The Cairo bulletin., 1911-03-04
TIL, GRASS
WIDOW
81 NJ QUAD
~ M QUAD
Copyright, -, by Associated Lit
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II Is always given IS Grass.
Miss MinGrva Saunders WIS grass
widow She should have called her.
self Mrs, hut the report had come &c
her that her missing husband, Abel,
had been seen to drown himself III Y
nillrond, She waited a year and then
called herself Miss ARA removed To
ferklnsville She had net been there
thr2c months when Moss Drew.
farmer saw her at church ana ad
n,'red her and began courtnv He
should have been told straiph.away
that she was decciving husband
ana that t,lat drowning bushes might
have been one Of his little tricks. but
he wasn't, lie went richt ahead nnd
eourted under the idca that Ne was ",
love with miss. About eight mon
after meeting the women he asl; Z
her to be his Wife II was then nea,fg
two years since It's abs ondng Ahtl
was supposed TO have ge.,n Is the bet
tom of the pond, and o. Sanndevs
blushed and sianme:ed and said sla
guessed so.
Ihat was enough for ORC night. On
the next the wedding day was set.
On the second the wedding day WIS
planned, On the third as the happv
couple sat holding hands the absconder
walked into the house. He had not
! been drowned. He had not come any
where near II. OF course there was
excitement. more of It than as if n
circus elephant had broken loose.
| Abel arolaeized for his advent. He
was sorry he came. He realized what
n worthless critter he was and he
could never forgive himself for hav-
Ing broken ~ a happy marriage. He
would so right away and commit sui
eide and let the matrimonial event
take place. lie asked for a dollar and
got 1t end then disappeared Mr..
Drew had to be talked to in q sooth-
ing way for long time but he finally
sat himself down to wait until the
grass widow became q real widow.
in about three months stranger CALI
cd on Mrs Saunders to say that he
lived twenty miles away and was
carpenter He had n man named Abel
Saunders IN on the scaffold with him
ono day when it fell to the ground and
Abel was q dead man. He only had
time to tell his name and express the
hope that his dear Minerva would now
20 ahead aud marry Moses
In 1--WE dnys more the preacher would
have tied the knot but Abel walked
into the house again 1t was some ona
else that>liad fallen from the sraffold
and been buried by the town. If pro
vidcd with a cheap suit Of clothes he
would make al end OF himself this
time.
Three months went by and nothing
from Abel During this interval there
was no talk about the wedding dav.
There must he no more surprises. Ii
WAS lucky that the couple had gone
slow. Mrs. Saunders received by mail
from a town fifty miles away five af-
fidavitS that & man who had beea
found frozen 20 death In snow bank
WAS the lamented Abel As the frozen
legs had broken short off IN carting
the body arognd there was no doubt
of death.
please excise me for saying these
look good TO me- said Mr. Drew rs
he looked up after reading the aHida-
wits.
"Yes, Abel IS sure gone this time"
sighed the wife.
An hour later Abel Saunders walked
In and held his toes TO the fire to toast.
Minerva succeeded in fainting away,
but Moses Drew arose in his anger
and shouted out:
'Thcn you were not frozen stiTT"
'Me? Oh. moi"
"And they didn't break the legs OF
your caraSs!'
legs? Oh, my legs are all right"
"And you've come back~
"Come back? Yes, but I'm not going
o stay long thought I'd go out skat-
ne tomorrow and skate into an ale
lole. You can both come along anil
zee me do If, and then there won't be
my more false alarms"
'You go to grass, sir, and I'll 20
lome! This Is pretty muss for a re-
pectable man to get lnto!'
Mr.. Drew stamped cut IF the house.
nd Minerva got chilly on the floor
nd returned to consciousness to fail
0 weeping and to wall out
"Oh, Abel, | couldn't have believed
Of you.'
mo, of course not orter got
rozen, but ! didn't. I'll he all right
though. Don't cry, Ncrva;
ont cry"
"But Moses!"
On, he'll be all right In day or
wo' Just feels hurt Mt my coming
acE Thinks I don't mean to skate
ITO an air hole, but he shall sec Yes,
kate right In, and that win be the last
me. Cheer right up, girl"
II Is matter Of record THAT Abel
auAders went out on the millpcnd
ext morning and kept his promise.
ore than twenty persons saw him
skate into nm air hole and
S body shoot over the high dam.
hey looked for It, and though II was
IT recovered there was no doubt abou.
e death. Three months later the
ng delayed marriage took place It
MS sure thing about Abel this time.
ut was 1t? Six months after the mar.
ige man was killed almost In FROM
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