"Quad's odds"; . HAVING THE I HAVE seen men who would jump up and_^, down and call everybody liars, and abusetheir wives, and swear an oath as large as anold fashioned out-door oven, simply becausethey had the toothache. Watkins is one ofthose sort of men. He just gets comfort-ably around the stove, with a paper in one hand and a panof apples in the other, when whoop ! she goes! It seemsas if some one had fired a bullet into his jaw, and he leapsup and down and kicks out behind and grabs at his ,Watkins, do be patient! says his wife, as sheruns after cotton and camphor. H
"Quad's odds"; . HAVING THE I HAVE seen men who would jump up and_^, down and call everybody liars, and abusetheir wives, and swear an oath as large as anold fashioned out-door oven, simply becausethey had the toothache. Watkins is one ofthose sort of men. He just gets comfort-ably around the stove, with a paper in one hand and a panof apples in the other, when whoop ! she goes! It seemsas if some one had fired a bullet into his jaw, and he leapsup and down and kicks out behind and grabs at his ,Watkins, do be patient! says his wife, as sheruns after cotton and camphor. He holds his mouth open and she puts the cotton in,having soaked it with camphor. He gets a swallow of theliquid, which goes down the wrong pipe, and he gives ayell and a snort, and his eyes stick out like the wallet of aback-pay Congressman. Oh! now, Watkins, dont be soawful fractious!she says in a sooth-ing voice, looking on the floor for thecotton. Fractious ! he screams ; youcouldnt bear it a second! It wouldkill fourteen women in a
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