A DAMAGED EYE.

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 42, 13 January 1894, Page 3

A DAMAGED EYE.

There are some people who have no imagination, hoteling to the literal -with painful assiduity. Jim Biaisdell ■was one of these, and ius happy faculty of taking things seriously lost him a fashionable wife. It was this way. Colonel Lafitte is a Southerner, and very sensitive, especially about-his personal appearance, which is quite distinguished, lie rather liked Jim, and Jim doted on the Colonel’s daughter, and it was a foregone conclusion in tue family that Jim would win the girl, as the father was on his side. One day the colonel took Jim out to ride behind his cantankerous Kentucky mare, and she kicked the dashboard of the buggy into smithereens and landed both gentlemen by the roadside. This wouldn't have been so bad, as neither of them was hurt, ami the colonel was doing the driving, but Jim hud to discover a tract are in the colonel’s right eye, and he at once began to make a luss about it. “ You’re seriously hurt, sir,,’- he said in his most sympathetic manner. “ Nothing wrong with me.” smapped the colonel, who was looking for the mare in a dazed sort of way. “ But your eye, sir, is haul}' damaged.” “ Never mind the eye. Jtlelp rue to catch the critter.” “ I mnst insist on bfiidaging your eye first, colonel. Why, it :s a blurred mass, and J greatly fear you have lost the sight of it,” persisted Jim. “Look here,you young fool,” roared the colonel, “can’tyou attend toyour own affairs. That eye, sit', is glass---do you hear —glass ! glass 1” And that is why Jim didn't marry the colonel’s daughter. — Detroit free JPress.