The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-07-31

Max Adeler, writing to the Satur-
day Ereniag Post, says:
One of the greatest delights in
boarding in the country for the sum-
mer. is the pleasure a man derives in
his efforts to catch the early train by
which he must reach the city and his
business. When he gets out of bed
he looks at his watch and finds he has
plenty of time, so he dresses leieurely
and sits down to breakfast in o calm
and serene state of mind. just as he
cracks his first egg he hears the up
train. He starts, jerks out his watch,
compares 1t with the clock, and finds
that it is eleven minutes slow and that
he has only four minutes left in which
to get to the depot. In a fearful hur-
ry he tries to scoop the egg out of the
shell, but it burns his fingers, the skin
| is tough, and after fooling with it for
a moment he mashes il into hopeless
mess, and he gets his fingers smeared !;
he drops the whole concern in DIS
gust, grabs hot roll, and scalds his
tongue with quick mouthful of cof-
fee; then he stuffs the roll in his
mouth, while his wife hands him his
satchel, and tells nim she thinks she
hears the whistle. He plunges madlY
about the room, looking for his UNI
brella; then kisses his wife as well as
he can with all that unsWallowed
bread distending his cheek, says good
bye to the children in. lump, and
makes dash for the door. just as
he gets to the gate he finds that he
has forgotten his duster, and charges
back after it, snatches it up and tears
down the gravel walk in a frenzy
He doesn't Ike to walk through the
village, because that would be undig-
nifed, but he walks furiously. He
goes faster and faster. Half way
down he does hear the whistle for
certain. lie wants to run, but he
knows that he will start up that yel-
low dog on the sidewalk if he does.
Then he actually sees the train COM
ing in the depot, and he feels that he
must make a rush. He does. The
yellow dog becomes excited and tears
after him. Six other dogs join in the
chase, one after the other, and bark
furiously, and frolic around his legs.
Small boys contribute to the excite
ment as he goes past, by Whistling on
their fingers, and the men at work on
the new meeting house knock off to
look at him and laugh. He feGs rfdic-
ulous, but he must catch that train
He gets desperate when he has to
slacken up until two old women who
are on the sidewalk discussing 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 flying in the
wind, coat tail horizontal and the gel
low dog nipping at his heels, just as
the train begins to move. He puts on
the extra pressure, and resolves to
make the train or perish. He reaches
it as the last car is going past. He
seizes the hand rail, is violently ierked
around once or twice, but finally he
lands on the step on his knees, and is
hauled in by his coat-collar by the
brakeman, hot, mad, dusty, with his
troWsers torn across the knees, his
shins bruised, and three ribs in his
umbrella 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 en-
gIneer fixes broken valve. Then he
is madder than ever, and determined
he will move to town tomorrow, and
sWears while he looks out of the win
dow and watches the dogs that fol-
lowed him engaged III contest over
a bone which the yellow dog found
on the platform of the station and he
a silent VOW to devote his
first holiday to hunting up that dog
and Draining him with a club.