The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-03-25

not added whole lot of gray hairs to
right thinking of IL then dof know.
| was keenly conscious the whole
evening that | wasn't behaving right
by you-but what could do? knew
very well that you wouldn't have me
such n mean piker as to get cold feet
and quit the game when | was pranc.
ing away out in front and yet there
were times when / felt like throw
ing my chips out of the window and
Just rushing home to you anyhow.
Dog-gone my ornery hide honey,
sure have a crouch against myself
for staying any old place away from
you till such an lNyr in the middle
of the night as this, and there's only
one thing for me to do, ana that is to
try to square 1t with you, that's all.
You just overlook it this time and
you watch me-"
We'll, must say. this is the first
time that you've owned up to 1t that
you weren't treating me right, but il
you"
No, I've been pretty pig-headed
about 1t. have no doubt. but / guess
! can see as far through a stone wall
as the next one, and I'm Just the In
dian that can skate to the centre and
admit things when | see I'm dead
wrong. Yes, ma'am, deed am!
What an ass a fellow is. anyhow, to
stick around with a bunch of pop
eyed cardrifflers when he might be
spending nice, pleasant uplifting
evening at home with the dearest and
incest and prettiest little wife on
earth. and get in his full nights sleep.
and"
We'll, John, | certainly did mean to
say great many things to you about
the way you have been treating me.
but since you show. that you really
are sorry, why, of course, the only
thing l can do is to try to forget"
That's it, precious-just forget it.
I'm not going to be mean, neglect
full skeesicks all my life, you can
bet all you've got on that, and the
next time l leave you in the lurch
this way. But, at that, I'll tell you
what l did Just to get back to you.
/ was still away to the good in the
game when 1t got close to 2 o'clock,
and | was determined to quit at that
hour. no matter what the mullets in
the game thought, and so | deliberate
ly over-played two or three of my
hands and lost my velvet, and SO I |
cashed In Just exactly even to a pen |
ny, and then you ought to've seen me |
hustling home here to you-didnt |
even hang around for a car, I was so |
eager to get back and try to square |
myself, and bling, the next time l |
make loafer Of myself like this I |
want you to give me the swellest |
calling down that ever happened. for
It'll be only what's a-coming to me,
and"
well, must say, you certainly are
dear to own up SO sweetly, and Of
course couldn't reproach you after
you've been SO nice about It," &C.
This Is what the man calls his beat
ler-to-it system. 1t sounds patty
good for a one-time thing. II might
It venture even be put over twice,
With a properly lengthy interval be.
;ween the two attempts. But the
wise old fish of married man who in.
'estigates and gives a bit of thought
IT this beat-her-to-it scheme will prob.
IDLY reach the conclusion that 1t
couldn't possibly work IL used as a
steady thing and that the man who
ried to get by with it for say, the
hfrd time would have his line OF
Junk eaten alive before he'd emitted
more than fourteen brief words of it.
Washington Star.