New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-11-10
GOING A-GUDDLING.

that Friday afternoon. Very fa1
from it. Friday has always been my
unlucky day, anyhow. If fate, as
frequently happens, has any unpleas.
antness in store for me, it is sure to
reserve it till Friday.
But Dominic Forbes was, as we
boys phrased it, Sin a tear" on
that particular Friday forenoon;
something had gone radically wrong
with him. Everybody knew that the
dominic was deeply in love with a
farmers fair daughter, and that the
courtship ofDuncan Gray was nothing
to his in vicissitudes, for at one
time bonnie Jeanne tombstone smiled
on>him, and at another she laughed
athim. And whatever Jeanne mood
was, we poor pupils became the result,
ant; 1T was fog-fog-fog all day
when Jeanne was saucy, but when
Jeanie was kind everything we did
pleased our dominic.
AS rule, at all ordinary times Dom
Mie Forbes was q tartar. Squeers was
q saint to him. And the tawse- a
! piece of leather bride cut at the end
into two fingers and hardened in the
FIRE got little rest. When it was put
away for a time the "spengie" cane,
or rattan, took its place, and do not
know which makes the palms and fin
gers tingle the most.
A bit of a masher was Dominic
Forbes, especially on a Sunday, when
he wore a swallow-tail coat, with a
,rnorsel of crimson silk handkerchief
sticking cut of the pocket-he kept an
ordinary white one in a breast-pock-
et for nasal duty-and his club-foot
boot, with it's extraordinary thickness
:of sole, shining like half-a-yard of pol
.ished Whitby jet. The dominie's hair
was as black as his boot, and his side
.whiskers glittered like boatmen bee
tiles.
Now Saturday was kind of mixed
day with US boys at Bellield school;
:asday OF grief in the morning, because
the work of the week. had to be reca-
pitulated, and we were all sure to be
thrashed; and of Joy in the afternoon,
because it was half holiday and the
morrow was Sunday.
But no! to our great establishment,
ION this particular Saturday the DOM
.mie was as sweet in temper as tab
,by cat with five young kittens.
Jeanie had been kind. That was
tthe solution of the riddle.
But there he was, dressed in his Sab
Hbath clothes, silk handkerchief and
polished clubfoot-boot, and positive
" O. white neck tie!
And he frequently smiled softly to
himself wandered a little in his talk
but looked generally angelic
+ blundered a good deal over my ir-
irregular verbs, gave single verbs to
plural nominatives and murdered my
;spast participles. But dominic merely
= smiled and corrected me.
Invent back to my seat, walking on
i ffeEThers, seemingly.
.Jhad afavorite flat mahogany ruler,
and l got round to my table in time
to find mischievous Davie Law burn
ing one end Of it between the bars OF
the CRATE.
NV joy was turned to wrath.
rdrew forth the ruler and smote Davie
with the fiery end oft, javelin fashion.
7: 1t went half way down his throat, ]
b suppose, and loosened some of his
teeth. Davie yelled, and the dominic
appeared and found Davie splitting
so{ood and cinders. But even this did
rnot disturb his equanimity. Hemere
ly said, "You shouldn't have done
that, Gordon"
f6uch is love-when Chloe is kind!
VVe were not bit surprised to gel
away that day two hours sooner thar
usual.
We rushed pell-mell, almost break
ing each others ribs in the doorway
We yelled and shouted tor Joy, ant
aung our Highland bonnets highin air
When the exuberance OF our ecstasy
aaad somewhat subsidized, Willie Jamie
.sor,-poor lad! he was killed soon aft
.sr this by his fathers horse falling OF
izlirn- sstood upon the top OF o ston
sand shouted:
~sSWho will go a-guddling?"
What he really did say was: "Fa']
gag guddlin'?" But you see am pc
lite enough to translate his words in
TO English.
Now, Willie was the biggest boy i
sour set, and we respected him accord
ingly and looked up to him almos
reverentially., Even box on tn
ears from Willie was considered a
honor and a condescension on his part
-"Who will go a.guddling?"
WTfty arms w.svedi in the air at once
fifty treble voices rang out 'T'll cnng
I'll gang! lgang"
But Willie had NO intention o. II
Yiting the snall-fry-the nippers fror
6to7.
He rushed through their ranks, da*t
ing them aside in all directions, like
sturgeon in shoal OF haddocks, AN
.alnade his way to the spot where Davi
d1aaF and I, with our jackets off we1
haViAg 1t out in downright earnest.
He soon settled the business b
pitciaing into us both, and when "
arose from the ground 5
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