Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1882-12-20
His Girl Goes Back on Him

face. and a wild.light in bis eye. Il an
afraid of YOU. / wouldn't be surprised
20 see you 90 of half cooked aud bio"
us all up. / think you are devil. Yo
NAV have billy goat. or snos gua. 0
bottle OF poison concealed abUnt yoa
Condemn you the police ought q
muzzle you, You will kill some5Odl
yet. Here. take handful OF pruaei
and 60 on oneSbere and enjoy your
self, ard keep away from here anc
the grocery man @ent on sorting poia
toes. ard watching the naggard face o.
the boy. What alls you anyway {? h'
added, as the boy refused the pruues
and seemed to be SICK to bis stomach.
%, am wreck said the boy, a
he granted his teeth. and looked wicked
You see before you shadow. | hay'
drunk Of the sweets Of life, and no"
only the dregs remain. l look back a
the happiness OF the past two weeks
during which have been permit I'd to
gaze into the fond blue eyes OF my lov,ec
one, and carry her rubbers to school for
her 10 wear home when it rained. TO
hear the sweet words that fell from her
lips as she lovingly told me was a
t0rror. and as 1 think il is all eTer, and
that shall never again place my arm
around her waist. feel as if the world
had been kicked of its base and was
whirllng throagh space, liable to be
knocked into a cooked hal, and don't
care a darn. Ny girl has shook me-
'Sho! You don't say so.' says the
grocery man as be threw rotten po.
tato into a basket Of good ones that
were going TO the orphan asylum
'Well, she showed sense. You would
have blewn her up, or broken her neck,
or something. But don't feel bad.
You will soon find another girl that will
discount her, and you will forget all
about this one.'
'Never!' said the boy, as he nibbled
at piece ofcodGsh that he had picked
of. L shall never allow my affections
to become entwiued about another piece
of calico. 1t humans me, sir. Hence
forth l am batter of the whole girl race.
From this out Ishall harbcr revenge 10
my heart, and no girl can cross my path
and live. 1 want 10 grow up to become
he school ma'am, or a milliner, or
something. where l can grind girls into
the dust under the heel of a terrible des.
potism, and make them sue for mercy.
To think that girl, on whom l have
lavished my hearts bes. love and over
thirty cents, in the past two weeks,
could let the smell Of a goat on my
clothes come between US aud break of
an acquaintance that seemed to be the
iorerunner vf a happy future, and say
'ta-ta' TO me, and go OF 10 dancing
school with telegraph messenger boy
who wears a sleep ng car porter uni-
form, is TOO much, and my heart is
broken. 1 will lay for that messenger
some night, when he is delivering a
message in our ward, and l Will make
him think lightning has struck the wire
and run It on his bench. D you don't
know any ything about the woe there is
in this world. You never loved many
people, did yOu9'
The grocery man admitted that be
had never loved very hard, but he knew
little something about it from an aunt
of his, who got mashed on Chicago
drummer. But your father must be
having a rest while your whole mind is
occupied with your love affair." said he.
Yes, says the boy, with a vacant
look, 'l take 20 interest in the pleasure
of the chase any more, though | did
have little quiet fun this moraing at
the breakfast table. You see pa is the
man ever was. II COM
plain that anything at the table dont
taste good, pa says it is al! right. This
morning took the syrup and put IN
some cod liver oil that ma is taking Tor
her cough. l put some on my pam
cakes, and pretended to taste Of It, and
| told pa the syrup was sour, and no.
fit to eat. Pa was mad in a second,
and he poured out some on his pancakes
and said was getting too confounded
He said the syrup was good
enough for him, and he sopped his pam
cakes 10 it and fred some down his
neck. lie is gaul burned hypocrlIe
that,s what he is. [ could see by his
face that the cod liver oil wa' nearly
killing him, but he said that syrup was
all right, and i'll didn't cat mine he
would break my back, aud by Sos1
had 10 eat 1t, and pi said he guessed he
hadn't got much appetite and would
lust drink a cup of coffee and eat
donut. | like TO d.de, and that IA one
thing. | thiuk. that makes this dis
ann ,inlmeut in love harder TO bear.
But | felt sorry Tor ma. Ma amt got
very strong slummick. and when she
got some OF that cod liver oil 10 her
m mouth she went right up stairs, sick
ern horse. aud pa had to help her,
and she had nooralgll all the morning.
[ eat pickles to take the taste out OF my
mouth, and then l laid tor the hired
urls. They eat too much syrup any
way, aud when they got on TO that cod
liver oil. and swallowed a lot OF it, one
of them, nirish girl. she cot up from
lhe table and pat her hand on her
corset and said, 'ho Wy Jaysus,' and
went ou, 10 the kitchen, as tale as ma
IS when she has powder on her face,