The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-02-26

r,ed man. would make his wife believe
that he v as led into his present business
by bad, designing men3 I'll bet ne does
Just that way, and his wife says to him:
Safe, you are TOO popular; E, . COY
likes you, and you hate TO refuse EN-. ana
by and by you step aside from the path OF
rectitude.'
arthur could crochet, too, and he
would spring up and help mother peel
pertaters whilst / set there all beat out
with hard work. felt kind of foolish
about it at first. but after awhile l said,
am supporting mother, and it don't give
me time to fondie her so much Is I'd like,
and I would feel bitter then toward some
thin or mother that made me have to pull
weeds and haul refuse from tho barn all
day till l was most dead, and then SET
round at night 30 tired that / was like .
big. unsavory beast. with hard, crooked
paws on me and nair like a badger
''i'd snooze in spite of myself, whilst
mother Il always called her mother after
Sid was born, but she was just only
crowdin' 40 when she went with the hired
man, set and sewed blue woodpecker
onto felt tidy, while Arthur read one OF
Z. p. Roe's works out loud.
''Arthur used TO be quite youmorist,
too, and asked mother when she worked
on that job whether she felt tidy. and
mother would laugh, and / never got onto
the joke till yesterday on the cars. Trav-
elm seems TO brighten up man, think,
sometimes"
well, did You ever find herf"
"Weil, I tell you how it was. l got all
worn out and give it up when ! got to
Kansas City, and thought I'd 60 to q show
one night and try to forget about my
trouble. ! had mothers shawl along with
me always over my arm, for knew she
left in such a hurry that she couldn't pro-
vide herself and might need it If she was
n
arthur took all of his cloze with him
and 500 that was to get another team
with. but that's neither here nor there. L
don't know where it is. but don't believe
mother knew Arthur took it.
We'll. the show was vaudeville. with
what they call cpeshelties thrown in 1t.
One man was down for . sort of ackrobattic
thing that was claimed to be the most diti
cult and dangerous thing that was ever at
tempted to be done by man or beast.
Well, it turned out 20 be sort of q midair
Jump from one of these here trapezers to
another one and / seen in two seconds
that the Teller was my hired man. He
chalked his hands and razzumed his mog-
gasins, and away he went up a rope and
hung there like cat that's been freed by
. dog. He hoped around there and
swung away out over the audience. He
was dressed in sort of tights. and one of
the ushers sort OF laughed and said the
teller had on an extra tight, he thought.
my God,' says 1, will the cuss do such
things as that with jag on him and
scarcely anything else?'
Jest then the drum give big thump
like blast in deep we'll, and the fellow
made long jump. and before could hol-
Ter whoa he lit in the aisle as near as me
and you is. The blood squirted out of his
nose. and heard his neck crack, and the
doctor that looked at him sez seq e:
Take him to his home; he is dead,
sez g. He has no home SEE the stage
manager. Here, Maud he SEE, where
shall we send him tor
Its none OF Mauds business where
he goes to- SEE another girl with tar on
her eyelashers and coat of pink white
wash on her as fur as the eve could reach.
Her name vas Little FIossy, they sed.
We've been married twice. him and me- ,
she sed, and throwed her gum in the other
girls face. Maud hit her over the eve with
and left her in her own hair, which hurt
her feelin's worse'n eff she had had her
head cut off.
"well, they fought over the matter,
Arthur's two widders did, till they had to
be sent to the courthouse in their mackin-
toshes.
"Then I saw mother had been watchin'
the whole business, and she looked broke
down aud shamed. She give q scarf look
at the remains and shivered ~ you would
to see . murderer unused up by wabbly
gallus.
at don't seem like ever saw anything
sadder or humber than mother. She
leaned down In her opry seat and prayed
prayed for herself. mind ye. She never
had to do that before. She didn't need it.
when she got up she shivered ag'in
and reached out and see. Here's your
shawl, mother seq I.
1T seems he deserted her on the train
and got on before they got to Kansas
City. and he come In on another train,
got some new cloze and his old job as
Dan-what's his name-at the show, and
poor mother tried to hunt him up and
borry . few dollars Of him to come back,
but she never got sight of him till that
evenin. Then she saw hem spatter him.
self over tho orchestry.
''She's gone up to visit Martha Ellen's
folks At Lawrence now, and I'm goin
back to rent the farm to . good Teller
know. and I'm going to give mother more
attention after this. Seems odd to some
some folks. She won't ever be SO gay as
she used to be, but she has added to hel
general knowledge.
'She wouldn't leave go of my hand after
that till she went up to Martha Ellen's
and then she patted me on the shoulder
and then kept tho window up till every.
body in the car swore, and we parted as
we used to when both of US was young
people.
"But you'd ort Of seen her climb up on
my shoulder and cry when 1 SEE to her
that night. Here's your shawl. mother.
seq L."
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