The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1913-06-04

| heard him say:
Wonder what the mother-in-aw
will say about it? ! know. however.
She'll give me an awful roast
Shouldn't wonder if she'd come right
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 fellows hair
stand up Mebbe was a little hastE
-mebbe so. II Mrs. Bowser hadn't
walked of and left me to wash these
Dishes
had to 60 up to the sitting room 10
avoid discovery. and twenty minutes
later he found me there.
Neither of us spoke.
Both sat down and stared into va
cancy.
He Becomes Nervous.
A woman can beat man at q wait
ing game. and after quarter OF an
hour. l tired Mr.. Bowser out. he be-
gan to shuttle his feet and twiddle his
thumbs. and at length he got up and
went into the library. listened at the
keyhole, and as be walked to and fro
heard him say:
'She sits there like, bump on a log
and says nothing. If she expects me to
speak first she'll get sadly left"
He was silent for minute. during
which he kicked the dictionary across
the floor and banged chair about. and
then he resumed.
Mrs. Bowser has got her trunk pack
ed and will want to go in the morning.
and don't know what in thunder I'm
going to do. | can't get housekeeper
in here. and I'll be hanged If | go It"
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
tine, but the minute began to talk
she said she'd been packing her trunk
to go home. Never was so astonished
in my life. but. of course, had to tel
her to trot along. BY gum. by gum!
= / heard him approaching the door.
and l got back into the sitting room
he came in after 4 moment. trying
hard to look careless, and after pacing
up and down be took chair and re-
marked that it was showing outdoors
i, I replied that. it was possible.
:. He said that we'd had very little
snow thus far this wintec.
! replied that l hadn't been inter
Fested.
He then took the cat on his lap anG
asked if~i thought her eyesight was
failing.
BE then skipped from cat to mother
in-law and hoped she was we'll
She is well. thank you.
He Gives In at Last.
\ Then Mr.. Bowser began to shuttle
and twiddle again. and in another min
ute he rose up and returned to the II
brary. took up my former position
just in time to hear him say:
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.expeets me to get down on my
knees to her. WON'T fdositEif fsdie: 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:" =,
Then he got mad and kicked that
DOOR 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 6nd that the
cook has been called away by sick
ness Legitimate sickness-and you I'm.
mediately begin TO blow and blcster
and walk around ON Mrs. Bowser. Yes.
you are an Old crank. and you've got
yourself into nice fix at last! What
YOU want to do Is to 60 right down
there and chuck that woman under the
chin and beg her pardon and No.
you can't do that. You want to put on
your hat and over.oat and 60 out and
slam the door behind you. She'll prob
ably get scared and come down OF her
high horse and call you back. and then
you can make up without loss Of dig
nifty" -. II, - :. =
got out. Of: the. way. and Mr. Bow
ser put his pfan in operation. 1t didn't
work. he stood on the steps for FIVE
minutes, waiting for call. and when
none came be re-entered the house
with erestfallen demeanor. Hanging
up his hat on the hal, tree, he came
back into the sitting room and stood
and looked at me.
. / returned his gaze. -. a.. ~
'rWhile TIN an anger'- ~~..
eyes, you are that. and want to
say a.E ese@g- e@g- &. & - =.
$50 dc; /. I'm not going home to
mother in the morning"
Then-- Well. then. Mr.. Bowser and
I had happy evening together. and In
his exuberance Of spirits he lifted the
cat to his shoulder and went dancing
around the room like boy ten years
old. think he'll be good for at least