The Red Cloud chief., 1913-05-29
PRETTY PAIR OF TWINS
~ DON MARK LEMON.

as you'd see In q picture gallery, and
then settled down in the same town
long side of one another.
For year everything went as
smooth and easy. and then q change
came over the spirits of Ed. Burns
and Tim Smith. Ed. got to looking at
Tins wife, and Tim got to looking
at Eds wife, and they concluded they
had married the wrong sister.
1t was amusing when you come to
reason 1t out. for the girls were as
much alike as the same letter. out
OF the same identical printers box.
But Ed. remarked to his wife, what
a fine housekeper her sister was.
and Time remarks to his wife, what
a fine cook her sister was,. Ed says
to Jenny-that's his wife: "Why
don't you dress yourself up pretty,
like your sister does? She's got
style, she has" And Tim says to
Mary-that's his wife: "Why don't
you look stylish. like your sister does?
She's got backbone like a wax fig.
ure in a Fifth avenue store"
1t run on this way most a year,
and Ed. and Tim got more and more.
careles Of their wives. feelings, and
the two women folks got more and
more miserable and unhappy.
Well. It went on this way till the
rift In the fiddle was big enough to
swallow q meeting house. and then
one day something curious hap
pened. Ed. and Tim kissed their
wives and made up. and acted pret.
tier than they did In their courtins
days. and everybody In town. was
glad to sec Il but me.
You see. Tim had taunted Mary
about how much nicer her sister wa.
till Mary flies up and says: why
don't you trade me for Jenny. and
be done?"
Tim could hardly believe his ears
for moment. then he grabs Mary
and shouts: "You mean it,. :.
Yes" says Mray., with her lip
. trembling.
Just then who should come in but
Ed. and Jenny. and III be ,eternally
denoralized II Ed and Tin q didp,t
go at 1t on the spot and swap yiyes
without any compunction Ok boot. ,,,,
Nobody, will know we've done
IT," said Ed. "You couldn't tell 'em
apart till you've lived with one OF
'em a year." .sy, -..-
Nobody but US will know It," says
Tim, looking at Jenny like a boy with
a dime In his pocket looks In q candy
store window.
Then Jenny and Mary went up.
stairs together and changed clothes,
and came down. ana Tim grabs Eds
wife and Ed grabs Tins wife. and
everything looked as rosy 2hd com.
Portable as the big gold seal on q
divorce certificate. ~
Ed goes home with Mary and Tim
stays with Jenny. and the two men
folks were as frolicksome and af.
fectionate a. two bull.pups with
their first muzzles taken Of.
Ed. acted a. II nothing was too
good for Mary. and Tim thinks there
wasn't anything half good enough
} for Jenny. and the two women folks
!, got to laughing and growing 70,
, from pure 10Y. and ~ nobody but
them and me knew anything about
the deception. and mo laying Low
and saying nothing. why. things weAl
on from good to better and frou
better to BEST.
But what sort Of vurtrissd Ne VI
} the way that the sisters took 70 Il
Their ooasolsncss didn't seem to ,b>
, TROUBLING them at aii. and they grew
, fat and saucy on the love they Wee(
getting. concluded that "a. az
Tim hadn't wanted to swap wives AMI
better than Mary and Jenny haE
wanted to swap husbands. But
!. couldn't blame &he women folks much
8 for they were now being treated lik,
human angels.
Well. It went on for most Q yea
this way. with Ed. and Tim treating
the sister they had swapped for lik'
knights In old story books treatet
their beautiful lady loves. then. on
day. I discovered something that'l
y make mo turn over and. laugh In m!
grave.
I've said before that Jenny AM
Mary being twins and born Of th,
, same mother looked just alike, an'
a Ill b eternally shanghaied II the.
o hadn't fooled their own husbands
o They had gone upstairs and change'
+. dresses. and then came down an.
pretended Mary WAS Jenny an Jenn
D was Mary. and I'd. had gone oi
o homo with his own wife. thinkin,
% her Mary. and Tim had stayed wher
% he was with his own wife. thinkin
10 her Jenny. and BY treating thei
Il wives like they wsge some otAsr o.
lows wife. I'll be hanged II the
n didn't love EN- like they were.
n When discovered the truth
ID went homo and fed my bull-pup o
h liver till he begged me to quit I
It and then I sat down and wondere
,f about how long II would be befor
% Ed. and Tim would find out th