobby looked
ready to dig his small fists into his eyes.
"rell me, quick"
sin cowhide you first, you impudcnt
boy"
Hastily enough Linn departed for the
office where he was boolSkecpcr upon a
not-generous salary, anger and surprise
struggling for supremacy in his braast
Bobby was long in understanding
Why he was summarily seized, laid across
his mothers knees, and treated to d eor-
rective dose Of her slipper.
Thompson. what ails you? Glum,
cross, preoecupled enough are you his
morning, observed fellow clerk.
What do you think Of domestic
life was Linn's astonishing reioinder.
Tie happiest kind is the nearest
typa OF heaven we can have ON this
| mundane sphere. An, | thought you'd
come to it some day. Who's the lady
If your choice2p
Oh, ,other Ihaven't got 50 far as
that, Tie fact j, I'm sick Of second-
rate accommodations and fare, and land
ladies who make love to me.
"Queor statement, that last"
why so? ! fiatter my"
i" Yes, | dare say, and it's the crying
sin Of yourlife. Put it away, trample
il under foot, A vain old man is a pitt
able affair.
"Old?' haughtily, doubtingly.
Why, yes, old. Why Linn, when
I reach NY fftics, | shall think have
fairly won that lisaqreeable, descriptive
word. But, I suppose, bachelors never
dream they grow old, at least, ! never
met one who did although they are
quite art TO know it the minute women
begin to grow ancient"
/ Linn maintained most repellmg si-
lence. That evening be concocted enad-
yertisement for wife, which ha caused
to be inserted in the columns Of leading
daily The next noon Not that he ex-
pected OF desired any result matrimonial
| from the eccentric and hazardous vers.
ure. He did il to kill time, in truth.
Ho had grown timid about appearing in
public, since Mrs. Bangs' musicale. Ho
shuddercd to think what he might have
10 undergo il he were to. Replies came
inprompGly and nmerously, and in ev.
cry conceivable style Of penmanship.
Some were in rhyme, some in foreign
tongues; all, however, proving conclu-
siyely that plenty of lille, adventurous
people wero above as well as below tie
daisiel.
Heres letter you dropped comm
upstairs. ! seed it and brung it up"
said Bobby Wright.
"Thanks.' and Lima flushed us he
thought how easily tins letter might have
exposed him to the ridicule Of his Land
lady. How he blessed Bobby.
"Now, amt | good boy ~ propound-
ed Bobby.
"You are, that's fact" and Linn
passed the urchin a nickel.
can now won't you tell me if yor
went into the aris with Noah?"
"Bobby, I've great mind to throw
you ont Of the window (" angrily
ED druther go down the stairs, i'm
pertnrbably answered Bobby, suitinf
action 10 word, departing with a fist II
his eye
"Did You give it to him ?" aske,
Mrs Wright.
..Gm him whatl" blanlly aske,
Bobby.
"The letter ] saw you pick up.
"Course 1 did"
GLOW did You know it was for him ?
Cos, nobody else goes mp our stairs.
Mrs. Wright was certain her Bobb
possessed certain characteristics whic
leading political life imperatively dc
manded.
My soul, what lengthy and trash
letters women write, said Linn, col
signing fresh batch TO the fire. "Nc
one Of these writer's that 1 can trust
guess I'll call on Miss Snethen."
He called. More, he did what he ha
not intended 10 do when he left homi
He made her an offer Of his heart, han
aud fortune. She declined, for didn
Admiram's wife need her to help towar
womanhood and manhood most unrul
, set of children2 And did not her sistel
! Amanda and Celia need her services
I similar direction?