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


bic disappointment at the receding
train, which was just pulling away
from the bridge switch at the rate of
thousand miles a 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, fhey re-
NAMED in the carriage and disconso-
lately turned their horses heads home
ward.
ut all comes of having to wait for
woman to get ready" Mr.. Mann
broke the silence, very grimly.
Il was ready before you were," re-
piled his wife.
Great Heavens" cried Mr.. Mann,
with great impatience, jerking the
horses jaws out of place, Gust listen to
thatl And l sat in the buggy ten
minutes yelling at You to come along
until the whole neighborhood heard
me"
EYES," acquiesced Mrs. Mann 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 for
gotten" :. ,e
Mr.. Manu- groaned. This is too
much to bear" he said, "when every
body knows that If | were going to
Europe l would just rush into the
house, put on clean shirt, grab up
my grip sack, and hy, while you
would want at least six months for
preliminary preparations, and then
dawdle around the whole day of start
ipg 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 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 to get ready should be left. The
day Of the match came around in due
time. The train was going at 1890,
and Mr.. Mann, after attending to his
business, went home at 9:45.
"Now, them" he shouted, "only
three quarters of an hours time. Fly
around fair field and no favors,
you know"
And away they flew. Mr.. Mann
bulged into this room and flew through
that one, and dived irto one closet
after another with inconceivable ra-
pidity, chuckling under his breath all
the time to think how cheap Mrs.
Mann would feel when he started off
alone. He stopped on his way up
stairs TO pull off his heavy boots to
save time. For the same reasons he
pulled off his coat as he ran through
the dining room and hung it on cor
ner of the silver closet. Then he
ierked off his vest as he rushed
through the hall and tossed it on a
hook in the hat rack, and by the time
he had reached his own room he was
ready to plunge into his clean clothes.
He pulled out bureau drawer aid
began TO paw at the things like a
Scotch terrier after rat.
Eleanor" he shrieked, "where are
my shirts"
ain your bureau drawer" ca mly re-
piled Mrs. Mann, who was standing
efore a glass calmly and deliberately
coaxing refractory crimp into place.
"Well, by thunder, they ain'tW
shouted Mr. Mann, little annoyed.
"Pve emptied everything out Of the
drawer, and there isn't thing in it |
ever saw before"
Mrs. Mann stepped back a few
PAGES, held her head on one side, and
after satisfying herself that the crimp
would do, and would stay where she
had put it, replied;
"These things scattered around on
the floor are all mine. Probably you
haven't been looking into 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
n 1thing else to do all the morning"
Because" said Mrs. Mann, set
Ting herself into an additional article
of raiment with awful deliberation
"nobody put mine out for me. A faiI
field and no favors, my dear"
Mr.. Mann plunged into his shirt
like bull at a red flag.
"FoulV he shouted in malicious
triumph. "No buttons on the neck T.
Because" said Mrs. Mann, sweet
| Is, after deliberate stare at the fidget
ing, impatient man, during which
she buttoned her dresSanl put clever
pins where they would do the mos
good, "because you have got the shir
on wrong side out"
When Mr.. Mann slid out of tn,
shirt he began to sweat. He dreppeC
the shirt three times before he got i
on, and while 1t was over his head h
heard the clock strike ten. WheI
his head came through he saw Mrs
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