The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-15

some good points about her, but i
will have to behave to be-
He grumbled away below his breath
while he was taking down the roller
| towel to use as dish towel, and ther
| l heard him say:
| wonder what the mother-in-la law
| will say about it? l know, however
! She'll give me an awful roast
| down here and do her song and dance
| act and make it bad for me. She's
| got a way about her to make a fell
! lows hair stand up. Mebbe I was a
little hasty-mebbe so. If Mrs. Bow
ser hadn't walked off and left me to
I had to go up to the sitting room
| to avoid discovery, and 20 minutes
| later he found me there.
Neither of US spoke.
Both sat down and stared in va
cancy.
A woman can beat man at a
waiting game, and after a quarter of
an hour I tired Mr.. Bowser out. He
began to shuttle his feet and twiddle
his thumbs and at length got up and
went into the library. [ listened at
the keyho1e and as he walked to and
fro I heard him say:
.'She sits there like a bump on a
log and says nothing. If she expects
me to speak first, she'll get badly left"
He was quiet for moment, during
which he kicked the dictionary across
the floor and banged a chair about,
and then he resumed:
Mrs. BoWser has got her trunk
packed and will want to go in the
morning, and l don't know what in
thunder I'm going to do. L can't get
a housekeeper in here, and III be
hanged if L go to a hotel or boarding
house What did she want to fire up
the way. she did for? She knows my
little ways and has always put up
with them till this time, but the min
ute I began to talk she said she'd
been packing her trunk to go home.
Never was so astonished in my life,
butt of course I had to tell her to
trot along. By gun! By gum
I heard him approaching the door
and 1 got back into the sitting room.
He came in after moment, trying
hard to look careless, and after pac-
ing up and down he took a chair and
remarked that it was showing out
doors.
I replied that it was possible.
He said that we'd had very little
snow thus far this winter.
I replied that I hadn't been inter-
ested.
He then took the cat on his lap and
asked if 1 thought her eyes1ght was
failing.
He then skipped from cat to moth
er-in-law and hoped she was well.
She is we'll, thank you.
Then Mr.. Bowser began to shuttle
and twiddle again, ana IN another
minute he rose up and returned to the
library I took up my former posi-
ton just in time to hear him say:
1.-The old girls got her back up for
fair this time. She ought to see that
I'm doing my best to make up with
her. but she won't have it. Wonder if
she expects me to get down on my
knees to her.. I won't do it if die for
it, but it puts me in hole just the
same. What in the old Harry is going
TO become of me if she goes 2"
Then he got mad and kicked that
poor dictionary back again, and back
and forth the other way, and it was
two minutes before he went on:
"Bowser, you are an old crank.
Durn your cats, but why do you jump
on anybody with both feet the way
you do? You come home and find
that the cook has been called away
by sickness-legitimate sickness-and |
you Immediately begin to blow and |
buster and walk around on Mrs. Bow |
ser. Yes, you are an old crank, and |
you've got yourself into a nice fix