The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-01-22
The Bulfrtin.
wives and Weathercocks.


.-.h.~sf In the most irlghtIuI WhiiHer iVI
.hrss DAYS; everything was dripping, out
s;Ss Of the house a cold, cherries pros
nect, from the window, OF gray SKY, wet
and lsaHlcss treos, and iank evergreehs 81
M The altering moisture soaking through
tho roots Of lawn grass or running in title
woe.beoope rivuets down the carriage
,ooa The clothes line so tencc from the
moisture that they could never be unfast-
oped and coiled away, were obstinately
bent upon irving TO uproot the posts to
xhich they were tied in the knotticst OF
knots that set both finger-nails and teeth
Al defiance IL seemed rs If one would
iike 10 90 out and thrum u miserable ditty
nnan them of some one that had been
hanged, IL for no other purpose than in
sbeer spite, 10 shake off the thousand drops
that hung pendant from the zigzag lines.
Eycrything was soaking, the wheelbarrow
was driEzlyi the celery trenches were half
full Of water The windows on the side
Of the barn facing the storm were shut in,
aud on the top Of the barn, the wooden
wea,hercock (which, by the way, was q
FISH, pointed due n. 4.
We could zee 1t from the dining-room
window. Every day We looked at IT, and
there it was with its forked tail obstinately
turned to s. w. All as we watched that
weather fish, didn't we keep Lent?
The house itself, which Is clever little
bit Of conf, ftable architecture in almost
all weather beg IN TO grow uncomfortable
inside. The frs did not seem TO DO as
cheerful as usual. Talk OF contrasts--of
the cold, bowling stormy without and tn Q
bright warm FIRE within--of the inclem.
ency OF nature on the outside Of the door,
and the blessed, hospitablc welcome on
sha ;oa;lat Thasa t1aa. Shanrat;o
contrasts, not real
inside, and happen TO look out of your
dining.room window, and there, on your
band is weather Ash, with It's tail steadily
pointing 8. W., and its head in the OPP
posits direction, will all the coy fires In
the world bring happiness 10 your dcs-
pairing bosom7 And suppose tho day
vas Wednesday, and YOU had invited
shat dear, old, bookish prig, Bulgrum, and
hh wife, Mrs. Bulgrum-who Is also your
yifes desrest friend-and the three little
Bulgrums, oil girls, TO dine with you, and
psstaks Of plain country dinner, and
you hsd provided Bucks County turkey,
With celery, to say nothing Of everything
else-a plain soup, for instance, to begin
with, with green peas; and an oyster psttie,
70 help your appetite; caulihower, as big
q orldes bouquet = present from tho
tIsS S S VI IN no,.eu.uru society q
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s ~ 'oi .no nsn sha you MINK OF
.Ss n,n, your snun. oto reaches throuSh
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y. En-
would not have minded 1t so much II
buigrum,. who 10 q careful man about
keeping his engagements, had not said:
Now, mind you, We come II It don't
rainr And not only this, but my wife,
who 10 rather particular in her culinary
skill. and begins 10 preparo for A dinner n
dsy before hand, said 10 me on Wednesday
morning, with a face full OF falling
weather, "If they don't come--nothipe
will keen Harriet.
Now. Although Bulgum. over his wine
ana cigar. IL one OF the most deliobtful
compsnions-a perfect scholar. nm accom-.
plished gentleman. a sort Of ,.lmirable
Crichton. In fsct-a mxn who will talk. not
like a book, but like 4 library OF books,
and then also talk wonderfully of new
thing, never recorded In books. and hi,
wife Mrs. Bulprum. II one of the mo,t
charming, sensible. pretty and discree,
little women--ns good AS she 4, wise, and
=, tastefal AZ she h good humoured and
witty; and the little girls, of the name of
Bulcrum, who are little like father and
a ecod deal like mother and we felt, how
much we ali would have enioyed their
visit 10 us-for ms would have absorbed
Bulprum nv wife would have been Knee
10 Knee the whole evening with Mrs. Bull.
crum and our daughter, would have taken
the three Young Bulerums into their nlsv.
room, among their dolls plsy.houses' and
such a happy time AS we would have had
but for that wea,her.ash.
One being 1 could make happy. II 1
could no, eonjure up our visitors, could
II, leas, bring u happy smile TO my better
halt, l determined 20 do il. She had
been all the morning in the kitchen no,
grumbling exactly, but smothering her
grief by making pics and tarts, and attend
ing TO the preparation of the dinner gen.
orally. For she said If !, cleared of in
the afternoon, they would come in the
four o'clock train and So with her hands
full Of -four, every little while she wonld
give sorrowful glance through the wet
kitchen windows towards the fsh on the
top of the barn. Meantime, / was busy
with treties on proverbs, in the library,
in which ! found many crumbs Of com,
fort and among the rest that "no good
horse is Of bad color" and that sit IS an
i'll will that blows nobody good" and
that 'The darkest hour is jus, before day,"
and 30 on when ! heard nv wife's foot.
stan. on m. s,si,s a,1 7 T., ~ 80