Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1878 — Companion Pictures. [ARTICLE]

Companion Pictures.

When a Fnlton father came heme the other evening and stepped into the parlor to fill up the coal-stove, he was startled to see, when the flame of his handlamp dissipated the darkness, that his daughter and her ducky doodle Adolphus were sojourning in the shadow of the lowered gas-jet. But they were in separate chairs! And were engrossed in a box of figs! He felt compelled to ask: “ Something the matter witn the gas ?” And the time-tried youth, grasping one of the golden thoughts that overwhelm us in the time of emergency, answered, as he mechanically picked up another fig: "No, sir; wo turned it down so as not to notice when we bit into a worm !” — Fulton Times. When the parent went into the parlor to look for his newspaper he came suddenly upon his daughter and her young man with their faces so tightly glued to each other that they didn’t note his entry. "Ahem I” he observed. The twain started, and came to the light with faces that bore every appearance of having been just drawn out of a furnace. " Anything the matter ?” grimly asked the old gentleman. “I think we must have fainted,” said she, it a whisper. "Humph! What made you faint?” he inquired, suspiciously. • This was such a poser that she sank back exhausted, leaving her companion to carry them safely forth. With an awful wrench at his faculties he gulped out: "I think there must be poison in the wall-paper.” The old gentleman collapsed.—Danbury News.