The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-05
BAFFLED HOPES.
Mr.. and Mrs. SpOopendyIIe Indulge in Some
Visions of the Wealth Lottery Ticket Is to

Mr.. and Mrs. SpOOpendyke Indulge in Some
| Visions of the Wealth a Lottery Ticket Is to
Bring.
| Brooklyn Eagle.
my dear said Mrs Spoopendyke who had
| paper she held in both hands. My dear. what
| do you suppose this is about?'
Let me see," demanded Mr.. Spooyendyke
| snatching at the paper. ''Why, it's lottery
ticket What peddler of sacred literature have
you been patronizing now! Whered you acquire
possession of this monument to wealth.
Il found it, fiuttered Mrs. Spoopendyke max
! ing dive for it, as though the explanation of
what it was made the slightest difference in its
contents. lis it really Il lottery ticket! How
much do we winl
We'll, if it draws prize, and the expense of
! collection don't eat up the amount and the lot
terry pays up, we won't be much out of pocket,
returned Mr.. Spoopendyke, examining the ticket
again.
And I'll have my sealskin dolman, after all!T
| Squealed Mrs Spoopendyke, clappng her hands
and peering over her husbands shoulder at the
mysterious document. II wish they'd hurry up
and send the money. When doyou think they'll
| send it, dear"
''Praps it's on the way nowir muttered Mr..
| Spoopendyke 'Of course, the lottery folks
know you found it, and they'll break their necks
to pay up before the owner can make any trouble.
| Have you ordered anything else besides the dol
man ON the strength of this find? Been making
any other purchases of a similar characterl"
| NO" cooed Mrs. Spoopendyke ''And you
shall have "a What would you like, dearl
Wen buy what you want, and if there's any
thing left Wen think about the dolman."
Don't think there1 be much left gPunted
Mr.. Spoopendyke. sit didn't occur to you that
we could put this money in the bank, or l could
use it in my business, did it? Never suggested
itself to you that could lay it away, or Specu
late in stocks and double it. or buy horse we
could both enjoy. did it! All you thought of was
the dolman, and you want me to advance the
money for that
! II didn't know" murmured Mrs. Spoopendyke,
rather crestfallen. 81 thought maybe there
would be enough for us both, and if there was I'd
like to get the sack. Say, dear, how much would
the stocks cOStF
| depends on how much you paid for themr
| lucidly explained Mr.. Spoopendyke. They'll
! cost good deal mere than the seal skin will.
! What's the matter with you? As soon as you
! get few dollars you want to bum it away on
| clothes Haven't you any notion of saving!
| Think you'd excite any more respect among the
| other inmates by clawing around the poor house
| in a seal-skin coat Spose I'm goingto sit around
| here like the label on bottle and have the
| nelghbors fetch in cold pie, while you skin
| around after washing in seal-skin dolman!
! tell you, this moneys going where it'll do some
| good! Hear me! Tn going to build a barn and
| buy a horse
| won't that be nicer exclaimed Mrs. Spoopen-
| dyke, her face illuminated with smiles. And
| at one end of the barn we'll have piggery and
! at the other end we'll have hennery! OH
we won T. SnOfteu Alf. SpOOpendyke.
I ''Thnk I'm going to have q lot of measly hens
| scratching with one leg and growing all night
/ with the other! Got a notion that Pm going to
| put money into pack Of pigs thatll squeal when
| you let up long enough to give em chance"
| But little pigs are so SWEET pleaded Mrs.
| Spoopendyke And dote on hens
''We1 you do the doting, and I'll take care Of
the funds!' retorted Dir. Spoopendyke. Ispose
| I've got to buy the corner lot so as to give the
| barn fronting on the street"
| and III train some vines over the door" said
| Mrs. Spoopendyke. with vines around the
door and climbing beans over the window We
| could make it look -"
''Think Tn going to put half this money into
hiring somebody to find out what you're talking
| about don't your roared Mr., Spoopendyke
| ''Know what a barn IS! Think it's
! some kind of nuisance, with shelves in
| front for pots and broken leg behind! Well, it
| amt and it amt going to have any beans fooing
| around it. The first dod gosted bean that find
| climbing over the window of that barn will get
! the chief part of its trousers loaded with shot"
Il thought it would look pretty" sighed Mrs.
| .'Thats it, yawped Mr. Spoopendyke. you've
been thinking again With your disposition to
only want stick Of gum and d bad reputation
to be female boarding school! Don't you inter
fere in this business any more till call you out
| to look at the horse! Understand mel'
! Eyes, dear replied Mrs. Spoopendyke lean
| ing on his shoulder and looking closely at the
ticket What do you suppose that June, 1887
is ON there for"
Mr. Spoopendyke glared at the slip, tore it into
a thousand pieces scattered them over the floor
and danced on them.
''What's it for!T he yelled. cts to put arms
and tail to and be borne around by an eighteen
carat idiot as sealskin dolman Whered we
! get itl How many suits Of my clothes did We
trade off for this measly ticket three years old9
! Which museum did ye start them dod gasted
bsans climbing into with these miraculous fnan-
| cial results"
''Never mind, dear" said Mrs. Spoopendyke,
soothingly. TIN sorry you're disappointed
about your barn, but Ill give up the sealskin
sacque."
| Mr. Spoopendyke bent on her long, lingering
| look. and then climbed into bed.
| II don't care murmured Mrs. Spoopendyke,
as she rolled up her frizzes and plastered them
with ounce seed. 81 don't care. The horse
would have run away with him and broken his
neck, and if it didn't, we might not have drawn
anything At all events, we won't have to go to
the expense of buying that corner lot, and that's
a saving" And with this economical reflection
Mrs Spoopendyke measured her husbands seal
skin cap to seeif contained enough material for
a collar and pair of cuffs and, finding that it
did, she planted her feet in his back and sank
into peaceful and refreshing slumber.
T.