The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1906-11-17
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plague take your independence!
Don't | enjoy as much Of 1t as you do?
l tell you
What you have told me q thousand
times before
Jack, what do you have against the
women anyhow ,.
"Oh. guess l know thing or two
about them, and they're all alike"
You're cranky. Look here, take ny
own ease
Yes, even your own case"
Jack. what do you mean?'
THAT your wife,
"lou don't know anything about her,
You've only seen her once or twice
Don't matter. She IS handsome. IT,
telligent, clever, yet for all that 40
Jealous as
Jack, you're Joking. Why. I've been
married live years and have two
Don't care IL you have dozen.
Shes Jealous, and | can prove 1t TO yop
in less than week. III bet = dozen
bottles OF champagne on 1t. Take me
up If you dare"
Take YOU up! OF course l will. and
we might MS well have the first bottle
now at your expense, BECAUSE
"We'll see"
~Why. Jack. the excursion we are 60
Ing on tomorrow will take IVA three
days. and you Will have only four left"
"Ncyer mind. I've thought Of that"
The next day they arrived at their
destination. the little summer resort tn
the mountains. q,
"John, my sister Is going to join us
here. and AS III be Juggling my camera
about | shall have TO leave her to yeHr
tender merCies mostly"
Your sister JackY Why, l haven't
seen her since you and | were ut oel.
lege together. and she was just q Attle
girl then. How delightful" :.
Then followed two days OF trnmping
about In the mountains, fine wsat thar,
grand scenery. a glorious time. and
then away again. ..,,.
Two days later Jack called It tia
home OF his friend. Joba is not thara,
and that he knew beforehand, but his
wife IN. or course the little trip Jack
and John have made together becomes
at once the subject OF conversation
"Ycs. indeed, wa had q most delight.
full time. The weather, the mountain,
air and the scenery-oh, l enjoyed It,
ever so much. and so did John! Us
was very much taken with the trip.
and his only regret WAS that YOU
weren't with us to enjoy It too"
Indeed! Well, that WAS very u!cs
FOR him to remember me. Nat really I
preferred to stay here at the sea side
with the children. especially rs l AM
not very fond OF tho mountains any
how. Yet John has been telling Inc 40
much about 1t / almost wish l had
gone" ~
ayes, I'm sure you would have ca
joyed It. or course ] had my sanleS1
with mo. and | took some pictuRsA,
snapshots Oh. nothing special! Moro
" amateur work, but l thought yoa
might enjoy looking at them. and 30
I have brought up some OF them for
you. will Just leave thcm here. 20
you can look them over ut l&tsurA"
swell, how kind you are! OF csusso
l shall enjoy them ever 10 much"
Two hours later John comes homo
and finds his wife wearing 4 look on
her face as threatening rs cyclone
stormCloud.
"That must have been fine time
you had on your tripr'
t,,I., al
you about 1t till my tongue almost
won't wag any morey' .,..
"Oh yes, indeed! I'm on to your
"Nhy, Lottie, dear f.
Don't you Iottie, dear mel I
know just what kind OF time you
white too. oh, yes, you needn't look
SO innocent 10
"Why, Lottie told you about all
the places we went to and all the peo-
pie we met" ~
eyes, and who 10 this woman with
you who ).
THAT? why. that Is Jacks sister. I
merely forgot
"Oh, yes, you can't work that on NAL
There, how tenderly you help her
across the stile, there eating from the
same lunch basket, and there even
actually holding her In your arnst
You lnlscrnblc"-
"Why. Lottie, she stepped on a stone
and would have trippsd and fallen II
hadn't caught her, but where did you
get theseW 49,
THAT nice friend Of yours was kind
enough to give you away"
"A dozen bottles OF champagne"
And tuen he broke down. and he laugh.
ed til he cried, while bis wife looked
on. half wrathful, half inclined to Join
In his merriment but utterly at sen az
TO the cnuse OF 1t. Then he confessed
1t all, and she laughed, too; laughed
TIL the tears streamed down her face
bat Jack laughed last, and he had Eya
best laugh OF them all.
And Jack Well. he doesn't seem to
have had any very serious objection
against women, Hfter all, for he got
married lately-marrled Lottie's sister.
who Is 80 much like Lottie that peo-
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