Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-04-28
TOO LATE FOR THE TRAIN.

TOO LATE FOR THE TRAIN.
When they reached the depot. MI
Mann aud his wife gaZed in unspeakabl
disappointment at the receding train
which was just pulling away from tn
bridge switch at the rate of a thOusan'
miles minute. Their first impulse wa
TO run after it. but as the train was on
of sight and whistling for Saketown be
fore they could act upon the impulse
they remained i'm the carriage and dis
consolately turned their horses head
hOmeward.
at all comes of having to wait for
woman 10 get readv," Mr.. Mann brOk,
the silence, very gflmiy.
II was ready before you was," replied
his wife.
"Great Heavens! - cried Mr.. Mann
with great impatience, jerking the
horses Jaws out of place, 'just listen to
that! And sat i'm the buggy ten min
utes yelling at on to come along until
the whole neighbOrhood heard me-"
"Yes." acquiesced Mrs. Mann with the
provoking placidity which no one can
assume bat a woman, land every time |
started down stairs you sent me back for
something you had forgotten"
Mr.. Mann groaned. ''This is too much
to bear,' he said, "when everybody
knows that if was going to Europe
would just rush into the house. put on a
clean shirt, grab up my grip sack, and fly,
while you would want at least six months
for preliminary preparations, and then
dawdle around the whole day starting
until every train had left town.
Well, the upshOt OF the matter was
that the Manns put Oft their visit TO Au
rOra until the next week. anu 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 10
get really should get lett. The day of
the match came around in due time. The
train was going at 1880, and MIR. Mann,
after attending to his business. went
home ut 9:45.
Now, then" he shouted. ''three quar-
tiers of an hours time. Fly around; a
fair field and no favors, you know"
Aud away they few. Mr.. Mann bulged
into this room and flew through that
one, and dived into one closet after an
other with uncomfortable rapidity.
chuckling under his breath all the time
to think how cheap Mrs. Mann would
feel when he started OFT alone. lie
stopped OH his way up stairs to pull on
his heavy boots to save tune. For the
same reason he pulled off his coat us he
ran through the dining room anu hung
Il on a corner OF silver close; then he
ierked off his vest as he rushed through
the hall and tossed it on hook In the
hat rack. and by the time he had reached
his own room he was ready to plunge
into his clean clothes. Pulled out Du-
reau drawer and began TO paw at the
things like a Scotch terrier after rat.
"Eleanor," he shrieked, ''where are my
shirts? ?"
ain YOUR bureau drawer" calmly re-
piled Mrs. Mann. who was standing De-
fore a glass calmly and deliberately coax
Ing refractory crimp into place.
'Well. by thunder, they amt shout
ell Mr.. Mann, little annoyed. i've
emptied everything out of the drawer,
and there amt thing in it ever saw
BEFORE"
Mrs. Mann stepped back a few PAGES.
held her hand OIL one side, and satisfying
herself that the crimp would do, ana
and would stay where she had put IL,
replied:
"These things scattered around on the |
floor are all mine. Probably you haven't
been looking i'm your own drawer"
II don't see," testify observed Mr.. |
Mann "why you couldn't have put my |
things out for me when you had nothing
else to do all The morning"
Because" said Mrs. Mann, settling
herself into an additional article OF raj
ment with awful elaboration, nobody
put mine out for me. A fair field and no
favOrs nv daaro
Mr. Mann plunged into his shirt like
! bull at red flag.
Soul" he shouted i'm malicious tri-
,mph. mo buttons on the neck"
because" said Mrs. Mann, sweetly.
Lfter a deliberate stare at the fidgeting,
inpatient man, during which she but
on ed her dress and put eleven pins where
hey would do the most good, because
1ou have got the shirt on wrong side
,ut."
When Mr.. Mann slid out of the shirt
le began to sweat. He dropped the
hirt three times before he got it on, and
While it was over his head the clock
truck ten, When his head went
through he saw Mrs. Mann coaxing the
,Eds and bows of her necktie.
"Where's my shirt studs?" he cried.
Mrs. Mann went out into another
'oom and presently came back with her
gloves and hat, and saw Mr.. Mann
,mptying all the boxes he could find In
and about the bureau Then said:
sin the shirt you just pulled off.
Mrs. Mann pulled on her gloves while
Mr.. Mann hunted up and down the
room tor his cuff buttons.
Eleanor he snarled, II believe you
know where those cuff buttons are"
4 havnt seen them" said the lady set
ling her hat; didn't you lay them
Town on the window sill in the sitting
Dom last night p
Mr.. Mann remembered, and he went /
lown stairs on the run. He sIe,pes, on
me of his boots and was immediately {
andet in the hall at the foot of the
tairs with neatness aud dispatch, attend /,
"a in the transmission with more bumps
han he could count with Webb's adder ,
md landed with bang like the He'll t
tate explosion.
Are you nearly ready, Algernon 90 G
lsked the wife of his family, sweetIy, T
Gaming over the banisters.
The unhappy man groaned. "Can't G
'ou throw nae down the other boot ?" be
sked. II