The huntsman's echo. [volume] (Wood River, Buffalo County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1860-1861, 1861-08-01
RAINY Days.

ID Raining again st. Swithin ! IS
that the patter OF big, uncompromis-
drops on the window panes once more !?
yAreTwe TO live under an umbrella for
the rest Of our mortal sojoamn ?,zAnd
will any gracious individual answer
the important questions q What shall
we do with rainy days?
Somehow there is an awful and im.
penetrable mystery about rainy days.
Old maids always choose them to have
the toothache, and tell about the ,beaux
they might have had--ohl bachelors
al WAYS discover holes III their stock
ings, and leaks in their b andy bottles,
on such days. Children universally
catch cold, and get into mischief, ba-
bies swallow thimbles and burn their
fingers, and visitors fronFthe coantry
arrive, with carpet bags and trunks.
And, moreover, husbands stay atIhone
from ethe Office" and elevate your
spirits 81 By adequately rocking 6ercely
backwards and forwards in the cyeak.
lest chair in the house, and fat ening
their noses against the wmdowlglass,
while they wonder aYdibly "if it is 60
mo in 20 rain At sbis rate adj DAY ?'' The
most angelic hnsbapds beeerle nlisans
ce little short Of the smallpox on
rainy days. They invariably fad out
that the chimney smokes, and that the
children are badly brought up, on
these occasions Never knew such
discoveries on sunny DAY, inour life
If people hare got a edisagreeable
streak aboutsthem ( and SAo hasn'ts,
kit is sure to strike through to the sur
face in rainy weather! ' "FA Y
We wonder how Mr. and Mrs Ne,
ah lived through the "damp spell.
| of which hi.tory vtells5 us ] Did Mr.
N. select that psrticular opportunity
of going hen-lussy ing abent with 'his
hands in his pockets-stay, though
People didn't:'wear pockets in those
days, did they? Did he count the
number of sticks in the hold, and tel
his wife they wouldn't last until the
shower W as over, Unless slfe1twas ID
little more economical in aboihRg. the
Ftea-ket'le? Didhs sneak into he cup,
boards, while Mrs Noah was hooking
after the goats, to see if the .poneg'
ranjtes and figs were likely to- hoh
out Didn't the whole family wish
he would paddle off" somewhere
once in a while ? Why has not some
body perpetuated an account ofyths
domestic economy in the Ark? a.,, ~s,sil
! hd Ladies, if you are tempted 70 grum
,lbleo at ihe meddling disposition o
] vour spouses, when rainy a'weathal
renders it out Of the question for then
\ to get 10 their respective sdsns dow
j town. Just remembss-snat Mrs. Noah !
4 husband was .st6nfii in thsyway' fo
4 a hundred pa ifty days : :
}. On lhswhole we. do not obj"ct to-
good oN. fashioned north easter ecca
sionaN. 1t is nice, if you have
,goog sleep rooted garret 70 sit IN. {
4 lreM your old letters, with a perpetu
AZ tune of rain.drops playins owe
Head !; it is convenient to mend ppsa
|, Ihe delapidated old clothes, for ther
/is no danger of sbeing surprised esb
fashionable neighbors, who don't kno'
. what q patch means iqit. tsK The Jim
J to pick up, all the dropped stitches
$ our hurried, oyer-burdenedf lives.
look at the past. and weave plans e e
The future. Tive had no rainy WEI
e fther, our hearts never would leap u
: at the sight of blue lifts Of SKY, an
= mellow bursts Of sunshine, All thing
: considered, we'll try to get along vii
i the rain, and if there comes yel
,,bsoakiAg, patterlng, aggravatIng tim
we will think of MEs, NYahs and !
: thankful Mas. G. w. WYLLYs'
: - or The yicksburgF Ktig thapei
y = presses shesrial .sebaissisp 70 ssce
sion rule in respect to the fo!bwiI
al importanl privation .a
al FsrWe msy be bad of for ~laist
a. but Mississippi river water, dilut
WI si,hla chewuol .tsbacco and .ngsaisr
4 slrychnine, is d very good substitt
d for the Cincinnati atricle, or whic'sA
4 havo hecn ,denrived. -.