The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-06-02

impatient man, during which she but.
toned her dress and put eleven pin!
where they would do the most good
" because you have got the shirt or
wrong side OUT
When Mr.. Man slid out of the shirt
he began to sweat. He dropped the
shirt three times before he got it on
J and while it was over his head he heard
the clock strike ten. When his head
came through he saw Mrs. Man coax.
ing the end and bows OF her necktie.
" Where's my shit studs ?" he
cred
Mrs. Man went out into another room
and presently came back with her
gloves and hat and saw Mr.. Man EN-.
plying all the boxes he could find in
and about the bureau. Then she said
" In the shirt you took off"
Mrs. Man put ON her gloves while
Mr.. Man haunted up and down the
room for his cuff. buttons.
" Eleanor" he snarled at last,
believe you must know where the but
tons are ?''
" l haven't seen them," said the
lady settling her hat " didn't you lay
them down on the window-sill in the
sitting room last night ?"
Mr. Man remembered, and went down
stairs on the run. He stepped on one
OF his boots and was Immediately land.
ed in the hall at the foot of the stairs
with neatness and dispatch.
/" Are you nearly ready; Algernon?'
asked the wife of the family, sweetly,
leaning over the banisters.
The unhappy man groaned. " Can't
you throw me down that other boot 2''
he asked.
Mrs. Man pityingly kicked it down
to him.
/" My valise ?" he inquired, as he
tugged away at his boot.
up in your dressing toom," she an
swered.
" Packed ?''
" don't know unless you packed
1t yourself, probably not - she replied,
with her hand on the door mob 81 had
hardly time to pack my own"
She was passing out the gate, when
the door opened aud he shouted
"Where in the name of goodness did
you put MY vest 1t has all the money
in it."
You threw it on the hat.rdck, 'she
called back goodbye, DEAR"
Before she got to the corner Of the
street she was hailed again.
" Eleanor Eleanor | Eleanor Man |
Did you ware off my coat 2"
She paused and turned, after signal
ing the street car to stop, and cried
" You threw 1t on the silver. closet"
And the street car engulted her grace.
full figure and she was seen no more.
But the neighbors say that they heard
Mr.. Man chasing up and dc wn the
house, rushing out at the front door
every now and then, and shrieking up
the deserted streets after the uncOn.
scious Mrs. Man, to know where his
hat was, and where she put the valise-
key, and II he had any clean socks and
undershirts, and that there wasn't a
linen collar in the house. And when
he went away at last, he left the kitchen
door, side door and front door, all the
downstair windows, and the front gate
wide open. And the loungers about
the depot yesterday were somewhat
amused just as the train was pulling
out of sight down in the yard, to see a
flushed perspiring man, with his hat on
sideways his vest buttoned two buttons
too high, his cuffs unbuttoned and neck
tie flying, and his grip,sack flying open
and shut like demented shutter on a
March night, and a door-key in his
hand, dash wildly across the track,
glarlng in detected, impotent, wrsthful
modification, at the departing trial and
shaking his trembling fist at pretty
woman who was throwing kisses at him
from the rear platform of the last car.