The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-01

and how did they come back? For I'm
sure the girl did not bring them back
this time. -. ss : Ia ND
I told you how particular I am about.
folding my clothes5at night. This ex-s
tends to garments that,I do nots wear
every day-dress coat, .efor instance,
left in the drawer during a tour: or
shooting expedition. !, 5.s,s ,E |::as:::
Now, it won't leave; these garments
alone; and whenever L take them
out after absence, they invariably look
as if they had been used for the rails.
ing Of. money, and suffered from the
pawnbrooker's roll,ssso evidently too
often ID the British workman s Sunday
coat, which decreased from top to bot
tom. :=;3tS, *,$sEs -.
There is another way in which am
terribly annoyed. Being regular
bus man-of course I don't mean
driver or a conductor, but a traveller
by omnibus-from motives Of econo-
my, have noticed the nuisance that
the fair sex,-especially that fat fair
sex, which never travels without a
large bundle, which they plant on
somebody's knee when entering
is to conductor, driver, and fellow pas
sengers, by keeping the vehicle wait
ing while money is dislodged from a
pocket somewhere in the folds, OF from
the corner of handkerchief, in which
it is tightly tied in a knot which.
won't be undone ;While one lady always.
produces her cash wet-out. Of her
mouth. I have noticed all this, I say,
and in consequence provide myself a
threepenny piece, a fourpenny, or six
pence, and place it in my waistcoat
pocket ready for alighting and paying
without requiring change. Do you
think that can find that coin when I
require it! If you do you are mistak-
en-. l grope for it with my gloves on Il
hunt for it with my gloves off a dodge
first in one corner: then in the other,
and each time along the intermediate
channel but n0-there is no coin, and
then the conductor ironically asks me
if want to keep the bus all day.
Of course don't, and l feel very
much provoked as produce my porte
mounaie, drop my umbrella in the
muddy street where we are standing,
tumble out two.shilling piece, and
wait for change, with all the passeng.
ers craning forward to look. and the
driver shouting to his mate to-
"LOok alive, there y
| get my change-I have already re-
covered my umbrella-and I bound to
the pavement shore, out of the muddy
river after narrowly escaping a run
down from q hanson, when, to my an
noyance, am minus a glove, and-yes
there it lies, ground into the mud by
the hanson wheel.
Of course [ haye to 60 on, buy a new
pair, and as I pay for them, having
grown cold in the shop, mentally say,
II wonder what became Of that four
penny piece and my hand involunta-
rily goes to the pocket of my vest, and
yes, there it isl can feel it plainly
enough through the cloth.
I merely say "Where was that little
coin before e.
mentioned my loss, and that natur-
ally brings me back to gloves-a COW
ering of the hands in which had been
nearly ruined.
With my customary practice Of neat
ness, double my gloves together, the
white and lavender Lids, which, be.
tween ourselves, always make last as
long as possible, and then send them
to be cleaned. Now, the home of my
light kid gloves is in my left-hand tail
coat pocket, and fish them out Just
as am goingsinto the theatre OF sat
home; - and this is always the case
Iput on one, get it buttoned, and am
about to put on it's fellow when I find
that if it is q white kid on my hand,
hold a lavender kid in my hand, or
vice versa. They are sure to be odd
ones, and I am certain that put them
away in pairs.
Why don't l look before I start, you
will say.
Because [ don't think to look, and
one does not feel it necessary after
regular precautions. And again say.
How is this?
If it be not the workings of some
sprite full of mischief, what is it
Again find myself putting chloro.
dyne on my handkerchief, because the
bottles have been changed; and when,
in a fit of passion, I dash down the
nasty ethery, pepperminty pain-easer,
take clean pocket handkerchief, and
scent that, find I am doing it with
the tincture of myrrh, or the gummy
stuff the fellow bored me into buying
when last my hair was CUT: i f.. = .
81; Only week ago l had my breakfast
spoiled by a letter which came by post.
1t was as follows, and there was an en-
closure
No. 10 JERMyx STREET Friday.
Sir: am at a loss to understand the
meaning OF this note, and should be glad if
you would explain, for am. q man who
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