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T1IE ATHENS GEO RIGAN : MAY 8, 1877.
Kissed by a Mistake.
BY «. A. AV.
“ Will you be at home to«’ght,
Mary?”
And the speaker, a tall, muscular, well-
lookin'* farmer, reddened to the roots
of his hair,ns though he tad committed
some very wicked act instead of asking
a simple question.
He was bashful, extremely so, was
James Brown, at least in the presence
of Indies, and most of all, in the society
of the girl he loved.
How he contrived to approach Mary
Williams on the subject of his prefer
ence for her, probably remains as much
a mystery to himself as it is to others.
•Tame? was worth in a worldly way
more than nnv of her suitors; good-
looking and intelligent enough to satisfy
anyone hut an over-fastidious |>erson.
“Mother is going over to Aunt Km’s
to spend the evening, and wants me to
go; but I won’t. I’ve been working on
hither’s shirts all day, besides doing
the dairy work, and am as tired as I
can l>c; so they will have to do with
out me. Don’t come until 8 o’clock ;
I shall lie through putting things to
rights then, and will let you in.’’
Of course Janies so far forgot his
hashfnlness as to petition for a good
bye kiss, which was peremptorily re
fused. “ No I shan’t! think 1 didn’t see
yon fidgeting round Sarah Jones yes
terday? I’ve not forgotten that, sir!”
“Now, Maty ’’
But th? appeal was broken cfl by a
tantalizing little laugh, and as he
sprang forwad to take a pleasant re
venge on his tormentress, she slipped
away, and ran up the path to the
house, where he saw her wave her
hand as s'ij disappeared within the
kitchen porch.
And then he turnd from the gate,
and took the road homeward.
Tlie tea-things had lieen car red
out, the table set hack agnintt the wall,
and Mary’s work-land drawn up in
front of the blazing fi re.
Marv was sewing and thinking how
she could tell her mother she exjieeted
a visitor.
She would have given the world to
bi able to say, in an
ner, that she c.v|iectc
drop in about eight.
“ I shall not. dare to tell her; she’ll
lie sure to think I wished to get her
out of the way, so I might have James
all to myself, and I should never hear
the last of it ’’
And, like a wi-o little puss, she was
silent.
You would not have wondered at
our young farmer’s enthralment, if
you could have seen Mary Williams
as she sat by the fireside that cold No
vember evcniig
A neatly fitting, dark calico, with
the new look still on it, n fiesli linen
collar, and tasteful black silk apron.
These were the chief items of
Mary’s toilet; hut she looked as
tweet and dainty in her plain dress as
if hours had been spent in donning
laces and jewels.
Eight o’clock and past.
Mrs. Williams was dozing in her
chair—her-hailow on the wall Indited
about in grotesque mimicry as she
his hands in his overcoat pockets, won
dering if Mary had fallen asleep, and
every now and then giving the door a
rap by way of variation.
In her harry, Mrs. Williams forgot
to take the candle, and as she stepped
out in the little front entry, the sitting
mom door slammed after her.
She found herself in the embrace of
a stout pair of arms, a whiskered face
in dose proximity to "her own, and
before she could think about the
strangeness of her situation, she re
ceived a prolonged kiss—a hearty
smack—full upon her lips.
“Oh! ’Tian’t Obadiah, neither!’’
She had by this time divested her
self of the impression that it was her
usually sober spouse, who must have
come home in an unusually excited
condition thus to indulge in such an
unwonted expression of affection.
“ Get out! Get out, 1 say ! Who
are you ? Murder! Thieves! Mary,
come here! Here’s a man kissing me
like mail! ”
But the intruder had discovered his
m’stake—it did not need the indignant
pummelling and scratching of the lady’s
vigorous fist to cause hint to relinquish
his hold and fly as if pursued by some
indignant ghost.
Mary, nearly choking with smoth
ered laughter, in spite of her trepida
tion, now came to her mother’s rescue.
“ I never was so frightened in all my
life? Who could it lie? Mary, have
you any idea ? ”
But that dutiful daugliter was, to all
apjiearances, imucent as a dove.
She soothed the old lady by repre
senting that it might have lieen one of
the neighbors, who, having drank too
much, had mistaken the house and 1
the housewife.
