Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-11-03
OUR JERUSALEM PONY
BY james Payn.


nearest village residences being thirty
streets off ut the very last. Our back
! green, however, is commodious. ana
| boasts Of various fancy animals
/ principally rabbits and poultry: the
! former Of which [ use for scientific cx-
! periments, tie latter for my table only,
although it has been limited by the
double duty. Looking out upon this
! pleasant CNpanse of wood and ycrdure,
with its contented denizens, slcepin~,
or eating. or going through the various
interesting processes which results
from chemical or chirureical eyDeri.
ment, l was wont not only to feel the
monarch to whom Mr.. A. Sell1irl1 com
parHS himself in his somewhat egOtisti-
cal poem, but to envy no man his alt
! ceStral acres, however wide spreading;
his deer forests, however fully stocked.
| had risen in my profession not by
standing on my own dignity, as the
! manner Of some is, but by hard work
and, as l battered myself, usefulness
| was not made dizzy by my elevation,
since it had been gradual; and | reflect
ed with satisfaction that even if [
should be i'll danger Of slipping back
wards, [ possessed enough of balance
t. keep me right III that best Of make
Wci@hts-;l balance in my bankers
books. When | add that in addition
to the Sc various subjects of congratula-
ton, on 4 certain evening in July last
L bad Il mild Havana in my mouth, and
Il pair Of slippers just at the extremity
Of my toes. it will be understood by the
married portion of my male readers
that | was in Il disposition peculiarly
adapted for subjugation by the female
Lccnora. the wife Of my bosom for
several years, and, therefore, but too
well aware Of her opportunities in this
respect, WIS standing behind me. run
ming her fingers through what she cor
SiderS to be my cul-lS, and dilating
pleasantly upon my professional talents
and success.
"Alfy,' said She. coaNingly, after she
had thus laid down the rails. as she
thought, for the idea to slip Greamily
into my mind, now you are getting
on so well, my love, don't you think
you ought to buy 4 brougham?"
"Certainly. if you wish it. my dear"
returned |, pretending to misunderstood
it, and the broad aegis of domestic eco
nomy ut once placing itself between
my pockets and this eXtrayagant pro
position; buy half-a-dozen brooms if
they are necessary, by all means,
sweetest; but | thought we stocked the
house when [ moved. at your request
from our flat into this main door"
This shell had such a quantity of
rusty nails in it in the form of reminis-
cence and reminder that I imagined
it would have silenced the enemy's fire
altogether; but no; that still small
voice which is never still-the voice of
ones wife-again attacked me with the
quiet persistence which it its most fatal
attribute.
L meant 4 carriage, loye--l brough-
am: a onelhorse brougham would be
quite enough"
why not say Mr.. AXle'S prize drag
| at once?" replied I, laughing, and light
ing another cigar: IN send round
Betsy in the morning. with my compli-
ments, and I'll buy it of him at his own
figure
1T would very much increase Your
practice" remarked Leonora, muSingly;
there's nothing like a carriage for 4
medical man, you may depend upon
that; it takes him where skill and tai
ent. even such rs your, Atty, would
never carry him.
Yes, love; it sometimes takes him
to prison." remarked I, assentingly. A
which l only caught one word of my
LeOnora'S. and even that was not IN
! tended for me; it sounded exceedingly
! like ''Fiddlestick" When she recon-
menced, it was in a grayer and less
playful tone: Marshal Gyulia super
! seeded, and Marshal Hess in command,
with a new set OF tactics.
DO you know how much you spend
! in the course of the year in cabs, Al
fred? Nothing. Oh, don't you tell me
naughty tibs: you men never can keep
account. What do you say, dear?
can't quite catch what you are saying.
You walk Oh. you wicked man, you
don't walk from ten to five every day,
I'm sure"
My love-" returned I, kissing her,
my remark was that there is such
thing as a bus
Very well, Alfred" observed Leorona
with a sigh, and as though the discus
sion was closed: ''all have to say is
this. that the child's ankles are going.
Going calculated I, with unaffected
surprise; and where are they going
to-"
If the child's being lame for life
is joke, Alfred-as everything seems
indeed, to be a joke TO you-it's all well
and good. and it doesn't signify
In that wonderful alembic with which
married females are endowed by toe
bountiful Nature, Leonnra distilled
couple of tears, and let them fall.
He's got the perambulator, observed
I, with that callousness to shame which
is the husbands only and very made
quate defence, the unwarranted mack
intosh in which he vainly wraps him
self from the watery foe; "he can keeI
his ankles from going in that, Leonora
surely"
.'Betsey won't push it," sobbed my
!. wife; ''she said she'd see the little
angel r-fur-further first Its only
uSa now is to hold the umbrellas liz