The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-03-16


mo HOG"
fire and then passed into the sitting
room TO find Mrs. Dolby lying on the
floor on her back with her eyes rolled
back in her head Some husbands
would have picked her up and placed
her on the lounge Mt least but he sat
down to the table and picked up pho
tograph of Niagara falls and began
studying IT, He had just finished Il
mental calculation of the number of
quarts of water going to waste when
Mrs. Dolby fetched long drawn groan.
No use.
Three minutes passed. and the groan
was longer and more lugubrlous.
The deacon paid no attention.
Then Mrs, Dolby sat up and looked
around in seeming astonishment and
said:
"That you. Samuel? thought | had
died and gone to heaven. | must have
been in faint for the last half hoIr."
lie made no reply, and she struggled
up and dragged herself to the lounge
and began TO shuttle. Three or four
Samuel. about three minutes after
you left heard dog howl and knew
that something dreadful was going to
happen. 1t happened. Mrs. Britt came
In to see IL | could give her little
sage. She wanted to make some tea
for her little girl She got the sage,
and then she told me all. Yes. Samuel,
she told me all. | said to myself that ]
| wouldn't faint away over 1t. but ! don't
think she had got to the gate when |
reeled and staggered. and my senses
left me. The last thing remember
was hoping you'd give me decent fu-
neral and weep few tears as was
lowered into my last resting place"
The deacon had read that the falls
had worn away one-sXteenth of an
inch In the last SEQ years and was try
ing to figure out how many million
years 1t would take to wear the brink
back seven feet aud 1t Is possible he
didn't hear his wife's words. Her eyes
overflowed. and she sobbed few
times, then continued:
Samuel and the Hogs.
"She told me all, Samuel down TO
the last thing. Two years ago you said
| one day that you had to go up to la
visburg 10 see about some hogs.
trusted you. SamuI. and waved you
| goodby. When you got home, you said
you wouldn't buy the hogs because
they hadn't got twists IN their tails,
but now know the true reason You
never-you never even saw 'em. You
went up there TO so to Il circus, and
| you got Il seat down In front. Mrs,
Britt was there and saw you. She saw
you grin and laugh. and she saw you
wink at one of the female bareback
! riders. Yes. wink, Samuel-wlnk at a
circus woman! Look me In the face
/ and deny II IL you can"
Mr.. Dolby didn't look her in the face,
| On the contrary. he continued to look
at the photo and to wonder II he
would go to the falls If he had another
bridal tour.
"And a year ago" said Mrs. Dolby
after trying TO wipe her weeping eyes
, on piece of string. "you went down
TO the store one day after pound OF
nails. Yon had n dollar in your pock
ct. You We're gone two hours, and
when you came back you didn't have
a cent believe you told me they
had had an earthquake in Italy OF
something Of that sort 1t wasn't nc
earthquake that detained you, Samuel
There. was II man there with guess
ing hog. II was 10 cents TO guess
and the one that guessed the critters
weight was to have a dollar You
paid for nine guesses and didn't come
within twenty pounds OF 1t. II was