Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-11-24
Too Late for the Train.

When they reached the depot Mr.
Man and his wife gazed with unspeak.
able disappointment at the receding |
train, which was just pulling away from
the bridge switch at thousand miles
minute. Their first impulse was to run
after it, but as the train was out of sight
and whistling for Stagetown before they
could act upon the impulse, they re-
mained in the carriage, and dscouso-
lately turned the horses head home
ward
1t all comes of having to wait for a
woman to get ready" Mr.. Man broke
the silence with, very grimly.
] was ready before you we're" re.
piled his wife.
Great Heavens cried Mr.. Man,
in irrepressible impatience, jerking the
horse's jaws out of place, "just listen to
that And set out in the buggy ten
minutes, yelling at you to come along
until the whole neighborhood heard
me
"Yes," acquiesced Mrs. Man, with the
provoking placidity which no one can
assume but woman, and every time
| started down stairs you sent me back
for something you had forgotten"
Mr.. Man groaned. "This is too much
to bear, when everybody knows that if
| was going to Europe, would just rush
into the house, put on clean shirt, grab
up my grip sack, and fly, while you
would want at least six months for pre-
parations, and then dawdle around the
whole day of starting until every train
had left town"
Well, 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 him 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 round in due time. The
train was to go at 1890 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 fair field and no favors, yor
know"
, And away they flew. Mr. Man bulgeC
into this room, and rushed through tba
. one, and dived into one closet after
, another with inconceivabe rapidity
chu uckling under his breath all the time
to think how cheap Mrs. Man would fee
a when he started off alone. He stopped
d on his way up stairs to pull off his heavy
boots to save time For the same rea
! son he pulled off his coat as he raj
through the dining room and hung it OF
a corner of the silver closet. Then h
pulled off his vest as he rushed through
, the hall and tossed it on hook in tn
J hat-rack, and by the time he reache,
; his own room he was ready to plunge in
: to his clean clothes. He pulled out
/ bureau drawer and began to paw afte
things like Scotch terrier after rat
j " Eleanor be shrieked, where ar
IS my shirts
e In your bureau drawer" calmly re
T. piled Mrs. Man, who was standing pla
9 cidly before glass, calmly and deliber
ately coaxing refractory crimp int
place.
q +" Well, by thunder, they amt!
+ shouted Mr.. Man, little annoyed. "Pv
emptied everything out of the drawe
and there isn't thing in it ever sa,
+ before"
: Mrs. Man stepped back few PAGES
held her head on one side, and after sat
{ isfying herself that the crimp would do
$ and would stay where she put it, re
0 piled
; " These things scattered around th
: floor are all mine. Probably you haven
! been looking In your own drawer"
" | don't see" testify observed MI
< Man, why you couldn't have put M
: things out for me when you had nothin
: else to do all the morning"
: Because" said Mrs. Man, settling
+ herself into an additional article of raj
: ment with awful deliberation, nobod
puts mine out for me. A fair field an
no favors, my dear"
Mr. Man plunged into his shirt like ,
: bull at a red flag.
Foul r he shouted in malicious tri
u umph. " No button on the neck %
J e" Because" said Mrs. Man, sweetIy
7 after deliberate stare at the fidgettine
impatient man, during which she but
toned her dress and put eleven pin
where they would do the most good
Y " because you have got the shirt ol
D wrong side out"