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Show She got even with him, that Atlanta At-lanta widow did, as dashing young widows always do with faithless young gentlemen who attempt to jilt them. Ho had feasted heron ice-cream; at her bad talked nonsense iu the moonlight; moon-light; and, finally, had exchanged tintynes with her, and they twain wero to be made one, and be was to be her number two. About this time the other woman began to figure in tho case. Tho false, fickle young mau feasted her on ice-cream, and, strange to say, notwithstanding ths-torrid ths-torrid heat at Atlanta, she also yet survived; and in duo course of time wits also to be presented with the tintype tin-type counterfeit presentment of the eaid young man. What with hiaout-I hiaout-I lays for ice-cream fur both dear I charmers, and neckties for himself, (Kt this stage it occurred to him to economize. He did. On one ol his courting excursions to tho widow he managed to steal from her boudoir the tintype of himself, which hung on the wall just over the foot of her bed, and wits the object of her fond gaze more hours a day than aught else in the room, save the looking glass. And the tickle, false young man bestowed be-stowed that stolen tintype on hiB inamorata No. 2. The widow of c lurae, discovered his perfidy all. She didn't take cold poisou. Neither did she sue for breach of promise. Nor yet did she pine away aud dio. She just grabbed that tintype from the neck of her rival, had tbe young man r reeled for stealing it, aud, sweetest revenge of all. had bia lady-love No. 2 called aa a witnesi to trace the stolen property to his p.)sessioa. And that young man was held to bail on a chsrgu of larceny. And now ha solemnly sol-emnly ponders bow true it is that tbe ways ol the transgressor are bard when it's a daubing youug widow that is tranagressed agaiuut. |