Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-06-19
A Danbury Mars Adventure.

A Danburg man started for Green
Wlch, trlday' to see az iron fence.
what he wanted to see an iron fence
Tor we don't know, and II really makes
no difference. He went. He Wanted
to go off on the 9 80 train, so he hrIr-
ried home to get ready. His wife and
Vicious outside woman were eieaninr
house, and it was some little time be.
fore he could get his society suit
ready. In the meantime he opened
fire on the largest half of c1stard
pie, holding it in his hand, and danc@
ing around and yelling for his things.
When she brought his overcoat, he
set the pie IN a chair, to put on the
coat, but ia his nervousness steyped
on the end of a long-hahdled whits-
wash brush which was balanced aeFoss
pail, and the other end flew Np and
discharged about a pint of the awful
mixture over the sofa, wall paper, and
his painting and indignant wife. She
made remark and he cOntradieted it.
Then he sat down in the chair where
| the pie was and got up with a howl
that would have melted the stoutest
heart. She wanted him to wait While
she scraped off the surplus, bus he was
too mad to converse in words of more
than one syllable, and started for the
depot, and boarded the train, and in
the seclusion of the baggage caT re-
moved the offensive lunch.
He got to Greenwich all right, and
looked at the fence. We hope he ad-
mired it. Then he started for home,
but missed the train, and, as the next
train was an express and didn't stop
at Green wich, he was obliged to walk
to the drawbridge at Cos Cob or stay
in Green which all night So he walked
up there in the rain, but didn't mind it
much, as he had an umbrella and the
pie was pretty well dried in. When
he got to Cos Cob he stood up on a
fence to look at the scenery, and
swear, when a sharp gust of wind
took off his hat and carried it across
bog lot. Then he stepped down on
the other side, too amazed to express
himself, and another gust of wind
came along and turned the umbrella
inside out. A brief conversation here
ensued between himself and the um.
brella, and he again started for the
het. When he got up to it he kicked
it around several times, aud jammed
it down on his head, and started once
more through the bogs as the train
drew up at the bridge. 1t was a terri
BILE struggle, as the bogs were uneer-
taiD, but he strained and coughed,
and spit, and howled, and swore, and
it did seem as if he would catch it
after all. What he thought as he
stood on that fence and watched that
train sail across the bridge, no human
being can tell.
An hour later he appeared in Stam-
ford, wet through to the skin, splashed
with mud, and with an expression on
his face that would have scared hy@
drant. Backing himself against the
depot he stood there until near mid
night, and then went up on the owl
train to Norwalk, falling asleep in the
meantime, and narrowly escaped being
carried by the depot. Here he took
the freight train for Danbury, arriving
at home just before daylight. Hs
wife was abed but not sleeping. She
lay there torn by forebodings and
harrassed by suspense. Perhaps he
was dead, and lying on the cold
ground, in the rain. Then she thought
of his lifeless body and groaaed; and
thought of the pie and groaned
again. She knew his knock the mo-
ment it sounded, and rushing down
stairs in the custome appropriate to
that hour, she threw herself into his
chair and Historically shouted, ''Oh,
you old rascal, come in here" Dan
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