The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1886-12-23

ingto him, attacked it. Sheturned pale
and gave her plate alittle angry push.
Then Mrs. Harry, having helped every.
body else, settled herself to the enioy-
ment Of her pudding. Sue, regarding
her, saw q look Of CONSERVATION gath.
er upon her face. She uttered an ex-
clamation as it she had been wounded.
Sue she said, angrily, you
carried the wrong pudding to Mrs.
Burke. This is the poor.man's pud-
ding" regardless of her guest.
Il carried the pudding the cook COVE
me-" returned Sue.
"No wonder Mrs. Burke THOUGHT it
too good for poor folkl'' put in Lily,
sourly.
They both glowered at Sue. They
were obliged to repress their wrath be-
fore their guest, but they were too full
OF indignation to talk nationally or
.coherently. If Mr.. Blake guessed that
there was thunder in the air. he was as
factious and anecdotal asusual, ignor.
ed the atmospheric changes, and did not
hurry away. But when he was oblig-
ed to take his train at last, the thun-
der-bolt burst about Sues head.
$50 you carried your point after
all my directions to the contrary"
said Mrs: Harry; "Mrs. Burke had
.her:English plum-pudding in spite Of
II had nothing to do with it," re-
turned Sue; ""it was as much a sur.
PRISE to me as to you"
"Pity Harry hadn't been here" said
Miss Lily, ignoring Sues version.
III his wife isn'ttto be mistress in his
house, it is time he knew it, Apoor-
mans pudding to get before MI. Gus
Blake, one of the most %fastidious OF
menl" &
"I'm very sorry" said Sue. at
wasen't q nice pudding EEgTS74
"Nor a nice thing for you to do in
another's house,
"Mrs. Capulet, I had nothing what
ever to do with it, protested Sue.
"Susan Capulet, I don't believe a
word you say"
"And if I we're a sister, YOU or ]
should leave the house."
And SO it happenedt that Sue packed
her trunks, and Harry Capulet had
such a version ofMrs Burke s pudding
that he did not dream of recalling her.
She went to q friends house in the
city, who had promised to find her a
situation. 5
In the meant time Mrs. Capulet,s ser:
wants confdedthe story Of the plum
pudding to Mrs. Burke herself, and
Mr.. Gus Rlake's part in it. Mrs.
Burke felt her duty to write Mr..
Blake and repeat the whole affair,
and through him to help sweet Miss
Sue, who would never hurta fly, out
ofeer trouble. s
Mr. Blake smiled over this letter.
So they had made it hot for Miss Sue!
He had suspected as much. He went
to call on his friend Mrs. Barnes and
request her cooperation. He was
shown into the mushroom, and met
Sue.
$50" he said, shaking hands, "this
is the result OF Mrs. Burke's pudding.
What a lucky pudding for me and
Mrs. Burkel" And then Mrs. Barnes
entered. SY5
II came" he said, ssto consult you
about the affairs of a friend of mine
who has come to grief. Her Ease is
even worse than. that of the man in
the South who burnt his mouth eat.
ing cold plum.porridge."
The upshot ofthe consultation was
that Sue had a position, a little later,
where Mr.. Blake was intimate enough
to dropit at his pleasure and carry
the g%overness of to the opera, or for
a few hours recreation in the Park
behind his spaxsx1hds8ao$it happened
that one day HssMrs. Gapulet
received the &fds OF Miss
Susan Capulet aGustavuss
Blake, which was al owing to Mrs
Burke's pudding. i