The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-01-06
THE MODERN GINEVRA.
But tho ''6pring.Lock Hid IN Am.
bush There Didn't Fasten'
Her Down Forever"
Detroit Free Press

The fair Imogene D'Eustis had been
welded to the knightly Sam Higgins. Tho
clergyman had been handed % In cash to pay
for the splicing, the guests were filing them
selves up with eatables, and everything was
sliding along as smoothly as q cider mill SAIL
ing down on spring freshet, when all al
once the bride was missing.
Her newly found husband looked under
the table, but she was not there.
The guests separated to search. Some
looked down the well-otherS down cellar
others In the hen-ooop and moke-house and
behind the pig pen. No Imogene.
Then some said that she had been abducted,
while others scoffed at the idea Of girl
weighing 1875 pounds and having a scream
which could be heard two miles, being car
ried Off in broad daylight, and in a neighbor-
hood where the Democrats had over two hum
bred majority.
A detective was called In. He looked at
her old shawl, measured the length OF her
shoes, and decided that II was mysterious
affair. He would take the case II desired,
but would not promise any satisfactory solu-
ton under year and half.
The fair mogene's father hadn't betrayed
cAeltoiuouo up W poihc ADV "oN~
ding feast was the first square meal he had
tackled for six months and he wanted to I'LL
up before giving way to emotion. He was
now full. He turned around upon the OK.
cited and distressed guests, commanded them
to hush their hullaballo, and disappeared up
stairs.
When the coy Imogene slipped away from
the feast 1t was to see II her husband would
miss and follow her. She slid up stairs,
mounted to the garnet, and after brushing
the cob webs of her nose she advanced to the
big blue chest in the corner. The chest bad
been made to hold her fathers government
bonds, and was hoped with iron and pro-
vided with spring lock, which never cost
less than dollar. Her mission was to hide
in the chest and see IL her husband would be
soft enough to climb up there and throw up
the lid and call peek-a-boo As the reader
knows, he wasn't the man to catch on.
The old man D'Eustis walked up stairs and
made his way to the garnet through the same
trap-door the bride had used. He thought she
| might be up there to take last farewell look
at the punches Of catnip, moldy school books
| and broken spinning-wheels. He could not
see her. He called aloud, but the whistle Of
the tug on the river was the only answer.
He turned to 60, but something whispered 10
him that perhaps he might find plug Of To-
bacco or bottle of stomach bitters in the old
chest. He advanced with beating heart and
| threw up the lid
"Why, pop, is this you'll" cried the fair limo
gene as she sprang up and ripped her brida
F., dress clear down the back.
eyes, this is me' growled the old man
land what the jimcracks are you doing herer
| Gliding from Sam"
| I'm tarnal mind to box your ears, bic
az you arel Here you've raised regular
city convention all over the house, spout .
dress which cost me $l4 with the making, up
set your mother, and scart old Mrs Spigo
into fit!'
please, pop, l."
"You git! Drap yourself through tina
trap-hole, skip down there and tell the crow
that you don't know beans when the bag
united"
And the bride got. And her husband wa
so mad that he burned up free railroad pas
to Chicago, and her mother cried, and be
father went off down town to play poker
and, taken all in all, the coy bride and tn
old chest and the spring lock business didn'
I pay 10 cents on the dollar