The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-07-13

Some of my lrassergers;S H safd
lre=4crT:y1nan4r==.r =iIc==rrtttted
nBoath With tobsece, make quite a
frienAsof me, and tell me all their
troubles. Fhefe was a-yoting man
ssFF4few fenr=years ago as was
one Of my 8Fo'elocksin the morning
REGULARS! He ffadeAthe acqdaint-
ancupf zazsGITIIR;= ffarty-on=bgard the
boat as worked IN a dry goods
store up in 8tH street. He became
Sery@fnuelfs in love with her, any
body could seesthat, and seemed to
be dreadfully Jealous of her. She
ased to rouse that feeling in him,
for shs used to laugh and fiirt on
board boat with the young
men she knew, clerks in the same
store she worked, or young men as
were neighbors or brothers of her
lady friends. He hated to see her
speak to anybody, and / often
chuekled as l saw his attempts to
get her into some corner of the boat
all t,t himself. She was fond of
him, there was no doubt of that; but
she drove him half crazy with her
pranks. He used to tell me about
it sometimes. Bill he'd say to
me, Bill 1 shall throw myself into
the river if she goes ON like this
much longer / used to laugh at
him and tell him that girls would
be girls, and it wasn't in them not to
be giddy, and that it would be all
right as,,soon as they got spliced. But
that's it, Bill, / can't afford to get
married for a year or two, and if she
goes on like this for all time, l dom
know what 1 shall do One morn
ing 1 noticed that though they
crossed from Camden to Philadel-
phia at the same time they did not
speak to each other, and when they
arrived she walked on little ahead
of him. In the evening she came
back first, and he followed an hour
later with a large bunch of flowers
in his hands. He came to me and
he says: Bill, quarreled with Mel
lie again last night, and think ii
was my fault l spoke very rough
to her. We were at q company To-
gether, and she scarcely took any
notice of me, and when l was see
ing her home / told her she had the
heart of flint, and L wasn't going
to court her any longer. She tossed
her head and told me was very stu
pid, but l would not listen to her,
and snatched some flowers she had
in her hands, which l had given
her, and threw them in the mud by
the roadside. When we got to her
house she walked in without saying
goodnight. I've been thinking
about it all day, and now I'm going
to beg her pardon and take these,
showing me the lovely bunch of
pink roses he was carrying I will
try to be less jealous, Bill In an
hours time he came back,
looking dreadful miserable like, and
he still had the flowers. She
wouldn't speak to me, Bill said he.
4 suppose it's all up between u.s.
che walks aft and suddenly 1 see
him throw the flowers with jerk in
the water just as we were passing
Smiths island, and before l could
rush forward to prevent him, he
dives head first over the side of the
boat into the river. 1t was a bright
moonlight night, and we had the
ferry stopped almost Immediately,
and l threw half a dozen life-pre-
servers overheard, and small boat
was lowered at once.
"He was never seen to rise again,
however, and though they dragged
for his body a week afterward, they
never found it. She came on board
at Camden two days afterward,
dressed all in black, with a thick
veil over her face. She spoke to
me and lifted her veil, and l saw
how red and swollen her eyes were
with crying. Mr.. Bill she says,
oh, what a wretch l have been! Can
l ever forgive myself-and l loved
him, OH, so dearlyr and she cried
and sobbed as if her heart would
break. 1t was our midday passage,
so there was hardly anybody on
board the boat. Then she says,
Can you show me the exact spot
where he went ovcrP Now l
says, what do you want to know
forY You see, sir, L kinder sus-
pected she wanted to throw herself
overheard after her lover, and she
read my thoughts as she gazed in
my face. mo, no, Bill, L would
never do anything as wicked as
that. You stand by the side of me
and see that / don't Then she
drew from under her shawl a lot of
faded roses, which looked as if they
had fallen in the dirt, for the leaves
and stalks were all muddy. On the
night we quarreled,' she says, Joe
brought me these, and then he took
them from me and threw them in
the gutter in his anger. L crept
out Of the house after he had left
me, and ran to where he had thrown
the flowers and gathered them all
up, for l meant to show them to
him as a proof that ] loved him. Of
course l was not coming round i'm
mediately. What girl would after
being so roughly treated? So when
he came the last time l would not
speaks to him at first, and he left at
once. If l had only run after him
Oh, dear! oh, dear! But l thought |
he would come back. Now / want |
10 throw these flowers in the water |
lust where he went in. Perhaps
hey will float to where his body
les and ask forgiveness for me. Do
ell me, Mr.. Bill; do tell me-"
thought i would humor her, and so
howed her where he went over
BOARD; but l kept tight hold of her
kirts all the while in case of acct
Tents. She takes her flowers, and
PRESSING them to her lips with both
lands. she cries, Forgive me, joe
nd then throws them in the river.
The did not land in Philadelphia,
'ut recrossd with me, and when we
gain reached Camden she nodded
o me and walked slowly away.