The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-11-28

Getting Ready for the Train.

| The man across the way IS IN Rldgeheld
this week, visiting his uncle Joseph. He
took his wife and boy with him. They
left on the 9.45 A. NJ, train. There is moth,
ing very remarkable about this, but the
preparation and the getting away was so
extremely natural that we thought we
would speak of it, The night before, they
stayed up until IL o'clock getting every
thing in readiness, and as the train was to
leave at 9.45, they got up at 4.30. His wife
got up first, and looked out doors to see if
it was going to rain, and was quite sure it
| was, and as it was too dark at that hour to
distinguish objects you couldn't touch, it
was extremely probable that she was right.
While she prepared the breakfast he sat on
the edge of the bed, and endeavored to
dress the progeny, but not succeeding, ow-
ing to a great weakness of the eyes, in get
ting the boys jacket over the boys legs,
he gave up the effort and fell to dressing
himself After breakfast, during which he
dropped asleep and tipped over a cup of
coffee, he looked out Of one window, and
concluded it would rain sure, and imme-
diately looked out of another window, and
expressed belief that it was about to clear
off again. Pretty soon he went down the
street to secure u hack, and came back
again to wait for it. This was about 8
o'clock.
AT a quUrter past eight he came over to
ask us if we thought it would rain. Twen-
ty minutes past he asked the party next
,,oor what he thought of the weather. At
twenty five minutes past he solicited the
opinion of little girl on the next street,
and at halfpast eight he was wayaying
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his wife, having twice repaCked tie trunk
and twice redressed the progeny, had got
on her redingote and jockey, and with Il
RpY92uq"G' IN .I'ar tnol, ND a position in the
parlor to wait Tor the hack, which was due
in one hour and ten minutes, city time
A fter setting there in calm and patient
attitude for eleven seconds, she jumped up
and came over to ask our wife ifshe thought
the back breadth was not lettle too full
The lady consulted at once made tho
rough examination of the back breadth,
and was briefly able to make the gratifying
announcement that the back breadth was
not bit too full. With her suspicious al
laycd, the wife Of the man across the way
returned home, reaching there just in time
to rescue the progeny from tub of rain
water, into which he had promptly fallen
on discovering that he was alone. He was
dressed at once. (Some people would have
emptied that water earlier in the morning,
and set fire to the tub, but they do not live
across the way.) AS it was now o'clock,
and three quarters of an hour before the
train was to start, it was reasonable to ex-
pect the arrival of the hackman, and the
advent of that worthy was accordingly
watched for The man took up his station
at the gate and the next corner, and be-
tween those two points he moved with com
mendable celebrity. His wife took advan-
tape of the lull to come over and ask our
wife if she ever saw anything like it, which
that lady conscientiousy admitted she
hadn't. Then the first lady put her head
out Of the window and looked down the
street. but seeing no indication ofthe hack
man, asked her husband if the man had
come yet Thirteen seconds later she ran
her head out again, and asked him where
the progeny was. He didn't know and as
it was absolutely necessary that he should
keep moving between the gate and the
corner if the hickman ever came, there was
nothing else to do but to go after the prog
cny herself which she did. He was in the
back yard, running in connection with
another boy, a doubled barrelled bakery,
and was completing an order for five mud
pies, when his mother lighted upon hi /.
His transit to the house was in much less
time than any boy could reasonably expect
to make. By the time he had got into the
fourth clean suit, the hackman came and
drew up in front of the house, as also did
the children of the entire neighborhood
The arrival Of the hack was the signal fol
general and complete confusion. The pro-
geny was poked into the carriage by his
mother, and Immediately pulled out again
by his father, who cuffed him on the head
and asked him what he meant. Whereup
on the children laughed, and the progeny
turned his eyes on his nose, and kept then
there. After the family was loaded an(
the baggage aboard, the man of the hous
commenced to think of the things left be
hind, and the next five minutes were en-
p!oyed in recovering those articles. Final
ly the hack drove off, the woman protestin!
that something was forgotten, and firml.
asserting that nobody else ever went ava
ut such short notice, and so lily prepared
; rs she was obliged to. Then those of til
children who failed to catch on behind, n
the hack drove away, fell to calling til
more successful ones what names the
could think of in a hurry, and the wome
of the ighborhood moved back from the
blinds, where they had been posted for til
last half hour, and came out doors to eX
p change opinions over the fence. -Danbnr