TRUTH WILL OUT.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3410, 26 November 1879, Page 3

TRUTH WILL OUT.

Jakey crept up and sat down by his mother's side as she was looking out of the window yesterday morning. After a few minutes of silence, he broke out with—

" Ma, ain't Pa's name Jacob? " " Yes Jakey." "If I was called young Jacob, he'd bo called old Jacob, wouldn't he ? "

" Yes, my dear; what makes you ask such a question as that ? " "Nothing, only I heard something about him last night." Mrs Watts suddenly became interested. " What was it, my son ? " " Oh, nothing much; something the new Sunday-school teacher said." " You oughtn't to have anything your mother don't know, Jakey," coaxingly pleaded Mrs Watts. "Well, if you must go poking into everything, I'll tell you. The new teacher says to me " What's your name, my little man ? " and when I said Jacob, he asked me if I ever heard of old Jacob, and I thought that was pa's name, so I told him I guess I had, but I'd like to hear what he had to say about him. Ho said old Jacob used to be a little boy once just like me, and had bean-shooters and stilts, and used to play hookey and get licked, and used to tend cattle "— Yes, I believe ho said his father used to keep a cow," interrupted Mrs Watts. "And he hogged his brother out of something or other, and he got struck with a young woman named Eachel [Mrs Watts became still more interested], and was going to marry her, but her old man fooled him and made him marry his other daughters ; but pa said he guessed he was nobody's fool, and married them both." " The wretch! " ejaculated Mrs Watts, shaking her fist at Mr Watts' slipper. " He said old Jacob had a dozen or two children and " —:

•• Did I marry him for this ? " exclaimed Mrs Watis, sobbing and throwing herself on the sofa, making all the springs hum like a set of tuning forks.

Jakey said he didn't know what she marriedhim for, but she wouldn't catch him telling her anything very soon again if she was going to kick up such a row about it, and went out of tho room highly indignant. i When Mr Watts came home he met Mrs Watts in the hall, with a very red face, who pointed her finger at him, and jerked out the word " Yillian V and asked him if he could look his innocent wife and infant son in the face. Mr Watts showed that he could by staring very hard alternately at Jakey and Mrs Watts.

♦' I If now where you go, sir, wheu you stay away from home," continued Sirs "Watts; " I've heard the story of your perfidy. Can't you fell me h:>vr Rachel and that other woman is to* day ? " She asked him with forced calmness. Mr Watts confessed his inability to enlighten her on the health of the ladies abcut whtfin she was so solicitous. Mrs Watts said-that she always knew that something like this would occur, and ended with another hysterical interrogation after the children's health ; but not receiving any satisfactory answer, she threw herself on the sofa again and sobbed, and asked herself a few times why she had ever left her mother's house; and then she called Jakey to her and told him they would have to live alono in a little house, and be very poor, and may be not have enough to eat, which made that hopeful uttor a series of most doleful howls and hasten down to the kitchen and examine the larder. Later in the day Mrs Lewis happened in, and Mrs Watts confided to her tho story of her husband's villany. Of course, Mrs Lewis was very properly shocked, and tried to impress upon Mrs Watts the necessity of being philosophical, and left with the observation that she had norer yet seen a man with a mole on his nose whodidndt, sooner or Inter, turn out to be a rascal.

Towards evening Jakcy was sitting on the steps, hating recovered from the grief of the morning, when the Sunday-school teacher chanced to pass by, and Jakey halted him with : " Say, Mister, I told my mother what you told we about old Jacob last night, and there has been the old icratcli to pay ever since. Ma called pa

n villain, and tried to break her back on the sofa, and said there wouldn't lie n:>ything to eat, and there ain't been sucli a time since pa ottered to hiss aunt Jane good-by. Maybe you hid better drop in and see th? old lady, mister ; she ain't so bad as she was."

The teacher, after some pressing, accompm'd Jakoy into tho house, and was presented to Mrs Walts in the parlour. Mrs Watts began to thauk him for disclosing her husband's perfidy, but ho declaimed having done done anything of the kind, and at length, after considerable talking, it was discovered that Jakey had misapplied tbo story of the patriarch Jacob. Mrs Watts started rip lit out to hunt up Jacob, and when she found him astonished him again by being as loving as she had been distant. Jakey is contented in the fact that there is no immediate prospect of a lack of supplies in tho family, nnd Mrs Watt's will be perfectly happy if she could only shut Mrs Lewis's mouth.

" People never couj;h after taking my medicine," advertises a doctor. Is it so fatal as that?

Many men resemble the clam, for you see all there is in them when they open wide their mouths.

Light on a Dark Subject—An old bachelor who particularly hated literary women asked an authoress if she could tlnowauy light on kissing. "I could," said she, looking archly at him, ' but I think it's b< tfer in the dark."

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