Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1875-08-05

lFron tAs DaAbuiy MswS.]
This 10 the season Of the year whom man may
expect to BE- suddenly called sany mounsat in the
night to get up and pat down the windows. On
the advent Of thunder shower II 10 rarely that
man wakes hrnt. II he shouA be kseps Quist,
70 " not to disturb his wife, md avai1 hi1aealf
Of the ASat luu 10 10 to alesp again. How dif-
fereutly woman acts-oh, 10 differently Just
a. soon ~ abe wakes up and hears thAt Ii Ia RAIN
% p sss sos q y 10: :' !: s:s
back, At tho same time catching him by the
hair and shaking bis head. and hyseerically
scroAma,-
sect up get up. quick Ifs pouring right
down in torrents, and ali the Window afs up =
! he cannot wake up under such circumstances
with an immediate clear conception Of the case !;
in fact, Il frequently happens that hs 10 way ont
on the door before his eyes are fairly open, hav-
| ing but one idsa At work, and that ~ / what he
strike Light, and while he 10 moving azound
for the matches, and swearing that some one
has broken into the house and moved them from
where he laid them on going to bsd (which In a.
ways plausible enough, she hurls after him the
following tonics;
"Do hurry Mercy how that rain is coming
right into those Window! We won't have .
carpet left il you don't move faster. What ON
earth arc you dong all this timef Can't And
the maschss2 Mercy sake. you amt going TO
| 1tuuulo UOk0 tOOA41k tuJ uAAkC4NBV No yout
when the water IL drowning Us ont? Go With
out light. What man YOU are might have
better got mp in the first place. Well despair
inglyl let the things 60 70 run II you are . mind
to. I've said all I'm going to, an don't caro-
i the whole house goes to smash.
You always have your own way. an 'spose
you always will, and now you can do ~ you
please but don't you dare to open your mouth
to me about it whom tho ruins done. I've talked
an talked till I'm tired to death, and I shan't
| tall Wa k>An
decent, and We never can and 90 that's the end
Of it. IA very brief pausAl John Henry, orr
70" or are you not going to shut those WIN
dows ?"
the discourse by striking light. He was boun,
to have that help before he moved out Of tn
room. He has got the lamp lighted now. NJ
!. sooner does it, glare fill the rooms than no I'm
mediately blows 1t out again for Obvious rsa
: sons. He had forgotten the windows were opel
Q and the brevity Of his night shirt It almos
. causes him To SILVER whom he thinka Of his mar
Q row escape. lie moves out into the other roou
!. with celebrity now. He knows pretty wall the di
rectaon to 80, and when flash Of liShtninl
comes II shows him on the verge Of climbing
; over stool Or across the centre table. n there il
. rocking chair in the house he will striks 1t
. A rocking chair Is much sufsr In it, aim than
streak Of lightning. Il never miass., and i
+ Just at the base of his shin. We have falle4
= against more than eight hundred rockers Of n
: patterns and pnces, and have always receives
the first blow in the one place. We have beer
: with dying peel 10, and have heard them Affirm
in the solemn hush Of that last hour, that
rockipg-ch always hits . man on tho shin first
! Aud when q man gets up in the dead Of III,
: night to shut down windows, he mover mlsse
the rocking chair. 1t 10 the rear spd Of one o
the rockers which catches him. II 10 dreadful
agony. But he rarely cries out He knows BIZ
audience too well. A woman never falls owe
. rocker, and she never understands why ma,
! does But she can tell whether he has by tn
way he puts down the windows when he hnall
reaches them. rockingham window III VI
be allowed the term can be heard three time
, as far AZ any other.