Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-12
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Six Trunks and Thirteen Bags and Bundles
in q Party.

Six Trunks and Thirteen Bags and Bundles
in q Party. 4,
Six persons were in the party-the
Bishop, the Bishops wife, his son and
daughter, and two young ladies, re-
latives of the Bishop. They were
getting home from the sea shore, and
on their way Westward they stopped at
the Grand Central station. The Bishop
was a tall man with a long struggling
beard and a worried look, and his
wife, a tall woman, looked worried
also. The baggage consisted of six
trunks and thirteen bags and bundles.
The trunks were checked, but the
efforts of the Bishop and his family to
keep track of the bags and bundles
were slowly killing them. A Tribune
reporter wandering through the station
observed the situation.
George" said the Bishops wife,
after a silence in which evidently o
mental roll-call of bundles was being
made, "where is the camera?" George
accounted satisfactorily for it.
II do not see the small blue satchel
nor the brown bundle in a shawl-strap.
We left them," she added in tones of
conviction; 81 knew we did" The
missing articles were brought to light
after a thorough search occupying
minutes of terrible agony.
"All we now need" said George,
pleasantly, as he clasped the camera,
and balanced the recovered shawl-strap
and small blue satchel on %unoccupied
portions of his lap, els a couple more
parcels. Next season we can take a
bunch of lightning rods and u fire ex-'
tinguisher. I should enjoy carrying
them" A timely distribution Of
cookies silenced discomfort, and the
Bishop appeared looking even more
worried than before.
MARY" he said, addressing one of
the girls, ''do you know your trunkp
l cannot find it," 1t was finally agreed
that Mary's trunk had a strawberry
mark on one end in the form of the
initial IN. c. Co." and the Bishop
again hurried away. He returned in a
few minutes and said in Mortified tones:
81 can not find any of the trunks; they
have been delayed, / think. We must
all stay over night in New York, as
there is no time to wait longer here;
we have but two hours and a half left to
reach the other depot" Here a SYM
pathetic expressman stepped up and
offered to take the checks and express
the six laggard trunks. The Bishop
heaved a sigh of relief and produced
the checks.
"Thirteen dollals," said the express
man. The Bishop paid the money and
then he grasped two satchels and four
umbrellas that had been stacked by the
family encampment, and the Bishops
wife took a shawl and her satchel and
a basket of fruit, and the girls had
satchels, and George brought up the
rear with the camera and the small
blue satchel, and the brown parcel in a
shawl-strap. Thus arrayed they filed
out, a look of settled melancholy on the
Bishops clerical visage, and vanished
into an elevated station. But the re-
porter, wondering if those trunks didn't
come, wandered into the baggage-room.
Six trunks, all sizes, stood together in
n corner, and n bore the initials
I'M. C. c."
"Know whose trunks those are?" he
said to the baggage-man.
"They belong to an old party in here
a few minutes ago. He didn't give us
time to get them in from the train. So
ratified he couldn't read straight.
Guess he'll be in again; he's got
slathers of timc."-M. y. Tribune.