Judge — April 29, 1882 — page 9: what you’re looking at

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amas a caterpillar, seeking | DOES THE TRAMP RESEMBLE A BUTTERFLY? With ever Yields not the Whi ow flame 1 burns within my soul to-nis! “Love her! If thou ha Within My love would far exceed in w “Love heet ‘The mottled lark that soars Among the clouds Can never reach in loft at float above, ht The height of my exalted love. “Love her! The oce de ho, not near— As Ler On bended kuees before thee here, * Well, I think you do. And the wed Take her,” pk man worried on his boots, wv of tobacco of his. pri on-in Jaw, and went out to be ht. HOWARD S. PULLER. I MOVE. A FIRST OF MAY EPISODE. I HAVE moved, and m glad of it. my loc Not ion, mount tend the and with great ad- because I have merely cl but be have gaine of personal experi future days of my li vant I didn’t move because T was not satisfied with my former place of residence; neighbors were good cnough, and all that. Neither did I move because it was cheaper to move than to pay rent, for I had to pay, whether I would or no. My wife said it was getting to be quite the thing to move on the first of } consequent- ly I moved, and terrible were the di which attended me. For three whole weeks I ran from intelli- gence office to intelligence office. 1 pounded upon two hundred and forty-four different front doors, climbed sixty-eight miles of bad stairs, and perambulated through one hun- dred and seventeen dark, illy-smelling hall- Iwas brow-beaten by two hundred and forty-four female tenants; was kicked out of ten back entrances by many tenement nakers, who swore, by the powers «1 below, that I was an infernal health ollicer looking for small-pox patients. It is not n ary for me to enumerate the countless insults which I received, during my period of house-hunting. I trust you'll c my word for it when I say I paid out a score of dollars to those fiendish house-agents. I rented ten ora dozen places, simply to get the al, you know; but when I endeavor to explain all about them to my wife, she merely turned up her lip, and in a tone of scorn uttered: house ci “Too utterly low, [assure you. You men never do anything but by halve I was completely discouraged, and finally I said: “My dear, if move we must, you must hire the place. Tam through. I wash my hands entirely of the whole busine: What did that admirable woman do? She went out, and in three hours she re+ | manner, the pid turned. Upon her face the grand expression of suc alabaster brow, forest ws, there cir eminent glory, that above her lowed by the regula halo of pre- That woman any man had he than I—pardon mi article, as wives pretty a prize to any man, and if he could: prize her mor: my wife is nowadays run, which and such sh with much to bonnets ga upon my abject scorn that was touch ssh exclaimed “A mere nothi you, have rented a place.” “ And the figure? “Fifty dollars a responded, bond own 1 ventured to ejaculate, mont he vaguely though I were some bloated whose hi k was the co putation of interest on bonds at high figures. “EY * Fifty dollars, tity dollars,” Iwas mute. It is better than for aman to be mute when it mute. J know when it’s time, hence 1 was mute. Well— T moved. Bossed the job. And— I won't ay just how she curry-combed me down ft 1 wrapping, in an absent-mir ver about the oil-can; dl with brie-a ne for crowding the w brae, into the clothes-ba off toward our new home with all he crinoline and patent non-combustible bustles dangling over iy shoulde’ liable to do such . and for wa defanet mere nothin; comicbooks.com