Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-08-26

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You see the Clintons had neighbor
next door that kept the ugliest and
noisiest dog you'd find in a days. travel
it had kept the family awake so often,
and Mrs. Mason had had so much to
say about it, that at last Henry got
gun, that he loaded every evening and
drew the charge ofevery morning, SOS
to be sure there couldn't be any danger
from the was careful sort--and
he told the man that owned the dog
that the next time the beast howled
all night he'd shoot it.
That morning he took the gun as
usual to unload it, and just as he had
it in his hand, his mother-in-law called
him to open bottle for her, and it
took him so long that, remembering
he had man waiting at his Office,
and being in great hurry, he just
hung the gun up and forgot that it
was still loaded.
In the evening he took it down to
load it, as he always did, and his
mother-in.law, being pleasanter than
usual, was kind O. fooling round, and
she says, ooh, yes" says she, "you're
fine shot" says she, you're a good
one for shooting-oh, yes, you ought to
have gun-you shoot so WE'LL" says
she.
"Well," says he, 81 guess l can
shoot we'll enoug to shoot you," and
with that he pointed the gun at her.
close to her head, and, forgetting that
it was loaded, pulled the trigger. She
fell, and they say she never even shiv-
cred, she died so quick. l never want
to see such horrid sight again.
Now, of course, it was only natural
that Hennie Clinton should fret about
her mother-'twas her mother, you
see, and suppose she was so used to
her ways that she didn't mind them
as other folks debut why she should
have turned right against that poor
husband of hers, is more than l could
ever see. He refused to be bailed
when he found his wife wouldn't even
see him always thought the way
she went on had good deal to do
with the coroner's jury bringing IN
such verdict that Henry was put
on trial-and all the while he was shut
up there, she was talking to every fool
woman in the town in such way:
ooh, if Henry had only liked poor
mamma a little bit, and, sob, he
needed not to have killed dear man.
ma, even if she did make him angry"
till l thought Henry could have been
forgiven for shooting her.
If it had been real grief I'D felt for
her, but the idea that every one was
talking about her and plying her, just
turned her little, empty head, and she
seemed to really enjoy the thing. She
called in young doctor who had just
come to town, and then she sent for
cousin of hers, young widow, one of
your fy-up-the.crick sort, and if them
three fools weren't enough to make
you sick
OF course, Hennie couldn't testify
against her husband, but she might as
we'll have been let, for by the time the
trial came of, she had folks so that the
very ones that were sorriest for Henry
at first, were wagging their heads and
saying, "he'd always had hasty tenn
per-" and "they hoped he hadn't been
having hot words with his mother-in.
law" and they thought year at Au-
burn was light sentence" Nobody
put up a kind word for the man that
had always been so well liked, except
Mary Kent and some of us fellows who
had always been his comrades since
we were born.
She went to see Hennie, and tried to
coax her to say one word of kindness
to the poor, heart-broken man, but it
want no use-the girl wouldn't so
much as see him. Mary did get her
to own up-when it was too late to do
any good-tbat she didn't really think
Henry would have gone to do any one
harm-and that he'd never been any
thing but kind and patient to her
mother, though she had nagged him
more than once day, or too.
Henry didn't make any fuss about the
sentence-the judge said there was
good deal too much of this pointing
guns, whether they was loaded or not
that Henry hadn't no business to
forget such thing as it being loaded
and that the fact of his being a
gentleman, stead of an ignorant, care
less sort of man, made it all the
worse he'd have to be made an ex-
ample of, he said.
After her husband had been gone
just few weeks, Hennie packed up
her things, as if she was going to stay,
shut up the house, and she and that
cousin of hers went off. The fine
doctor found, too, that he'd business
elsewhere, and he shut up shop and