She searched the entrv fur the miss
lie would shake his fat sides at j
Janies’ discomfiture, and his wife’s j
tart replies, and Mary would- join
him, and both would laugh until the ;
tears ran down their cheek* •**
“Never mind,” Jim,’’ Mrs. .Wil- j
Hams would say, consolingly. f “ Let!
bite laugh. He’d have been only too
glad to have been in your plaee^ .twen
ty years ago. He had to work to get
a kiss from me then. And JfjtTope it
will lie a lesson to you and Mary agiu
the impolicy of concealment and such
underhand doings of all sorts ”
Vas Bunder Henspecked ?
Any shentleman vot vilLgo round
pehind your face, und talk in front of
your hack apout a nncthings, vas a
shvindler. I beared dot Brown says
veek petore next apout me I vas a j
henspecked huspnud. Dot*vas a lie! j
De proof of de eating vas iu depud-1
dings: I am married twenty year j
already, mid I vas yet not paffd-headed j
I don’t vas oonder some' *f>fcttygo.-its !
goferaments; shtill I tiuks it vas pet- j
ter if a feller vill insult nift - his vile
und got her advices a]>ont somethings
or order.
Dem American voinans don’t know
Rock Bottom Prices.
WORKING ON A CASH BASIS. ?
Hkaiujuarthrs for
GRAIN, MEAT AND
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peesness, mid veil dem hart times .
comes iu de house, dot make not •
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some tifference mit her. &htill she
moost have vone of dot pull-pauk-iii.
de-front-hoop skirts-petty-goats mit
every kind trimmings. Booty soon
dot liu-pant gets ]>aiikrupted all to
pieces. Dey send for de doctor; und
vheihjje doctor comes de-man dies.
J,)cii dat voitiaus vas opiiged to mar
ry mit anoder man vot she don’t
maype like mit four or six shildrciis,
on account of his first vifo already,
mid possidily vone two mrtdders-bv-
PLAIN AND FANCY
B WORK.
REOUeTlOK
IN PRICES.
Mine Secured the Services
^ FIRST-CLASS
Of
iny .“l>ectaelcs, dropped iu the scuffle; law—vone .sceoitd.-handcil, und do
rearranged the rumpled cap-border ; i “d'ler a shtepmtiddcr-.oum)aw. Den
wound up the tangled yarn ; stirred the j sl, c says “‘it hcr^H “I 0 fcu visit
ai veil the world to JJ*h» luuLA'nc
off'lmruls.P iiinn- JffvJ instead* of
cJ Mr. Brown to another nap, 6he
fire—all in the most amiable manner
possible—and at length had the satis-
dot I vas dead a little.”
Now if a Chermnit.H goes dead, dot
faction of seei g her mother subside I don’t make a pit of tifference.
into the chair with her accustomed I pod
tranquility.
But Mrs. Williams was fully awake
now.
-had4 liowlHlc—in for—heiRd j irt >m i n Hirthiijpii^.niiilV'1
X • J. ..e gertjing, for" nmhs vas a tiffersiiee kind
|H)ily vould hardly kno
i mape liimself Ilis vife .4
peesness on sliust like ^ j
happened to somepQdyv^
No-
eept
le
nodded to and fro, and her fat hands J Mary?’’
lay listlessly in her iap, and her ball
of yarn had rolled out upon the hearth,
and puss was busy converting it into
Gord.an knots.
And just then came a double iap at
the door—so loud, so sudden, so self-
assured, that Mary started (up with a
tittle shriek, and set her foot on the
cat’s tail, who, in turn, gave voice to
her amazement and displaesure.
The coni bind noise aroused Mrs.
Williams, and, starting into an erect
posture, she rubbed her eyes, settled
her cap bonier, and exclaimed:
“Bless , ray soul, Mary! What was
that? Somebody at the door? Who
can be coining at this time of night?’’
“It is not late, mother—only a little
after eight. I’ll go and see who it is,”
•aid Maty, demurely, taking the can
dle from the table.
“No. You wind up my ball, and
sweep up the hearth, while I go to the
door,* said the old lady, whose feet
were struggling in the meshes of the
unravelled yarn. “ Drat that cat!”
