New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-30
The Coming Tower
Lost Mr.. Blake.


He always nasty sneang underhanded hole andcOrner
sort Of way
have known profan uhgentemany emphatics
Church has been divided the subject OF the
width of a chasuble's hem,
have even him at absand as for damacs
Words convey idea of the contempt he expressed for Them
IA didn't believe in persons who not being
Obliged to confne charitable exerons collecting
money weather. people,
And upon individuals of the former class ecclesiastical
He used to say that he think interfering with his
priests robes with his church or his steepe
And consider his soul mpered because somebody
over influence whatever chose to dress him
self up like an ecclesiastical Guy Fawkes
This shocking old vagabond unutteraby shameless
That actually accounting respectable and middle
aged sister by the of Bggs:
She rather attractive widow whose life as such had always
been particularly blameess;
Her left her but moderate competence
owing specuatons in the matter of figs
She excellent In wayand won the respect
Of even Mrs Grundy;
She was good housewife too and wouldn't have wasted
penny she had owned the Kohinoor;
She strict he lax in her observance OF sunday
And being good charitable besides she took all
the potatoes and broken pierusts and
defends when she had quite done with them), and made
them into excellent soup for the deserving poor
Pm sorry to say that she rather took Baethat of
society;
And when respectable brothers who began
look dubious and to cough,
She would say "oh my friends hope bring this
poor Senighted back to virtue and propriety"
And besides poor benghted SOUL with all his faults
uncommOnly well off,
And when Mr. dsspad friends called his attention to the
the pout of her,
Whenever anything which appeared to her to SAVIOR Of an
unmentonable place,
He would say she very decent old girl when all that
nonsense knocked out of her
And his knocking of her is that covered him
with disgrace.
She church services four times every Sunday
five times in the week. and never seemed to pail
So he hunted out all the within convenient distance
that had services at different hours so to speak,
And when married her he positively insisted on going to all
So they contrived to do churches Sunday and
they had luck twenty-five to twenty-three in the
course Of a week
She was fond Of dropping his osentaouy into the
Mate and she liked to see stand out rather conspcuousy
against the commonplace haf-crowns and shllings,
So he took charity and If by any extraor-
binary chance there wasn't charity anywhere he
drop couple of soveregn Zone for him and one Tor
herr the poor-box at the door;
And always deducted the thus given charity from the
housekeeping money the he allowed her for her
bonnets and frillngs,
She soon began that charity if you allow 70 inter-
fe with YOUR personal luxuries ntOlerabe bore
On Sundays she was always melancholy anything but good society,"
For household day OF sghngs ana sooOgS
and wringng Of hands and shaking OF heads;
She wouldn't being glove because II was
work neither of necessity nor OF pety
And strictly prohibited from amusing themselves
or indeed doing anything all except dustng the drawing
ROOM cleaning and shoes, cooking the dnner walt
ing generally on the family, and making the BEDS
But Blake even than that and said that on sundays
people should Of necessity ana not dele
gate them o persons in mental situation
he wouldn't his do so much as even answer
bell.
Here he making HE carry the water Tor her oah 10 e
second floor against her Inclination
And WHY the world gentleman who illustrates nese OaaoS
has put him a cooked hat is more than can TELL
After about three months Of thing, taking the smooth
with the rough of it,
Bacng her own png her own potatoes was not
10 her notion of connubial Bliss, -.
began had pretty nearly mao enough VI
came in course time think that Bakes own original
line of wasn't much amlss
And wicked person-tha deestabe sinner be aNe
bief call i'm