Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-06-14
MOVING DAY.
by KATE THORN.


Everybody will tell you that he hates
to move. Indeed, it seems that there
could not befall man calamity
greater than the necessity of changing
his habitation.
And yet he is always doing it.
He commences house-hunting, by odd
jobs, as early as February. His wife,
who is even more averse to moving than
he is, gets her confidential friend to as
slst her, and every pleasant afternoon
they go out and look for houses. They
come home at night SO tired that they
can't sleep, but the next day they are
ready to start out afresh, and they will
walk miles to hunt up tenement that
they know they could never pay for, and
would not live in it if they could pay
for it; and they will question the agent
about the plumbing and the neighbor-
hood, and beat him down in his price,
just as pertinaciously as though they
expected to move into that house next
week.
People who are going to move always
expect to better their condition. They
look for larger closets, loftier ceilinged
rooms, more spacious chambers, better
facilities for everything, and lower rates.
Lower rates for something 10 per cent
more desirable.
For a week before the first day of
May, which is the time when most New
York people change their quarters,
truckmen and men who do jobbing are
in clover. They make their own prices,
and take their own time, and if they
work by the hour they generally take
time enough.
If you hire one of them by the job,
he will manage to break most Of your
looking-glasses, and good share of
your crockery; and when you expostu-
late, he will tell you that it isn't his
fault if you do not know how to pack
goods. And he will probably add that
he knows his business, and then he will
retire to the other side of his cart, and
with his comrade exchange few words
which you do not hear, aud it is lucky
for all parties that you do not.
When you go to set up your house
hold goods, you will find q great many
of them missing. The hammer and
screw-driver, which you thought you
put in safe place where you could put
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warning, are so safe that neither you
nor your wife, nor her aunt, nor he,
cousin, who have come to give their val.
liable advice on moving, can find them
You are all cross and tired, and hun
| gry-oh, so very, very hungry, and nc
prospect of anything hot till that stove
is fitted to it's new place, and the ole
| pipe spliced into the new, and fire
kindled, and nobody knows where The
matches or the kindlings were put, ane
it is half mile to the nearest store.
It generally rains when anyone il
moving, which adds to the prevailing
discomfort. The house is damp and tn,
smell of the SCOT is everywhere, and the
food odors which the outgoing famil,
have left behind them, hover in darl
and melancholy corners, like strong
smelling ghosts of dead and gone din
ners.
Your bed does not feel natural, tn
windows are all in the wrong place
there are strange noises everywhere
the blinds creak, the cat news disco1
solately in the cellar, the children,
your landlord has allowed you to pre-
serve any, cry for comfort; and in you
troubled dreams, even, you are painful
conscious that you have moved.-Ne.
York Weekly.