| Show II I II I They Never Got Over It Do YOU know my dear she suddenly sudden-ly said as she looked up from her piecework piece-work do you know that next week will be the twentieth anniversary of our wed I ding Is that so By George how time flies Why I had no idea of it Yes we have been married almost twenty long years she continued with something of a sigh You have been a good husband to me darling And you have beeu u blessed little wife to me Susan Come here until I kiss you There I was thinking today I was thinking think-ing ofof Of that sicklyfaced baboon who used to go home with you from prayermeeting before I knew you he interrupted Who do you mean Why that Brace fellow of course Why George he wasnt such a bad fellowWasnt Wasnt he Well Id like to know of a worse one He didnt know enough to chew putty and there you were as I good ns engaged to him I Yes George but you know you were 1 keeping company at the same time with that Helen Perkins That Helen Perkins Wasnt Miss Perkins one of the lovcliestand prettiest young ladies in Liverpool No she wasnt She had teeth like horse She did eh How about that stoop shouldered whiteheaded Brace And such big feet as she had Why George she was the laughingstock of the town Not much she wasnt She was a young lady who would have made a model wife Then why didnt you marry her and all her moles and warts and mushroom eyesDont talk that way to me Her eyes were as ni6e as yours They want They was I believe you are sorry because you didnt marry Brace And I know you are sorry because you didnt marry that beautiful and accomplished ac-complished Miss Perkins I am eh I thought you said had been a good husband to you H And didnt you call me your blessed little wife I Tnd then he plumped down and began to read the mortgage sales and advertisements advertise-ments in the paper and she picked up j her sewing and gave the cat a gentle I I kick These old things will come up now and then and somehow neither gets entirely en-tirely over them I |
