The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-11-18
wFELY GREETING.

Three of the sinfnl players in a
four-handed poker game that took
place very recently in Seventeenth
street room were married men.
The young man in whose room the
game went on is bachelor.
At I O'Clock in the morning the
bunch rose and stretched, prepara-
tory to getting down to a final hour
of all jackpots, and the host got re-
suits after doing some interesting
things with shaker.
After mixing the drinks the young
bachelor host disappeared behind a
screen for a moment, reappearing so
quickly, however, that none of the
other men noticed that lie had been
out of their sight.
The young bachelor picked up his
drink and stood talking with his three
friends, when all hands were electri-
fed by the reproachful strains of a
feminine voice proceeding along the
following lines
$50 here you are, are you, and it s
almost time to get up for breakfast !
Don't you dare try to tell me it s
only midnight I've got my watch
right here under my pillow, and l
have been looking at it every blessed
minute for the past four or FIVE hours !
"Go away! Don't you dare have
the presumption to try to kiss me !
"You' We been drinking again, too,
and where's your promise? !? Don't
you think I can smell your horrid
drinking breath?
"And don't you tell me that you
haven't been playing cards again,
after all of your promises Don't
you dare to deny it
Before you went out you prom
ised me faithfully that you'd be back
by half-past 10 O'Clock, and here it
is almost daylight
''You are perfect brute, and you
know you are!
Coming stumbling into your home
at this hour of the morning, and
thinking you can just smooth things
over and make everything right by,
don't say a word I won't listen to
you
"Oh, know perfectly we'll what
you want to say-that there were sew
eral limitations at the lodge, followed
by an important business meeting,
and that you, as the secretary, had to
remain to the last, despite your plead
ings to be allowed to come home to
your dear little wife
"Your dear little wife, indeed !
Lots you care for her, you cruel,
wicked, inconsiderate thing, you
"And me, Shaving and toiling and
working my finger nails off, with only
one servant, morning, noon and night,
and not thing to wear that is fit to
be seen, while you carouse and gam
BILE with the pack of wretches who
are just bleeding you
II just wish my poor, dear mother
knew how you were carrying on, so l
do! She would come to me by the
very first traiu
Don't you dare, sir, to breathe
one word against her
tShe is all I have, SO there, now
boo-hoo I wish had never left
her, so I do-boo- hoo-hoo just
know that she would not rest in her
bed if she knew how scandalously you
were treating me, unfeeling thing
boo-hoo
"There is the milkman at the base
ment door this very minute, and you
staying out playing poker till such a
time
"And, of course, you have lost all
your money, and I'll have to go right
on wearing my summer clothes until
it's about fifty degrees below zerol
"Oh, I know-you haven't even
got car fare to go to the Office, and
What is that you are saying, Jack?
"You won $235?
"Jack Jackie ! Jackie Jackie
DOySkY Ou QOu nCdn IL ~AhOl
you're going to get me that cream
lace dress that we saw in the window
the other evening, and have my seal
coat made over, and-Jack, did you
really win all that money Well,
you dear old thing, you II Well,
always did think you were the love-
i;oct o1d o,,ta fhit,o - QyC
The three married men listened to
the first five or six expressions from
the screened talking machine with
open mouths and somewhat worried
countenances, and then tine bachelor
host went over and pulled away the
screen, revealing the talking ma
chine.
"Kind O. natural-the same old
Junk, hey, fellers?" said the married
men to each other when the talking
machine cylinder had run out
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