The news., 1882-12-05


moderate desire;
And II you fail to to ind Knight,
At least--a trusty Squire.
AUSTIN DoBsoN, in the Critic.
HIS GIRL GOES BACK ON HIM.
@Now you git right away foom here"
said the groceryman to the bad boy, as he
came in with a hungry look on his face
and wild light in his eye. Il am afraid
of you. 1 wonldn't be surprised to see
you 60 of half cooked and blow us all up.
think you are devil. You may have
a billy goat, or a shot gun, or bottle of
poison concealed about you. Confound
you, the police ought to muzzle you. You
will kill somebody yet. Here take a
handful of prunes and go off and enjoy
yourself, and keep away from here" and
the groceryman went on sorting potatoes
and watching the haggard face of the
boy. what ails you anyway" he added,
as the boy refused the prunes and seemed
to be sick at the stomach.
20, am wreckp' said the boy, as he
grated his teeth and looked wicked "You
see before you shadow. 1 have drank
of the sweets of life, and now only the
dregs remain. I look back at the hap
piness Of the past two weeks, during which
have been permitted to gaze into the
blue eyes of my loved one, and carry her
rubbers to school for her to wear heme
when it rained, to hear the sweet words
that fell from her lips as she lovingly
told me was terror, and / think il all
oyer, and that shall never, never again
place my arm around her waist, feel as
though the world had been kicked off its
base and was whirling through space,
liable to be knocked into a cooked hat,
and don't care darn. MY girl has
shook me.
''Sho. You don't say So says the gro
ceryman, as he threw rotten potato into
basket of good ones that we're going to
the orphan asylum. "Well, she showed
sense. You would have blown her up, or
broken her neck, or something. But
don't feel bad. You will soon find anoth-
er girl that viii discount her, and you
will forget all about this oue."
Never said the boy, as he nibbled al
a piece Of Goldfish that he had picked off
81 shall never allow INV affection 10 be
entwined about another piece of calico.
| 1t unmans me, sir. Henceforth ! am a
hater Of the whole girl race. From this
out / shall harbor revenge in my heart
and no girl can cross my path and live.
l want to grow up TO become school
ma'am or he milIiner or something
where ] can grind the girls into the dust
under a heel cfa terrible despotism, and
make them sue for mercy. To think that
girl on whom lavished my hearts best
love and over thirty cents, in the past
two weeks, could let the smell Of goal
ON my clothes come between us and break
off an acquaintance that seemed to be the
forerunner of happy future, ami say
'ta-ta' to me, and go off to dancing school
with telegraph messenger boy who
wears q sleeping-car porter uniform, is toe
much, and my heart is broken. viii
lay for that messenger some night, when
he is delivering message in our ward
and I will make him think lightning has
struck his wire and run in on his bench
0, you don't know anything about the
woe there is in this world You nevel
loved many people, did you?"
The groceryman admitted thatshe had
never loved very hard, but he knew &
little something about it from an aunt o
his, who got mashed on Chicago drum
mer. "But your father must be having Z
rest while your whole mind is being oc
cupied with your love affair."" said he.
Yes," says the boy, with vacant look
81 take no interest in the pleasures of tbs
chase any more, though did have lit
tie quiet fun al the breakfast table. Yor
see pa is the contrariest man ever was
If l complain that anything at the tabl,
don't taste good. pa says it is all right
This morning took out the white syrup
pitcher and emptied out the white syruE
and put in some cod liver oil that ma il
taking for her cough. put some on my
pancakes, and pretended 10 taste of it, ant
told pa the syrup was sour and not &
to eat. Pa was mad in second, and he
poured out some on his pancakes snd sale
was getting too confounded particular
He said the syrup was good enough fol
him, and he sopped his pancakes in i
and fred some down his neck. He is
| gaul burned hypocrite, that's what he is
I could see by his face that the cod live
oil was nearly killing him, but he saie
that syrup was all right, and that if
didn't eat mine he'd break my back, an,
gosh / had to eat it, and pa said he hadn'
much appetite and he would just drink
| cup Of coffee and eat doughnut. lik,
to died, and that is one thing, / think
that makes this disappointment in Low
harder to bear. But felt sorry for ma
Ma amt got very strong stummick, ant
! when she got some of that God liver OF