Litchfield enquirer., 1874-10-29

sflnchiHg my cigar ln my own house, after eating my own delicious little supper in company with my own dear wife. We selected the chair, and then we were about to order the things sent out to our future home, when happened to think that we had no bed. l called Euphemia s attention to the fact.
 She was thunderstruck. ''l never thought of that she said, ''We shall have to give up the stove" | Not at all, said I, i've can't do that. We must give up the easy-chair.''
 ''Oh. that would be too bad,'' said she. ''Fhe house would seem like nothing to me without the chair' ''Bnt we must do without 1t, my dear, g 1 said 1, ''at least for awhile I can sit out On deck and smoke of an evening, you know"
 "Yes,' said Euphemia. 'You can sit on the bulwarks and 1 can sit by you. That will do very we'll. I'm sure I'm glad the boat has bulwarks.''
 So we resigned the easy-chair and bought a bedstead and some very plain bedding. The bedstead was what is some times called Scissors bed" You could shut 1t up when you didn't want to sleep Tn 1t. and stand it against the wall
 When We packed up our trunks and left the boarding house Euphemia fairly skipped with joy.
 We went down to Ginx's in the first boat, having arranged that our furniture be sent to us in the afternoon. We want ed to be there to receive it. The trip was just wildly delirious. The air was charm ing. The sun was bright, and I had a whole holiday. When we reached Ginx s We found that the best way to get our trunks and ourselves to our house was to take carriage, and so we took one. I told the driver to just drive along the riv- CT road and I would tell him where to stop.
 When we reached our boat, and had alghted, l said to the driver:
 You can just put our trunks inside, any where.''
 The man looked at the trunks and then looked at the boat Afterward he looked at me.
 'That boat ain't goin' anywhere" said he
 ''I should think not," said Euphemia. ''We shouldn't want to live in it, if it were"
 You are going to live in it?' said the man.
 4es, sald Euphemla.
 ''Oh!' said the man, and he took our trunks on board, without another word.
 It was not very easy for him to get the trunks into our new home. In fact 1t was not easy for us to get there ourselves. There was a gang-plank. with rail on one side of 1t, which inclined from the shore to the deck of the boat at an angle of about forty-6ve degrees, and when the man had staggered up this plank with the trunks (Euphemia said I ought to have helped him, but really thought it would be better for one person to fall off the plank than for two to go over together), and we had paid him, and he had driven away Ill a speeches. condition, We scram- bled mp and stood upon the threshold, or, rather, the after-deck of our home.
 It was proud moment. Euphemia glanced around, her eyes full of happy tears, and then she took my arm and we went down stalrs-at least we tried to go oeswn in that fashion. hut soon found it necessary to go one at time. We wan dered over the whole extent of our man. sion and found that our carpenter had done his work better than the woman whom We had engaged to scrub and clean the house. Something akin to despair must have seized upon her, for Euphen,ia declared that the floors looked rather dir tier than on the occasion of her first visit. when we rented the boat.
 But that didn't discourage us. We felt sure that we should get it clean Hi time.
 Early Tn the afternoon our furniture ar rived, together with the other things we had bought, and the men who brought them over from the steamboat landing had the brightest, merriest faces ever noticed among that class of people. Flu phemla said 1t was an excellent omen to have such cheerful fellows come to us on the very first day of our housekeeping.
 Then We went to work. I put up the stove, which was not much trouble. as there was Q place all ready in the deck for the stove-pipe to be run through, Flu phemla was somewhat surprised at the absence of chimney, but assured her that boats were very seldom built with chlmneys. My dear little wife hustled about and arranged the pots and kettles on nails that l drove into the kitchen walls. Then she made the bed in the bedroom and l hung mp looking-glass and few little pleasures that we had brought in our trunks.
 Before four o'clock our house was in order. Then we began to be very hun- grs:
 My dear," said Euphemia, "we ought to have thought to bring something to cook"
 ''That is very true, said I, 'sout think perhaps we had better walk up to Ginx's and get our supper tonight. You see we are so tired and hungry.
 "What! cried Euphemia, Ego to a ho- tel the very first day? I think it would be dreadful! Why, I have been looking forward to this first meal with the great est delight. You can go up to the little store by the hotel and buy some things and J will cook them, and we will have our first dear little meal here all alone by ourselves, at our own table and in onr own house."
 So this was determined upon and, after a nasty counting of the fund had resery- ed for moving and kindred expenses, and which had been sorely depleted during the day, set out, and in almost an hour returned with my first marketing. | made fire, using lot of chips and blocks the carpenter had left, and Euphe- ma cooked the supper, and we ate t rom our little table, with two large tow els for table-cloth.
 It was the most delightful meal I ever atei
 And, when we had fnished, Euphemia washed the dishes (the thou ghtful crea- 'ure had put some water on the stove to | neat for the purpose, while we were at | 'upper) and then we went on deck. or on | :he piazza, as Euphemia thought we had | better call it, and there we had our smoke. l say a0e, for Euphemia always | helps me to smoke by sitting by me, and | she seems to enjoy it as much as do.
 And when the shades of evening began 'o gather around us, I hauled in the gang- | plank Gust like delightful old draw bridge, Euphemia said, although hope | Ior the sake of our ancestors that draw | bridges were easier to haul in) and went |
 It IS lucky we were tired and wanted to l go to bed early, for we had forgotten all | about lamps or candles.
 For the next week we were two busv md happy people I rose ahont hole ,,o:I