The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-03-08
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appear to notice this peculiar expression
on Cleopatra's3 countenance- BE Was z
looking at the sky. .e.sb .s.-.s,:..,,ez -...i
tsshe is looking for my message and shs
Is thinking of me. ~ nl.i X ~ s. asGHrsF
And Miss Diffenbaughf saI is96ifz
She was sitting in her lonely boWegs
looking out into the star5lit night, .say-,
ing, "His messenger, with feet Of silence,
is even now on its way to tell me he I
loves me vet. feel his presence Aeara
met riiEaai IL ,irfi iErtiu.un seif lf'1stnas
In the meantime Cleopatra WAS car
rying out his contract after the approved
manner of a veteran star-route contract.
Or. He got along very Wen for qns5-
ter OF q mile, and was making pretty
good time when, while streaking down
. lonesome alley he Suddenly paused
and said: 81, - d,nfs.s b1s f..-a.,,.,..
al hope to die if / don't smell fish,
And while he was exploring the ash
pile heiwas suddenly aecosted by lone1
some-looking. cat on the woodshed2fot 2.
Z" Say. old indigo blue, shipny ION yoqz
! Is watchugivinusp" grrovsled Cleopa-
an old niackerel to take the woodshed-
/
The woodshedder, being on his own
premises, made . violent effort TO- re
strain his wrath, but he came down b
the ashypile and said, in 2 voice thAs
| am trouble you for that fish, II yoo
| please. "seu.sgs 5Est5 sss1bai8 sis 9ri
'"AlI sright,,', said Cleopatra, - In
leave you the bones when I'm through
with it.
| The strange cat reached out to take
| the savory fish, and Cleopatra snote
/ him In less time than it takes to rtau
it, he stood that cat in the corner Of the
fence and wiped enough hair of, him 70
stuff sofa cushion. And as the wall
ing cat dragged its lacerated body down
the drain, Cleopatra resumed Els fish,
re1narking, as he lodged q passing
clearinghouse, that he believes, =
long as he was out, he'd sit up little
while and have some fun with the boys.
| And he had it.. Hewent down tbs a.
leys and danced to everything he met
/ He nearly tore the ear of smart kittsn
that got up on q wood d-pile and sassed
him and asked him g where be picked
up that paper coIlarP'' He prowled
| through back-yards, and he almost hor-
rified the life out Of most highly 70.
| spectacle elderly .stortoise-shell' tabhy,
| sitting in . kitchen window, by creep,
ing up close under the window and then
roaring ont to know il g she danced the
| lancersp', He scalped o harmless Mex-
/ ican dog all the way downits bare back.
/, inssix red, raw lines, and shouted after
| the anguish-stricken animal to 1run
home and put on his hairpn He was hit
once with an old kerosene torch that
sion, and he crawled through an old
drain back of the soap-Works, and came
out smelling worse than an Indian pic-
mic. At last he heard music over in
| s'Stony Lonesome" !" and went there and
foRnd the boys were having 3 Httle
dance, and the first thing he did when
he went, he spat at the bar-keepG and
slapped a one-eyed cat from Hbernia.
" Pile onto me by thousandsin BE
yelled. ssIEe got Just one more eye
| than want to take homet'' fss ofsw -
| And they didn't wait for second IN
! vitation. They piled onto him then and
! there, and the babbling brook .that
prattles through the rocks Of Stony
Lonesome, when it heard the Wild, nm
earthly clamor, turned back and ran up
the hill, and, in dumb terror zWAtchsd
the circling clouds of misty hair driftins
about in the valley below. Ia lsr5,,a,
ls
| In Judge Diffenbauph,s hospitable
parlors his chosen friends fingered.
though the hour was late. At the piano
Miss Diffenbaugh dreamily. wandered
through the entrancing numbers cd
ssSch1bert,s Cradle SONG. ~ There VA.
] q familiar voice at the, front gate thai
tmade her heart heat wildly. fhe yoics
came across the lawn. It-was Cle6t,a-
ira. And this was what he was saving
. Hoop-pee! Il car, lick the first b{ooayl
brindle SON of a rat-catcher that eycs !
climbed fencei Whoopi I'm the old
he. Bashi Bazouk from Angular Street,
an, don. Eyou fer-furpiz itldouyoufstr
gizit! Dance 10 me. somebody's 81 s6niy
weigh a pound I,,l 800 -ssIf .-ifr.sI. Iries-
l. And then that apparition-that mock.
ery of a respectabIe. home-bred caa
| strode into .Tudoe Diffenbarobis par30r.
and everybody Climbed ton the table,
| and chairs. Miss Diffenbaugh tainted.
The: old judge swore, Cleopaffalanohed
sardonicallyi and remarked that sshe,d
been out all night, and he was gettin' to
gone, and what he had left was not
combeds His face was scratched. One &
eve was closed. His ears hung loosa
and limp. He hic-cupped in his speech,
and tried to sing ssOld Oaken Bucket"
Around his neck still clung the blue rib
bon and a letter, = crumpled, torn,
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