The Monitor-register., 1897-07-30

SiAS ~ q oohoa oiohS ciuo Guo w WluueT,
giving her them insinuating looks he kin
if he chooses! had slippers on, and
came close up to them without making
any noi'e, and | heard her say:
"Mr. Jones certainly sdmires Ro-
setta."
Nobody couldn't help it % seq
Uriah.
"But Cecilia is the pret tiest,' . sez the
widder.
Neither of them is as handsome as
their ma" SEE Uriah.
"On, go away! You dou't think SO; I;
you're jest fiAttering," sez the widder.
"If was a single bachelder, you'd
see ~ seq my husband.
Now I'm cooled off-it's couple of
years ago-now I'm cooled off, L
wouldn't swear into court of justice
that Uriah was going to kiss the widder,
and as Christian l must allow can't
say for certain she'd hev let him: but
things appeared to me like she would at
that minute, and off with my sun. bon
net and gave her whack over the head
and him another, making remarks
which l prefer not repeating if / remem.
bered them all-which l don't. She
screeohed, the gals ran up. Uriah took
hold of me, and the rest of the boarders
stared like COWS.
Il reckon you'll know me tie next
time you see me, sez l; "but you won't
see me for quite spell. To-day ends
such conduct as this; you can git all of
you 7! There's an early train to IN orrer,
and I'll see that you take it; so pack
your trunks to night ! The help will
give you your tee. AS for me, l shan't
BET down with character like the
Widder Jessamy; Pm disgustsd by ever
hevin' done it ~
Madame, what 10 you dare to insinu.
ate ?' stz she.
That You was going to kiss my
husband p sez l.
Then she shruck, and the other ladies
shruck. and | finished on by grabbing
her false front of curls off her head and
throwing it in Uriah's face. Then
went home and went to bed,
The boarders all went before break.
fast next morning, and all day long me
and Uriah quarreled. said III get a
divorce from him; he said he'd get one
from me for being a shrew.
Sand marry Widder Jessamy - sez l..
''1t would be change for the better %
st z he.
Hammer and tongs, hammer and
tongs, we kept it up until all of a sudden
turned faint aud L, didn't know any
more for quite a spell. Then l was in
bed with mplications-that's what the
doctor called it.
Well, must say Uriah nursed me
like woman, for all kept telling him
I'd live as long as l could to spite the
Widder Jsssamy; and when | did get
better he carried me downstairs and sot
me in the great rocker on the porch and
put pliers under my head, and knelt
down alongside of me.
"Wish l wasn't - stz l. whats
the use ? Nobody keers for me !"
"Ain't nobody ?" St, he.
"You !" says l. "On, Uriah you was
a going to kiss hef-I saw you -
TT.;,h t.No.u ID -.
tleton, I'll swear that on a stack of
Bibles. 1t was this way: The city fell
lers was all paying compliments, and 1
didn't want 10 seem like country
buukin, 30 paid them to. | couldn't
talk to the girls, so talked to the wild
der.''
''Ah y 'stz |, you had no thoughts
atolt me frying and stewing in the
Kitchen"
did l want You to do it ?" sez h.
WASN'T it agin my will that you took
boarders Didn't l say there was no
knowing what onpleasantness mig bit
come of it p "Wall, you did," sez L.
''Nauoy Pottleton," stz he, "lots has
come of it. I've got a bad charaote
for the help went and told that | act ed
shameful with the widder, and you
found me Out-which is hard, for | was
only putting on good manners. You've
been sick-mighty sick you've been
and what should l do without YOU ?
I've got big DOCTORS bill to pay; crops
is panning out poor; the boarders have
cost US nigh about fi,e hundred dollars
altogether, aud we've fell out. That's
the wust-we've fell out | made a
skeer crow of that there tennis suit the
other day and hung it among the
squinch trees, wishing it was me. It's
like being done with life to think you
and me has fell ont, nanny
Then all of sudden everything
seemed to change. The air felt softer;
the sky looked blaei; a kind of warmth
ran through my heart.
mo we amt !" stzI. ANY way,
we've made it up"
Aud we kissed each other as if it was
old oourting times-me and Uriah.