Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-08-31
Telling n story.

"Oh! that puts me in mind of curl.
Gus thing heard when l was in New
York"
Everybody becomes quiet to hear Mrs.
Wobble's story.
She continues t wasn't in
New York, either-yes, it was-no-but
it must have been; it was the time !
bought my black grenadine, father, -
turning to her lord and master.
1t was in Philadelphy you bought
your granydine, Maria"
"Oh, Ia! yes; where was L? Oh. as
was saying, when | was in Philadel-
! phia-but it does seem as though it W as
in New York-when / was in Philadel-
phia in in Strange, j can't remem-
Der when it was! Father. what wear
was it we were in Philadelphia?''
Somewhere in the fifties, Maria;
| fifty-six, believe
Are you sure it was iifty-six. father?
Seems though it wasn't so long ago as
that. Dear me sus! how time does fly.
However, it doesn't make any difference
when it was. Let's call it fifty-six,
though | still think. it wasn't so far
backs that. Well, As | was saving.
when we were IN Philadelphia-ifi it was
! Philadelphia-in 1Sj6-can it be possi-
ble.-I heard a very curious story II
was about Mr.. Whatshisname-In new.
er could remember names, but YOU
know him, father. That man with the
red face and gray beard-no. t wasn't
/ him; the man with the red face and
| gray beard was the man We met at HUI
da's. Couldn't have been him. Why,
father, you ought to remember Twas
that man who lived down on-dear me!
what is the name of that street?''
Never mind the mans name, moth
err; give us the story s.-
''Of course it's nothing to do with
the story; but it makes me so mad that
can { remember nothing. Now there s
your sister Sarah, father; what mem
DRY that woman has. She always has
the day and date right at her tongue S
end, and you once give her a person
name, and she never'll forget it to her
dying day. But me. 1t puts me all
out of pat =. When l 90 to tell any
thing, L can't remember the first
| thing"
But the story, mother?o
"Oh, yes! 1t was about this man
mercy sakes. why can't l think what
his name is? However, it's no use.
Well, very funny thing happened to
him in India, | believe-n0. t was
China-Oh, yes-no, il was in Italy, be-
cause it had something to do with ban
dts. But it couldn't have been in Italy,
either; for you remember, father, that
/ 1T had something about tigers in it. and
there amt no tigers in 1taly-leastwise
| never heard of any there. So it
couldn't have been in Italy. But where
was it, father? You should remember
! Father is unable to throw any light
on the matter.
"How vexatious it is, to be sure, that
l cant remember such little thing as
that! Well, wherever it was, the thing
day, when he was travelling alone-no,
there must have been somebody with
him, because he told me what he said
to somebody or other, and of course he
couldn't have said. something to some
body if somebody hadn't been there to
hear it. And yet he must have been
alone. At all events he was travelling
oh! have it now! mo- wish could re-
member his name! Sounds something
like Hickory but of course that WASH t
! it."
Perhaps it was Shadbark, y" ventures
father. " facetiously.
what do you want to Illustrate me
with your nonsense for, fathers? / de-
clare, you We put. me all out, and / can't
remember for the life OF me what it was
that happened TO him. But know it
was something awfully funny. ~
| Father has no doubt of ii, but
breathes a prayer of thankfulness to
know that Maria has run down at last.
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