Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-10-28
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on Its front by which II cOuld be distlh
puished from another. Such a row OF
of buildings would be very hard matter
to find anywhere else in the world; OF
even 20 alike; all with seven steps; all
with porticoes; one rs alike any other as
could possibly be-
Tack on another item. Mr.. Frosty was
as Jealous man of his wife as any per
son need be. He was terribly jealous
and that Is quite enough for the happin-
ess or comfort of any family. Now il is
an awful thing to be jealous of his wife
at all; if he has reason for it, it most GER
tainly is; and if without cause it is vastly
more So When either man or woman
falls into such a wretched condition as
that they may as well draw their cotton
caps over their eyes and say good night
TO the world Living is no sort of an OBJ.
ject TO them.
But whether Mr.. Frosty had any reason
to be Jealous of his wife is not what we
are going to settle. And yet we never
thought he could have; for a kinder gent
Ter sweetcr, more amiable and devoted
wife than she made him, it would be diff
ficult TO put your finger upon anywhere
in the street But Mrs. Frosty was young
and great deal of beauty. too, and was
remarkably attractive in her manners.
1t would not be at all strange if there
were reasons sufficient to excite Mr. Frosty
against her though, if there were he
ought TO have been heartily ashamed Of
himself and gone and got palmer wife
to begin with,
Not many doors of in the same row of
undistiuguishable dwellings, lived Col,
al. -. Il. Al
himself on being esteemed a gentleman.
without assuming to be what is popularity
termed a ladies man. he nevertheless
was extremely particular in his carriage
towards them, aiming always To- impress
them with sense of his perfect purity
and chiyalry and truth.
No one in the neighborhood or in the
wide world either, that / know of, ever
suspected him of being capable OF Insult
ing any one least of all alady. Mothers
along the street held him mp to the eyes
Of their spronting sons as an example Of
the lofty and true, And fathers spoke Of
him nov and then to their eldest daugh-
ters, and hoped that if they ever thought
of marriage and 1t il just possible that
some of them did they would he salts
fled with nothing else than a character
like his. This certainly would seem TO be
praise enough.
Coming nome musingly, and with his
head down, one evening, the Colonel
thought no such accident was possible as
chat he should mistake his own house, es-
pecially As he had been in and out that
way so many times.
Perhaps the very fact that ne felt such
a confidence was the greatest reasen why
he should make such mistake at all
But as he was very much occupied with
his reflections, he abandoned himself en-
tirely to what he knew of the way home,
and thought of course, he should reach
that pleasant spot all in proper time,
The consequence was, on this particular
occasion at least, that he slipped himself
quietly IN through Mr.. Frostys front
door. hung mp his hat and coat in tho hall
and started for the dining room.
As an the houses in the row were so
much alike on the outside, their internal
arrangements were pretty much after the
same fashion likewise, SO that the hall of
MIR Frosty seemed exactly like his own
hail, and the dining groom door opened
just whore his own did.
lhe instant he opened the door, how
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and began good iauph owen bi. INN.
cent adventure.
"Ifl should ever l.appeu ia yc, cap,bt
$50 myself" sand she. and Tine rbop,bt ~
the Consequences made her NUT h,.r, Whit,
hand before her face that she mi,,bt bayo
her laugh out unseen. I'VE are nlw,ys
grateful for "a cau from Won Coi St.u,oi. :,
added Mrs. Frosty. Now Won ar, sere