Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-03-11
A CRUSHED EsTaETR.

y few months ago the daughter OF an
East Lockport man, who had grown CON-
fortably well off in the small grocery line,
was sent away to s " female college," and
recently she arrived home for the holiday
vacation. The old man was in attendance
at the depot When the train arrived, with
the old horse In the delivery wagon to con.
vey his daughter and her trunk to the
house. When the train stopped, a bewitch-
ing array of dry goods and wide brimmed
hat dashed from the car and flung itself
into the elderly party's arms.
"Why, you superlative pa !" she ex-
claimed, I'm ever SO utterly glad to see
YOU"
The old man was somewhat unnerved by
the greeting, but he recognized the seal
skin cloak in his grip as the identical piece
of property he had paid for with the bay
mare, and he sort of squat it up in his
arms and planted kiss where it would do
the most good, with report that sounded
above the noises of the depot. In a brief
space of time the trunk and the attendant
baggage were loaded into the wagon, which
was soon humping over the cobbles toward
home.
PA, dear" said the young miss, eur
veying the team with critical eye, " do
you consider this quite excessively beyond?"
"HeyY" returned the old man, with
puzzled air, ''quite excessively beyond
what ,"
"Oh, no, pa; you don't understand
me" the daughter explained. I" | mean
this wagon and horse. Do you think they
are soulful ?-doyo think they could be
studied apart in the light of symphony,
or even simple poem, and appear as in
tensely utter to one on returning home as
one could express?"
The old man twisted uneasiiy in his seat
and muttered something about he believed
it used to be used for an express before he
bought it to deliver pork In, but the con-
versation appeared to be travelling in such
a lonesome direction that he pitched the
horse resounding crack Oh the rotunds,
and the severe jolting over the frozen
ground prevented further remarks.
"0h, there is that lovely and consum-
mate ma r screamed the returned collegi-
atess, as they drew up at the door, and
presently she was lost in the embrace of
woman in spectacles.
"Well, Maria, said the old man at the
supper table, as he nipped piece Of but
how'd you like your school 2
well, there, pa, now you're shout
mean, l consider it far too beyond" re-
piled the daughter. 1T is unquenchably
nefable. The girls are so sumptuously
stunning-I mean grand-so intense. And
then the parties, the balls, the rides-oh,
the past weeks have been one sublime
:" l s'pose So s'pose so, nervously
assented the old man, as he reached for his |
third cup, "half full y" but how about |
your books-resdin'. writin', grammar,
,ule o three-how about them?'
Z" Pa, don't !" exclaimed the daughter, |
eproachfully ; "the rule of three gram
mar 1t is French and music and paint.
ng and the divine IN art that have made /
ny school life the bos-I mean that /
rave rendered it enc unbroken flow of |
'ythmic blss-incomparably an exquisitely
ii but.
The sroeery-man and his wife looked
leiplessly at each other across the table
After lonesome pause the old lady said
- How do you like the biscuits, Maria %
"They are too utter for anything"
.ushed the accomplished Young lady, " and
Nia R-udA piSoSA'SS 10 sthpiJ o pcSul III
tself."
The old man rosa abruptly from the
able and went out OF the room. rubbing
ia head in daxed and benumbed manner,
nd the mass convention was dissolved.
hat night he and his wife sat alone by the
tove until a late hour, and at the break
,st table the next morning he raped
marty on the plate with the handle of his
nife, and remarked:
Maria, me an your mother have been
akin the thing over, an we've come to
ne conclusion that this boardin' school
usiness is too utterly all but too much
onseLse Me and her consider that we
aven't lived sixty odd consummate years ,,
IT the purpose OF raisin' curiosity, and
lere's goin' to be stop put to this un.
lenchable foolishness. Now, after you've ',
nished eating that poem of fried sausage.
I'D that symphony OF twisted doughnut, !
ou take an dust up stairs in less an two
conds an peel off that fancy gown and
1t on ksliker, an then come (,
,wn here an help your mother wash ,
shes. / want it distinctly understood :
Iat there amt goin' to be no more rythmic |
olfoolishness in this house. so longs |
'ur superlative pa an your lovely consum- \
ate mas runnin' the ranch. You hear r
e, Maria ?"-I Lockport Union. '
HAD severe attacks of yrayal and kiSnsv