The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1882-01-10
The Cross-Eyed Girl.

"You don't want to never tanper
with crosS-eyed girl, - said MIR.
Philippe. 'aud I'll tell YOU why:
Fhey'v naturally got IA better focus
IN things than man would ever
snoss7--sludyin their eyes, Won under
stand. A man may think he's f,olin'
y crosS-cyed girl simply because She's
got her eyes tangled on other topics
as he's talkin' to her, but at the same
limo that girl may be looking down
the winlin' stairway Of the celia: Of
his sonl with one eye, and winkin'
in whisper to her own soul with the
other, and her unconscious victim lust
takin' it for granted that nothing's
the matter with the girl. only inst
cross cyedl Yen see I've studied
en-" continued rriIppc, land I'm
onto one fact, dea,.'sure--and that is,
their natures is as deceivin' as then
cyesl Knowe,l one ouc't that had
her eyes mixed up that way7-sonsi-
tive littlething she was. aud always
reierrin' to her 'misiortunc.' as she
called it, and eternally threatenin' to
have some surgeon strengthen
EN- oat like other iolks-an,l, sir,
that girl SO worked on my ieelin's and
to.'k such underholts on my sympa-
thies that, blame mo, before kn,wel
it confessed To her that il it hadn't a
been Tor her defective eyes (Imale it
! 'hefectNeD | never would have
thought of lovin' her, and, further
more, if ever she di'lhavc EN- changed
gack normal, don't You understand,
she might consider our engagement At
IN end-f did, honrst--and that girl
was so absolute cross.eyed it warped
her cars, and she used TO ,amuse her
self by waite in EN- curl up as I'd be
a-talkin' to her, aud that nladdenc,l
me, 'canse Pm naturally OF a Jealous
disposition, you knuw, and 80, at last,
| Just casually hinte,l that If she was
really agoin' to get them eyes carpcn-
tered npNwhy lsh.'tl better got at it,
I1ad that ended it. And then the
blamed girl turned right around and
'harried a fellow that had a better
PAIR OF eyes than mine this minutel
Then strnck another cross-eyed girl
hot really legitimate case. 'cause
IN reality she had only one off eye
the right eye.if | don't disrcm mbsf--
the other one was square as gauge.
And that girl was, il any difference, a
mure coniusln' case than the other;
and, besides all that, sho had somt
money in her own right, anil she
waY't THROWN off no big discount
IN one game eye. But i finally COL
her interested, aud reckon somethin'
serious might a Coma Of it, but, you
see, her father was dead, aud her step.
mother sort o shpt down on my com
IN to the house; besides that she haC
three grown unclcs, and you know
how uneles is. l di,ln't want to mar,
ry no family, Of course, and so l slt
ont OF the scheme and tackled a goot
girl that clcrked in postofiice. He
eyes was bail. | never dill get til,
hang Of them eyes of hern. She la,
purity hair, aud complexion, | use,
to tell her, which eutrivaled the rose
But them eyes, you know! / didn'
really appreciate how bad they wal
crossel at first. You see, ittook time
Got her 10 give me her picture. and
nSed to cipher on that, but finally
worked her off on a young friend o
mine who wanted to marry intellect
gave her agood send-olT TO him AM
| She was smart--only them eyes, yor
knowl Why, that girl could read I
postal card both sides at once, an,
smile at personal friend through tn
office window at the same time."-
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