Puck — August 29, 1877 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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“ Maybe so, miss,” said ‘Tom, with little hope in his voice. “I’ve tried to think that and a thousand other things to excuse her. But they | won't take root. ‘These new ideas fade away, one after the other, and only the old one grows and strengthens. 1 have looked at this trouble in all ways, and find it less grievous to believe what I ¢ heard and hope than to disbelieve | itand fear. But 'tisn’t what's gone that trou- bles me, miss I would never have an unhappy thought of that if I could think hopefully of the time to come. She is too good to do wrong and be happy. She must suffer when she awakes to her true position.” “She shall if [wake her,” thought René; but she said, with a voice as tender as.adove's: “The poor child requires tender guidance.” ‘Yom assented eagerly. It was what had been his mind. “A gentle hand to lead her,” suggested René, involuntarily swinging her arm as thou she held a riding-whip. y very thought, miss! It isn’t in the | power of a man, rough and rude by nature, to venture upon such delicate work. I should but kill the thing L wish to nurture. But if you—" “It is as you saya delicate work, and re- quires a tender hand, and truly a woman is | best able to doa thing of this kind. You are quite wise too with regard to the past. We | will believe that at the worst she has been ac- tuated by a girlish infatuation, ‘That is to be overcome, and will be forgotten almost as soon as it is forgiven. And now let us see how we ¢ to bring this unhappy little woman back to happiness, and how we may prevent. the recur- rence of such an unfortunate event as we, for the sake of argument, will suppose to have taken place; for your wife is young and pretty, and attractive in her way. ‘Yom nodded; his face was lit with cheerful thought, and he listened eagerly. “She should not leave you. It is unfair to | her that she should be exposed to temptatio: You must keep her at home.” in | “It is unfair to put her in the way of temp tation; yet it seems unnatural and wrong that | she,so fond of light and gayety, should he con fined to adull room and bound toa melancholy man. It is like making her a partner of my Dlindness.”” René could ideay” no longer. pet “She wants nothing better if she i Her husband and her home are good enough | for her. [am getting quite angry with you. | You think a woman has nothing to do but | to dance and sing, if she is young and pretty, Nonsense! She has duties, as you men have, and is truly happier for the tears she sheds. If you make your wife believe what you try to make me think, I should not be surprised at the result you fear.” | “Tell me what I shall do?” “Work together. Why doesnt she make | baskets ?”” It is rough and unpleasant, and the smell —” Rubbish! ‘These withies smell ten thou- sind times sweeter than nasty black beer and old *pipes—ugh! You must work together; yes, that is it. You shall have a shop, and sell these baskets that you make. Mattie can serve the customers and arrange thé shop whilst you work close at hand. There will be pleasant employment for her. I would like the occupa tion myself, But you must take her away at once from her present engagement, whatever it is. Ifyou tell her you would rather have her beside you, it should be enough to keep her | there."” | “ But if—if Master Hugh really has—has—" “Renewed his acquaintance? It is possi- ble. 7 (To be-continued.) tolerate this “derangement of She started to her feet ina | good | the other head on him, | Rome § Pack’s Frchanges. Wav! America has its classic ruins. Pittsburgh. — Syracuse Standard. Mr. ‘Ta ple ‘ow to ‘There's ow is in England, showing the pco- ang, pi fulton Time: Tr iy only the peanut men that really enjoy this life, for theirs is a cash business.— Yonkers Gazette, Boston Cornerr is not only destitute, but in New Jersey. ‘This is affliction with the bark on,— St Lou's Times. Ir is singular that no baggage-master ever committed suicide because of religious excite- ment.— Danbury News. Ax exchange says: “Do fishes sleep?” ‘They seem to when we go fishing—that is, all except cels.— Richmond Enquirer. Wuen the sky is filled with white clouds, na- ture may be said tobe in its shirt-sleeves.— Poet of the Whitehall Times, ‘Tur principle of the communist leader is to carn his bread by the sweat of somebody else's brow. Richmond Enyuire ‘Tue new postal cards ean’t be beaten, —/20. Of course not; no one thinks of licking a postal card.