Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-05-16

evident he had a lame back, and he
dragged one leg as he walked, and
| thought 1t a fitting opportunity
to say:
81 wouldn't bother with that
room any more if I were you. l
presume you are wanted at the
Office
"Do you? The Office is locked
mp and l have the key in my
pocket
"But why NOT get paper'hang-
erg7
"Because | am going to do 1t
myself. 7 find that l am a little
short of paper, and | guess Pll tel
ephone for more"
he gave an order for four double
rolls aud after dinner went back
to his labors. locking the door so
that could not see his work.
Abou mid "A t5ruOou, however, as
| listened at the door | heard him
growing;
"Hang that carpenter! He didn't
get this wall within two feet of
straight, and tha- last strip has
got to come of -
Just before supper he came down
and telephoued for two more rolls
of paper and forty feet more of
border, bnt he looked so pale-faced
and sloop .houldered and done ont
that | hadn't the heart to say any
thing about the room. He fell
asleep in his chair while reading
the paper, and every few moments
uttered groau or sigh. He was
paste and paper from head to heel
and back again, and could hardly
Get upstairs from the lameness in
his legs and back. Next morning,
as he seemed undecided whether
to 60 To the Office or upstairs, |
asked i'll shouldn't telephone for
the papcr.hanger. That decided
i'm and be replied:
~ wouldn't be as Jealous minded
as You are, Mrs. Bowser, for all the
money in the world. You are shak'
irc in Your shoes for fear that l
viii 90 a really hlct.,173sit lit Of work.
II was four o'clock in the after I
loon before he would allow me to
inter Dhe room and then he an. {
louuced its completion. /
just Give me a fair and honest /
,piuion of it, without reference to {
'clation.,hip,n he SAID as he stood {
n the center of The room and look {
I'll around.
II he had been armed with a
knife to cnt my throat [ should
,avn bpcn comDplled TO laugh.
Seven of the strips were wrong end
lp. Four or FIVE OF them we're
On cro,ked. lie had Tapped the
pap T on to The base and window
castings, and his border was up and
down Ike the waves of the Sea.
"Have you escaped from Kala.
me demanded, as laugh
ed until | had to sit down on the
floor
Mr.. Bowser, l have a request
to make Of you-perhaps a dying
request, Let NE bring in some OF
the neigbbors to see this
"Certainly, and If they don't say
it is one of the neatest jobs they
ever saw I'll give in"
| sent the cook out and got three
of the nearest ladies', and when
they entered the managerle Mr..
BOwscr retired to dress himself. He
wouldn't come ont until they Lad
departed, but he must have heard
all that was said. At supper time
he came down and quietly remark
ed
81 suppose you want the custody
of the child, Mrs. BOwser y
"What do you mean 7"
"Wby, after encouraging me to
spend two days OF my time in pa
pering that loom, that you might
critcise my work, it will be best
that we separate. During the eye-
nng you had better make out a.
list of the things you want to re-
serve"
Next day the paper. hanger came
up and put on other paper. MIR.
BOwser bought pint of liniment
and four porous plasters, and there
is no happlerSOusebold in Detroit
than that of BOwser.-DetrOit Free
Press.
Claims to Have Been to Heaven.
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