The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-06-20
JACKS VIGIL.

OuCh btii SCtticu MS tai puuiii lii-
file more jauntily on his head; took a
last preparatory pull at his pipe; SON
orously cleared his voice and began:
"Widys," he said retlectively, gazing
at the well-filled bowl of the pipe;
'widys are wonderful institution!
there's something about wildly that
there ain t about any other created wom-
an. To put it POLITICALLY gentlemen,
looking from his pipe to his auditors,
1.-THE wildly is like rose. In the rose
you'd call it a perfume, in the wildly a
charm You take the rose and smell of
it, and you cant, for the life of you,
say what makes it the queen of flowers.
You can only say it's rosel All"
Hear, heart" shouted Jacks audit
ors uproariou'ly.
Jack raised his pipe to his lips with
serene satisfaction, INDUCING in placid
Whit till the noisy demonstration came
to an end.
Quiet restored, Jack resumed
II repeat my last words. You can
only say it's a rose So, gentlemen, it
is with the widy. That something
about her is nameless. Affair." or near
You feel it, but you only say-its the
wildly
Hi, hi' responded the audience.
Jack took another puff and somewhat
sadly continued:
gentlemen, we have so far had the
wildly in general; now We'll take the
wildly in particular my wildly Gentle
men, she was as clean tmbered a craft
as ever set sail for a husband. Her eyes
were as blue as the ocean, her lips like
two coral banks, and her teeth and skin
like solid sea-foam! not speck on the
wilderness Of either. And the color on
her check Bless you! no rose ever
equalcd it; while her chestnut-brown
hair was enough To eniangle the soul of
of well, of a sailor! 1t got me!
"Well, the upshot of my ensnarng
was that took board with her, She
kept u neat. hanly girl, and nobody ev-
cr had n nicer home. The longer
stayed the more swore it should be
mine forever. and the wildly with it. |
didn't lose any time, but set straight in
TO courtng, and with very good success.
Mrs Mcrrihew, soon acknowledged that
was the man for her, and the thing
was settled.
But, about two weeks before the
bannsw We're to be published, | began to
notice Mrs. Merrihcw looked worried,
and little more worried every day
For ten days or so, she put me of. At
last she told me all about her trouble,
"Tman orderly woman, you know,
Jacks' she said.
"Such another don't liyel' / cried.
"'Wcll, Jack, she answered, there's
chest pointing TO one across the room,
all done up fancifui in chiniz, there's a
chest that won't stay in order one
night First. accused Mary Ann (the
girD pi meddling with IT, She most
left me, she was so mad, and soon
found was all wrong, But who was
at my chest every blessed night, and
who isp There amt thing in il but
old bills and papers. They are Of use
TO me and often look over them. bul
they ain of use to any other living
SOUL Jack, III tell you what think.
"Wcllp I
"I think the chests bewtchcd! And
Mary Ann thinks SO, too, and threatens
10 90 if don't burn it! As true ~ you
live, Jack, | put that chest in apple pie
order every day, and every night it.
turned topsy turvy. lock it, and put
the keys under my pillow, and lock and
bolt my door, and screw down the win
dows--it's all the same. The chest is u
sight the next morning.
The wildly stopped to sob, and 50,
still to think 1t Vas curious. very cu.
rious. couldn't deny il, aud didn',
try TO. At last hit on u plan.
'"'Ill stay down here and watchp
said.
The widy first looked at me witt
eyes ns big AS sa,icers, aud then she did
something better. She threw her arms
around my neck. Naturally, we wan.
dcrcd of from the chest then.
But before bedtime we got back to IL,
aud we agreed that I should sit there in
the dark, keeping close IN corner away
from the chest. II | heard nothing,
was 10 do nothing. II | heard rust.
ling among the papers | was 10 strike n
match aud look into H. That nll fixed,
the wldy left me looking as happy as an
angel.
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