The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1882-08-03

string At the top oi the stairs, lie told US
that Il We heard the coal seuiile SO on IN
the night, Sue ard mother and were 10
opeu The windows and scream. while be
60, mp and shot the robher,
The frat night, after father bad Fixed
everything nicely for the robbers. he went
10 he'd. and then mother told him that she
had forgotten TO lock the back door. SO
father be said. "Why cant women some
times remember something, and he got up
and started TO 20 down stairs in the dark
He forgot all about the string and fell over
il with an awful crash, and then began 70
fall down stairs When he got hall way
down he met the coal seutlle and that went
down the rest OF the way with him, and
Won never in your life heard anything like
the noise the two of them made, We op'
ened our windows and cried murder aud
6re and thieves, and some men that were
going by rushed in and would have taken
him of to Jail, he was that dreadfully
black, il / hadn't told them who he was
But this was not the awful time that
mentioned when began to write, and II
don't begin to tell you about il shan
have any room left on my paper Mother
gave dinner party last Thursday. There
we're ten ladies and twelve gentlemen, and
one OF them was that dreadful Mr., Mardin
with cork leg, aud other improvements,
as Mr.. Trayers calls them. Mother told
me not to let her see me IN the dining
room or she'd let me know; ! meant to
mind. only forgot, and went into the
dining room just to look at the table, a
few minutes before dinner.
| was looking at the raw oysters, when
Jane-thats the girl that waits on the
table-said, "Run, Master Jimmy; here's
YOU. mother coming Now hadn't time
enough to run, so just dived under the
table, and thought I'd stay there for q
minute or two, until mother went out OF
the room again.
Ii wasn't only mother that came IN, bu'
the whole company, and they sat down TO
dinner without giving me any chance to get
out. / tell you, it was dreadful situation
had only room enough TO SIT still, and
nearly every time | moved hit some
bodys foot. Once | tried to turn around,
and while was doing 1T hit my head
against the table so hard that thought
had upset something, and sure that people
would know was there, But fortunately
everybody thought that somebody else
had ioggled, so l escaped that time.
II was awfnl tiresome waiting for those
people to get through dinner. 1t seemed
as if they could never eat enough, and
and when they were not eating they were
all talking at once. 1t taught me lesson
against gluttony, and nobody viii evel
find me sitting for hours at the dinner
table. Finally made up my mind that
must have some musement, aud rs Mr.
Martins cork leg was close by me-
Thought would have some fun with mat
rhere was big darning needle IN my
pocket, that / kept there in case should
want to use it for ANYTHING. | happened
IN think that Mr.. Martin couldn't feel any
thing that was done TO his cork leg ah'
that 1t would be great fan to drive TN
darninp needle into it, SO that people wh'
didn't know that his leg was cork woul'
see il. and think he was suffering dread
fully, only he didn't know it. 80 go
out the needle, and jammed it into bis LEI
with both hands so that it would go II
good and deep.
Mr.. Martin gave yell that made m,
hair run cold, and sprang mp, and near.
upset the table, and fell over his chai
backward, and wasn't there circus !
that dining g-room | had made nistak
about the leg, and had run the needle mt
his real one.
| was dragged from under the table
and But | needn't say what happened
me after. 1t was the "old, old story, q
Sue says when she sings foolish son
about up at five o'clock i'll the morning
, as if she'd ever been awake at that time l
her whole life Jimmy Bropa, a. Hnp@'
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