The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-07-05

a Howly Mother! she squ aled Wa
there ever such an elegant bonnet
TX | didn't see one ike 1t in me life, bar
- rim twas once on me Lady Murph
ST in Dublin city-she was ridln in he
'st carriage. And the beautiful cape
~ Sure, maam, darliu, Is like a guam
lp ye look.
Thank you, Biddy said my wife
y and in minute NOR she went GU
a with the glri and shut tie door between
eS the kitchen and tie dining room
S Then they went upsails together, aut
VS. when my wife cam down she had the
'e things away.
IN 1t was like coulng times that night
S, | never knew C9hrine Ann to make
- SO much of me and wnen you have
lrled TO please ay one its nice to feel
Is that they feel vat you've been about.
'e That was re pleasant night. How
eF even, as umeSent on began to feel
l sort O. curias about one thing.
dunno howlon2 ago its since had
I'd given CatFne Ann the bonnet and
mantilla, al she had't once let NE see
Y: her in the not once.
u First Sday she didn't go 10 church
8 becausele had no g1rl. Second she
e did 90 the old dust colored things.
le Slid S felt bashful about showing
a herselrst in the new ones Sunday.
ssa And nit sne had rather headache and
tStaye@t home.
n Ssl went on. was getting mad
y, abolt, and bulness took me down to
as to w York again, and | was away
n, foulays-about the longest time /
ut ev@as away from her since was mar
{, ri-and one evening | took notion
IN to 10 museum, and there in the
as nt row, with her back round, was
u wife. couldn't believe my eyes.
I'd t 1t was fact, my wifi. in her new
a pnnet and mzntila that | had bought
d yself.
l. I'd have knocked 'em anywhere, and
leeslde her big Young man with a red
lneck and green tie and his arm
saround her waist, and she smuggling up
to him as il it was colrting times, and
they were alone IN the front parlor Sun
day evening.
You could have Knocked me down |
with goose feather. l guess l got
little white, for l saw folks looking at
me; but laid low and said nothing
until the show was over and the folks |
began to get up. Then / crept up soft
and sure toward my wife and that
fellow, for they never budged, but lust
sat making show OF themselyer there.
Who ne was didn't ask, but | was &C.
ing to wipe him out. who ever he was.
As far as Cathrine Ann went / knew 1t
was my fault. I'd drove her to such
courses by dressing her up Almost again
her will in all the spendors OF fashion.
She'd known her weakness and kent
PLAN. The ministers had preached On
that subject and I'd attention. I'd
trlcked her out and this is what it
had led to. Coming to New York 10
go to museums with young men
How sudden il was and how awful |
remembered how good | felt bringing
home these things, aai sort of waited
70 die; but | crept up and up, clubbing
NY umbrll, and in moment more down |
came kersmash ! on the top of that
elbows red head, and over lie went with
| howl.
Bloody murther It's kilt / am says
lie. But I'll pay ye devil, will and eff
vent his coat.
But at that minute two men seized
lpon MIN and two seized upon me.
Gentlemen-gentlemetr, what is all
his about? says a fat man in a tall hat
oming up to US.
Well, says |, when find my wife run :
ing about town with a strange fellow y
But stopped. The woman was look.
'g at me, and 1t wasn't my wite-it II
'asn't Cathrine Ann 1t was no less Z
ian Biddy Dolan, who left house the ,
light | to k these home. But she had u
~ wlte's bonnet on and me wlfe's man.
LA. and being the same Insight and the }
lme colored hair. | made the mistake.
It's not my wife! l says, out loud, =,
cling as if I'd got hold of life again. :,
ut those are her clothes! You've
'bbed her of them, you thievirg !,
'eature, and she hasn't dared tell ta
e! The height of the fashion and f..
e best Of the kind to be bought in
ew York, and she never had them u,;
ice. I'll send for the police and /,
I'VE you arrested! =,
But Biddy didn't quail. She put
r arms akimbo and stared at me
Pm no thief" said she. Send for u,
e mlssus and prove me words true be
brought the bonnie and mantiIIa
me the night left, bad luck to vel ~
! II not deny that! -
No, said |, "that's true" =
And me comm in and saying me pa
'ughts consarnln' thin, said Hiddv
hat did the missus do but came TO tha
in the kitchen Biddy, says she of
me, me husband has brought me TIM
ne these things I've on wild the tba
t intentions, but they are too cav 7
me at my tonne iv life says she, eve
since ye loike them, says she, for
e them for the wages. They're It is
tn far more, sez she, but I'd never Dor