Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-07-05

boy over. TO see about IL
"This staggered me- 50 our beds
are IN London, I gasped, and our mat
tresses are in Wenner's 3 warehouse on
the other eide Of the foIoss7 Suppose ve
20 and sleep In his warehousef
"she said that was very bitter and
sruel to suggest such thing Perhaps
we could get along very well for one
night If wouldn't mako such a fuss.
There was one old mattress In the attic.
She and Lizzie would sleep on that, and
could have a little canvas cot. II was
a very nice, comfortable bed, and she
knew H. She was logically convinced
Of Il because she'd had 80 go over the
arguments with our servant almost ey-
cry day since the gill began to Try TO
sleep on a cot. Say, did you ever try to
sleep on q canvas eott 1t locks saty, but
It isnt. / retired at midnight in the
north room. One OF my wife's relations
had il last winter, and he called 1t the
blue room, because that was the color
Of his nose every morning when he got
up and scraped the frost c5 bis looking
glass. But It vas waTm night and
never thought about being chilly.
"Well, sir, II came on cold an bour
or two after | retired. ] felt It hrst
on my feet, They hung out over the
lower end Of the cot, and there was .
crack in the floor right under them. OF
conrsc the carpet had been taken up, SO
when thewind eamo round to the north
it came straight up at my feet. ! hadn't
very good assortment of bedding.
Most Of our stuff had been sent over to
Wenners warehouse ] had sheet
folded lengthwise, in the form Of one Of
those sleeping bags which explorers use.
Then had dn old bfanketand for a COW
erlet one of pair Of fine pourchairs.
At . O'Clock got up and secured the
other pourchaiF, They We're still at
tached to the poles, but that was rather
an advantage than an Inconvenience. /
put the poles across under my hesd and
thus slightly increased tho effective
length Of the cot.
e. A little after rose sgain and So
cured q fur rug. It was q tiger s skin,
with the headof the beast on one corner
OF it. There seemed TO be some warmth
Ia that tiger skin, for 1 secured little
sleep almost Immediately Rfter spread
ing 1t over me. I had left the lamp
burning, for / thought IL might warm
the room a little Well, sir, as | Say, /
slept a few minutes just long enough
to dream that | was one Of the early
Christian martyrs ia tho arena--and
1 then awoke to find this tigers head,
with its cleaning, CLASSY eyes staring me
in tho face, Say what do you think |
did? Iyelled SO loud that tho conclusion
put the light ont. Ny wife and her sister
thought there were burglars in the
house. What did they do about it? |
don'tknow, but my opinion Is that they
crawled into a pile Of carpets and rugs
in the middle Of their Ioom and hid
there till morning.
AS for me, tao shock Of my fright
made me shir6r And when ! got'oyer
! being frightened I couldn't stop shiYer-
! ing How Icould be cold with all those
\ things over me ] couldn't understand,
\ hut it was truo. I arose and secured the
4 stair carpet. It went mp and down me
| FIVE times, | remember, but it didn't
I raise my temperature one degree.
Then / made tbe Important discoF-
Fery that itdidn't make anyyiiGerenet
4 how much I had over me 50 long as I
had only one layer of canvas under me.
! And tho wind atill whistledup through
the bare boards, decided to put the
! tiger S skin over the cot ana lie down
On ik Then d new inspiration came L
! me- Why not 20 down ana sleep Ia the
kitchen2 Good idea picked TIP The
| cot, tho pourchaira, tho fur rug ana tht
stair carpet and started for the kitchen.
4 AT the bead of tie back stairs stepped
ion the fringe Of one Of the pourchairs
/ endeayored TO step off it, but there
were five apertures Ia tho fringe, ant
each oneof them had secured one OF my
toes. Therefore | just calmly fell ovel
forward aud slid down stairs. with tht
cot as q atohoggan.
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