The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-08-03

using now, Got bottles OF 1t. Keep II,
or give it to some one who has need of
it. Thanks, all the same"
I'm take it T. cried fellow-workman,
with jocose eagerness.
To him the bottle was handed.
"And now you've got it, what are you
going to do with it ?" asked the giver.
"You haven't got any catarrh."
mo; but I've got children"
"Pretty nearly as bad, suppose.
"Does he want to get rid of 'em p
asked third.
Iuto the midst of the TESTING party
now came small boy, carrying q tin
pail. :.
"Sorry I'm so late, father" he said to
the possessor of the bottle.
"All right, Jimmy; take this home
the men here are afraid of it.
The boy took the medicine gingerly to
bis mother, with his fathers words.
That good woman thought. if there was
any Joke in the matter, it was joke
upon her, and seeing the medicine,
flung it out of the window with an angry.
! frown.
The bottle fell upon soft ground, and
was unbroken. As it shone in the sun it
attracted the attention of q little girl
passing down the street, who directed
her grown sisters eyes to it, and was
thereupon requested to pick it up.
The young lady recognized it as we'll
advertised compound, and deemed it
worthy of being deposited in the reticule
she carried. As she laughingly exhib-
tied the prize upon her return home, q.
favorite servant begged for it. She
knew a person who suffered greatly from
the complaint it would cure, she said,
and the medicine was given to her.
| The person for whom she intended
it was good looking coachman, who
paid her considerable attention. He was,
in fact, expected at the garden-gate that
very afternoon.
He came and was given the bottle.
He received it with an expression of the
most grateful affection; but, although
afflicted with slight cold, he did not
feel impelled to use it. Indeed. the
false-hearted man thought, as he placed
it in his breast pocket, that it would
make fine present for a handsome
young cook of his acquaintance, whom
he purposed next to visit.
| The cook was none other than the one
employed by the lady first introduced to
the reader Of this story. :.
Upon the following morning, as Mrs.
Minton entered her kitchen, she saw the
bottle upon the dresser, and surprisedly
took it up, for she recognized . peculi-
arity on it.
How came this here, Susan?" she
asked.
That's mine, num-"
But as the cook spoke, her mistress
mad pulled the cork from the bottle, and
saw the slip of paper she had the pre-
viops morning inserted.
"Susan, i gave this to my husband.
How did you come by it,"
ST was Mrs. Thompson's coachman
left it here, mum. If it's yours. you are
welcome to it"
''It certainly is mine, Susan. wrote
this paper myself"
"Mr. Minton must have dropped il, !
That's it, Of course."
But - she wife read the words she
had penned, and meditated 10. the phi
vacy Of her own room, she ceased 10 be-
lieve her gift had merely been lost
How could Il have been dropped from
the pocket in which it had besn securely
packed? And 10 hsd been her parting
!, | gift.
ii She had dwelt With delight in her
muvings upon her husbands surprised
smile - his eye fell upon her written
!! directions. She deemed her exprsssions
/; of affection therein - prettily and Wit
tily conceived. For four days more abs
would have to await his return. Ars.
Minton shut the bottle up in drswer
! with Sigh.
{ The anxiously awaited knock vas Il
last heard. but il VS. accompanied b. {
sound which made IL wife think n
! oucs Of her gin, and very shortly a1tel
!. her mutual embraoe ~ her hushand 4
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