The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-09-24

pies, and It you ever get out OF D
window now to sneak off to a circus,
and if you'd forgotten how you play
ed sick to keep from going to school,
and If"
''There, there. John; you talk too
much. DR.. Grey was thinking of
Tim Fellows. He always did keep
company with the worst boys in the
school. Here's a ticket for the circus.
w" busy now"
She Took Pride In Him.
1t was a good many minutes after
midnight when Mr.. snaggs reached
home, and alter agood deal of ex-
perimenting withsthe keyhole and the
latchkey finally let himself in,
He went upstairs as stealthly as he
could, but of course they creaked, and
when he reached the second floor his
wife was wide awake.
"What time is it?" she asked.
"A little while after IL by my watch,
my dear, but I think it's fast"
Something like it's owner" Mrs.
Snaggs commented in a frigid voice.
Mr.. Snaggs made no reply.
"Where were you to-night?" she de-
manded. y .
my DEAR" responded Snaggs in in.
jured tones, "you don't mistrust your
husband, l hope?"
"Not at all. / merely had some
curiosity to know what fresh excuse
you had concocted, that's all."-New
York Recorder.
The Temperance Boat FOR Her.
She had hurried away from the tenn
perance society meeting in order to
catch the excursion boat, but when
he reached the dock an official bar
red her progress.
"You can't go on this boat. mad
am" he said politely, but firmly.
"Why can't /" she inquired
gressively.
because it's full, madam"
well, If that's the case, I don't
want to 90 on it," she exclaimed in
.dignantly;.I thought. it, was q tenn
perance boat" and before he could
offer any explanations she had hur-
ried away.-From the Detroit Free
Press.
Obeying Orders.
Mrs. O., who had kept French
servants, decided that they wers too
wise and witty for such employment,
and engaged q German instead, who
was recommended as being q young
man would obey orders to the letter,
and make no remarks whateverabout
them. :
II am in a great hurry to get down
town. ] want you to 60 right out and
bring to the door the very first tr-
riage you come across"
Mrs. Q--meant, ofcourse, the first
public carriage, but she did not say
SO. In q few moments Johann came
back, and bowed Mrs. Q-to the
door. She went out and found await
ing her there-a hearsel
Was Posted.
He sat in one OF the front pews in
church with q face like a little angel,
and wore that sweet, %precocious look
Of knowledge beyond his years that
always makes one think OF a premar
turs heaven.
He never disturbed the meeting but
once. That was when his mother
looked in his dear little pocket for his
handkerchief and didn't find any.
willie she whispered gently, "you
have M pocket handkerchief"
'Then, mamma" said the sweet in
FAINT, in a shrill, angelic voice, "some-
body must have swiped it,"
Names for Oxen.
a Vermont farmer has q yoke Of
oxen which 60 by the names Of Friday
and Saturday-.because they are 80
SLOW" the owner explains. And here
i another story, borrowed from
Puck.
"Well, Uncle Reuben, that's 4 fne
pair Of oxen.
"Yaas.n
"What do you call themin,
Nigh ones Pilot an the Of ones
.Rudder."
"strange names, aren't theyi"
"Notsfur steers"
ALoNG tunnel near Paris has been
lighted il 9 novel way. Rsflectors
throw the light from many electric
lamps sixteen feet above the rails to
the sides Of the tunnel. whore It Il