The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-01-11
hOrtibIa Entry

IT happrucot ont un south Hill, niue Auti. ana
mics from Maple street. The man said if We
located ii anywhere near Maple street he'd cul
our lungs out, and although We dearly love the
lruttl, we love cur HE more and have there
fore violated the truth At least seycnty-iivc
times in locating this item, in order to save our
life. which is dear 10 Il community that we
love to serve. Well. the mans wife had taken
up the carpet in the bath room the day before,
and put all the crooked tackS in Il saucer, and
put it on chair. 1t is Il marvellous thing why
women Will always save lacks that come out
OF the carpet, although it is matter of record
that ont of the countless millions of tacks thus
laid by, not one was ever used again save in
the soles OF the bare masculine feet. They. the
tacks, not the feet, are slowed away in >:.accrs
up on high shelves. in dark closets and in all
sorts OF out-o1-the-Way places. And on these
dusty perches they remain until the corrodng
hand Of time. and dust and spider webs and
dead lilies. and flakes Of whitewaSh and old bits
of rosin, and chunks Of sealng-waX, and Old
steel pens, and similar accumulati0nS. have
fIled The saucer TO Overlooking, when it is
taken down and thrown away by the woman.
who petulenty wonders who under the sun
put all that trash in the saucer and stuck it up
there. And nine times out of ten she charges
the crime on her husband. The tenth time She
declares it was the hired girl. And always
before the saucer Of crooked tacks is slowed
away on the shelf, it is stuck around for three
or four DAYS Oh chairs and in corners of the
pet Of every bedroom in the house which till
the masculine soIeS with agony, and darkens
the air of the bedroom with inartstic but iorci-
bic profanity. Nothing is 50 painful as crook
ed tack i'll the middle Of ones foot i broken
heart doesn't hold half so much anguish and a
boil is a blessing in comparison.
RMS man who lives so far from Maple street
had splendid BATH and when he had rubbc,
his skin into a glow with crash towel, as
rough rs Il pigs back, he gathered his socks
and backing up to the only chair in thu room
sat down to put them on.
Every tack in that saucer saw him coming
down.
Every last tack smiled in anticipation OF the
denOument, and stood on its head and reached
for him.
Every last solitary individual and collective
tack fetched him, got him and held to him.
He dropped his socks and rose from that chair
with abruptness, knocking his head against the
ceiling. He came down and waited wildly
round ana round TIE room, shrekng and yell
ing, gNratlng mauly with his arms. While his
eyes stuck out so far they hung down. lie
hoWled until the neighborS besic9eG the house
yet he wouldn't let any of them in. AT last his
NeliS died away, but they coud hear his breath
mss between his set teeth, while at short inter-
Va's would come Il yell, supplemented with the
remark. ''Ihcfc>S another out. In about
three-quarters OF an hour the yclls ceased en-
tlrely, the window was opened and a shower
OF tackS fell over the assembled and wondering
multitude, while large saucer SKINNED across
the street and smashed against the side of
house opposite.
Nobody know what all the man, for he VIII
not tell any one Il thing about it, But he take
his meals of the mante-piecc, all the same, and
when he sits he sits down on his hip, for All til"
world as though he wore il cited back Bat
he doesn't. It's tackled bach that ail~ hiu.