Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-03-23
A DREADFUL HEADACHE.
BY W. J. HAMPTON.

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I@aHiSE9Y,NS and temperate
HGTIT,zZNiNSs%SS' habits, who takes
~ OO'0 We y s hours sleep
seven nights in the week should have
headache, bit [ did. 1t was one OF
that popping kind OF headaches, tina:
makes one feel rs ii his lungs had gone
to his head and they were trying tc
expand there about four diamete:s, al
intervals Of Il minute. | believe trey
call them nervous headaches, but
fancy they wouldn't be any more
agreeable by any other nams, Then
my heart was as heavy as lead, ant
once or twice as | walked along,
really feared it was going to pull loose
from its fastenings and drop down
upon my duodenum, or whatever it i,
that the doctors tell us is concealed il
our persons in that eiGhborhood.
Possibly ii WAS the heavy heart tina
gave me the headache. But no.
recall now that ! was going to SEE
Kitty, the one girl in the whole worlt
thai made it any kind of world fol
me. and we had slight misunder
standing. 1t wasnt the head tina
/ gave me the heart ache; ii WAS tn,
heart that gave me the headache.
believe | said that Itook eight hours
sleep seven nights in the week, A
this point, / wish to modify tina
statement. In the week past, | ha,
done 50 only six nights, for the nigh
/ before the day on which was on III,
way TO see Kitty we had disagreed
with each other. / don't think | slep
at all.
was going now to soe the youns
woman and settle the matter finally
and though was promising youn!
lawyer ready to make a case for any
body else, | had no papers IN thi
case, and was going empty Landed
Ididn't even have SO much as my brie
with me.
At the door Mrs. Miltby-Mrs
Miltby is Kitty's mother, and mos
exemplary and motheriy soul-me
me, and on the instant started back i
smazement,
"Why, John'-she always Gale
me John, for she had known me sine
| was mere baby-"Why, john,
she exclaimed, "whatever is the mat
ter with you? You look like 20
were going to have bad spell. "
ooh, that will be all right in ia
or 50, replied evasively. Il hOy
a severe headache. Is your daughte
at home?'
"You mean Kitty" sine asked i
surprise.
"Of course, said [. "You haven
any other daughter, have your and
made believe to smile
ooh, ] didn't know she stan
mered.
Didn't know WHAT" and | tried
smile again. Didn't know whethe
You had another daughter or mott"
why, to be-certainly know tina
Why, how queer sou do talk, 81
ratified on half hysterically, and laugl
ing one Of that creepy kind of laugh
one dreams of when he hasn't cate
the right thing Tor supper, CAR
you quite sure, john" she brol
out excitedly, "that that heada2!
hasn't gone to your head"
It was cruel to tease her, and vii
supreme effort talked nationally
her for few minutes-they seem'
like hours to me, and then she sa
she would 60 and tell Kitty.
As for myself, | went into the lit
parlor and waited. How sweet al
pretty it looked, and how like san
stone on gold setting | felt. Ever
thing was as / had seen it so ofte
the picture of her grandpa over t
cottage piano; the frame in which Il
picture lad been for SO many moI.E
but empty now on tine corner OF t
mantel; the large photograph
Saint Cecilia looking heayenwafd,
we had so often told each other we
ways felt when we were together; t
two big friendly chairs inviting ca
other to come nearer, which We
WAYS sat in when ! first came in t
evening, and the snug little sofa
=. the corner that was always my poi
; of departure when | told her goo
: night, ana went my way back to l
cwn cheerless apartments int hon
L. less boarding house, | looked at tn,
all, and as the drowning man sees
- his sins before him, so did | see thu
r. all things twice over, and multiplied
= a thousand as the greatest blessings
my life. Then | shut my eyes.
could not help it, My head felt as
dozen sets of lungs had gotten il
it and were doing expansion turEs
- aprize.
| opened my eyes suddenly at
\, sound of II voice,
~ "Mother told me you wished to
he me, 1t said us chilly as if it had be
nd nj left out over night in the frost
I "Oh, XII" 1 began, as | stood
- before her 81 beg your pardon,
n continued, "your mother was an
"a right, | did wish to see YOU,
~ II can scarcely understand VIII
b, she went on, latter what occur
M last night. Still, you may be able
go explain and am willing to listen,
,- least for few minutes, rs ! have
r. engagement she added, With
faintest kind of smile.
$50 it was such mlserably mean lii
/. smile, ] thought, that it wes oshan
to show itself openly,
"Ch, don't let ne dotain you,
tried 20 say with biting sarcasm,
] only bit my tongue in saying it.
I shall not, she replied, wv
l an ready to so / will lot you KIN
pray, be seatNd." and she waved