Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-07-19
Hunting for q Recent,

running Tor y receipt.
Now, my dear said Mr.. Spoop-
endyke," you needn't hurry, but
you'd better get ready pretty soon.
Train don't 60 for an hour and a half,
and we'll have plenty of time to get
there"
"rm all ready chirped Mrs.
Spoopendyke, bustling about. ats
hot and We want to take plenty of
time" Trunks all packed? Grip
sacks? Basket? Everything pack
ed?"
"Yes, indeed" Uttered Mrs. Spoop-
endyke gleefully, land 1 sent the
trunk yer by the expressman, so all
you've got to do is to check it at the
station"
''That's right" said Mr.. Spoopen-
dyke, kissing his wife. That's the
way to do things. Did you nail a
card On the trunk"
mo, p
"You didn't! How're we going to
find it? Expect that trunks going
to walk up and recognize us; think
that trunks going to getup and make
a speech and say it's Spoopendyke's
trunk"
1.-The expressman said it didn't
need any card. He gave me a receipt
for it, and said that would do" smil-
ed Mrs. Spoopendyke.
II don't know but it will. / reck-
on he's right about that. Where's
the receipt?' asked Mr.. Spoopen-
dyke, cheerily.
Lets see," rejoined Mrs. Spoop-
endyke, putting her finger to her lips,
II put it somewhere. Now, / WON
der
"Take your thumb out Of your
mouth. You didn't stick it down
your throat. did you! DONE you
know where you put it?"
Mrs. Spoopendyke searched hurri-
edly through her pocket-book, and
then looked in the bureau drawers.
Don't be impatient, DEAR" she
said, hunting behind the clock and
rummaging in the vases. II put it
somewhere, / know"
What sort Of a thing was it,-a
check? What did it look lke?' de-
manded Mr.. Spoopendyke.
sit wasn't a check. 1t was long
and wide," replied Mrs. Spoopendyke.
"So's a COW. Did he give you a
COW? Did it look like a COW? What
dye do with it? Got it tied up in
the yard:"
sit was a regular receipt on a piece
OF paper" sighed Mrs. Spoopendyke.
II had it when I commenced dressing.
Now, what did 1 do with it?"
"What dye think you did with it?
Hang it up on a nail? DID We cook
it? What We standing there for?
Why don't We look for it? S'pose
the gasted things coming to you?
Did it have legs? Was 1t on wheels? 90
Mrs. Spoopendyke hustled around
and searched again just where she
had searched before.
"What dye want to look there for?
Why don't you stop and try to think
what you did with it? Amt you got
any sense at all, scarcely?" howled
Spoopendyke. "S'pose the measly
thing crawled into the clock? Got
any idea that it climbed over the side
Of two vases and hid itself in both ?
Why don't you put things where you
a find them?"
81 generally do" sighed Mrs. S.
"Oh! yes, you do. You always
do, don't you? When business gets
dull I'm going to fill you up with lit
tie boxes and start a safe deposit
with you. Haven't you found it yet?
How'm l going to get at that trunk
without a receipt? S'pose that dod-
gasted railroads going to wait around
like a fly on a doughnut while 1 swear
to which is my trunk? Think that's
the only trunk they've got over there?
Here, you sit down here and let me
look for that thing. You won't find
it any more'na heather would find
consolation in the Thirty-nine Arti.
Giles. Sit down there while 1 take the
house to pieces, We hear mel"
Mr.. Spoopendyke jumped up and
tore around fike a green apple in a
Sunday-school boys stomach.
"Look here" said Mrs. Spoopen-
dyke, pointing to the chair her hus-
band had vacated. "There it Is now.
You've been sitting on it."
A PunctRal POstmistress.
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