The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1883-04-26
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Cleaned the nfra OF y detrfiiinAu"n ~"
10 be easily bslked She walked iato
we'll known lawyers offbe ia BonD~y
block. and requcsieia private inierviev.
aud having obtained il. and sstisfed ber
self that the Law students were not listen
ing .. the kcyhole, said slowly. solemniy
and imrressivcly: Il want divorce.
What fort supposed You had one Of
the best Of husl,snda, said the lawyer
~ s'pcss that's shat every body thinks
but il they knew what I had suffered u
ten years. they'd wonder had not scalded
him long ago. ought TO, but for the
sake Of the Young oncs. Ivc'borne II and
said nothing. Two told him. thonsh.
wha, he might depend on, aud now the
times come. won't stand il, young ones
or no young ones. III have q divorce,
aud il the neighbor want 10 blab them
selves hoarse about it they may, for won't
stand 1t another day
"But whsts the matterY Doesn't your
husband provide for you Isn't be true to
you? Doesn't he treat you kindlyy pur'
sued the lawyer.
1--WE get viciuAls enough, and don't
know but he's true and kind as men IN
general; and lie never knocked one OF us
down. wish bc had, then, Id lget him
in jsii and know where be was nightsr
retortcd the woman.
Then what's your complaint against
hims"
"well, il you must know, he's one ol
them plaguey jiners.
"A what?"
"A jiner. One Of them pesky fools
that's always jinin something. There
can't nothing come along that's dark and
sly and hidden but that he'll jine it. II
anybody should get up society to burn
his house down, he'd jine 1t as soon as he
could get in; an il he had to pay to gel
In, he'd 40 in sll the suddener. We had
not toen married more'n two months be-
fore he jined the Know Nothin's. We
lived ON farm then an every Saturday
night he'd come tearin' in before supper
an grab fistful OF nutcakes and go of
gnawing EN-, and that's the last I'd see oi
him till mornin' and every other night he
would roll and tumble in his sleep, an
holler, Put no one on guard but Ameri-
cans, George Washington. And rainy
days he'd go out in the corn barn an iab
at q picture of the pope with an old bayo-
net that was there. l ought to put my foot
down then; but he fooled me SO with his
lies about the popss comm to make all
the Yankee girls marry Irishmen, and eat
up all the babies that want born with
crosses on their forehead, that l let him
20 on and kinder encouraged him In IL.
Then he jlned the Masons. Perhaps you
know what them be, but l don't 'cept
they think they re the same kind o crit.
ters that built Solomon's temple an took
care OF his concubines; and all the dar,,ed
nonsense about worshipful masters and
squares and compasses and such like that
we had in the house for the next six
months, you never see the beat. And he's
never outgrown it nuther What do you
think OF a man, squire, thatll dress him
self in white apron bout big enough for
monkeys bib, an go marching up and
down maxim motions and talkin' the fool
ishest lingo at a picture Of George WASH
ington in q green jacket and truss on his
stomach2 Amt he loonytick? Well,
that's my Sam, and I've stood 1t Is long as
Tn going TO.
The next lug the fool made was into the
Odd Fellows. Imade it warm for him
when he come home and told me he had
jined them; but he kinder pacifed me by
telling me that they had sort Of branch
show that took women, an he'd get me in
as soon as he found out how to do it.
Well, one night he come home and said ]
had been proposed and somebody had
black. baled me. Did it himself, OF course.
Didn't want me around, knowing his go.
ings.on. or course he didn't, and / told
him so.
Then he jined the Sons OF Malta. Did
not say anything to me about it. but
sneaked of one night, pretending he had
got to sit up with ssick Odd Feller, and
Id never found il out. only he come home
looking like man who hal been through
. threshing machine, and ! wouldn't do Q
thing for him till he owned up. And so
it's gone on from bad to wuss, and from
wuss TO wusser iinin' this, that and 10th.
er. till he's Worshipped Minister OF the
Masons and Goddess OF Hope OF the Odd
Fellers, and Sword-swsllower OF the Fin
negans, Virgin Cereus Of the Grange and
Grand Mogul ofthe Sons Of Incidence and
Two o.edged Tomahawk OF the United Or
der OF the Black Men. and the Talebearel
Of the Merciful Mannikins, and Skipper o
the Guide OF Catherine Columbus, ane
Big Wizard OF the Arabian Knights, an
Pied &c .passer Of the Reform Club, ant
Chief Bngler Of the Irish Mschinists. ant
Purse Keeper Of the Order Of the Canadi
an Conscience, and Donble.barreled Die
tator Of the Knights Of the Brass Circles
and Standard Bearer OF the Royal Archan
gels, and Sublime Porte OF the Onio'
League, and Chambermaid Of the Celestia
Cherubs, and Puissant Potentste OF th
Pcteriied Pigstickers, and. the Lord onl
knows what else. I've borne It. an
borne ii, hopis' he'd git EN- all jined a
ter awhile, but it aia't no use. and vhe
be come home LIST night and told me b
had gone into new one and had bee
made Grand Guide Of the Knights OF Hol
ror, / Just told him Id quit And ! viii
Here the lawyer interrupted. saying: