Judge — February 17, 1883 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE. J hee lips. There that's all; Het the curt tier Mewitila’s lips. *Mewilda, I think you're an excellent woman; my — | | fall been glued for awhile and my aunt will advance the capital. 1 love you. Mowild: nant thinks 1 succeal if I run a portabl T have a saw-mill in view, and rn [ shen Fz iin operation 1 wil te very Kinde so, | and 1 will K ve never loved before.” the engine is ¢ It will be tet ona the first yin this | part of the country: and ifeverything about the mill | works w Twill be very happy: aml Lasaure you. Mewilda, 1 will always be very tender and true, Ifthe saw-mill doesn't blow up. Hthink I can keep a wife | Indeed, I think LF eonkd keep two wives, But as that is | Twill 1 not necessary, and as 1 don't want two wiv say that Ian with great condiality keep my w my mother-in-law. And after Simeon said this, Mewilda, to his chin. Bat, of mark, and fired too low Simeon and Mewilda were married. Yes, in the THE POLITICIAN'S PAW. | only seven times, but each time | see you my love | Merry month of May, when the rambas and the pippin wood-peckera were fuild afy howers, Simeon and Me ‘Koon the unknown and un. ed her lips it was only because ehe missed the | growa stronger. Let me call you my own muscovy | ere in full bloom, and th the “a of matrimony Wurs a man ia seekir pesly akips he ru Anil he Byt : ing their ack. Answer me, Susannah—will you be min And Susanrah,a ing abut cons you ever si 1, tra la! J winnin’s, » way he works his paw er blusl while and nearly pall cores som off Simeon at in the nervous excitement |. answered apon receiving a propo m thine. Thi with your agnt, and 1 cceptel of Simeon’s invitation, and nd Mewilda For, no matter whe had my eye on Be the weather Then before yer 1 Looms the politician's paw | Simeon was happy. A way Of he tries yer palm to dl setth bie he meets ye a came to air oF raw conta Would have been very unhappy if you had not me to be thir a who had a was a wom sket | made it Tively for Sin tried to deve his tips | “ay but little to the {bliss rolled Susannah er him Simev arms aroun = m oh, but pshaw! Jaed—There! that’s enough. It’an averaze | thought he had arrived Never certain is t reader's bnsiness whether his lips were glued to any- | ¢ By the politician's paw thing of not. I don’t prope : this affair | yeaa ‘When Us tor ser vote's eefibio’. The next day Simeon informed his aunt that anew | hott Or yer influence—then, ah wr bate Then the war coimmnenced. Ain't the oqneezla’ mighty tender world had opened before him, and th ; ‘Of ths poltnictan’e paw? to the beautiful Susannah Slotterbar Figuratively speaking, Sumpter was fired on “Good land of Goshen” ahe exclaimed, “engaged | Mra Wingerly raised the shovel and sailed in. Rat as son's he gets in office, to that girl, Are you a lunatic | Mewilda seized a broomstick, fixed bayonet and And a sineccre can draw, 0; In not a lunatic,” answered Sime bat | rged. can hardly buy a grip then | the happiest man in the aniv Why do you object | Bat the noble Simeon did not fly—no, he stood his Of the politician's paw. to Susannab 7 ssroand and battled for the right Oh. she'd never do—she'd never de 4. Simeon, | The contest was long and doubtfal, but at last vi Now these verses need no moral and,” she added with considerabk rity, “you rested on the #i the broomstick and the tire For to tail them up than't have her. If soa marry that chaus girl | ~hovel. All a body's got to do is you'll neve accent of my money Mewilda and her mother can of the strug | On aforesaid facts to paver. This waa a terrible blow to Simeon, for he depended | with flying colora and tattered zarmenta, —*“ | on his aunt to set him up in business, and he expected | And Simeon? | to inberit all her property when she w wn into | Alas! alast A Made-up Story. es the valley. He came ont of the fight with one eye bunged, two ea: ead rear Simeon was a wretched being for a few days, | teeth gone, bis hat smashed and blood on the left side bat finally he decided that it would be better to bave | of his nose. Siaros SruunteR was a yong man to fortune and | money without a wife than to have a wife without | Of course, after that there was a coolness in the fame unknown. He bad a fine eye and a long nose. | money. He accordingly informed Susannah that the | family, and before many months p Mewilda were divori He was a gentleman anda scholar. And, it might be | vows would have to be smashed and the engagement | an added, his mustache was, oh, so lovely! disrupted, Simeon again took up Simeon had a father and a mother, a little brother | Susannah wept and Simeon hoo- 1. as before. and a big sister. He also kept a do they parted they agreed that if the hand of destiny in- | She fed bim on the fat of the land When he arrived at the age of twenty-throe he went | terposed, they would jast have to let it interpose, and | And raspberry pie. to re Mary | they would walk onward in the journey of life sad-eyed | And oysters. Ann MeGionis, She waa an estimable laly and had | and broken-hearted And Bich, stimable amount of money | Two days Sasannah had h Slotterhaus was still unmarried, and This maiden aunt considered Simeon a noble youth conrting another | Simeon visited her again, and asked that the broken She believed that be was superior to any of te you t be renewed abd oo-ed, but before | she was as ki ide with @ maiden aunt whos this sad parting nother beau and Simeon was 0 girl. vows m men in that country, and sbe accordingly treated him Simeon’s aunt bad suggested to him that he would Susannah was agreed, | ina superior manver. do well to marry Mewilda Wingerls, and Simeon, | own, and conld never lea Sne placed plam pie before him three times a d: driven to desperation hy the los of Sasannah, stood | They were married. | And she ‘lishe! out peaches and cream with a lavish | ready for the sacr and it woald have been hand. Simeon visited Mewilda three times and then he pro | I might zo on and tell you some more ab Simeon met a young lady when he was residing with | posed. He said: and Simeon and Simeon’s aunt, but T have told his aunt, and he plunged in, Thay is, be fell madly Mewilda, will you be mine? Life would bea bard | you too much already. The truth of the mat in love row to hoe if I did not have any of my aunt Mary Ann's | there never was a Susannah Slotterhans nor a Mewilda | Bat there was nothing wonderfat in that. Susannah | money—that is, 1 mean, if you did ot consent to be | Wingerly, nor a Simeon Splinter: and tw didn’t have Slotterhaus was a heautifal heing. and to see her wasto | mine. Will sou consent, Mewilda” an aunt Mary Ann McGinnis; and there never was a | love h Yea," said Mewilda, “Iwill, 1h my eye | fight with Mewilda and her mother on one side and — | When Simeon hai visited her seven times he asked | on you ever since you came to live with your aunt, and | Simeon on the other: and Simeon disln't get a divorce her to be bis wife. I would have been very anbappy if you bad not asked | —and he didn’t marry Susannah— and he dido’t ran a And this is what he aaid me to be thine own. But now,” she aided, ‘1am as | portable saw-mill | | Susannah, I love you. Life would be abard row to | happy aaa clam at bigh tide.” Nor nothinz. hoe if I could not call you my Jyoa! And Mew at Sai is, ver Ja encircled Simeon with ma,and | ft is all a made. comicbooks.com