Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-02-05
THREE TIMES TILTED.

An Action for Breach of Promise, and
Against a Fair Decsiyer.
Philadelphia Times.
All Nicetown is laughing over the
discontinue of Michael Lycet, who
has in no less than three instances
within the past year been the victim
of misplaced confidence in tickle
women As final resort he has app
pealed to the courts, and instituted
a breach of promise suit against the
girl he last fixed his affections on.
For many years Michael was one of
the most energetic spike drivers in
the employ of the Reading Railroad
Company at Doyleston; being per-
son of regular habits, saved several
hundred dollars. Having no partic-
ular use for the money he, when 81
years of age, resolved to indulge in
the luxury of a wife, but not being
familiar with the habits and customs,
OF, as he expresses it, "the goings
on of the gentler sex, made no
progress in his hunt for companion
until he fell in with q Milesian named
Madigan, of whom he asked assis-
lance. Mr.. Madigan is a fiddler, and
is reputed to know the merits and
dement's of every manageable wo-
man between Reading and Consho
hocken.
In his hour of dependency Mi
chael unbosomed himself to Madi-
gan, who agreed for the small fee of
$40 to find bouncing girl willing
to become Mrs. Lycet. Madigan got
the fee, and three days later intro
duced his employer to one
Miss Dolan, but Michael OBJ
jected to certain peculiarities
of her visual organs. Madigan
said Lycet was too particular and
demanded an additional fee of $40
before he went in search of a Venus
that would meet the approval of his
patron. After inspecting three
nymphs unearthed by the inde-
fatigable fiddler, Michael found in
Miss Dugan all the Projections OF
her adorable sex, and made love to
her in orthodox style. He gave her
two dresses, a cloak, bracelet, an
umbrella and tin-type Of his own
countenance. On the strength of
the grace with which she received
the last named token of his affection,
he offered her the original, but she
declined the honor, and two weeks
later cut him dead. With broken
heart and crushed spirit he sought
pastures new in NicetoWn, where he
found employment last fall and two
weeks later met Miss Casey at araf
file given by mutual friend. Michael
followed his old policy Of courtship,
and soon Miss Casey burst upon the
public in green silk dress, a pair of
IS CATERS, a gorgeous bonnet, white
kid gloves and other highly tinted
plumage, all of which were purchased
by "hur Nike" as Mr.. Lycet bitterly
AYERS she called him. It finally
dawned upon Michael that his court
ship was frigbtfully expensive, and
that week after week went by without
his being any nearer matrimony than
he was before he left Bucks County
Not long after this Miss Casey Tilted
him. ..s. -..=
In time-and by the way an ex-
ceedingly brief period it was-the vic-
TINS wounded heart healed and his
| attention was attracted by Maggie
Moran, the daughter of his board-
ing mistress. His interest in the
young woman increased daily,
and to Magistrate Krick>
baum he afterwards gave his expe-
rience with her. After dwelling on
her hair, her eyes and her build, he
said: 'Furst she axed fur a silk
dhress. De yez moind that? SEE L,
will ye marry me?' Its hasty ye
are, SEE she. Margaret, SEE I, it's
no silk dhress yell have from me till
ye promise Very WELL SEE she,
wild a smile on her; I'll be Mrs.
Lycet on Christmas day. When she
had the dhress made she wanted a
cloak. Twinty dollars fur o cloak.
Yell have no cloak from me- seq I.
Then I'll not marry, SEE she. So
pwhat could I do but do pwhat she
wanted. Then she borrowed $50
out Nv the money in the bank to buy
things for the weddin'.
"Sez I, Margaret, go aizy with
the money ooh, it's savin TIL be.
SEE she, but she spint every blessid
c'at Nv it that very day in shoes, and
ribbons and sleppers, and fol,de,rols.
The day before Christmas, sez I,
"it's hurried in the morning we'll
be-. Phwat morping?' SEE she,
openin' her eyes an starin' in me
face. Christmas mornin, SEE 1.
Its New Years I sed,' SEE she, as
bould as brass. I wur bilin' mad,
but she stud like a COW in the mud
and cud nayther he druv mol
blarneyed. So I waited, an to put
her Until shpirrits 1 gev hen
a S27 goold ring. On New Years
Day she wint off wild young Tom
Monahan to u rattle and STINT me
htther saying she'd not marry me il
l wuz made of goold. Mind that
now. She sint me an ould ring worth
70 cints an vowed it wuz the wed,
din ring gave her. I want war
rant for her, and she'll be put in Jail
SO she will, fer her decavin' thrick.
Yesterday an officer recovered the
ring from Miss Carey, and later il
the day the unhappy Lycet brought
suit against her for breach of prom