DISGRACED THE FAMILY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1748, 29 July 1884, Page 2

DISGRACED THE FAMILY.

A travellor in the State of Illinois. came to a hut on the prairie, near Cairo and there halted. He the house, It was a wretchg .afl'air, with an empty box for a table, while . two or three old chairs and disabled stools disgraced the reception room, the dark walls, of which were further ornamented-by dirty tinware and a broken shelf article or two. The women was crying in one cornor, and the man, with tears in his eyes and a pipe in his mouth, sat on a stool with his dirty arms resting on his knees, and his sorrowful looking head snawrted by the palnib of his hands. NoKWword greeted the interloper. "Well,"he said, "you seem to be in awful trouble here; what's up f "Ah, we are almost crazed, neighbor," said the woman; " and we ain't got no patience to see folks mJ' "That's all right," said thWisitor, not much taken back by his polite rebuff; "but can I be of any service to you in all this'trouble'!" "Well, we've lost our gal: our Sal's gone off and left us," said the man, in tones of despair! . . "Ah ! do you know what induced her to leave youl" remarked the new arrival. j.. " Well, we can't say, str.angsy as how she's so far lost as to be induced, but then she's gone and disgraced us," remarked the afflicted father. "Yes neighbor, and-not as I should say it as is her mother-but there wam'ta.pootiergalin the West than onrSal. She's gone and brought ruin on us and on her own head now," followed the stricken mother. "Who has she-gone off with!" inquired the visitor. "Well, there's the trouble. The gal could have done well, and might have married Martin Kehoe, a capital shoemaker, who, although he has got but one eye, plays on the flute in Aiively manner, and earns a Then, look, she was surrounded by all the luxury in the couutry," said her father. "Yes, who knows what poori \ will have to eat, drink, or wear aqfo. / groaned the old woman. '"^ "And who is the fellow'that has taken her into such misery f "Whyj she's gone off and got married'to a critter adld mi editor, as lives in the village, and the Lord only knows how he aims a living!"— New York Paper.