Judge — October 20, 1883 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE. | | | | ribbons. He pulled m | mains of what was once a handsome room, and when it all came, some | was a scene for an artist on Tux Jepor. I of the debris went so far out into the room | couldn't help laughing, mad and disgusted | that it set fire to the hed spread, and then | as I was, she I so ridiculous, standing the scene became lively I can tell you. there perfectly speechless, with hh Q Of course the water wouldn’t ‘run in the | big as saucers, and holding the ice water in bath-room at that particular minute. ‘The | her hand. | Croton is ike a policeman, you can never| Nothing as yet has been done in the way tit if you want it. I rushed to the speak-| of repairs. We have since elept in anuther ing tube'and called down to the kitehen for | room, for Heraclitus says we musn't touch aclitus had suddenly discover-| anything in the “burnt distriet” till the man from the insurance offi 2 | sade, and he began throwin this all over the room—I_ 8 that it was dirty, but he paid no attention und by the time he had deluged Id cost to replace the things that ure ruined. For articles slightly damaged, he , we'll get nothing at all. surance pi litus was 60 mad be- nterviews the man when he comes they insisted upon coming into the | I da his prophecies will prove true, that I didn’t tell him I had rung the | for he could never haggle or drive a bar aph alarm when | ) ave the management. of the affair, We soon got rid of theni or that I get the full value for and then who should appear on’ the scene | every tall injured, Herae: but Dinah the cook, who had come leisurely | litus says that if I'm anxious I can t rs with a goblet of ice water in her | act the business, but if I think I'm going to 1. Our house is an English basement, | get the best of ance man Pll tind and the kitchen isso far down stairs that | that for once in my life. I've fallen short in the had not heard the commotion a my calculations. Idon't wish to brag, but when I shricked through the tube for water, | time will tell, and I'm just aching to supposed | wanted some to drink. ‘The | hands (so to speak) on the indi pression of her face when she reached my | question. If my dear husband only and saw the charred and blackened re-| how much money 1 got out of an old clothes Ienacuitus | i ‘d his crutches and is once mor ambulate in his | accustomed manner, I, one, am heartily glad he can go to his offi put, as 1 remarked to him yesterday, there's always eo sweet f with the bitter, and ver come singly. was in reference to his hands, which he had just burned trying to put out a fire kindled by his own carele 8. He growled out that he didn’t the sweet came in, but as [alway tations wro explain tha Vr art before the horse. rtricd to make == a witty remark by saying that he didn't know that his carelessness was. inflammable, and said he had supposed it wasa mateh that did | the busine 1 told him he could —that the fire w hecdlessness or else it was premedit: If he deliberately set to work to my lovely curtains, all T could. say was he cessfully accomplished his tefarions 5 ys before [had purchased a quantity of m for draping the win dows of my sleeping room, and the bed was covered with a spread of the same miterial A pretty be dorned the bolster pillows were put ont of sight during the day. Of course Heraclitus didn’t like t all. It wasn't to be expected that he wo He said the arr nent wats fiendis| it was one degres than pillow and that the idea must have ori: the brain of some idiotic fen very little else to think of. I paid no: tention to w aid exept to tell hi that his sneers and supercilions remarks hi: no effeet upon me and, that he couldn't ru fle my temper. ‘Then'he said it was a wo der F'didn’t ruMe it myself, it was about the only thing in the house that I hadn’t at- tempted to rule or furbelow. | Well, as [started to remark, und gas fixture in order to let in When dinner w over the room at sixes i 1 After dinner he went back upstairs for nd. proceeded to light the t all about the curtains, and in put- A BARGAIN. ting the match to the gas burn F ; 5 contact with the flimsy drapery, and in less | “2 sayy boss, they is a-tellin’ me ye're collectin’ old things and relies. Now here's a hut time than it takes me to tell it, the whe window was ina blaze. He called for hel Sinden vas in a blaze. | Ho called for help, | site to add it to yer collec-shun, you may have it for a equare meal and an old hat of a ater | ing to teardown what looked like a burning | fashion. Is it a go?” | my uncle wore, and he committed suicide into it—so did me only brother. Now ef youd — |