San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-26

and so If I've got wife she must be an
angel
Never was married." she screamed,
running up to me, while the boy sang
out, Mother, shall fallP' and Mrs.
Bloomer put him down. Never was
marriedr' she shrieks. ''D'you mean to
say you forget counting me at my ia
theirs. Simon Dadds, who kept the hos
tillery called the Sinking Star, on the
Sandwich road? Never was married, "
she yells, with her words streaming in
quick rattle like coal from tip,
when the church was st. Georges, at
Deal, and the date June "a, 1876
Never was married? Oh, Bill" And,
seizing me by the arm, she pulls me to
the window and sobs out: "Oh. Bill, If
you amt so changed, can't bel I've
been alone for nigh six years. Look at
your child It's me as has fed him and
done for him, or where'd he be? Don't
say you don c know me / never expect
ed that .
And here letting go of my arm, she
buries her face and let's ay all her
nerves IN screenings.
"Why don't you comfort ber?'' says
Mrs Bloomer
why don't your" says l. She's got
nothing to do with me.
With that walks out. The woman
flies after me.
bill. Billr she bawls. catching hold
of me
turned and said. What's it you
want?''
Here the young un began to cry. roar
ing for mother
whats all this aboat?' says
Bloomer, coming up from the kitchen.
He'd got cold in his head and was
a-lying by.
Joe, answered Mrs. Bloomer, this
poor woman has been deserted along
with her child for nigh upon six year,
and now she says she's found her man
in Mr. William Pooley.
"I've had almost enough of this here
larking, hahn you?" says to the WON
an. who are you and what d'you wanti
You don't believe I'm your husband.
Bloomer, s'elp me, as stand a. living
man, never was married, and that
woman knows it. "
How should she know it?" squawked
Mrs. Bloomer like gull in gale.
..Got you there, Pooley, says Bloom
er in a voice thick as cruel with cold.
II was married" cried the woman.
lat St. Georges, Deal, June 81, 1876,
and William Pooley was my mans
name Simon Dadds was my father and
kept hostillery Oh, ma'am, that he
can stand there and pretend not tC
know nor remember. II my father were
alive-he was sailor then" she sings
out, pointing at me. will you tell me
that you don't recollect stopping the
carriage at the Deal Lugger inn as we
drove from church and treating the
boatmen? Didn't you likewise stop al
the Yarmouth Packet and keep father
awaiting dinner for U.S.
II tell you, roared out, breaking
in to her noise, THAT don know you
and that never was married. and tina
you've mistook your man"
Here Bloomer, stumping back to hi
kitchen, stops at the head of the stair
| case to call out:
Settle it quickly, and don't make nj
noise, for this 'ouse as got name 4
lose. I know what sailors are, an'
mubbee it is and mubbee it amt Liz
zie, keep you clear, and if the parties
come to farms outside it'll be agree
able" And down he went.
"Are you going to tell me, Mr.
Pooley," says Mrs. Bloomer, who's
face showed a relish for this shindy, 70
all that it was as hard as sailors beef
THAT there's no truth in this party
statements?"
None" I yelled, for their workin
up of my old iron was a-making m
redhot
"And you tell u.s., says Mrs Bloom
er, with a sneer, THAT a woman
memory won't allow her to recogniz
her husband after six years OF desel
tion?"
HE was 6 months old. says tn
other, sobbing and pointing TO her boy
when we was left He sailed in shi
called the Miranda. I've never heard
him since. but knew be was alive, II
he desarted at Sydney and arrived
Liverpool i'll ship called the Simo
'Orkins, and that larnt, +" she screamed