Beadle's Dime Novels No. 47: Tim Bumble's Charge — page 58: what you’re looking at

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56 TIM BUMBLE’S CHARGE. hallucination it seemed such a fine thing to deceive this olf wretch of a Jew—to deceive his wife and everybody. A fine chance it would be to learn how they regarded him—passing judgment on his actions, giving false versions of his life—mak- ing love to his widow! oh! it was too good; and he rubbed his palms together ashe thought, and screamed internally with laughter. His next movement was toward an old clothes shop. Here he exchanged his garments for a dusky, bottle-green suit, and learned the art understood by Jews, of dyeing his skin and hair in such a manner that the disguise was most complete, especially when aided by a false beard and moustache. In this make-up he was quite as handsome, perhaps presented a more imposing appearance than in his usual garb. It gaye an Israelitish cast to his features and made the representative of a cast-off nation kingly in exterior and splendid in face. Quietly he entered the forsaken shop as if he had forgotten his’ previous existence, and domiciled himself there. The strange malady of mind under which he labored precluded any feeling of regret at his change in life, at his separation from a beloved family. He was like a child in an absorbing play—forgetting himself in the fascination of personating somebody else. Before night the few humble household ° articles which were needed to furnish his narrow quarters arrived, and he was established. Coolly and composedly on ‘the following morning he read the following paragraph in the morning paper: “Ty is our painful duty to record, etc. . ae home under melancholy circumstances, etc. . fam- ily, etc. . . . one of our sterling citizens, previous to . etc., etc.” He had now commenced in good earnest—and, quietly seated opposite his grief-stricken family, amused himself with comiclooolks.comn