Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1871 — No Forbearance. [ARTICLE]

No Forbearance.

He had been a whaler for twenty years, and when he gave up the sea and settled down upon his earnings, all his friends said they hoped that Joshua Weeks would marry some nico woman and enjoy the comforts of a happy home. He himself seemed to think it would be a nice thing to do, and he made an effort in that direction. But they all said that the reason why he did not win tlio heart and hand of the widow Biuritt was this: It seems that Mr. Weeks used to go around there courting and so on, iu the evenings, and while the wjdow sat patching the trowsers of he r eon, and waiting for manifestations of Weeks’ love, old Weeks would sit over on the settee, aiuf'get sleepier and sleepier and quieter and quieter every minute. And every now and then he would nod into the laud of dreams, and- get to wandering off and imagining himself on a whaling voyagfc. And just as likely as not, he would wake up'suddenly all bewildered, and would seize his cane audjabit into the widow before he cou'd collect his senses sufficiently to realize that it was no a harpoon snd she a whale. They do say * that Mrs. Burritt indulged these eccentricities for a time witli the firm conviction that she would reconstruct that whaler when she married him. But this was never to hu; fbr one evening Mr. Weeks sat d : -7.iug on that settee with a kind of dim, dreamy consciousness of things, in which the room and the settee were confused and mixed with the raging main and the whaling-boat. The widow had a cold in her head, and she was just in the act? of making a vigorous use of tier handkerchief when the dream of Weeks reached a crisis, and' he yelled out. “ Tbe-r-r-e she blowsl” and he heaved his harpoon at her with sucli force that ho broke her back comb Into vulger fractions, and knocked her off the chair. Love’s young dream was entirely dissipated, and Mr. Weeks went home with two handfuls of hair missing. He is single yet, becanso he says women have .no sympathy and forbearance.