And all this time James was stand
ing on one foot in the cold porch, with
nap, she pursued the train of
thought and her knitting at the same
time with wonderful tapidity.
At length stopping, and looking
keenly at Mary, she said :
“ I suppose it’s a queer notion of
mine, Mary, but I’ve au indistinct idea
that that man was Jim Brown.’’
If’ Mary’s face did not file up then !
You might have lit a candle hy i'J
These incipient symptoms did not
escape the wary inquisitor.
“ ’Bears so to me, ’cause those big
whiskers were so much like liis’n, and
the awkward way he gripped me with
hi3 great paws.”
Mary was wonderfully busy.
She bent over her work, and threw
the needle through so rapidly that the
thread snapped, and then she was so
engaged in threading her needle again,
that she didn’t have time to answer.
“I don’t think that kiss was meant
for me, after all. Wonder who it was
intended for? And I wonder if you
don’t know something about it,
“Me, mother?”
“Yes, you Mary. You was mighty
anxious to get me and father off to
Aunt Em’s ibis evening, hut I noticed
you were dressed up extraordinary,
for all you weren’t going. Mary, I’m
getting old, I know it; but I haven’t
lost my eyes : ght yet. I’ve heard some
thing about this between you and
James Brown. What are you playing
that game for ? Out with it, I say.’’
Our little schemer thus adjured,
made a “ clean breast ” of the whole
matter, much relieved to find that
mother “ hadn’t -nothing agin him,’’
and would “give father a talk about it,
and bring him all around on the sub
ject.”
“But, Mary, I want yon to tell Jim
I’d rather he wouldn’t make such a
mistake agin. I don’t like the feel of
his big whiskers about my face I
don’t approve of promiscuous kissing.”
James never heard the last of that
blunder
Old Williams used to delight in re
hearsing the story whenever all parties
nt crested happened to be present.
For iiishtinct, last year dqt^-mtfTol-
ler, Mr. Brown, goes mit me in de
putelier bevsnesa togedor. He vas
American man—so vas his vife. Veil,
many time vlien eferv peohles lias got
de panic pooty bad, do t omans comes
to her huspant und says she moost
have money. I)en she goes out rid
ing mil a carriage.
Voiiee oil a time. Brown savs to
me, “ Bender. I vouldu’t le liens-
p* ekedSo he vent off und got
hiun-cif tight—sliust because his vife
tells him, hleasc don’t do dot. Den
he sits down on his hack mit de floor,
und if I am not dere not time he
never vould go home.
Yeti, dot night, me und iny vife,!
vc had a little talk apout somethings;
und <le next tay I says to Brown,
“ Look here vonsi! My vife she makes
sausages, und vork in dot slitore; j
also my laughter she vorks py the
slitore urd makes headsdeeses; und
your vife vas going out riding all do
time mit de horse-ear, und a| patent- j
tied-paok-cardinal slitripod Ishtocl
ings. Now your vife moost *<» vork
in de slitore and out peel'shteq;s, und
make sauer-kraut, or else ve divide
not equally any more dot profits.**
Veil, Brown goes home tin4 tells
his vife ajiout dot. Den she (ootnes
pooty quick mit Brown arouiil, und
ve had a misunderstanding, apout
something, in vhieh eferypodyVook a
part, including my leetle dog Kaiser,
Pooty soon up comes a po!ic«mans
und arrests us for breeches of promts
to keep de pieces, und assaulting
de battery, or somethings. Den de
firm of Bender & Brown vas broke
up. I go about my peesness, und
Brown goes mit liis peesness. My
vife she helps in de shtorc. His vife
goes riding mit de horse-cars, und
efry night she van by de theatre.'
Vot’s de gonsequcnces ? Along
comes dot Centennial panic. Dot
knocks Brown more higher as two
kites, by chimminyj My income vas
shtill titore as my outcome. But
Brown, he goes ’roun 1 dot slircets
mit liis hands out of his pocket, und
lie don’t got a cent to liis back.—
Scribner n s Monthly. t
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Reular Bulldozers Against 'High Prices, ' e
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AND CASH ALWAYS WINS.
COME AND SEE HOW WE CAN SELL GOODS.
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D’.
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