Judge — December 28, 1901 — page 39: what you’re looking at

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TERWHILLIGER'S OPAL RING. 6s]'M NOT in the least supersti- tious,” said ‘Terwhilliger, but every one must admitthere are some things that cannot be explained in accordance with the laws of nature, as we know them Take opals, for ex- ample. There is a so- called superstition to the IN TOPSY-TURVY LAND. effect. that these stones A SAFETY-PIN DOG. Cuintney—" Well, here’s where 1 do pyring ill luck. Until Miss Mary Potato! iy anni of climbing few years ago I used to down Santa Claus. ) scoff at the idea, but now — story. “The funniest part of the whole I know there is something in it. Lean't explain it any more than within half an hour after [lost the ri you can, but I know that an opal ring brought me bad luck. fish had not swallowed the ring Mrs. Flyn, what do you keep that dog for ?"* Mrs. Fiyx Potatoe—"' Oh, | keep him asa safety for the children,” fair is that my luck turned I pulled up my line and—no, a I found it dangling on my hook. How got the ring from old Roxbury, the millionaire leather dealer. it got there I don’t understand, but there it was, I decided right then and Thad the good fortune to save his daughter from drowning. You — there that | wouldn't give that opal another chance to queer me. Jimmie may have read of it Burnside happened to at the time. No? be with me that day, ‘The newspapers were and 1 gave him the full of it. Printed portraits of me, called me a hero, and all that, you know, Come ring. Lwanted to get even with Jimmie be- cause he and | were in love with the same up to the house some girl, and he seemed to have a little the hest of it, You know how women are, If time and I'll show you the clippings. Old Roxbury was extreme- ly grateful, of course. Wanted to take me into his firm as a part- ner, but L refused. I never could bear the smell of leather. So they have a choice between two men they invariably pick out the worst one, As I said before, | gave Jimmie the ring, or, rather, I traded it for a. prize bull-dog that he owned, That dog was awonder. He he gave me the ring instead It was a beauty, too. 1 don't know much about such th but a “Did the ring friend of mine, who is bring Jimmie bad a jeweler, said it was worth at least five I should say it hundred dollars. did,” answered Ter- “But that ring whilliger. “He mar- brought me bad luck ried the just as sure as Tam standing here, and it showed itself within a week—showed itself % = He—“Vou might as well acknowledge that from the first you in a curious way, too. 1 was out fishing, and that ring slipped off intended to reject my finger and drop- me.” ped into the wate She “But” 1 obj ed, “you could hard- ly call it bad luck to lose an unlucky ring, could you?" “Oh, couldn't ITS NAME. you sneered Ter “MM S FROCKS whilliger. I suppose has bought a you'd feel cheerful if “Oh, non- sense! Why, half the time [didn’t know whether you were sg0- ing to propose. birdless hat,” said Mrs. Cumso. dred-dollar ring, THE DIFFERENCE. “Tt might be wouldn't you? you lost a. five-hun- called an Audubon- net, might it not give it up. Why, one is the court of last resort and the other the last resort of court."” asked Mrs, Cawker. I subsided, and he went on with his comicbooks.com