The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-01-22
THE EARLY TRAIN
How VAR. and gErS. Prince Passed
am Anxious Night.
/ From the Daubury News.

From the Daubury News.
The early morning train from Danbury
leaves at $50. This is a very seasonal
bic hour in the summer, when people are
stirring, birds carroling their melodies,
and the incense from the newly awaken
ed flowers filling the air and inspiring the
senses But In the winter time, with the
animal and vegetable life dead, the air
raw and chilly, the matches mislaid, and
gloomy darkness wrapping the face OF
the earth as with pail, $50 o'clock a. m.
is ii very unreasonable aud disagreeable
hour, and the man who has occasion to
leave home on that train may easily be
pardoned the uneasiness unavoidable the
day before. Our legal friend, Prince,
received information on Friday which
made it necessary that he should be in
New York before Saturday noon. He
contemplate the early art with some
misgivinr, and intended to make the best
preparation for it by getting to bed early.
Some people would not have thought Of
this, aud remained up until their usual
hour and have either oversight them
selves or have awakened unrefreshed or
| depressed. Mr.. Prince went to bed at 8
o'clock, and got to sleep at 1880. When
! he awOke it was at the earnest solicitation
| of Mrs. Princes toes, which were digging
| vigorously into his back, while Mrs.
| Princes hands and Mrs. Princes voice
were otherwise engaged in his interests.
| MIR. Prince jumped up at once and inquired
the time, which Mrs. Prince was not
able to inform him exactly, but was
quite confident by the general feeling and
looks that it was hard on to car time.
Mr. Prince snatched up his clothes at
this, and flew into the sitting-room, and
straightway got into his clothes, and then
exqming his watch, found that it was
1910 o'clock. ''By crackey," said Mr.
Prince, and Immediately returning to
bed, and incasing his head beneath the
clothes, preserved q moody silence in an
swer to Mrs. Princes inquiries. 1t final
lY dawned on that excellent lady that the
hour was too earl y, and she went to sleep.
But there was no immediate sleep for her
husband. He felt gloomy and dissatis-
fed, and seemed weighed down with the
impression that he was to miss the train
in spite Of all he could do to avert
the calamity lie carefully reviewed
his past life, arraigning himself as a
student, lawyer, a citizen and hus-
band, to see if there was anywhere in his
record an act, a word or a thought,
which by the finest ingenuity could be
distorted into q crime for which this los
ing the train might be considered q fit
ting Judgment. But in vain he went
over the past for such a provocation, and
finally assigning the cause to a dispensa-
ton OF fate none of US can avert, he, too,
fell asleep. When he awoke again he
found Mrs Princes toes at his back, and
Mrs. Princes hands at his shoulders, and
Mrs. Princes voice in his ear, and
vivid impression on his mind that the
train had gone, or that the whistle would
sound before he could get out of bed.
But he arose and hurried into the sitting
room with show Of interest, and draw
ing on his clothes again he consulted his
watch with an air of desperation, and as
certained that it was just two o'clock He
didn't say "By crackeyw this time. He
skipped back to the bedroom without any
loss Of time, and appeared before Mrs.
Prince with lamp in one hand and a lot
OF clothes in the other, and with good
deal OF fire in his eye. But he blew out
the light in silence, and then getting
btlAN iiIAp 'ICNls SIOpiAlIlJ 5CN ANA nv ~
do that again, or her officiousness might
cause her pain. The next time he aroused
himself 1t was four o'clock. This was
Il little earlier than was absolutely neces-
sary but for fear of missing the train he
remained up. First carefully dressing
himself, he kindled the fire in the kitchen
and thought of the excellent breakfast
that he was to carry with him, while Mrs. /
Prince lay and slept. At 7:30 she awoke
OF her own accord, and finding the broad
daylight streaming into the window,
Jumped up with sincere regret that
Prince had gone without a warm break
last, and pictured to herself during the /
toilet the aching void he would carry
with him through the streets of the me- /
tropolis. Then she thought Of the vexa- /
ton, and the tears came into her eyes. /
And then she went into the kitchen, and /.
was struck motionless ut the sight before I
her. for there was Prince, with carpet
bag clutched tightly in one hand, and a |
roll OF legal documents in the other, sit !!
ting bolt upright in chair-tast asleep. |
Astonshed and confused at this specta- |
Gle, and hardly knowing what she was
doing, Mrs Prince got the woman in the !
other part of the house to arouse MIR. |
Prince while she stole over to her moth |
er's to see about something.