The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 3: Stories and RomancesWard, Artemus
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The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 3: Stories and Romances
Ward, Artemus
American wit and humor
He was persuaded to retire. There was no danger of his being
disturbed that night, as the watch were sleeping sweetly as usual
in the big arm-chairs of the various hotels, and he would be able
to fly the city in the morning. He had a haggard and worn-out
look yesterday morning. Two large bailiffs, he said, had
surrounded the building in the night, and he had not slept a
wink. And to add to his discomfiture his coat was covered with a
variegated and moist mixture, which he thought must be some of
the brains of his opponent, they having spattered against him as
he passed the dying man in his flight from the field. As Smith
was not dead (though the surgeon said he would be confined to his
house for several weeks, and there was some danger of
mortification setting in), Culkins wisely concluded that the
mixture might be something else. A liberal purse was made up for
him, and at an early hour yesterday morning the last of the
Culkinses went down St. Clair Street on a smart trot. He took
this morning's Lakeshore express train at some way-station, and
is now on his way to New York. The most astonishing thing about
the whole affair is the appearance on the street to-day,
apparently well and unhurt, of the gentleman who was so badly
"wounded in the shoulder." But a duel was actually "fit."
3.10. A MORMON ROMANCE--REGINALD GLOVERSON.
CHAPTER I.--THE MORMON'S DEPARTURE.
The morning on which Reginald Gloverson was to leave Great Salt
Lake City with a mule-train, dawned beautifully.
Reginald Gloverson was a young and thrifty Mormon, with an
interesting family of twenty young and handsome wives. His
unions had never been blessed with children. As often as once a
year he used to go to Omaha, in Nebraska, with a mule-train for
goods; but although he had performed the rather perilous journey
many times with entire safety, his heart was strangely sad on
this particular morning, and filled with gloomy forebodings.
The time for his departure had arrived. The high-spirited mules
were at the door, impatiently champing their bits. The Mormon
stood sadly among his weeping wives.
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