The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1874-04-23
pao OF the Pleasures or a FAMILY


you have just got home of cold Monday
night and pulled your boots off, to be told
that the weeks washing i, on the line and
must be brought in. Now to do ,hi, Of a
dewy eve IN the summer, with the delicate
perfume Ct flowers filing the air, and a
brass band on the next street, is not exactly
II hardship; but to DO it in the dead Of
winter, with chilling breeze blowing, and
the clothes as stiff as a rolling pin, is some
thing no man can contemplate Without
II is that man Invariably gets his boots
OF before the dread summons comes, but
the rest of it is plain enough. There is n
sort of rebellion, feeling in his heart which
prompts him to try to entangle his wfa in
an argument; and failing in this, he snatch
es up the basket, and goes out 10 the ward
with 1t, rnppng it against the chairs and
knocking it against the sides of the door
aith as II uct vigor as If it was no. purely
accidental. If the fond wife is anyway
attentive. she can hea. his well.known
voice eonsigning various objecss to eternal
suffering long after he has disappeared
There is no levity in line of frozen clothes
Every article is as frig'd as the Cardiff
giant, aud the man who wrencies the pins
oil and then holds the basket in expecta.
ton of seeing the piece drop off the line of
its own accord is too pure and simple for
this world. But our man isn't of that
nature. lie catches hold of the garment
with his chilled hands, and seeks to pull it
of, but it doesn't come, Then he yanks
it upwards and then downwards and then
sideways: and when it comes off it
maintains the shape it has been all The
afternoon working toto, which permits
it just as readily to enter the has ket as to
be showed through the key-hole of a valise.
The 6rss articles he doubles up his hands,
and there is q faint semblance of careful
ness in packing them away; but after tina.
he smashes them into the basket without
any ceremony, and crowds them down
With his foot. lie uses the same care in
taking down fine cambria handkerchief
that be doee in capturing o sheet, and
makes two handkerchiefs Of every one.
When he gets far from the basket he allow,
the articles to multiply io his arms, SO as
to save steps, and when he gets his arms
full Of the awkward and miserable things.
whose sharp icy corners jab hin in the
neck and face, he comes to an article tina.
refuses to give way on one end. lie pulls
and shakes desperately at it, howins and
screaming in his rage. until be inadyertent-
" steps on the dragging end Of sheet, |
and then he comes down hat on the frozen |
snow. Blu. be bounds up again, grating
his teeth, and hastily depositing tie bundle |
10 the basket, darts back to the refractory
and taxing hold Off, fer,ely tugs
q. it, while he fairly jumps up and down
in tie extremity of his anger and cold. |
Then it comes unexpected, and with it |
part of the mex. article, and he goe. over
4sain-tbis time on his back and with |
violence. With the clothes gathered, he
takes the basket up ia his Ivid hands,
.hus bringing the top articles against his
already frozen chin, and thus tortured,
propels his lifeless limbs into tn. touse.
She stands ready to tell him to close the
ioor, and is thoughtful enough IT, ask him
f its cold work. Bot if be is o wise man
ne viii silently plant himself in front of /
he stove, and, framing his frozen features
INTO an implacable frown, viii preserve
hat exterior withort the fain.ess modi6ca-
ion until bed.ime.--Dandury Ners.