Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-08-06
SHEPHERDSTOWN W. VA, FRIDAY, AUGUST g. 1885,

nave 10 BUSINESS With you. Io
Jour way and let me in peace" and the
man turned away from her TO take up
his work.
81 did not come here to tell your for
tune" persisted Mag, "but to warn you
against certain danger"
sect out o. this! I'll not hear anoth-
er word"
"Well, then, be murdered for aught |
care" said Mag, turning abruptly to
walk away.
Murdered? Who talks about mur-
der!"
81 do, and so do other folks, too."
cam 1 to be murdered, you say?"
Eyes, you"
"Who wants to murder me"
Nobody else but your own wife"
"You're a liar, and be confounded !"
exclaimed the man, almost in fury.
Hem well that needs be proved. |
heard people say so and | thought it
right to come and warn you. You
would do well TO have an eye on your
wife, and try her, anyhow"
"How will she murder me, and
why?"
"She will try to cut your throat with
your razor, while you are asleep, so
people say, and that isas soon as she
gets a chance. Why she wants to DO it,
don't know"
"I will try her." said the man sullen-
| ". "If it is false, then | will settle
with you"
81 only tell you what heard people
say. Try her yourself and you will see.
Good day, SIR" With this Mag left,
saying to herself, "the old man is all
right, too. / will soon have my shoes"
At noon, when the old man went
home for his dinner, he watched his
wife closely. Noticing that she viewed
him, now and then, in stolen, dis
trustful way, he grew suspicious and
began to look and act sour and sharp.
"Ahaw thought his wife, 81 see the
trouble coming already"
After dinner he lay down rs usual to
take his nap; but this time to try his
wife, having shut his eyes, he soon
began to snore, and thus pretended to
be most sound asleep. His wife kept on
doing her work after dinner as usual
until she heard him snoring. Then she
went into the room in which he was ly-
ing OH the lounge, and to find out
whether he was sleeping soundly
enough for the purpose, she managed to
make anoise by upsetting chair. He
did not stir, but snored away as strong
ly ss before.
On tip-toe she went TO the bureau,
opened it cautiously and took out her
husbands razor. Having removed 1t
from its case, she again stepped on
tip-toe up to where her husband was
lying. She stopped down towards him,
holding the lazor in her hand to cut the
hair away from his throat; when to her
greatest dismay, he jumped up, seized
her hand, from which the razor dropped
to the floor, and in his rage hurled her
into a corner of the room. The story,
then tells US that from this time forward,
the old couple never had day Of peace
so that at last they had to separate.
The next day about noon Old Mag
came along the same road. She found
the Devil sitting on the same stone,
waiting for her. When he saw her ap-
proaching he got up climbed over the
fence, and putting the shoes to the end
of a long pole, made ready to hand
them TO her.
"Why, old fellow, what do you
mean ?" laughed the witch. care you
afraid of me?"
"Indeed am and ought to be-" an
swered the Devil; "you did in one day
what could not do in forty years.
That beats me! | have reason to fear
you. Here, take your shoes; you have
earned them well for your skillful and
successful work"
Dear readers, will not 60 bail for
the truth of this story, just as it is; but
truth it is. There are such devils in
human form, tina. through their malice
succeed in leading others into sin, thus
bringing misery and death to the soul
and doing what Satan himself, maybe,
could not DO.