The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-03-03

want to keep tho bus all day.
OF course / don't, and feel very
much provoked as produce my porte
monnaie, drop my umbrella in the mud
dy street where we are standing, tumble
out shilling piece, and wait for change,
with all the passengers cramming for
ward to look, and the driver shouting
to his mate to-
"Look alive, there!"
| get my change--I have already re-
covered my umbrela-nnd bound to
the pavement shore, out of the muddy
river, after narrowly escaping run
down from Hanson, when, to my an
noyance, [ am minus glove, and--ycs,
there it lies, in the middle of the road,
ground into the mud by tho Hanson
wheel.
OF course have to go on, buy new
pair, aud as l pay for them, having
grown cool in the shop, l mentally say,
81 wonder what became of that four
penny piece" and my hand involunta-
rily goes TO the pocket of my vest, and
Yes, there ii isl can feel il plainly
enough through the cloth.
merely say, where wa, that little
coin before?
| mentioned my loss, and that natu-
rally brings me back to gloyes--a coy
ering for the hand in which have been
nearly ruined.
With my customary practice Of neat
ness, double my gloves together, cs-
peclally the white and lavender kids,
which, between ourselves, always
make to 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 rs | am going into theatre
or sat homc;' and this is always the
case: put on one, get it buttoned, and
am about TO put on its fellow when |
find that if it is white kid glove on
my hand, hold lavender kid in nv
hand, or Uice rersa. They are sure to
be odd ones, and l am certain that I put
them away in pairs.
| Why don't look before start. YOU
will say.
Because don't think to look, and one
does not feel it necessary after regular
precautions. And again | saw, How is
this?
If 1t 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 fit of passion, dash down the mas
ty, ethery, pepperminty pain-easier,
scent that, find am doing it with the
tlncturc of myrrh, or the gummy stuff
the fellow bored me into buying when
last my hair was cut.
Only n week ago had my breakfast
| lnI j., H.
1t was as follows. and there was an in
closure:
No. Il, JERMiN STREET, Friday.
| SIE,-l am at loss 10 understand the meaning
of this note, and should be glad if You would ex
plain, for am man who makes II his rule neither
of the latter kind in sending IT, believe me that h
frank reques, would have been better. | am your
oiedient servant. J. WELLsEY prRSOw.
To T. Woolly, Fsq
was amazed, and sat with the note
in my hand, unable to comprehend it
/ had asked Purnow to come and dine
with me at the Curacao Club, and
wouldn't have asked him for any money
for the world. Besides. didn't want
any--just then.
At last, by way OF solving the mys
terry, took up the inclosurc, to read. il
my own hand:
No. II, BiE STREET Monday.
there's good fellow You promiscd % ,Iii i pi pSefrr
Christmas and it'- now May. Thine,
l. ""oLLEf'
les, wrote that, put II was TO Jacl
shorter VINO owes me no end of Dor
rowea money, wh'ch get Dack little
AT TIME. But now did furnow got 1t
Stop-noIyeS-no-to be sure did:
wrote to Do,h al the same time, and th'
notes mnst nave Dceh put-..yes, dclib
{ erateiy say III Whisper, mind-yeS. ptl
into the wrong envelopes.
| was aghast Tor time--it seemed st
hor1Die put at last recovered mysel
sufficiently to take my hat and 60 TO tn
Telegraph once, 10 send message t.
| furnow, telling nm II was mistake
| and that he must come directly, for
had ordered capital dinner at the club
got that message very clcvcrly with
, in twenty words, got out a shilling
and was Just going to hand both to tn
pleasant-looking young telegraph clerk
; ess, when horrible thought ran through
me like chill, and L stood as if trans
liked, Jack Shorter had got Purnow'
note, and he would come to dinner
Worse still, TO me, as we sat togethc
| with coffee and cigars, he would borrow
. another ten--pound note Of me, or per
/ haps be kind enough 10 take it in tw
: flves;
/. What was ! 10 do! ] dare not brin
- those two men together. Did not wan
, Jack. Oh! 1t was dreadful. But tn
: dinner was ordered, and might just a
r we'll be eaten; so Invent away-makin
the pleasing-looklng young telegrap
I clerkess look upon me as very strang
i in my ways-and wrote an explanator
0 note to Purnow, appointing anothe
: come, ahu l ieel sure he pelcNc" III
g hote was 'ry-oh Ior money
u but JACK ohorter came amt ate m
dinner; ana as said, ne borrowed tw
:. iives over our coltee' which sum he WI
/ meyer pay.
c h,s an awful position Tor man to b
). IN, ana sulIer irom IL nj every turn.