The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1889-12-13


r them"
Y Five minutes slipped away
h hen ten-then | hurried back my.
Eself He was seated on char IN
E the hall, hat and overcoat off, and
E as | opened the door he growled.
a "Might as we'll take off your
Il kthings!'
"But why p
4 1--WE are not going TO any thea
8ter this night ("
d Not gong! Has anything hap
opened y
"a IL should say had! I've looked
N this internal house from top to bot
I2tom for those glasses, and they are
4not to be found. Wen put in our
%evenlng trying to discover whether
&they are up in the garret or down
Gin the vegetable cellar"
q "Mr. Bowser, | tod where those
TgIasses We're"
& "Ihey are not within forty rods
%of it.n
4 "Come up stairs"
mo use. If they are even III
#your room Tll buy you five million
SsiIk dresses !!
81 Come onr
"A He followed after, and there
Shung the bag just where | Lad told
8hlm he would find it. | looked
Nlrom one to The other, and Mr..
HBowser finally said:
y 81 sec how it is. You'll proba-
@bly say you told me to look here
5inslead of the spare bedroom
gdresser. Take off your things,
Mrs. Bowser-we don't stir foot
@outside tonight"
4 One night when baby was sick |
5sgot Mr.. BOwser out Of bed to gel
Fthe Yaregoric. After a great deal
Aof yawmng and growing he march
3ed off down stairs, and Tor the filth
Stime | told HIM:
81 remember TO have placed it on
athat bracket over the lounge"
4 | heard him thrashing around
Sand knocking about in The sitting
Groom, rummaglng in the pantry
8and upsetting chairs in the kitchen.
5aud after about ten minutes lie APP
speared at the foot Of the STAIRS and
\ shouted:
II I've looked the consarned house
Sail over and can't find it,"
4 81 told you it WAS on the brack-
Aai -
i 81 know you did, but it isn't
gthere p
Sure YOU have looked"
\ "Do you take me for an idiot y
n "Well, I'll come down"
q | went down, walked him to the
ibrackei, and there SAT the bottle
sbetore his eyes.
4 "But it wasn't there a minute
1ago," he protested. 81 looked the
lbracket over al least five times,
Hand | know Pm not blind. Mrs.
sBowser, there are some queer hap
openings about this house. | think
Iii best that we sit down and lave
Ia straight talk"
4 One day al noon he wanted me
Ito tighten a button on his over
scoat, and | sent him up 10 my room
Ito get the box of thread and
sneedles.
you'll find it on the sill OF the
sbay window, where | left it half
GAN hour ago." | cautioned as he
went up stairs.
! heard him prancing around and
sslamming things about, and after
seven or eight minutes | went up
Ito ascertain the cause of delay.
lie had pulled every bureauI
3drawer out, taken down most of
i the garments in the clothes-press.
land was then overhauling my Jew
selry case.
I'D like 10 know If there was
sanother woman like You in De-
strnil 7" he exclaimed as appeared.
"You came up here for the thread
4boX. didn't you y
"Of course | didm
"And | told you it was OH the
ssill of the bay window"
"But it-m
pointed it out TO him, and after
schangng countenance and swaf-
flowing a lump he braced up and
Ssaid
"Mrs. Bowser, it is lime TO quit
fthis toomfoolery! You are too old
ffor such glrlish tricks. Next time
syou try to make a fool OF me I'll
hask you to select such furniture as
3you want and settle on the amount
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