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. ; THE LITTLE JEWEL.. ,j
VOL. 1. ' WILSON, N. C.i'TUURSD AY MAY 13, 1875. NO. 2. '
T. H E LITTLE JE W E L.
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Weary. ;
Weary of lite and its many cares, !
Weary of trying to avoid the snares S
That beset me on every side, y
Weary of heart, and weary of brain,
Trying to be strong,' yet weak again
When cometh the eventide ?
Weary of sowing for others to reap,
Weary of smi es when I can but weep
At the sorrows that I must bear.
Feeling like one from the world apart, ,
at rest when my aching heart
Jed in sit ent prayer, - , v 4
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idiot, and the boarders threw me y
uuv 01 uoors.
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" And you fell in love?"
"1 did that, and as soon as we
get though talking I'm going out "Five hundred dollars gone;
to get some one to kick ine over to and I'm a wretched man.
Canada and back! Yes, sir, : fell He blew his nose, wiped his ev
aeau in jove loved a woman over ana continued:
forty. . .. " v ((I don't want to drown myself;
" What follered ? What allers fol- the water's awful cold, and perhaps
lei s ? I'm human, same's anybody I can get over this. I wan't them
eUe, and when 1 love 1 love like a presents back, and I'll eotoMuske-
locooiotive on a ; down grade, con and forget her. It's wrenched
What do you think I did in just 4 me all U piece, and I can never
weeKs oy tne watch. Went to the love a?ain. Werftron vnr in love.
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theatre sixteen times, went out
sleigh-riding twelve times, had
or
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HE WAS SHOOK."
lady was Twenty Tears Older
than He, but he Loved Her.
three parties, went to three lectures
and took her out to eat oysters ten
or twelve times. Fact, sir cost
me near $200.
'-But it was all for. love,' re
plied the sergeant.
"I thought so and .what else did
ivcfc.-jrA'gijt ner a waicn f a
10 .bracelet, a 95. ring, a $7 set
or jewelry, a new areas, ana gave
her a $5 gold piece with a hole in sudden, and hits so hard, that I
11. xes, air, 1 arew$5UU trom the
bank
sergeant?"
"No, never"
'lhen vou don t itnow the an-
uish the grippinf around the
heart. It cuts like U knife, and all
I can think of is be:ftc laid out in
a coffin, my right tan&Nholdinga
hnnr i nt rnepa nnrl mv leis
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on my heart.
4iou are yoffhgyt)u rhay ouV
grow it.
I may I may, but it's so awful
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" What 1 want to know" said a
while headed young man ot twenty,
as he stood befora the sergeaut in
charge of the District Cez.tral
Station, "w'hat'I came here foi was
to get some advice"
rroceed, said the Sergeant.
"You know Nancy Thomson,
don't you?" . ;
Never heard of he-."
J "Well 8 he s a widder, over forty
years old, and I've been boarding
there."
f "Yes?"
I "And we were engaged to be
, married."
"Whew!" whistled tbe officer.
L'I don't blame yon," continued
the young man in a broken voice.
"I'm only twenty and she's forty
but a man can't always tell when
he's going to make a tool of him
self." '
very red I had and used
it all up on her!"
"And then?"
"She purtended to iove back, and
when I squoze her hand she smiled
feel as if I'd fallen from a house.
Go to the house, sergeant, and
see if you can't get them things
baefc.
If I'm alive I'll be round again
to-morrow, and if I dont come von
and smiled and looked heaps of love1 may keep the things for your kind- 7
at me. She'd lean on my arm, ness. I'm white-headed, but I'm ! I
iaiK aoout upia, ana git on poetry tender-hearted, and want to retire '
by the rod, and it was plainly under- behind some barn and think."
stood that we were to 'be married And he retired and thnnk.
in June. Oh, she knew her biz,L . , m m '
and she slid around me as the Ben- A German had a horse stolen
gal tiger does around a lamb!" from his barn the other night '
"Did she break the engagement? whereupon he advertised as follows: .
"Last night, said-the young "Vou nite, de odder dav. ven I
man, swallowing the lump in his was bin awake in'my Sleep, I heare
throat, "she told me she'd been tri- sometings vat I tinks vas not yust .'
nins with me all along. She said
aha it n a pn irn rrprl fn anntdar man
and she could never be more tnan
a sister to me! I tell vou sergeant.
right in. my barn, and I out shumps
the bed and runs mit; the
barn out; an ven I was dare cooxn I
seez dat my pig gray iron mare ho
you could have knocked me down vas bin tide loose ana run mit the
with a straw. I braced up after staple off: and efer whovilhim back
awhile and called her a hypocrite, bring, I yust so much pay him as
when 8 he called me a white-headed 1 vas kustomary.