Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-10-18
HIS Welded WIFE.

Shakespeare says somethingabout
worms, or it may be giants or
beetles, turning il you tread on them
too severely. The safest plan IS
never to tread on worm-not even
on the last new subaltern from home
with his buttons hardly out of their
tissue paper and the red OF sappy
English beet in his cheeks. This Is
the story of the worm that turned,
For the sake of hreyity We will call
Henry Augustus Ramsay Faizaane
"Thc Worm although he Greatly was
an exceedingly pretty boy, withouta
hair on his face and with a waist like
a girls, when he came out TO tn
Second "Shikarris and was made IN
happy in several ways. The Shikar'
ris" are a high caste regiment, and
you must be able to do things we'll
play a banjo, or ride more thanlit'
tie, or sing, or act-to get on to
them.
The Worm did nothing except fall
off his pony and knock chips out Of
gate posts with his trap, Even that
became monotonous alter time.
He objected to whist, cut the cloth
mt billiards, sang ont ot tune, kept
very much TO himself and wrote to
his mamma aud sisters at homo.
Four OF these five things were vices
which the "Shikarris" objected to
and set themselves to radicate.
Every one knows how subalternsa are.
by brother subalterns, softcned and
not permitted to be ferocious. IL is
good and wholesome and does no
one any harm unless tcmpers ARE
lost; and then there is trouble.
There was "a man once-but that is
another story.
The "Shikarris" shikurred The
Worm very much, and he bore every
thing without winking. He was so
good and so anxious to learn, and
flushed 50 pink that his education
was cut short and no was LET: to his
own devices by every one except the
senior subaltern, who continued TO
make life a burden to The Worm.
The senior subaltern meant no harm,
but his chaff was coarse, and he
didn't quite understand where tC
stop. He had been waiting toe
long for his company, aud that al
ways sours a man. Also, he was il
'oye, which made him worse.
One day, after he had borrowed The
Worms trap for lady who never
existed, had used himself all the Mt
ernoOn, had sent q note TO Tn,
Worm, purporting to come from thu
lady, aud was telling the mess nj
about it, The Worm rose in his pIac,
and said, in his quiet, lady like yoire
THAT was very pretty sell; but II
lay you months pay to n month
pay when you get your steI
that | work sell on you tina
you'll remember the rest OF you
days, and the regiment alter Vol
when you're dead or broke" Tn
] worm wasn't angry in the least, an,
the rest of the mess shouted. The
the senior subaltern looked at Tn
Worm from the boots upward an,
, down again and said: Done, Raby.
The Worm took the rest Of the mes
to witness that the bet had been tnk
, en- and retired into a book with
sweet smile.
Two months passed and the senio
subaltern still educnted The Worn
who began to move about a lit
more as the hot weather came on.
, have said that the senior subalter
was in love. The curious thing
, that a girl was in love with the sen
, or subaltern. Though the colon
q said awful things, and the maio,
/ snorted, and the married captain
/ looked unutterable wisdom, and Il
Juniors scoffed, those two were q
gaged.
Inc senior subaltern was so please
with getting his company aud his n
8 ceptance Mt the same time that
: forgot to bother The Worm. III
: girl was n pretty girl aud had mo
: ey OF her own. She does not con
/ into this story at all.
Q One night Mt beginning Of the h
s weather all the mess except r
d Worm, who had gone to his oy
8 room to write home letters, were s
IS ting on the platform outside {
a mess house. The band had finish
3 playing, but no one wanted to go
o And the captains wives were the
+ also, The folly OF a man in love
unlimited. The senior subnltern h