The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-03

DUST Then Dave opens the door for me as
polite as polite, and out We goes.
Now" l says, you come along o. me to
barracks, nip, and no mistake about it,"
''All right" says Dave; 'sI've surren.
dered to you, Loosha, an Pm On my parrul
not to hook it; but one condition l viii
make, and that is that you never let me
yeer the word deserter from your lips No
1 more, for that 1 will not put up with"
'Al right" l says and motions i'm to
walk on a'ed, being such scarecrow as
would demean any young woman as valued
| 'erself to be seen in company with. And
we goes in procession to the barracks ]
never see a sentry more on the broad grin
than that one at the gate when he see Dave
| brought in a prisoner. when you can
shut your face, young man." says 60 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 I'd nearly said the word but some
I think in Dawes eye warned me, so ended
! up, the missing private Of Comply c."
| The sentry shakes lis bearskin an grins,
meanin as 'e's on dooty; so | calls out,
| 'Guardr' and out tumbles the sergeant an
| 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 is
fgger up, and stretching out lis right arm,
coinmandinglike, mo violence ! take you
all to witness as I've surrendered-to my
cousin, Loosha Take me to the black
'oIe, 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 l b'lieve
it 'ad somethin TO do with is gettin of 80
easy.
Our butchers foreman is the victim of
hopeless passion for Loosha, manifested by
the laying of votivs 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 husband who, when one was going
about ones household duties, might be
slowly roasting to cinder, would be
wearing to the nerves, she says. The
elderly married porter who looks after
Middleclass fats 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 l remember, when the
miniature lift dedicated to the tradesmen's
parcels and coal scuttles went wrong
stuck four feet below the level of our land
ing and refused to bulge. So, with the
intention of ascertaining the nature and
extent of the local complication, Jellams
got into it, Loosha having undertaken to
tighten his labors with conversation and
composite candle. Alas for the frailty
of mankind! Then it was that, undeterred
by the fear of scalding grease or boiling
indignation, our porter attempted to wrest
kiss from the lips that were near. And,
as the indignant Loesha dumped him on
the head with the candlestick, the tenn
porary mechanical obstruction yielded to
the impulse of outraged virtue, and the
porter, with one wild cry, shot swiftly
downward and disappeared. He arrived,
in the coal cellar, to the relief
of our handmade, who had had awful Wis
ions Of his sticking in the shaft and suffo-
eating slowly, with blood curdling groans,
while masons were pulling down the build
ing to get at him.
The active and intelligent policeman Of
the rural district in which we spend the |
vacation is another of Loosha's |
admirers. He has been known to arrive at |
our garden gate, hot on the track of a |
grindstone which had been purloined from |
a farm twenty miles off, and spend three !
hours in Loosha's kitchen looking for a |
clew. She said, on his taking leave, that |
if the grindstone Travelled no faster than |
he did its recovery might be counted on,
but otherwise she had her doubts of its |
being overtaken before jiminiday We do |
not know what day that is, but it marks
-he rubicon of ultimate possibility-with
Loosha. She had fixed the date of her
for jiminiday-until she met the
railway guard.
He must be a person of strong character
He travels on the Great Eastern express;
and LooSha met him when her health ne
,essltated her being sent to her aunt's at
larmouth, carriage paid. and with her ad-
iress and general biography written on a
lard inside her frock in case of a smashup. |
He was very attentive, was that guard
bringing Loosha Bath buns at Cambridge.
md causing the StOker to boil eggs hard
or her in the engine boiler. A few DAYS
lfterward he came to tea with Looshas
aunt; made great impression on the
hrimps and bread and butter and a slight
me on Loosha, it must be believed-for
ince her return, she has for some months
)ast made point of seeing him off from
liverpool street every Wednesday (Wednes-
lay being her day OUT. This ceremony
reformed, Loosha has been wont to par
axe of tea in the guards room, under the
uspices of two particularly agreeable
members of the fraternity. Wind of this
citing to the ears of Mr.. kidgery, his
ealousy was aroused; and he took meas
res to assert his pretensions, once and for
Il, to the monopoly of Loosha, i'll quite a
iachiavellian manner.
Il never should IA suspected him of any
hing SO deep" said Loosha afterward
When sees him of, him a-leaning out of
be wirder of his van and waving is green
ag. | thought there was something in his
ye, bat it might "a bin a cinder or a tear
n all l knew. Little did think he'd get
Tx at Gridley 'Eath, six stations away,
md the express on under charge Of
-iend and come back by the next Metro
Olitan. And as | was 'aving a cup o. tea
/ the guards room along of Mr. Wimble
nd Mr.. JOllit. was paralyZed at my lips
= his eye a-glaring through the little
'4i''NA' <NAAA O-iSH 'Ac uOoi "opens anu III ,
lmes is ed. E never breathed is lips of
word. but jest beckones with Us finger,
Ike the ghost in "AmHck.' And, though
ever bowed to the will of man before. I
flowed that finger like lamb to the
aughter. COW is it 10 be- sezee when
e gifts outside. Is it Jollit. or is il VIM
e, or is il mes Because. if it is me. I
emit ave no seesaving with my affec-
ons. Come, d'jeer' Give US the wordp ,
nd. afore I knowed il | give i'm the ,