The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-01-16
Bowser Has a ali
Old Time When
Something
Happens.

man laughed at him. When d
| got out on the street q newsh
ran against him and disturbed 81
equilibrium. When he took f.r
street car woman grabbed him n
the coat tails 10 draw hersslt q {
the step and when he swore abo6
/ Il ahe said he was baldhead arf
no gentlemen. The conducl1
/ worked of nickel qnaTteI on bin
lin bis changs and q GROSS eyed man
Nantsd 70 topsh him en kls
for luck.
Therefore when he got home he
was ready to hold Mrs. Bowser re-
sponsible for everything that had
happened. OF course che was to
blame for it-of course. Would
any son of crosseyed man have
dared TO put finger on his chin
for luck at poker but for Mrs.
Bowser.
Mr. Bowser slammed the gate
open. He did it to LET Mrs. Bow
scr understand that he was boss of
that ranoh and that things had got
to stand around for him. He
banged the front door open. He
ibid it that she might know that he
had arrived and have goose. flesh
over it. He expected to see her in
the hall and to shout "Woman!" at
her and demand why in Halifax
the gas in the back parlor was not
Lighted, but she wasn't there The
cat wasn't there. The cook was
not in the kitchen.
Now by the seven horns of the
seven brindIed bulls, but this is
too muoh-too much!' exclaimed
Mr.. Bowser as he went climbing
upstairs.
There was more to come. how
ever. He found Mrs. Bowser in
in bed with headBche. while the
cat was chasing a rubber ball
around on the floor as if domestic
troubles were not of the slightest
account.
II heard you come in" family
announced Mrs Bowser from the
bed.
"oh. you did eh2 You heard
me come in and you jumped into
bed9"
81 havs had a raging headache
all day
"Serves you right. Any woman
who will eat pickles and smoked
herrings and then walk in the
back yard in her bare feet musI
expect to have headaches. Where
in Texas is that redheaded cook o.
onrsP"
81 let her go home for the day
She said she'd surely be back by
A O'Clock. Hasn't she come YETI
"Of course she hasn't come ano
|. of course she won't show mp ill
midnight We're lou idiot enough
to take her word?"
III thought she'd come."
| "Yes. you thought and though
and this is the result of it. By
John, was there ever such a oon
Quoted house as thisl / have nov
got to putter around for two hour
to get myself bite to eat"
81 tried to get up few minutes
ago but couldn't do it," explaines
Mrs. Bowser.
"Of course you couldn't. Yol
are probably in for run of fever
You may have smallpox or tn
plague before you get through
/ with it. That would be just on
luok You wait tiff the cook show
up and I'll make her think hous
fell on her. I'll be up again afte
/ get something to eat "
"Why don't you go to restau
rant for this oncef"
3 Why don't I go to the drugstor
and ask for stryohninel Didn't
come within an ace of dying onc
after getting bite to eat in one
? horse.resta1rantP"
D "But I thought it was too man
beans that allied you"
"Too many nothingsl If 20
think yon won't die before I ge
back I'll now go down and .pok
about the kitchen and if that in
: fernal yaller eyed cat follows m
d IN be the death of him.
'fl EMr. Bowser went down an
poked. He made himself on
Il OF coffee aud ate some bread an
huttar and ooId meat and thong