Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-12-09
TOO LATE FOR THE TRAIN.

disappointment at the receding train,
which was just pulling away from the
bridge switch at the rate of a thousand
miles minute. Their first impulse was
to run after it, but as the train was out OF
sight and whistling for Sagetown before
they could act upon the impulse, they re-
mained in the carriage and disconsolate-
ly turned their horses heads homeward.
1T all comes of having TO wait for a
woman 10 get ready" Mr.. Man broke
the silence, very grimly.
II was ready before you were," re-
piled his wife.
"Great heavens" cried Mr. Man, in
irrepressibe impotence, jerking the
horses jaws out Of place, lust listen to
that And l sat in the buggy ten min
utes, yelling at you to come along until
the whole neighboihood heard me ~
Yes," acquiesced Mrs. Man with the
provoking placidity which no one can as
sumo but woman, land every time l
started down stairs you sent me back for
something you had forgotten"
Mr.. Man groaned, "Ths is too much
to BEAR" be said "when every body
knows that if were going to Europe 1
would just rush into the house, put on
clean shirt, grab up my grip sack, and
fly, while you would wait at least six
months for preliminary preparations,
and thep dawdle around the whole day
Of starting until every train had left
town."
We'll, the upshot Of the matter was,
that the Mans put off their visit to Au-
rora until the next week, and it was
agreed that each one should get himself
or herself ready and go down to the train
and go, and the one who failed to get
ready should be left. The day Of the
match came around in due time. The
train was going at 1880, and Mr.. Man,
after attending TO his business, went
home at 9:45.
"Now, then" he shouted, "only three
quarters OF an hour to train time. Fly
around a fair field and no tayors, you
know.n
And away they few. Mr.. Man buged
int this room and rushed through that
one and divei into one closet after anoth-
er with inconceivable rapldity, chuckling
under his breath all the time, to think
how cheap Mrs. Man would feel when he
started off alone. He stopped on his way
up stairs TO pull off his heavy boots to
save time. For the same reason he pull
ed off his coat as he ran through the din
ing ~om and hung it on q corner Of the
silver closet. Then he jerked of his vest
as he rushed through the hall and tossed
it on a hook in the hat rack, and by the
time he reached his own room he was
ready to plunge into his clean Clothes
lie pulled oIt bureau drawer and began
TO paw at the things like Scotch terrier
after rat.
Eleanor" he shrieked, "where are
my shirts ?"
In your bureau drawer" calmly re-
piled Mrs. Man, who was standing before
glass, camly and deliberately coaxing
refractory crimp into place.
"Well, by thunder, they ain't" shout
ed Mr.. Man, little annoyed. live
emptied everything out of the drawer and
there isn't thing in it L ever saw be-
fore"
Mrs. Man stepped back a few PAGES,
held her head on one side and after salts
Tying herself that the crimp would do,
and would stay where she had put it, re
piled
"These things scattered around on the
floor are all mine. Probably you havn't
been looking in your own drawer"
Il don't see," testify observed Mr..
Man, "why you couldn't have put my
things out for me when you had nothing
else TO do all the morning."
" Because" said Mrs. Man, settling
herself into an additional article of raj
inent with awful deliberation, nobody
pa: mine out for me. A fair field and no
tavors, my dear"
Mr. Man plunged into his shirt like a
bull at Il red flag.
Foul I" he shouted, in malicious tri-
umlh. " No buttons on the neck -
Because" said Mrs. Man, sweetiy ,
after deliberate stare at the fidgeting i'm :
Iatient man, during which she buttoned
her dress and put eleven pins where they
would do the most good, " because you
have got the shirt on wrong side out. ."
When Mr.. Man slid out Of the shirt,
he began to sweat. He dropped the shirt
three times before he got it on, and
while it was over his head he heard the
clock strike ten. When his head came
through he saw Mrs. Man coaxing the
ends and bows of her necktie.
Where's my shirt studs 2" he cried.
Mrs. Man went out into another room
and presently came back with her gloves
and hat, and saw Mr.. Man emptying all
the boxes he could End in and about the
bureau. Then she said
In the shirt you just took off.
Mrs. Man put on her gloves while Mr..
Man hunted up and down the room for
his cuff buttons.
Eleanor" he snarled, at last, Z" / be-
lieve you must know where those cuff
buttons are"
~ havn't seen them" said the lady,
settling her hat " didn't you lay them
down on the window-sill in the sitting
room last night %
Mr.. Man remembered, and he went
down stairs on the run. He stepped on
one of his boots, and was Immediately y
landed in the hall at the foot Of the stairs
with neatness and dispatch, attended in
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