Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-12-11

"wHEWGH! 1iA" FILTHY TOBACCO SMOKER"
you're very much mistaken. No, and
I'm not going to get out Of my warm
bed to let you i'll either No, nor Susan
sha mt sit up for you. No, nor you
shan t have a iatchlley. I'm not going
to sleep with tie door upon the latch to
be murdered before the morning.
"Faugh, Pah Whewgh! That filthy
tobacco smoke ! It's enough to kill any
decent woman You know hate tobac-
co, and yet You will do it. You don't
smoke yourself? What of that? If you
go among people who do smoke, you re
just rs bad or worse. You might as we'll
snoEe-indepd, better. Better smoke
yourself than come home with other
peoples smoke all in your hair and
whiskers.
Il never knew any good come to Il
man wh0 went to a tavern. Nice COM
panions he E!cks up there! Yes; people
who make it boast to treat their wives
like slaves and ruin their families.
There's that wretch Harry Prettyman.
See what he's come to! He doesn t now
get home till 2 i'll the morning, and
then III what state! He begins quar-
rcling with the doormat, that his poor
wife may E3 afraid to speak to him. A
mean wretch! But don you think I'll
be like Mrs. Prettyman. No. | wouldn't t
put up with it from the best man that
ever trod You'll not make me afraid
to speak to you, however you may swear
at the doormat. No, Mr. Caudle that
you won't.
"You don't intend to stay out till 2
III the morning? How do you know
what you Ii do when you get among
such people? Men can't answer for
themselves when they get to boozing
one with another. They never think of
their poor wives, who are grieving and
wearing themselves out at home. A nice
headache you'll have tomorrow morn
ing, or rat'.er this morning, for it must
be past II You won have Il headache?
It's very well for you to say so, but
know you will, and then you may nurse
yourself forme Ha! That filthy tobacco
again. No: | shall not go to sleep like Il
good soul How's people to go to sleep
when they re suffocatcd:
t., MI, Nsitullt- YOU IL tb lllCt anu
i'll in the morning! But don t you think
I'm going to let you have your break
fast i'll bed, like Mrs. Prettyman. I'll
not be such fool. No, nor won't have
discredit brought uron the house by
sending for soda water early, for all the
nciGhEOrhood to say 'Caudle was drunk
last night No; I've some regard for
the dear children, if you haven't. No,
nor you shant have broth for dinner.
Not neck of mutton crosses my thresh-
old, can tell you
"You won want soda and you won t
want broth: All the better You
wouldn't get 'em if you did, can as
sure you. Dear, dear, dear! That filthy
tobacco! I'm sure it's enough to make
me as bad as you are. Talking about
getting divorced, I'm sure tobacco ought
to be good grounds, How little does :.
woman think when she marries that she
gives herself up to be poisoned! You
men coutrive to have it all of your own
side, you do Now, if | was to go and
leave you and the children, a pretty
noise there d be- You, however, can go
and smoke no end of pipes and-you
didn't smoke: It's all the same, Mr.
Caudle, if you 90 among smoking peo-
pie. Folks are known by their company.
You'd better smoke yourself than bring
home the pipes Of all the world,
"Ycs. | see how it will be Now
you We once gone to IA tavern you il al
ways he going You'll be coming home
tipsy every night, and tumbling down
and breaking your leg, and putting ont
your shoulder, and bringing all sorts of
disgrace and expense upon us And then
you Il bc getting into street fight-Oh !!
| know your temper too well to doubt
| it, Nh Caudle-and be knocking down
some of the police. And then l know
what will follow. 1t must follow Yes,
| you II be sent for month or six weeks
to the treadmill. Pretty thing that for
rpSDcctablc traQcSman Mr. Caulle To