Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-05
Husban SpOopendyke.

ssNow, my dear" said MT. Spoopendyke, cheerfully, ''be lively. It's twenty minutes past 10, and we mustn't be late at church. Most ready?"
 "Yes, dear," beamed Mrs. Spoopendyke, tI'm all ready. Got everything?" q think so. Hymn book, umbrella, and where's the prayer book? I haven't got the prayer book"
 "Where did you leave it p asked Mrs. Spoopendyke, turning over the volumes on the table hurriedly.
 sIf knew where I left it, I'd strut right to that spot and get it, retorted Mir. Spoopen- dyke. q left it with you. Where did you put it :? Can't you remember what you do with things?''
 q haven't seen it since last Sunday" re- ] turned Mrs. Spoopendyke faintly. 'I know" she continued; perhaps it is at church. ''Perhaps it is, :" mimicked Mir. Spoopen- 1 dyke; ''perhaps it got up early, took bath and went ahead of us Did you ever see a | prayer book prowl of to church all alone? f Ever see prayerbook hist up its skirts and l cort? Spose prayer book knows the differ 1 ence between church and 6 ham sandwich? ! Where did you put it ?" Imean, you may have left it in the pew 1 rack. You know you did once," suggested | Mrs. Spoopendyke.
 q didn't do anything of the sort I brought \ it home and gave it to you. Where do you l keep it? What did you do with it? S'pose | Pm going to swash around through that ser ! vice without knowing they doing the | apostles creed or an act of Congress? Sprin g l around and find it, can't you? What are you 1 looking for there Don't you know the diff
 ference between prayer book and the Wan
 dering Jew Find it, can't your"
 ''Never mind it, dear" futtered Mrs. ] Spoopendyke q know all the responses, and I'll help you along"
 'tOh, yes, you know lem all What you don't know about religion wouldn't wad a l gun All you want is @ bell and board fence to be a theological seminary. Think you can l find that prayer book between now and the equinoctial ?' howled Mir. Spoopendyke.
 "Got any idea whether you sold the measly l thing for china vases or stirred 1t into the l wheat cakes? Have I been chawing divine grace all the morning? Where's that prayer | book? Going to get the prayer-book before 1 the Revelations come to pass ?" and MT. Spoopendyke plunged around the room, tumbling books about and breathing heavily.
 q don't see the use of making such fuss
 over thing you don't really need," sobbed
 Mrs. Spoopendyke through her indignant tears
 ''Oh, you don't ?" raved MT. Spoopendyke. 1 ''You don't see any use in putting thin $ | where they belong, do you? How dye l s'pose Pm going to keep up with religion 1 without prayer-book? How dye s'pose I'm going to know when it's my turn to show l what Christianity has done for unless you l can find that dod gasted book between ow and the resurrection ?'' and MT. Spoopendy ke spun around on his knee like a top, and knocked over Parian jar. ''Wait minute, my dear, y said Mrs. Spoop- i endyke, looking at him earnestly. Then she 1 went behind him and fished out the prayer | book.
 1 ''Got it, didn't you, " he growled. ''Had it 1 all the time, I s'pose Where was it, any 1 way?"
 Tn your coat tail pocket, my dear," and
 Mrs. Spoopendyke jabbed the powder puff in
 her eyes, and stalked down stairs, leaving her l liepa tn follow