The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-03-07

erybody had iron or brass bedsteads
these days." replied Mrs. Bowser.
But did Charlemagne have an iron
or brass bedstead?"
"They were not made in those days."
ibid Marie Antoinette sleep on an
iron or brass bedsteadT"
Probably not. but l wish she had to
sleep on this old thing now. How on
earth are you e going to get it up
stairs? Even when you get it up there
It will take up all the room in the bed
room."
Don't you worry about those tribes.
Ny idea is that in buying furniture we
might as we'll buy something Of his
toric interest. If I'd had more money
with me today, I should have bought a
bureau belonging to Queen Elizabeth"
Il wish YOU hadn't had enough to
buy this bedstead. II I'd known you
were going to do such a thing, I'd have
bought a brass one yesterday out Of
my " money. If any secondhand
man would buy it,
He Is Obdurate.
"What! Sell this Marie Antoinette
bedstead to a secondhand man? New
er! His touch would be pollution. No
secondhand man should have it for
$780,"
But no one would give you even a
dollar. There is no sale whatever for
wooden BEDS"
but I'm telling you that this was
Marie A~ntoinette's bedstead!' shouted
MI. Bowser as his anger began to rise.
"And who cares for that?" retorted
Mrs. Bowser.
Look here, woman, my name Is
Bowser l an at the head of this
house. l run things. l discover that we
want to throw out Il three-quarter bed
stead and replace it by a full size. I
drop into an auction room and find a
historic piece of furniture worth 5000
going for S15 and send it home. You
Kick. You even tell me that 1 couldn't
sell it again for a dollar"
"And neither can you. You have lust
thrown away S15, and $40 more put
with it would have bought the bed
stead I wanted
Mr.. BOwser walked down the hall
and put Oh his hat and overcoat.
where are you going?" she asked.
SHOWN to the nearest furniture store
to sell this bedstead for $25. You can
get a brass bedstead on which Captain
Kidd has slept if you want to-"
After a walk Of two blocks he turned
into 4 furniture store and said to the
proprietor:
i've got a mahogany bedstead up at
the II that Marie Antoinette used
to sleep on. It's worth every cent of
5000, but you can have it for $25."
II wouldn't give you 25 cents" was
the reply.
DO you mean that?"
Certainly. If you have got a fur
c in your house, you had better
split the bedstead up for arewood."
But it once belonged to Marie An
toinette."
Or your grandmother"
Mr.. Bowser glared at him and want
ed to call him a sordid minded wretch.
but, choking back his temper, he walk
ed out and along to the establishment
of a secondhand dealer.
Il have got a wooden bedstead"- he
OSeUAs OuS 6OS ~ xUIulCI WUou zoe
dealer interrupted him with:
"Then keep it."
but it's a mahogany bedstead."
"Might as well be pine"
"And it once belonged to Marie An
t~oinette."
"Or Susan b. Anthony. I'll draw it
away from your house for So, but not
a cent cheaper"
Mr. Bowser was red in the face when
he passed out and along to another
shop, and there was a n in his
voice as he asked:
do you want to buy a mahogany
bedstead"
mot on your life!
"Why not?"
"For the same reason that / don't
want to buy any last years cabbage
heads
will you take it and draw it awayT"
mot much. You might try a wood
yard man."
Mrs. Bowser was upstairs crying
again when Mr.. Bowser returned. She
heard him Gathering down the cellar
stairs and gathering up again. Then
S"n'e " ""I "Aoop uHu UAoWS OI ue
AK. Whoop followed whoop and blow
followed blow, and she gave him If.
teen minutes before coming down. She
found him standing amid the wreck
and ruin of that Marie Antoinette bed
stead, and the look on his face was
fairly tendish. They looked at each
other for a minute, and then he drop
ped the ax and folded his arms and
said:
swell, madam. l hope you are salts
fed nOww NJ. QUAD.
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