Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-10

I'd put my fist into it, I would" An e
grins 'orrid.
Would yer2" says Dave, frin up, an
landed i'm one as felled i'm ON the spot.
"Ere, you gal and Teller, says the land
lord, bustlin around the bar. II amt
a-goin to ave no assaults This is re
spectacle 'ouse. D'jeerY
81 'eer," | says; "but should never
a-guessed it from the company you encour-
ages. Loafers and deserters that's your
mark"
At that e goes for me, and similarly the
potman for Dave, but Dave jest waved lis
arms as if e was swimmin, and them two
went to look for the fust one in the saw
dust. Then Dave opens the door for me as
polite as polite, and out we goes,
Now" says, you come along o. me to
barracks, nip, and no mistake about it."
"All right" says Dave; "Ive surren-
dered to you, Loosha, an Pm on my parrul |
not to hook it; but one condition l will |
make, and that is that you never let me |
yeer the word deserter from your lips no
more, for that will not put up with"
"All right" says, and motions i'm to
walk on a'ed, being such a scarecrow as
would demean any young woman as valued
erself to be seen in company with And
we goes in procession to the barracks. l
never see a sentry more on the broad grin
than that one at the gate when he see Dave
brought in prisoner. when you can
shut your face, young man, says to him,
sharp like, 'per'aps you'll give Miss Hem
mans compliments to the sergeant on
duty, and say as she's brought in his"-
and Pd nearly said the word; but some
think in Dawes eye warned me, so ended
up, ''the missing private of Comply C."
The sentry shakes lis bearskin an grins,
meanin as 'es on dooty; so | calls out,
"Guardr" and out tumbles the sergeant an
a corporal and file. They saw Dave, an
was goin to 'url themselves on i'm like
tigers but throws myself between.
mo violence" says Dave, a-droring of lis
fgger up, and stretching out lis right arm,
commandinglike, mo violence. take you
all to witness as I've surrendered-to my
cousin, Looshal Take me to the black
'ole, Sergeant Mappin, an report me in the
mornin, but mind you tell the colonel that
surrendered to my cousin, Loosha, fust
of all" An to the last e KEEP repeatin
that as they 'ustled i'm away; an b'lieve
it 'ad somethin to do with lis gettin off 50
easy.
Our butchers foreman is the victim Of a
/ hopeless passion for Loosha, manifested by
| the laying of votive kidneys and propitia-
| tory sweetbreads on the shrine. But the
| warmth of his affection does not atone in
| Loosha's opinion for the suet with which
he lubricates his hair. There was a fire
man, but Loosha would not allow her af-
fections to dwell upon him, in consideration
of the perils attending his profession. To
marry a husband who, when one was going
] nfrh he
slowly a roasting to a cinder, would be
wearing to the nerves, she says. The
elderly married porter who looks after
Middleclass flats has never repeated the
daring act of unlawful oscillation which
was visited with such summary retribu
ton by our dragon of domestic virtue.
1t happened, if | remember, when th'
miniature lift dedicated to the tradesmen'i
parcels and coal scuttles went wrong
stuck four feet below the level of our land
ing and refused to bulge So, with tn
intention of ascertaining the nature an'
extent of the local complication, Jellam
got into it, Loosha having undertaken T.
tighten his labors with conversation ant
a composite candle Alas for the frailt
of mankind Then it was that, undeterrei
by the fear of scalding grease or boilin
indignation, our porter attempted to wres
a kiss from the lips that were near And
; as the indignant Loosha dumped him o
the head with the candlestick, the ten
porary mechanical obstruction yielded {
the impulse of outraged virtue and th
porter, with one wild cry, shot swift
downward and disappeared. He arrived
: ultimately, in the coal cellar, to the reli'
U of our handmade, who had had awful vi
:: ions of his sticking in the shaft and suff
1 eating slowly, with blood curdling groan
q while masons were pulling down the bull
! ing to get at him.
3 The active and intelligent policeman
, the rural district in which we spend u
: summer vacation is another OF Doosha
admirers. He has been known to arrive
!, our garden gate, hot on the track OF
u grindstone which had been purloined fro
. a farm twenty miles off, and spend thr
, hours in Loosha's kitchen looking for
, clew. She said, on his taking leave, tn
y IL the grindstone travelled no faster TIL
he did its recovery might be counted {
but otherwise she had her doubts Of
being overtaken before jiminiday. We
u not know what day that is, but it mar
:, the rubicon of ultimate possibility-wi
d Loosha. She had fixed the date of
4 marriage for jiminiday-until she met
: railway guard.
20 He must be person of strong charact
= He travels on the Great Eastern EXPIRE
Z, and Loosha met him when her health
~ cessitated her being sent TO her aunt's
- Yarmouth, carriage paid, and with her
=, y dress and general biography written Of
- card inside her frock in case of smashI
a. He was very attentive, was that guar
~ bringing Loosha Bath buns at Cambria
7 and causing the stoker to boil eggs hs
To- for her in the engine boiler. A few d.
- afterward he came to tea with Loosh
-. aunt; made a great impression on
"a shrimps and bread and butter and slii
~ one on Loosha, it must be believed
since her return, she has for some mon
past made point of seeing him oh fr
- Liverpool street every Wednesday (WedI
" day being her day ouD. Tins cerem'
- performed, Loosha has been wont to |
90 take of tea in the guards room, under
auspices of two particularly agreea
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