News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-05-07
A YOUNG HOUsEKEEPER's DIARY.
Moving into the New House and the Sensa-
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We have moved into our country
house. I sent the coal down by the
railroad three days before we went
ourselves, and gave orders to have it
put in the cellar. Then, I had all the
furniture taken down in carts, so that
it would not be injured by the railroad
men, who do bang things about SO
dreadfully, and John and l took the
noon train, and reached the house just
about the time the furniture arrived.
was disappointed when I saw our
yard. There was a perfect mountain of
coal piled up in it, and was so indig-
nant at the men for not putting it in
the cellar. But when John went down
to make furnace fire, which, of course,
was the first thing to do, as the house
was as cold as barn, he found the
cellar nearly full of coal. The cellar
isn't very large, and after the men had
put all the coal in it that it would hold,
they had to leave the rest of it in the
yard.
1 found that had made a mistake in
buying steamboat furnace coal. 1t is
so big it won't go into the furnace at
all. Unfortunately all the range coal
was left in our yard, so that John has
to carry it down cellar in a coal-scuttle
every time he wants to feed the furnace.
| was ready to cry about it, but John
says he can sell the furnace coal to the
railroad people. do hope we can, but
it will be very expensive to get it all
taken out of the cellar and carted away.
AS soon as the fire was started, we
began to move the furniture into the
house. AS / feared, the piano did look
a great deal too big for the parlor. 1t
and the sofa filed the room up so that
We really could not get everything else
in it. Luckily the front hall is quite
wide, so we put the piano there instead
of in the parlor. 1t will be little
awkward, when we have company, to
ask lady to go out in the hall and play,
but, of course, we will leave the parlor
door open all the time, and people who
want to hear the music can go out and
sit on the stairs, while those who
don't care for it can stay in the parlor
and talk without seeming to be rude
When l spoke of this to John, he said
it was a capital idea, and the only i'm
provement he could think of would be
to put the piano in the next house.
This was perfectly absurd, for the next
house belongs to some one else, and we
couldn't put the piano there if we
wanted to.
Mothers sideboard that she so
kindly gave us made a good deal of
trouble, though dear mother could not
be blamed for it. Two men tried to get
it into the dining-room, which is at the
and Of tho ho1l ruharo l,a hol
makes a sharp turn. The sideboard
stuck between the wall and the dining
room door, and the men could not stir
it, though one of them got his finger
jammed so that he thinks it will have
to be cut Off. There the sideboard
stands at this moment, and the only
way we can get in or out Of the dining
room is by climbing over it. We shall
get some more men to try to move it,
and if they don't succeed, John says
he shall move it with an ak.
I did mean to have the furniture
moved into the house in an orderly way.
That is, l meant first to put down the
carpet in each room, and then move in
the furniture that belonged to that room.
The men, however, would not wait, but
unloaded their carts as fast as they
could. Then all at once it began to
rain, and everything had to be brought
in as fast as possible. The men piled
ali the furniture into the parlor and the
hall that they could possibly put there,
and then put the rest in the kitchen and
the two upper back rooms. I did man
age to cook some breakfast in the kitch-
en- this morning, but it was SO crowded
with books and pillows and all sorts of
things that it was a wonder could get
to the range.
We managed to put up bed in the
second story, and John and I staid in the
house that night, though we had no
servant. In the middle of the night I
heard men whispering outside, and /
looked out of the window just in time to
see two men climb into the parIor win
dow. I woke John and told him there
were robbers in the house, but he would
have found it out by himself, for Just
then the robbers began to fall over the
furniture.
They made dreadful noise, for every
minute or two they would fall over some
fresh article. John didn't want to get
would Lever get themselves loose from
the furniture, and would break all their
legs if they were let alone. However,
he did get up, and went to the head of
the stairs and called out, "Who's there
answer, or I'll shoot"
'Don't you trouble yourself to shoot"
one of the burglars. "We'H
get out of this hyer place just as soon as
We can. Any man that leaves furniture
round like this ought to be prosecuted.
Oh, we're goin'. We wouldn't stay in
this house if it was full of money"
They fell over some more furniture,
and used dreadful language, and finally
got out of the window again and went
off. was so frightened that l couldn't
sleep, but John laughed himself nearly
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