Judge — June 17, 1882 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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THE o, major, don't talk to me of the take a drink. ist, Let's | hour to induce the A short, stout, somber-looking gentleman | and when this was her entered the case, He knew MePhilter, | after much exerti and I was introduced to him——Mr. Moodles, | and tal It was stran ‘lla, its next per, only | inthe rain, was to that he should come in at | umb Thad read in the pa yre, how his wife had rm With the chief clerk of a policy-otlice on N} street, in Brooklyn. 1 say hi looking man, and I feared he was « y | Wind! why it mine | that umbrella was was ‘giving way” in the manner MePhilter | liked without the assistance of Boreas, had suggested, Surely it was time the sub] And when it did turn itself out—whieh ivet was dropped, So asked Mr. Moodles: | Mascuftin said happened a dozen times a mo “Have you seen Jumbo?” “Now, stop right ther whe said MePhilter, © voice had become a little thick, “that’s | shape. the second time you've tried to jump Jumbo | 4 on the party. “Twon't do.” M Then he told Moodles what we—or, rather | onthe he—had been talking about, and gave his | views on the subject, seutlin pre ~ K 1} supplying three |} “rounds,” at his request, during the recital. nging shutte Mr. Moodles was very <ober, and said noth while MePhilter nd apol paper about I troubles, and could not help seemg that he was | M to the sidewall I drew him one sid was at the eracker bowl Told him Thad read in the sometimes in tt iflin's, E was very muel worried about his wife leavin “Oh, my dear sir,” he said, “1a feel rather blue, but, beliey him. whinit 1 me, it is not on observed him stan He had eviden unt of her deserting me. “May Task what it is that makes you une happy? | “The fear that she will come back!" GEORGE J. MANSON, house, a suppose more from fi thing © Mr. Maguffin’s Umbrella. [twas with feelin nana that 1 beheld Magutlin prepare to ¢ BY JEREMIAH LEWIS MCARTHY, wmbrella — ‘The fun b Mr. Macvrrty owned an umbrella, Now, of course, this isn’t much to say, for almost everybody owns an umbrell least: some kind of but Maguflin’s rain-prote was above the common run of wy this time by the | poor Ma 2 01 He acted <¢ n fact, a superior umbrella, and wherein its superiority lay the pat ler will soon dis nt wer It had orig fine parachute but at the period when 11 inally been, no doubt, a rather | de | right at his str y at him, him at ¢ ries Lad vanish dT saw a poc its acquaintance, its past vious little we forever, and ins! miserable wreck of a thing with dingy cloth, an aw battered handle, and a g nt, : He | he had just been 1 all air of weariness recommend: bo “ee brella—or chuck It needed repairit uch so that it would have been . too, Ue worst way, 50 | weaper to buy a new one, and throw the venerable in strument in the ash-boy, but Magufin never | M:tguflin glared spoke of such a thing, He was always ¢ | the umbrella. in’ to have it fixed,” but he never did, and it remains unfixed to this day, Maguflin being | His attempts we one of those fellows that are never ina hurry | With a general le about doing anything. mentors, he went ¢ And still every rainy day, when the patri- tor was bronght into ser- | He ursed his neglect Magu progress was pret hal rainspre ling the par noste hundred minute, and made good resolves: for the future, stron, You see the umbrella gave him exellent n to do ygramme on down nado, With a eyelone td as follows te First it took Magutlin usually about half an alof obstinacy on that of the uy | if there wasn't wind enongh to fly a feath who | could turn a double somersault: any time it mient—it gave that unfortunate individual a gigantic jab, making it resume its proper well remember the “cireus" poor ited ove stormy mornin fierce cold wind was blowing over the city, , and now and then sending Highty proper sks some unlucky Hower or ehimn of in the ambulance. My palatial abode being right opposite ing ont at the flooded Lin his hand he | lem parachute. ‘The latte worth a cent in a shower, but Maguflin ear- ried it with him regular every rainy day, 1 “fan aL once, for the usual stub. | Owl. hornness of the thing w plunging madly about, vainly en. | tle. deavoring to get the instrument under way, “barked” his knuckles badly, while, to. in- | crease his irritation, car and omnibus drivers ws individuals, “got on to I ; Ewatched ce, and some of them laughed out. him a short way until he turned a corner and cles, sd from view, and several times the A booth Tthat Maguflin “sell it—the une | Toute Were treated Lo another cireus, fully as and elub it inte subjection.” it in the street,” while a | Comical as the on hs rat fr all me . + iS Mise soon th " ought, ions truck-driver told him to “tie it up| His | Me 1 T thong | would be a lesson to him, But they were not, for P saw hits! very next: rainy day steu | grew red, while he renewed his efforts to open | jigeos . coming dawn in sheets. sled alon; wind caused him to act like hurricane, AIL at JUDGE. complist n, nl at length, 1 profanity on his part ng move, when he blow red out lean aside out, even really seemed as though lependent of wind, and some L upper lip tr Nay, teha a was raining h , and ay ne ques, 1 aid flower or chimney-pot f ir turn sending somebody if he had been a Missouri village, and the umbrella w s blow ide out aun imagine what f had as | led with the provoking In two iinntes he was as w at thew pavements when I sittin, pw look- din: ntly just on his stoop. drowned rat, and had to seek the shelter of a issued from th the Methu: , of cou doorway. Wh thing against the wall of the stoop to put it i coudit ewas busily ¢ al ranuning the wasn't another gust of wind took his hat off and rolled it along through the mad aud water for about a block betore Magutlin over took and captured it ce of habit than any- 18 of suppressed merriment king: wet wl as amuddy as the boots ot pthe a elamaligger, poor Mac pre spectacle, while he looked 3 sorry abi He did not venture from the stoop for some time, when the rain and wind slackened a lit He then sallicdd out, and PT noticed that he had set his hat tightly on his head, and made much worse 1 wind, and I could see al times as if he had | Was clutching the umbrella very firmly, his hands be ve up at the roof of it, while he had the air of aman det ined to conquer. m’t think he did, howerc rain-protector looked. as thous I repeat its perti say observers on the remainder of Maguitin’s rinauees, and PF dare writs of advice were directed lack, who looked as though ued from the at his sareastie advisers and | gling a chy ual with the patriare over his heau, re at length suecesstul, and yok of defiance at his tor- put in the rain, which wa ional rivalry tx achute firmly in his hands, | Ltent reading: Muminated = up the street. 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