—/%ile, Bulletin, Neve tread on the bunions of has.a boil on his neck. It is unchrist less and dangerous. — Whida. Mess. man who un, care Brick Pomeroy is the only newspaper man that even with a proof-reader. He married his. — Cincinnati Commercial. ever ‘Tur Russian eagle had two heads when this. war began. He now has three. ‘The ‘Turk put Boston Times, Lr is discovered again by several papers that our systenrof government is not a failure. ‘This thing must be patented.— Rochester. Democrat. Wiis’ Parrerson was the first_ man who sear his voice against strikes, yet no encyclo aedia so much as” mentions him,— Av ristown Verald, ‘Turk, are always more animals and some times just as much real religion at a circus as there is at a camp-meeting.— hil. Evening Chronicle, “Tue wheels of trade are moving again,” as the bummer remarked when the work-house ted away with him,— Cincinnati Satur- A MAN who was fooled into buying a pinch- beck watch, called it Faith, because it was with- out works, and therefore dead.— Cincinnati Sat. Night ‘THe Baltimore . spéech has no’ point, throws away his chances of becoming a juke.— Boston Fost. . Gazelle says the ‘Thus the Ga. Queen's Gravr has acknowledged his entire ignorance of music; but then he knows enough to take a rest when he comes to a bar.— Brookville Jeffersonian, A MULE struck on Saturday on the Erie tow- path. ‘They have found a cap and one sus- pender-button that beldnged to the driver. — sentinel. : jina Me man | 13 ‘T'we Arabs claim that Eve was two hundred feet tall. She didn’t have to stand on a chair to put up a stove-pipe, anyhow. —Zurner’s Falls Reporter. We have just received ‘Two Kisses" from the publishers, per mail. We hope they will send the next “Two Kisses” per female.— Zur- ner's Falls Reporter. A New York man. says he kills women just to hear them holloa, He ought to get married, and_he would soon get over such foolishness. — Phil. Evening Chronicle. A TRADE journal states that ‘ more playing cards are sold in summer than in winter.” Per- haps the camp-meeting season has something to do with this.—/’ila, Bulletin, Ina Greetry’s husband is a fighting man. He whipped a cripple the other day, and that is more than_his lamented father-in‘law could have done.— Phil. Hv. Chronicle. Revort comes from Washington that there are counterfeit eagles in circulation. Probably the American eagle has been hatching out goose eggs. —/hil, Ev. Chronicle, A Newark belle, who told her dearest friend that she was going to fly like a bird to the White Mountains, took seventeen trunks with her when she went.— Newark Call. We would much rather be talked to death by a barber than to be lathered and left to the mercy of flies while he is talking some other wretch to death. —Oi/ City Derrick, Wuen Shakspeare exclaimed, “What's ina name!” he didn't think that even a Russian peanut-peddler may have two or three alph bets in his.—Marfford Sunday Globe. Nor less than sixteen brass bands conipeted tournament at Rocky Point, and the very clams got up, tured over in their beds, and howled with agony. — Unknown Humorist. Five Democratic editors were candidates for the Auditor-Generalship of Pennsylvania. When an editor gets to going down hill, everything seems greased for the occasion.— Boston Tost, ‘Tne King of Sweden has sent to this country for “an organ.” Here is a chance for the National Republican, which don’t seem to be engaged just at present, —Aichmond Enquirer SECRETARY SHERMAN has got a big job on his hands if he attempts to investigate all the light- houses. ‘The shows complain of light houses over the country.— Cincinnati Saturday Night. ‘Tur reason why the courts are always full of patent-rights cases is that while necessity is the mother of invention it is a well-known axiom that Necessity knows no law.— Zurner's Falls Re- porter. You can buy land in the interior of Texas for forty-seven cents an acre. But no man with forty-seven cents about him has ever lived to reach the region of this cheapness.— IWor- cester Press. “Never knock under.” No. Better not try to do much knocking while you are under. Wait until you get on top again and then you n whack it to him as much as you please.— Cin, Saturday Night. ‘Tiere is a’ hint of unspoken pathos, a hint of patient suffering and resignation in this birth- notice from the Marysville Appeal: “In this city, August 9th, to the wife of William Lea, a son. Not twins this time." Wuen a Swiss hotel-keeper gets hold of an American newspaper, he runs his eye eagerly over thelist of new bankrupts, to see who will probably be his most liberal guests in a few weeks,— Chicago Journal, comicbooks.com