The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1877-03-07
TOO LATE FOR THE TRAIN.

When they reached the depot, Mr..
Mann and bis wife gazed in unspeaka
ble disappointment at the receding
train, which was just pulling away
from the brio ge switch at the rate of
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-
NAMED in the carriage and disconso.
lately turned their horses heads home
ward.
at all comes of having to wait for
woman to get ready" Mr.. Mann
broke the silence, very grimly.
II was ready before you were" re-
piled his wife.
Great Heavens" cried Mr.. Mann,
with great impatience, jerking the
horses laws out of place, 'just listen to
that! And sat in the buggy ten
minutes yelling at you to come along
until the whole noighborhood heard
me-"
"Yes,'' acquiesced Mrs, Mann with
the provoking placidity which no one
can assume but a woman, "and every
time | started down stairs you sent
me back for something you had for
gotten" n,. = =
much to bear he said, "when every
body knows that if l 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 want at least six months Tor
preliminary preparations, and then
dawdle around the whole day of start.
irg until every train had left town."
Well, the upshot Of the matter was
that the Manns put off their visit to
Aurora until the next week, and 1t
was agreed that each one. should get
himself or herself ready and go down
to the train and 60, 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 lO;30
. and Mr.. Mann, after attending to his
business, went home at $40.
"Now, them" he shouted, "only
three quarters of an hours time. Ely
. around fair field and no favors
i you know"
e And away they few. Mr.. ManI
n bulged into this room and flew through
that one, and dived irto one close
: after another with inconceivable ra
u pidity, chuckling under his breath al
a the time to think how cheap Mrs
e Mann would feel when he started ol
alone. He stopped on his way up
" stairs to pull off his heavy boots t
ID save time. For the same reasons h
| pulled off his coat as he ran throug
e. The dining room and hung it on col
l. ner of the silver closet. Then n
OF ierked off his vest as ne rusne
ne through the hall and tossed 1t on
d hook in the hat rack, and by the tim
in he had reached his own room he Wa
n ready to plunge into his clean oiothe
at He pulled out bureau drawer ar
began TO paw at the things like
ne Scotch terrier after rat.
re, eleanor" he shrieked, "where al
my shirts?' :,
ain YOUR bureau drawer" ca mly r
X plied Mrs. Mann, who was stGndir
p efore a glass calmly and deliberate
coaxing a refractory crimp into plac
." "Well, by thunder, they amt
shouted Mr.. Mann, a little annoye
"I've emptied everything out OF t
liza drawer, and there isn't thing IN 1t
To ever saw before"
w Mrs. Mann stepped back f
. PAGES, held her head on one side, a
iiiy after satisfying herself that the crlT
lo' would do, and would stay where
lte had put it, replied;
"These things scattered around
ess the floor are all mine. Probably y
haven't been looking into your o
drawer.
l II don't see," testify observed ]
ing Mann, "why you couldn't have
nv things out for me when you !
hat 3thing else to do all the morning.
had because" said Mrs. Mann,
to fling herself into an additional art
axe of raiment with awful deliberail
to "nobody put mine out for me. A
lree field and no favors, my dear"
pPy Mr.. Mann plunged into his 81
like bull at a red flag.
arm. "Foulr' he shouted in maliel
'ard triumph. "No buttons on the nee
that "Because," said Mrs. Mann, sw
is, after deliberate stare at the nd
.1 inc, impatient man, during wi
only she buttened her dress anl put ele
g Is pins where they would do the l
All All good, "because you have got the
W.. W. on wrong side out" =
wing When Mr.. Mann slid out OF
h Ol LII L. hnnnn 10 aMeat lie dr0I