Litchfield enquirer., 1868-11-05
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estimate of me was wonderfully correct. If any one can prosecute house-hunting and not look like an underpaid seamstress, that
 woman deserves to be held up to public reproduction as incapable of approaching her trying position.
 It was useless , The Fates were spinning different fate for me. The more I per severed, the more I felt that was in pur- suit of Q will-o'the wisp. Tom said as much to begin with; but having been brought up on little song entitled Try, try Again, and having been also taught by @ youthful copy-book that Fortune re-
 wards the Brave, I continued unto the end, when, surrendering at indiscretion. I.
 said to my husband, Tom, am ready to go to Brooklyn or any where-any where
 out of the world
 Tom could have knocked me down with
 a word of four syllables; and if Tom had
 asked me to sign an agreement to 90 to
 Icy Cape, cultivate Esquimaux, and eat
 train-oil, l should have signed 1t. Fortri
 nately he didn't. :.
 We moved; but prior to moving I dis covered we were ill possession of an eIe- phant. -
 Tom, asked, 'what was to be done
 with the gas -fxtures?
 1 Hang the gas-fxtures!'
 l l Where shall we hang them? Our house in
 Brooklyn is already supplied with fixtures.
 The best way to get rid of them is to sell
 them to the new tenant
 That's good idea, Sue. I'll speak to
 Iompkins when I meet him on Change.
 There s nothing like having business with
 8 gentleman. He at least will be ready to
 pay us our price,
 loves young dream is always doomed
 to disappointment thought to myself
 when Tom came home that night and ven tllated himself on the subject of Tomp-
 kins.
 always thought Tompkins to be lib.
 eral- minded man; but I VOW believe all
 the stories ever heard against him. Why,
 what do you think he offered for the fix
 lures, Sue, saying he couldn't afford to pay a dollar more? Half price! when he knows
 they are as good as new, and that their be- ing in the house saves him bother and ex- pense. By Jove!, he shan't have them, if
 have to give them away!
 I fIhere's where Joe Tompkins gets his
 meanness from,' chimed in Tom junior.
 II II tell the boys at school on his father
 to morrow. When Joe takes a bite out of my apple | always ask for the bite and of
 fer: him the apple. Hos alfred mean.
 ,For this volunteer remark Tom junior
 received an appropriate lecture on the sub-
 so t AiEaEsP f5f sh9gst|ad astdtd h HSnd furniture
 man. There is a vast difference between
 tweedle dun and tweedle-dee; and selling is entirely different from buying. The tsublimely indifferent manner in which that |: second hand man glanced at the fixtures I as!though they would be dear at any price; the condescending way in which he allow
 ed me to suppose that pure benevolence and desire to oblige me was the only
 cailse of his making any offer whatever; and the wonderful facility he displayed in discovering scratches on the gilt and bronze, petrifed me. In a very few min- f lltes I began to think that the fixtures real ly were very much out of order, and glad I i ly sold them for just one third of their original cost. ~
 Tom groaned. His sole consolation lay
 in the fact that Tompkins at least did not T get them. " We moved. I thought l had realized what moving meant Vain delusion! ] T wins an infant i'll experience until we emi ;, grated to Brooklyn. I endeavored to be y,t in two places at the same time. tried 1' 1' not only to see my things start of | in New York, but to see them arrive il
 B rooklyn. Need say that failed lamen ably? Finally confined my field of ae 2, tion to Fifty ninth Street; trusted to lucl ;,. aud ''hefp' for the rest: saw the last 'load ,s off with 8 feeling akin to getting rid ot r nightmare; and then marshaling my boy 5 5 and my umbrellas, betook myself to a ,s omnibus. Ls- Going down Broadway felt very muc pt as Mary Stuart did when she bade farewe as to the receding shores of France. III e, bows were quite as wretched as myself, an ny Tom iun1or declared that just as he DO TO- came Q man he'd build house for m d. wherever liked, only 1t shouldn't pc zee Brooklyn. Bob had spent the whole da an feeding the swans on our last loat o1 ore. tly T dare sav some of them died of surfer
 5o made me promise that, as he couldn q, 1Ioyo swans. he should have chickens. ;. n u F,Ho,y it rained!-it always rains on u lne llsEEof May. And how draggled pecan n1t Tt IaIkina from the ferry 10 Brookly Height ~ slR1ksfI1e worst is now over, said to m .,re are sblf as approached our house. art Was it? On reaching the front dool fbund the cartmen quarreling among the be selves. totally regardless of the fact u It? the rain was pouring down upon my b ds, mattresses that they had left uncover' ok Didn't I want to be an emperor, and SC ln' fine Erin-g -braghs to Cayenne! Wet m uld tresses! Think of it, my suffering slste Int Entering the house I found the pa, he floors looking like chaos gone mad. 5 sex. es of books were burst open; our larg an-. mirror was cracked down the middle;
 Jack of my favorite easy y-chair was pro pro- told ereasy fingermarks adornded my so, Piosr )use frames: the leg of char hao oeeh id Ohio :, the left eye of Layfayette1a a1a,.i1. rare Tao hing trait that Tom treasured 1eateoMuS;iy' M;io v with there lay my beautiful Venus ot Milo, oS w , Her head in one corner ana her iei' ios g'up another! . on +,,;s ,oischief2 jren. dskad. sinking upon mountain-range , two Y"t pf pfes course nobody did it. Nobody vet broke anything. Mirrors, chars,
 Tennses always smash themselves, and 1t fayette puts out his own eye' lswas re ntrai to die of vexation. vans; .Shure, ma'am said the cook, tryint
 III console me, that whitewashed wo the ain,t much worse off than she was bt sent She hadn't no arms to start with, an
 deed, ma'am it's served her right, for esion the most ondacent female iver laid
 wo- two eyes on.' ., .., Her. I shivered with rage. My beautiful with nus of Milo indecent! le re- When Tom came in still occupied