Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1873-06-25
CATCHNG THE EARLY TRAIN.

Max Adeler, writing in the SdtltT-
day Evening Post, says:
One of the greatest delights Of
boarding in the country for the sum
mer, is the pleasure a man derives
from his efforts to catch the early
morning train by which he must
reach the city and his business
When he gets out Of bed he looks at
mis- watch, and finds he has plenty Of
time; so he dresses leisurely, and sits
down to breakfast in a calm and Sc
rene state of mind. Just as he cracks
his first egg, he hears the up-train.
He starts, jerks out his watch, COM
pares it with the clock, and finds that
1t Is eleven minutes slow, and that he
has only four minutes left in which
to get 10 the depot. In a fearful hurry
be tries to scoop the egg out Of the
shell, but it burns his fingers; the
skin is tough, and after fooling with
it for q moment, it mashes Into a
hopeless mess, and he gets his fingers
smeaTed; he drops the whole concern
in disgust, grabs q hot roll, and scalds
his tongue with q quick mouthful of
coffee; then he stuffs the roll In his
mouth, while his wife hands him bis
satchel, and tells him she thinks she
hears the whistle. He plunges madly
around the room looking for his UNI
brella; then kisses his wife as well as
he can with all that unswallowed
bread distending his cheeks, says
goodbye to the children In q lump,
and makes q dash for the door. Just
as he gets to the gate he finds that he
has forgotten his duster, and he
charges back after it, snstches it up,
and tears down the gravel walk in a
frenzy. He doesn't like to run thro'
undignified, but he walks furiously.
He goes faster and faster. Half way
down he does hear the whistle, for
certain. He wants to run, but he
knows that he will start up that yell
low dog there by the sidewalk if he
does. Then he actually sees the train
coming in at the depot, and he feels
that he must make q rush. He does.
The yellow dog becomes excited, and
tears after him. Six other dogs join
inlthe chase, one otter the other, and
bark furiOusly and frolic around his
legs. Small boys contribute to the
excitement, as he goes past, by whist
ling on their fingers, and the men at
work on the new meeting house
knock off 10 look at him and laugh.
He feels ridiculous. but he must catch
that train. He gets desperate when
he has to slaeken up until two or three
women, who are on the sidewalk dis
cussing the servant girl question and
the price of butter, scatter to let him
pass. He arrives within one hundred
yards Of the depot with duster fly
ing in the wind, coat tails horizontal
and the yellow dog nipping the heels,
just as the train begins to move. He
puts on extra pressure, and resolves
to make thst train OF to perish. He
reaches it as the last car is going past.
He seizes the hand-rail, Is violently
jerked around once or twice, but final
ly lands on the step on his knees. and
is hauled 10 by his coat collar by the
brakeman, hot, mad, dusty, with his
trousers torn across the knees bis
shins bruised, and three ribs iif his
um breIls broken. Just as he gets
comfortably into the car, the train
stops, backs up on the siding, and
lays there for half an hour while the
engineer hxes q broken valve Then
he is maddeF than ever, and deter
mines that he VIII move in town To-
morrow and swears, while he looks
out Of the window and watches the
dogs that followed him engaged in q
contest over a Zone which the yellow
dog found on the platform Of the sta
tiOn, and he registers q silent vow to 4
devote his first holiday 10 hunting up
that dog. and Draining him with a
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