The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1893-12-08
HIS CHUM.


From The Detroit Free Press.
A newsboy, small, why, with eyes
like a ferret, and clenched fist, sat
on the curbstone crying in an aggres-
sive way when pedestrian hated
and laid his hand on the youngsters
shoulder.
whats wrong, sonny p
81 amt yer sonny"
"Well, what's wrong, my boy?'
"Ain't yer boy, either. Lem me be-
ooh, see here now, what's the row?
Lost cents in the gutter?"
Nav, l ain't-oh, oh, orr
'Spit it out, them
"Me chum's dead
"Oh! that's another thing. How
did he happen to die?"
Ruined over"
80? was there an inquest?''
'Inques' nothin'. He jest hollered
oncet and rolled over dead. An l
wish l was dead, too, along of him"
"Cheer up! You can find another
chum.n
Yer wouldn't talk tibet way if you'd
| knowed Dick He was the best friend
l ever had. There warn't nothin'
Dick wouldn't done for me. An
now his d-d-dead an buried. I'm
wishin' l was, too"
Look here" said the man, Ego
and sell your papers, and take some
poor little ragged boy and be a chum
to him. It'll help yon and do him
good"
"Pshaw Mister, where's there boy
wot'd go round nights with me an be
cold an hungry an outen doors, an
sleep on the groun' like Dick? An
he wouldn't tech bite till I'd had en-
uff. He were Christian, Dick were"
'Then you can feel that he's all
right if he was such Il faithful friend
and good boy"
"Boy Dick boy? Lord! Dick
warn't only a ragged, good-for-nothin'
human boy, Mister-Dick were dog"
An UNCERTAIN GROOM.
Many characteristics of the Scotch
are amusingly displayed in series OF
stories published in Edinburg some
years ago under the title of scotch
Folk"
"Have you brought any Witnesses
asked the Rev. Mr.. Wood, of Bath
gate, of a middle aged couple who had
come to be married.
mo, we meier thocht O. that. Is it
necessary -
"Oh, certainly, said the minister,
you should have a groomsman and
bridesmaid as witnesses.
"Who can we get, Jen, do We Think"
The bride, thus addressed suggested
female cousin whom the bridegroom
had never seen, and, after consulta-
ton, d man also was thought of.
"Step We AVA alang, Jen, an ask
them, an I'll walk ABBOTT till ye come
back
Jen set out as desired, and after
some time returned with the two
friends, the cousin being a blooming
lass considerably younger than the
bride
When the parties had been properly
arranged and the minister was about
to proceed with the ceremony, the
bridegroom suddenly said:
"Wad We bide a wee, sir ?''
"What is it now?" asked the minis
ter
"Weel, l was just gaun to say that
if it wad be the same to you, L wad
rather haze that ane,' pointing to the
bridesmaid.
That's most extraordinary state
ment to make at this stagen' eXclaim-
ed the minister. I'm afraid it's too
late to talk of such Il thing now"
as it p asked the bridegroom, in a
tone OF resignation to the inevitable,
,"Weel, then, We maun just gang on"
1t is not recorded that there was any
feeling of elation on the part of the
bridesmaid, or of jealousy on the
bride, and the ceremony proceeded.
A NEW INTERPRETATIONS
To many people Nillais' picture of
The Huguenot," or the engraving
from it, is familiar 1t represents Il
young girl endeavoring to tie white
scarf-the emblem by which the Ro-
manist were to be distinguished on the
| night of st. Bartholomew the arm
of her Huguenot lover. Before this
engraving, in a well-known art reposi-
tory, lately halted a gentleman from
| the country and his wife. They gaZed
entranced at the picture, and the gen
tleman slowly spelled the title, HUI
gen o-t-Huge not, and, turning to
his spouse, asked: what i'll thunder
do they call that Huge not for p To
which Maria responded, why,
gracious goodness, John, can't you
see because she's a-tying a huge
knot on her feller's arm And they
wandered on through the gallery.
"A well-known divine i'll his wise
old age once took Il newly married
pair aside and said: Il want to give
you this advice, my chiIdren-don' at
try to be happV. Happiness is shy