Show HIS WIVES PURSE Hal veal cried damper as we both cooped scoped simultaneously to pick up an in titling object lying on the pavement at our feet it is was a purse not a fat purse purs but still a puree of undoubted respectability wn shin log and natty and brilliant as to clasp and obnere a pu purse m that had assuredly been token taken to the city to receive substantial dividends itts odd but I 1 immediately began to fool unaccountably antagonistic to damp or er and aud damper on his side aide farmed theyo to ey IQ with fa feelings elings of profound mistrust rals trust well suppose we open it I 1 bald suppose we do then said add damper alte savagely AV wo did there were a few coins in one two postage stamps and folded up in a corner a piece of paper pap p peculiarly crisp and crackly on only some borne old bm bill of course courm twenty dollars by jove I 1 cried damper who had managed to unfold the paper A ban bank note now damper is well off and I 1 am considered leered rather a we warm man among my yet we suddenly felt as aa though we jan come a into a fortune we gloated over mho bank ban k note only we so seem to car cam fooht gloating together halves you know cried damper da pez angly 11 2240 and two stamps and stamp ah 1 I my cay there was no name me or addams or ing of that kind in the purser sur cuff damper with awful besita hesitation tion Not nothing bing we felt as though our live ittes tad had been ba saved WH wodiney wo dined together we seemed to be amft each other coz cordially afalla I 1 dont know why but bus a till we did not ep arate until antu SU all ANN money imil had been spent arom that day we were changed nam mea damper called on me and began a signified venation conversation n of this kind 44 1 I 1 toy as doeboy Sloe boT heard beard that grimsby lort axt his purse last week I 1 felt feli horribly uncomfortable and why ibe a deuce was my wife looking at me in feat way when she left the room I 1 whispered to damper 1 I 1 I think that I 1 have seen that purse purs before damper seem to remember I 1 it you know have yen got it on you yon always have he muttered and the purse was produced but my wife coming back just then damper made mad a dash at it and concealed it inels in his pocket the next time damper called I 1 noticed with consternation nater nation that my old friend bad been evidently i dently very thirsty and had bad satisfied that thirst in a spirit of thoughtless bera lity f Sloe boy he whispered tearfully we we ought to have advertised I 1 cant bear it I 1 cant pay attention to business 1 am going into vicious courses every boda awn losing a purse I 1 must give myself up 1 I inwall damper I 1 cried dont pause lot us no make amends in some other way I 1 am certain I 1 know that purse it must be Grims bys 11 the next day grimsby received ive elved from anonymous donors two post postoffice office orders each for 1120 and one postage stamp in the evening damper called again quite desperate grimsby had only in his pursel purse 1 two announcements oun cements of 1120 and a sta stamp p anthe on the same subscription list struck some ome people as startling I 1 began to sli slink ardow down side streets when I 1 saw a policeman on the horizon and worst of all I 1 saw too clearly lias I 1 my wife suspected me she watched say face she started when a purse or bank note was mentioned my idy hair haj was letting getting gray at last the blow came damper called late he was on the way to waterloo ir ridge he said odd be had come to perform a last duty its burbin burning gme me ats ilits its uko like eternal dyspepsia he exclaimed in the best man ner of mr irving there take it I 1 can bear ear it no longer longa 11 and he ao throw threw the purse the proof of our crime on the table my wife entered I 1 I 1 nado made frankio efforts to reach the purse it t was too far she ran and cried my purse pursel I 1 she looked guilty 1 I 1 thought you would think me so fool lab ah to loso lose co much money liz in the street like ike that and and I 1 like to teu tell you rou I 1 thought bt I 1 would make it out of the be housekeeping expenses and you sos aus pecked erected me all the while I 1 she cried but what a supper we had that night I 1 I 1 filled the purse with gold coins and gave it to ay wife damper mg 99 three comic songs but we say anything halves london news ewa |