Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-07-26

OfUGr 10 Il3ke TOOTH LOT Inc trunk.
The great black walnut bedstead had
to be replaced with q small iron cot
the magnificent dressing-case, nth
it's full length mirror, had to be BAN
ishcd all the chairs were put away,
and, as | said before, the tripod wash
stand and the hospital cot and the
mammoth trunk had the room to
themselves.
81 heard you speak of pctticoats
being OH the backs Of the chairs, Miss
Andersnn," said |. "Whcre are tho
chairsY"
"What q matter of fact man you
are, Mr.. Faxon. | should have said
strewn over the floor. But pray ex-
anime. the trunk. Take this tape
measure and investigate"
So | took it, and after going over
the great thing three times, to insure
accuracy, put down the figures for
the information of the readers of the
Commercial. The length was eight
feet, lacking three inches. The great
Irish giant could comfortably lie in
the bottom of it without crOoking
his knees. The breadth of it was
four feet and two inches. "It is too
broad" said Miss Anderson, 'for
any ordinary door. 1t never occur
red to me until after it came home,
and found that we had to open both
sides of the big front door to get it
into the house. Then it occurred to
me that possibly | shouldn't be able
to get it into the hotel | had engaged
rooms in at the White mountains.
So | wrote the landlord about it, and
got his reply by return mail. Here
is what he sent me-: Il am very sor-
ry, marin, but we haven't got no room
i'll II house for no such trunk as
yours is. You'll have to inkwhire
somewhear els y SO | entered into
correspondence with hotel men all
yer the country, and found only one
room lerc at the Ocean house which
could accommodate my trunk. 1t
chancet TO have double doors. It's
a dreattully small room, you see, but
none d the large rooms had big
enough doors, and | didn't feel like
going tothe expense of having a door
cut expressly for it, though one of
the Sara;oga landlords proposed to
do it for ne at first cost" f..
The height of the great trunk
found to le five feet and three inches,
just one inch and a half greater than
the height Of its charming little owner.
L stood her up against one end of it,
and she lacked just that much of COM
ing to the top. Perhaps if she had
had on a pair of high French heels
and had worn her hair and some
o%thergirPs plumb on top of her head
IL II great pyramid, she might have
towGed a little above her trunk.
Thee were three straps that girdled
the runk to keep it steady. These
stra,s were each eighteen feet i'm
lengh. Another strap meant to 90
abolt the trunk lengthwise measur-
ed tyenty-eight feet. The inside O
the trunk | did not care to examine
i'll tie presence of an unchaperOned
young woman.
well, what do you think of it,
Mr. FaXon ?"
'Think of it? Why, it is big
emugh to live in !" Il
THAT'S what papa says. You
ktow l was engaged last month to q |
y'ung man who is going to be a mis- 4
sonary down i'll Mexico, and papa
Eed to tell me that when we got
own to Mexico we could keep house
IL that trunk and bring up a family |
# a dozen or two children in it. But
.'ou ought TO have heard the Wick.
ford baggage men storm over it. l
here by the Wexford route be-
you know it is so much more
pleasant than any other, and is pail
'onlZed by such q good class of peo-
pie. Well, papa said he thought it
was no more than right to warn the
company that l should go on a GER
ain day, in order that they might
all the baggage smashers
along the road at Wexford junction.
we live near there. So when | drove
to the station | found a whole
great big fellows in waiting
or the trunk. 1t was on Il big WAggHIi
9st behind the carriage. faiuted dead
" way u SIX and q HAT HIS Ria:ria The whole work
o be done by the remaining six, aud
'ou may believe they wore over IT,
When | arrived at Newport and had
nee got the trunk into my room ! at
nee sent tor 4 painter and had him
paint in big white letters on the top
# my trunk what You see there now.
Readers of the commercial, the lc-
,end was this
BAGGAGE-SMAsHERs-N yon can't
lift me call for more help. Swearing
make me bulge an inch. Re
member the commandments. "ThOu
shalt not take the name of the Lord
Inv God in vain.