The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1891-10-03
The Reason Why lie Married lie,

"No, sir, JEFF Nesbitt; We don't
courtin' me an goin' weth sal
Trunnitt. too Hit stops or we'uns
stops. Thet's the word weth the bark
onter it.
who keers, Sairy Hankinson? Nc
woman dihates whit / does ner whit
I don't. IF yer wants ter saw off,
saw of.
He took the ring she handed him as
if it We're snake walked to the creek
bank in the moonlight and ia he'd ii
into the muddy waters with an angry
fling. Three months later Samantha
Trunnitt repea cd virtually the same
scene for virtually the same reasons.
again in anger ring Missed into the
troubled waters. Again, some three
months later, on keziah Atwoods &C
count, another ring was whirled into
the yellow waves.
Then he married pinky Hirst.
They sat by the open fireplace. He
chewed. She smoked he pipe and
cuffed the dog from the warm corners.
Jeff she family remarked, after a
long silence, "hit's drefful time sence
We war kissin' me-"
"Humph!"
jeff, ye hain't sot up close sence ye
axed me-"
"Humph,"
"Je1f. ye hain't onct called me yer
hinky Pinkv sence We courted me-"
"Humph."
jeff Nesbitt. We don't love me like
We used teG?'
"Humi b."
jeff on Wash'ton Nesbitt, We hain't
er 10 in me at all.
"R-r-r-i-i-g-h-t.'
Her face fell still further, and her
pipe went out with as deep emotion as
a Cross Fork woman ever shows after
her spanking days are past.
Jeff" she family asked, did We
merry NE cuz I wer pooty?"
"Hain't blind.
JET" still more family, did We
merry me fer whut | bring yer?'
"Hain't euttin' down big trees fer
little coons."
jeff" very family, did ye merry
me ercount er Sal?"
"Nope-dern SAL"
'Er Sairy:"
Nope -dern Sairy."
.iIr hezi?"
"No2e-likewise dern"
A long silence. Einky re1it her pipe.
kicked the hound, snelt bit of bacon
to see if it had soured, gained courage
and forced the war.
"jeff, ef yer didn't amerrv me fo ,
love, er fer looks, er fer whit | he'd. er
fer them air gals t'Iowin' We over, whut
the gashnashun did We merry me fer,
nohow:'
az merried We cuz ! wer' tired or
feeiin' all ther dern mudcats III Cross
Fork on rings thet'5 whut."
Fad French Of a Br.ton.
An amusing incident is reported
from Paris is having occurred at the
race meeting at AuteGil. An English
man, " hose French must have been that
Of the public schools, went to he paris
mutual booth and asked for 500 francs
worth of tickets on Iapillon Quatre.
His pronunciation, however. was not
sufficiently understood by tn, clerk in
charge to enable him to carry out the
wishes of his client. He understood
that the individual wanted to back the
horse whose name was number four on
the list, as he could make out a re-
semblance between the word Quatre.
meaning four, as the Englishman pro-
nounced it. and the sound he in com
mon with other parisians give it. Act
ing, therefore, in accordance with the
idea he supposed had been conveyed to
him, the clerk gave the Englishman
ninety ten franc tickets on Jeanne la
Folle smiling as he did SO. for Jeanne,
although fourth on the list. was per-
haps the rankest outsider which had
been entered. But with that blind
luck which often causes q man to Stun
bic on something which he would never
see were his eyes or intelligence rot
b inded at the time, it harper e thas lii
error was the cause of the greatest
good fortune that could have happened
to this badly-pronouncing French Eng
lishman. La Folle, to the surprise of
everybody, and to the surprise and
horror of the clerk of the Paris Mutual
booth. actually won the race, and the
Englishman discovered his mistake
afterwards when, looking at his
tickets. he found that the con
founded French fellow who couldn't
understand what I meant, as if my
French was bad and my accent not 50
pure as his own, actually made an er-
ror which cost him no less than 81, 400
francs"
When She Changed Her , ind.
John Gladstone. the father of the
ex-Premier of Great Britain. trained
his children to give reason for every
opinion they offered. i was in this
way that William Z. Gladstone was
early trained to debate. On one occa-
sion, William and his sister Mary dis
puted as to where a certain picture
ought to he HUG An oil Scnfch