The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-04-18

up STAIRS 10 MI. DnWSeI' lie odL III
chair trying TO smile and look
unconcerned, but one of the steps
OF the ladder was gone and | knew
that he had come down like load
of stone.
"Dld you call? 2" | asked.
Me? Oh, no | am studying
on an idea"
There was paste on his hair and
piece Of wallpaper sticking 10 his
back, but | withdrew without
further remark. When he came
al noon | was i'll hopes he had
abandoned the work. 1t was evil
dent lie had lame back, and he
dragged one leg as he walked, and
| thought it fitting opportunity
to say Z:
Il wouldn't bother with that
room any more if | were you. |
presume you are wanted at the
office"
"Do you? The office is locked
up and have The key in my pock-
et."
But why not get paper-hang-
err"
"Becaus eI am going to do it my
self. | find that | am little short
of paper, and | guess I'll telephone
for more"
lie gave an order for four dou-
bic rolls and alter dinner went
back TO his labOrs, locking the door
so that could notsee his work.
About md,afternoon, however, as
| listened at the door, | heard him
growing:
"Hang that carpenter! lie did
Mt get this wall within two feet OF
straight, and that last strip has got
to come off -
"Ju,t before supper he came
down and telephoued for two more
rolls of paper and forty feet more
of border, but he looked so pale.
faced and stoop-shouldered and
done out that hadn't the heart tc
say anything about the room. He
lell asleep in his chair while read
ing the paper, and every few mo
ments uttered a groan or a sigh
He was paste and paper from head
to heel and back again, and couIo
hardly gel up from the lamene3'
in The legs and back. Next morn
ing, as he seemed undecided wheth
er to 90 TO the Office or up stairs,
asked shouldn't telephone for the
paper-hanger. That decided hin
and he replied:
Il wouldn't be as jealouS-mind
ed as you are, Mrs. Bowser for all
the money in The world! You are
shaking IN your shoes for fear that
| will do really nice bit of work.
1t was 4 o'clock in the afternoon
before he would allow me to enter
the room and then he announced
lis completion.
'..Just give me fair and honest
opinion Of il. without reference TO
relationships" he said as he stood in
the center of the room and looked
around.
Ii he had been armed with a
knife 10 cut my throat ] should
have been compelled to laugh.
Seven of The strips we're wrong
end up. -Four or five oil them were
on crooked. lie had Tapped the
paper on TO the base and window
castings, and his border was up and
down like the waves of the sea.
Have you escaped from kala'
maZOo ~ he demanded as | laugh
ed until ! had to sit down on The
floor.
"Mr. Bowser, | have a request TO
make OF you-perhaps dying re-
quest. Let me bring in some OF
the neighbors TO see this"
"Certainly, and if they don't say
it is one Of the neatest jobs they
ever saw then Ill give in
sent cook on. and got three of
the nearest ladies, and when they
entered the menagrie Mr.. Bowser
retired to dress himself. He would
MT come out until they had de-
parted, but he must have heard all
that was SAID. AT supper time he
came down and quietly remarked
IL suppose you want the custody
of The child, Mrs. Bowser q
"What do you means'
"Why, after encouraging me to
spend Two days Of my time IN pa
per,ng that room, that you might
criticise my work, it will be best
that we separate. During the
evening Won had better make
out list of the things You want to
reserve"
Next day the paper-hanger came
mp and put on other paper. Mr..
Bowser bought a pint of linlment
and four POROUS plasters, and there
is no happier household in Detroit
than that of Bow>er.
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"Why don't you run paper like
lhail" a country merchant said lC
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