Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1890-10-25

bo0k containing the subJOlnc(
story that | wrote for the Press
some years ago, and asked me tC
rcpublish it.
Hunting for the Keys.
Ny wife looked worried, and
whispered To me that supper was
ready: but she couldn't "ind the
pantry key that she knew the
company was hungry, for it was
late; that the sugar was in the
pantry, and she couldn't have sup
per without the sugar; and she
couldn't find that key; wouldn't
| please find it. Certainly, said
bless her heart. don't be troubled,
I'll find it: and started out quite
checriully. ! looked on the man
tie, and the table, and the side
board. 1t was very evident that
it WAS not in there, so ! said quite
gaylv. it must be in another room.
So | went in the spare room and
looked on the bed and the wash
stand, the bureau and the window
seal: went in the parlor looked on
the piano and the book. case; up
stairs and on all the nantes, and
beds and chairs. | came back
and asked # she ros sure she had
had it lately. She said she was
certain that she had it fifteen min
utes ago. So | loked under the
side board, aud under the rug,
and under the door mat and the
fender. ] went in the spar, room
and looked IN the CRATE, and in
the water pitcher, under the pill
lows and behind the clock. | ex-
cused myself for interrupting the
company, but | went in the par
lor and looked in the coal scuttle,
and in the piano, and in the gui-
tar case, and shook the guitar,
and looked behind the pictures,
and in the books, and in the flow
err WAGES, and shook all the shells.
| then ran up to our room and
looked in my boots, and in the
pocket of my Sunday coat, and
then all my clothes, and then all
my wife's pockets,
| came back into the dining
room and found my wife and the
cook and the house girl and two
*iitiitEd4f terit.. -, III iacsin he key
| asked my wife if she was right
certain that she had had that key
to-day, but she looked so hurt at
me that asked her to forgive me,
kissed her, vowed | never would
doubt her again, and went up
stairs declaring l would fluid
that keySr die. | got step lad
der aud looked on top the ward
robe, in Il hat box, and IL batch of
raw cotton; and sixteen paper col
lar boxes. Then | went in our
room aud took everything out of
my wife's trunk and shook them
ali carefully, and in the soiled
clothes basket, and laid each
piece in IL separate place on the
floor. looked up the chimney.
| went back in the dining room
and stirred in the gravy dish, and
run Il fork through the butter,
and looked in the match safe, UNI
der all the plates and under the
beef steak. | wentin the kitchen
and looked in the cupboard, the
cooking stove, the refrigerator,
the rat trap, the coal pile, the ci-
der barrel and rat hole. | came
back to the parlor and moved the
piano, and the bookcase, and the
pier table, turned the chairs up
side down and looked under their
bottoms. apoliged to the COM
pany and said we had only mis-
placed IA key "a little, They look
ed very hungry, and seemed tru-
ly to simpathlze with us. heard
my wife and the cook and the
house girl aud the two children
in the cellar moving cord wood,
sheet iron, empty barrels, and
flower pots. got ladder and
went up into the attic, looked
under the onions, aud on all the
strings OF red pepper, and then
| looked out on the roof, and just
to feel sure that | had not neg
lcctcd amy place, looked down
the chimney, and upon the light
ming rod. Coming down stairs |
met my wife and felt like telling
her the key could not possibly be
in the house; but she looked 50
troubled and worried that my
heart was touched, and ! couldn t
say it: but determined that |
would have that key, if ! had to
take up the carpets, and all the
loose clustering. So got the
step ladder and looked over every
window and door in the house.
got down on the floor and felt
all over all the carpets. ] looked
in the dogs mouth, and down
both barrels OF my shot gun, hap
pened to think about Major
Andre, and felt in my boots |
looked ut the baby to see If it
looked like it had swallowed any
thing. shook the broom and