Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-07-21

| finding himself confronted with a num-
her of dresses all turned inside out, and
presenting most formidable front, he
hastens back to ask (Which dress!" and
| being told the brown one, and also asked
il she had so many dresses that there
need be any great effort to find the right
one, he returns to the cupboard with
alacrity, and soon has his hands on the
| brown dress.
1t is inside ont like the rest: fact he
does not notice, however. until he has
made several Intellectual attempts to get
his hand in it.
Then he turns il round very carefully,
and passes over the pocket several times
| without being aware of it.
a nervous movement of his hands,
and an appearance of fperspiration OH his
forehead are perceptible.
He now dives one hand in at the back
and feeling round. finds place and pro-
| ceeds TO explore it, when he discovers
that he is following up the inside of "A
lining. The nervousness increases, also
the perspiration.
He twitches the dress on the hook.
and suddenly the pocket, plump and ex-
asperating, comes To view.
There is the pocket in plain view
not only the inside, but the outside
and all he has to do is to put his hand
right in the inside and take ont the arti-
Gle. That is all. lie can't help but
smile To think how near he was to get
ting mad.
Then he puts his hand round TO the
other side. He does not feel the OPEN
ing. He pushes a little farther-now
he has got il; he shoves the hand down,
and is very much surprised to see it ap-
pear opposite his knees. lie has made
a mistake.
He tries again: he feels the entrance
and glides down it only to appear again
"a before. This makes him open his
eyes aud straighten his face.
He feels of the outside of the pocket,
pincheS it curiously, lifts it up, shakes
il, and after peering closely about the
roots of it, ne SAYS, .'By gracious - and
he commences again.
He does it calmly this time, because
hurrying only makes matters worse. He
hauls up breadth after breadth. goes over
them carefully gets his hand first into a
lining, then into the air again (where it
always surprises him when it appears,
and finally into a pocket, and is about TO
cry out in triumph, when he discovers
that it is the pocket of another dress.
He is wild now; the cupboard air al
most STILES him; he is so nervous he
can hardly contain himself; and the
pocket looks at him 50 exaSper;if1ngly
that he cannot help but plug it with
his clenched fist, and Immediately does
it. Being somewhat relieved by this
performance he has chance to Look
about him, and sees that he has put his
foot through handbook and into the
crown of his wife's bonnet; has broken
the brim of his summer hat, which was
hanging in the cupboard, and tore about
yard Of bugle trimming from new
jacket.
As all this trouble is due directly TO
his wife's infatuatiOn in hanging up her
dress inside out, he Immediately starts
after her and impetuously urges her to
the cupboard, excitedly and almost pro-
fanely intimating his doubts of there
being pocket in the dress anyway.
The cause of the unhappy disaster
quietly inserts her hand inside the robe,
and directly brings it forth with the
sought for article in its clasp. He doesn's
know why, but this makes him wilder
than anything else.-DHbaTy Ne,gs.