The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1877-03-15

To- LAIR FoR THE rR1fN-W WAITING rpf
ruK wuEAN 20 cKT REApr


When they reached lhe depot, Mr..
Man and hh wife gaxsa with unsPeak-
sbls disappointment 81 The reccdiug train
which was jua pulliag away from shc
bridge swiieh At the rate Of . thousand
miles minute. Their hrsi Impulse was
10 rsn amer Il, bat as the train was ont oi
eight ard whisiling for sAgetown before
they could act upon the impulse, they
remained 10 the carriage and discon'
aolsltly turned the horses tesds home
ward
y sll comes Of having g. wait for a
wamsB 10 get ready. Miriam broke
The Silence very grImly.
I sLNss ready before You were, replied
bis wife.
Z Great heavensl cried Mr.. Man, in ire
pressible impatience, jerking4lhe horses'
Jaws out Of place, last listen 10 that
And sat In ths buggy ten minutes,
yelling At you TO come alone, ustil the
whole neighbos6ood heard me!
Yes, scquiesced Mrs. Man, with the
provoking placidity which no one can
assume b,lt a woman, and every time
started down stairs yoa sent me back for
something goa had forgotten.
Mr.. Man groaDed Tbia 10 too much
to tear. when everybody knows that il
was going 10 Europe, woald just rush
into The house, put On a clean shirt, grab
up my grfp~sack, and fly, while you
would wait at least six mouths for pre-
liminsry preparations, and then dawdle
srosud the whole day Of starting nnti
every TRAIN had left the town.
/ Well, the npshot OF the matter was,
that the Mans put of their visit TO Au.
rora until The next week, and il was
sgreed thst each one should get him OF
herself ready aud go down to the train
aud 20, and The one who failed TO get
ready should be lett, The train was to
tso at 1880 aud Mr. Man, after attending
TO his usual business, went home al
l9:45.
Now then, he shouted, only three
CHARTERS Of An hour to trsin tlme.J Fly
around; fair field and no favors, you
know. ~
aud sway they few; Mr. Man bungled
Iinlo Bis room aud rushed through that
one and divcd into one closet after an
other with incouceivabe rapidity, chuck
liug under his breath all the time to
think how cheap Mrs. Man would fee
when he started of alone. He stopped
on his way up stairs to pull off his heavy
boots TO save time. For the same reason
he pulled OF his coat as he ran through
The dining-room and hung 1t on corner
of the silver chest. Then he pulled of
his vest as he rushed through the hall
and tossed it.on hook in the hat rack
aud by The time he reached bis own room
be was ready TO plunge into bis clean
clothes. He pulled out a bureau drawer
aud began to paw at the things like 0
Scotch terrier after rat.
Eleanor! he shrieked, where are my
shirts?
In your bureau drawer, calmnly re-
piled Mrs. Man, who was standing
plscidly before glass, calmly and delib-
erately coaxing refractory crimp into
lplace,
Well, by thunder, they amt shouted
Mr.. Man, a'littlo annoyed. I've emptied
everything out Of the drawer, and there
isn't anything in It ever saw there be.
t fore.
Mrs. Man stepped back few PAGES,
/ laid her head on one side, and satisfying
I herself that the crimp would. do and
would Stay where she had put it, re-
Piled;
These things scattered around on the
! floor are all niue. Probably you baVen'i
! been booking in Your own drawer.
/ don't see, testify observed Mr.. Man,
why you couldn't have putmy things out
! for me when YOU had nothing else TO do
all the morning.
/ Decahse, said Mrs. Man, settling her.
selfiinto sn additional article Of raiment
with awful deiiberation, nobody puts
Fmine out Tor me. a fair field aud no
fayors niyslesr
Mr.. Man plunged into his shii, like a
bull at a red hsg.
FOUL he shouted 10 malicious triumph
No buttoH on the neck!
Because, said Mrs. Man, sweetly, after
a deliberate stare at the fdgetiug, i'm
patient man, during which she buItoned
her dress and put eleven pins where
they would do the most good, because
/ you have got the shirt on wrong side
ont.
when Mr.. Man Slid ont of the shirt be
began 10 sweat. He dropped the shirt
three times before be got 1t on, and
while il was ever bic head he heard tbe
clock strike 10. When his~ head came
through be saw Mrs. Man cosXing the
END aud bows Of ber neckiie.
! whete't my shirt studs. he cried.
! Mrs. Man weht out into smother roou
ahd presently came back with her gloves
aH,i hat, and saw Mr.. Man emp,ipg ai
tie boxes be could fad N slid sbont The
bnieHu Then sBe said:
Ia the shirt You just took of