. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . MARY, MARY, I VE SIGNED THE PLEDGE. 276 THE SAILORS STORY. and knocking her down without the slightest , he said, my wife never used to cry; I thoughl shenever did. I positively, ladies and gentlemen, have knocked her down, and she has got up and smiled at me. I thoughtSally never cried ; I really thought she had not a tear to. it came nearer and nearer. shed ; but 1 drank, and drank, and 1 abused her night, after abusing her pretty badly. I lay down on thebed and fell asleep, and 1 had a dream. I dreamed I
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . MARY, MARY, I VE SIGNED THE PLEDGE. 276 THE SAILORS STORY. and knocking her down without the slightest , he said, my wife never used to cry; I thoughl shenever did. I positively, ladies and gentlemen, have knocked her down, and she has got up and smiled at me. I thoughtSally never cried ; I really thought she had not a tear to. it came nearer and nearer. shed ; but 1 drank, and drank, and 1 abused her night, after abusing her pretty badly. I lay down on thebed and fell asleep, and 1 had a dream. I dreamed I was ship-wrecked, and that a lot of us clung to the floating wreckage,and there we all were, clinging for dear life, until at last allwere washed off but me, and there I was. lashed to the BROKEN-HEARTED WOMEN. 277 broken spars, tossing and tumbling in the water. At adistance I thought I saw one of those little, nasty, sharp,waves, — not one of the long rolling swells, but it seemed tobe a little spiteful thing that kept bobbing up and downwith considerable force; and it glistened as if there was alight gleaming upon it, and it came nearer and nearer; andI watched it, and it grew smaller and smaller until it seemedalmost like a star, and the whole force of the waves seemedto dash into my face; and the water felt warm and it wokeme; and there was Sally leaning over me, and the tearsraining
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