Judge — August 2, 1884 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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f THE JUDGE. 5 bob like a good-sized cork, and at last, be- | lowing the laws of gravitation, she, without | | coming exhausted, he grasped her by the | taking a header, went below. | ht hair of the head and towed her in to the kerell has become an Emeritus bath-h where she came up the step far us his wife's swimming les- puffing and blowing like a grany re concert | As soon as she could she sought the seelu- | As for Mr elf almost entirely to I’. she con- sion of her apartment, and f al days | and has not the courage to get int the salt water knew her no more. J tub that contains water over two inch But Mrs. Pickerell was a persevering fe- | deep. | male, and as that life-preserver had cost her | Her oil-silk bathing-eap does duty as 4 three dollars, she didn’t propo Carefully re again adjusted the ‘ machine id to herself that she ive it up in th sponge-bag, and her bathing-suit has been converted into scrap-bags, while her ho! tions, she | of the ean and of |r this time | boundless as the itself. more successfully, and to Mr. P.’s surprise poe he one day found her on the beach, prepared to take ver lesson in the mysterious art of swimming. Go to the raft she would nof, but walk in to the water from the beach she would, and did, and to her no stall astonishment and delight she soon found | iain. | ing confidence she began to kick about, and actually made some little pr s through the wa Mr. Pickerell, who still knew nothing about the preserver, shouted bray and ved the honor and glory of having at last taught Mrs. 2. to swim. | She wisely kept her mouth shut, partly on account of its proximity to the salt water, and kicked about more vigoronsly than before. This went on for several days, and Mrs. Pickerell was getting on so bravely that no Hockrn—“ Ah! Styler, old bay, [see you still stick to your silk tle for “my part, Lalways wear a white hal after the first of July. [think a black one makes you look so conspicuous, you k one looked out for her particularly, when one TI don’t understand the conn | fine morning, she suddenly disappeared from | If—neve; bat E put it down view, and fora moment her absence was not Ie also said he was con- missed. Royal Family, as_ the hen one of the little Pikes called out— god-father to hi | “Where is mamma?” And the question 's husba r, and he said | pained unanswered had not scen a vi- | bed-ticking appear would probably have re until this day, if Mr. P. sion of red and father’s tenantry were the finest body men in the world, that they were through of the one tribe related and con. | n the surface of the water and as sudden- . nected, and had done more murders and | || ly vanish from view, THE REAL SECRET OF HARPER'S DISSATIS- | depredations from time immemorial than “ Consternation prevailed among the bath- ACTION. any other tenantry in Ireland. Ie did | ers, a8 Mr. Pickerell and two other gentle- | much to make our Irish visit. pleasant for men immediately dived in search of the | —— —— | us, but was much annove Aunt Pri missing woman, Tales of My Grandmother. ern resolve not to pene the wile Presently one of them arose bearing a limp | = Connemara on an Irish jannting-« TALE NO, VI be and apparently lifeless figure, that hac us undergoing a process of shrinkage while in So UD and TF think’ gran thie Waker! xpma liked the Shelbourne Tfotel, | to leave Ireland and her devoted and as she was really much enchanted, 3 Grandma had an old friend wage and subsequent adventure Wales; so we paid a visit to her first, going resolved to inaf vl] straight there from Holyhead. It‘ was and [were out Grandma | country place, spelled with four ys, five ns, table Mhote acquain sung | six ms, a d, two fs, and ane, but I do not rik nd they seem: ach | remember the name of it. From there we other endless amusement. He it was who | went to London, where we saw the Tower, brought her a taste of real Irish potheen, or minster Abbey, Madame Tussand’s, illicit. spirits, who made her cat everything Park, the Princess of Wales, and many from native oysters to “Teddy | other things and people. We went to hear teamer from Kin na Was by mail 1 in ne y yas he called “ Pate de foie | a debate in the House of Parliament; my He it was who said Aunt Prissy and | grandma was mt fied at it, but boy- | | f were donkeys, becanse we vere going to | like, | was 1. ‘The member sray, a bon mot which grandma remem- | were certainly abusing each other after a bvered and repeated to the last day of her | manner that was more emphati n cou life. fle escorted her to the review in the | teous or dignified; we retired after a time Park in hones of the Queen’s birthday, and | but we were told that they would not sang comic songs for her in the evening till | it up for many hours—in fact, that it was a her hair stood on end—but whatever he did | common practice for them to remain up all in g-andma’s eyes was sure to be right. He | night indulging themselves and each other | told her that his father and mother were | with the menities Connaught men, but that he was their only | We next procecded via Dover a Rolling her over a barrel and pouring | child, barrin’ seven more sons, who died in | intending to stay for a time in Pari brandy down her throat fortunately revived | their infancy, So he and his sister were the | our troubles really began. Aunt Prissy was her, and then it was discovered that around | only two that came to perfection, for so he | the only one of our party who really spoke her fairy-like form was clasped a flat and ressed it. I think even grandma found | French and could make herself understood— clammy india-rubber band. mily history comp! Ho said | grandma thought she w best and always In some mysterious manner a small hole | his futher was the prince of something, | ted on trying, to the no small bewilder- had been punctured in the preserver, and, | forget what, and that he was twice married, | ment of the native She had a plan of without her knowing it, the air had es- | first time to his mother, who was cousin’s | Frenchifying her English, which did not caped while she was in deep water; and, fol- | aunt to his step-mother’s sister-in-law by | seem to make it plainer or elucidate her —————— comicbooks.com