The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1912-12-26

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berry swamp. replied Uncle Abner
shorts as some one In the crowd at
the posfofBce put the question but
I've beard sadder news that that to
day-yes. a good deal sadder. Is IL
that any one we all know Is dead7
No. but perhaps II was better for him
II be wa dead I don't want to keep
you In suspense. and l win therefore
say that George Green gOt married 10
day for the second time
4 hain'f looking for anybody 70 be
shocked dead at the news. II has Jest
set me to thinking and aroused q heap
Of reeollections. You all know that 1
lost my wife three years ago. and AFT
er a year ! married again and am now
living with No. 2 1 reckon it's also
purity well known that No 2 bosses
the roost
There was folks in this village. gen
tiemen. who said that I'd grieve my
self 10 death Over my loss, n there
were others who said I'd be shopping
around after No. 2 within a year. As
for me. I felt that I was wasting
away and was powerfully surprised
one day to md myself eating heartily
Of a boiled dinner. From that time 1
began to pick up. but for months after
ward I bad no more thoughts Of mar
rying ag'in than Lemuel Goodheart has
Of putting his foot agin a hot stove
It seemed to me that the man who lost
such an angel Of a wife as / had de-
served t. be shot for thinking Of mar
rying agin.
Jest when the idea hit me- that I'd
better look around a little for another
woman I can't say. I think ii was after
I'd cooked my own meals. made my
own bed. sewed on my own buttons
and washed my own shirts for seven
or eight months. Then the feeling
stole over me that there was room In
the house for another. Il sorter skeer-
ed me at first, but I'm saying that it's
a feeling you can get used to IN q day
or two. As soon as / began 10 won
der II I really ought 70 marry agin |
found myself advancing a dozen rea-
sons why / should
We'll. II hain't no secret that / look
ed. around and found the Wilder Glenn
She might have been looking around
at the same time. but I'm not going to
say that such is the case- At nnst IL
was a question with me whether q
widower could love for the second
time. Within a week after I had hit
the widder's trail that question was
settled 10 the Affirmative. l found my
self a heap more In love than on the
first occasion. All Of you was lind
enough to say that I made a burned
fool OF myself. and. though I couldn't
see It then. I'm admitting most OF II
now.
Gentlemen. l was two long months
hesitating orer asking the wilder 70
be mine. and yet the rest Of you wal
saying tina she'd jump at b chance
Mebbe you was right 1 know that
when l finally managed to get up the
courage I hadn't hardly got my mouth
open before she says yes
And now comes the real pint. ia
been boss OF the house. same as all OF
o are boss OF yours Wasn't Il nat
eral for me to keep right on bossingf
Had the thought OF ~surrendering the
reins OF government occurred to mel
Is a man and a husband 70 be treated
ike a child or a slavef AT the nrst
eo-of her bossing was a novelty. and
4 rather liked Il and encouraged Il l
was still in love. you see. After about
a month the novelty wore OF. and 1
began TO assert myself I took the
hossinr business into my own hands
what follered7 why. that wife got
right up on her hind legs and made
tho air blue for forty rods around she
eot out ten words 70 my one When
I took her BY the ear to sit her down
and hush her up she nc into my hair
and pulled II out BY handfuls-
Gentlemen. who bosses the rooatt
Mrs. shorts,
who handles the cashf Mrs Shortsl
who tells me when 7 can so ana
when I shall GOMEZ Mrs shorts.
who gives me liberty tc draw ny
breath? Mrs Shorts.
I'm only telling you what you all
know and what Is the gossip OF \
town. she made up her mind when
she became No. 2 that she'd Be the
boss. and she's carried II out That's
the way with ali No rs. No. I knuck-
les dowu and lets you do the bossing
and thinks it's all right, but No. ? b
no such chicken. She intended 70 get
the whip hand when she married you.
and she's going TO keep Il or raise such
a row that yousn wish you was In
YOUR grave.
Understand gentlemen, that I'm
saving nothing aEn Mrs shortA
she's iner'n silk o Lord. but such
picked peaches as she does put upi
Ana apple sass-it makes you grin
from your neck 70 your heels. Just
one Of the incest women IN the q
,ry. and I hope that she'll outllve me
Nv twenty years. but I have hno % use
her as an Illustration. She married
me to be boss. and she Is boss same
as an the other No. IS hain't ex-
actiy saving that the man who loses
No. I shouldn't look for a No. 2 but
I'm saying that n he does be ought
to know what's coming to him n
what he'll be SURF to get I've at aEin
Il and at and o.. but It's no 2 To-