Connecticut western news., 1883-02-07
THE HUMOROUS PAPERS.
WHAT WE FIND TO LAUGH OVER THIS
 WEEK.
The Widows Wish-InfOrmati0n Wanted-A
 Big Pull-PeRgy Dear, Etc.
THE WIDOWS WISH.

"Tell Beryl to come here."
 The Lady Agatha Frelinghuysen spoke these words in the commanding, decisive, l. will get there or break-a suspender tone, that was habitual to her, but as Mud Lake Maud, who had been faith full servitor of the Frelinghuysens for forty years, and seen Beryl grow from a cooing babe to splendidly beautiful woman, turned away, she fancied that the lips of her mistress quivered slightly, and that her breath came in gasps.
 "It may have been carrying that bucket of coal up stairs," said Maud softly to herself as she hurried away to obey the mandate given her, "but I fear that my ladys emotion hath another and more serious cause, and that Beryl, whom I oft have tossed in these withered arms, will think she has struck blizzard belt when the old lady begins to paw the l air"
 Just then Maud fell over coal scuttle that had been carelessly left in the cor ridor, and, on rising, met Beryl, who was intently reading note.
 "Do you wish to see me, mamma ?" asked Beryl, tripping lightly into the room where her mother was seated.
 "Yes, my child, was the reply. "I fain would speak with you on matter that doth nearly concern your future happiness-your marriage"
 The girl shrank back instinctively, and the happy look faded from the pretty blue eyes. Plunging her right hand inn pulsively into her pocket, she discovered the last letter from Vivian Perkins, the man whom she loved with all the pas s1onate intensity of last-chance affec- tion, was still there. Her secret was safe.
 'I am ready" she said to her mother in the respectful tones which ever char acterized her speech, "to hear you twit- ter."
 ''I know" said the mother, speaking calmly. 'tof your love for Vivian Per kins."
 Beryl mastered her emotion bravely, and gave no outward sign of the battle that was waging in her soul.
 ''You wish to marry this man ?" said the Lady Agatha.
 'I do, replied Beryl, "and nothing but his word, his act shall ever keep me from his side. love Vivian with a wild, four track-and- -a-sleeping- car-on- every train love that will brook no re- straint, and some day, even though the fiery jaws of hades itself were opened to stop me, shall be his.
 ''I know all this," said the mother; ''I know that you will marry Vivian, and I have but one request to make"
 "What is that ?" asked the girl.
 'It is, " said the Lady Agatha, ''that you will arrange to have the nuptials occur as soon as possible"
 'But why?'' asked the daughter.
 Because" was the reply. s'I am thinking of making similar break my self. Chicago Tribune. PEGGY DEAR I've been waiting in the lane, Peggy dear In the wind and in the rain, | Sticking here | And the former keenly blew, And the latter soaked me through, And fingered here for you, | Peggy dear
 But my dream of love is OCT,
 Peggy dear! | I will trouble you no more Never fear. | The appointment was for eight, Up at wonder wicket gate, And eleven's rather late, l Peggy dear!
 am fated, I'll be sworn, Peggy dear! To wake tomorrow morn, Pretty queer
 Of the poultice and the pill, shall have to take my fill, | And of syrup of the squill
 Peggy dear!
 It may please you to be told,
 Peggy dear!
 That I've caught my death of cold
 That is clear
 Twill delight you to have known,
 When my final breath is flown,
 That the fault was all your own,
 Peggy dear! | TIoKLED HoosIER.
 An Indiana farmer walked into the house the other day with tickled look on his face and his hat on his ear, and called out ...-r.
 "By gum Hammer, what do you think 9
 Whats happened now?"
 "You know that fellow who sold me the churn and had me sign aper?" "Yes."
 "Well, that paper was note fol $5O." 'Noa !"
 '"True as preaching. And what els' do you suppose .-.... "He sold it?" "Right you are. Went and sold it t, a bank in Vincennes, and I've got to pa, it. Think of it, Hanner-my note goo, enough to be sold to 8 bank four storie high, and with plate-glass windows, an, they send me just the same kind of :. notice to pay as they would 8 rich man . I must let old Sims hear of it in som . way. The Sims family look upon us a ' scrubs, and here we are treated the sam = as if we rode in keeridge behind fou = horses P
 t QUESTION OF INFORMATION. - The only time Sam Cox was eve I squelched, not counting the ''shoo fly :, of Ben Butler, was when Owen Love l. joy, of Illinois, did it in 1902. MT. Go o had been making long and exhaustiv