Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-10-26

not be SO still, or tho moonlight so
white, just out In the country"
mo; the stiffness will not be SO still,
that is certain. One night it will be
katydids, and the next night bur-
glar, and then again katydids, and
finally But ! mustn't forestall your
experiences; you will soon find out"
And they did. The day of the fit.
ting was an absolutely perfect one for
moving, according to the optimist; not
too bright, you know, but just pleas
antly overcast They arrived just be-
fore nightfall, and even a pessimist
would have acknowledged great
charm on the scene, with the pretty
little house perched on rock and
Swallowed by big trees, and with gen.
tie grass and affectionate ferns and
MOSES creeping up to the very door
STEP There was no awful front yard,
no obtrusive, exclusive, and selfish
looking fence; nothing but lovely
little home, framed in serenity and
nesting into peace. The vans with
most of the furniture, including the
beds, were not to arrive till the next
| day; of course little could be done
towards getting to rights that night,
and at an early hour the family were
disposed to retire. With no beds, sofas
had been arranged in the least clut-
tered rooms upstairs or down, and one
who looked at the couch impro-
vised for his repose murmured that
getting to rights seemed to SAVIOR
little of getting left. But what
| fun, at least the first night, to go round
locking upl In their city apartment
they had been debarred from this in
estimable privilege; on the sixth story
west they had been sufficiently guard
ed by their perpendicularity, without
any keys at all, from the intrusive
burglar; but then, as the optimist re-
marked to the young lady of the fam
lily, they had also been deprived of
any Romeo in the street below the bal
cony, when the bacony hovered in mid
air at ninety feet above the sidewalk.
| When you did not have to lock up any
thing it never seemed as if you had
anything to lock up; SO now, at least
on the first night, each window fasten-
ing received caressing little lock
and every door was bolted with ten
der frmness, which remembered not
so much the danger that was locked
ont as the happiness that was locked
in. In the apartment, as the optimist
remarked, you were safe, but in the
country you feltsafe; now, at last, your
happiness was securely fastened in.
So they retired, the family being re-
minded not to be frightened if Fido
barked in the night Of course, he
would bark little the first night;
dogs always did in strange place, and
it would not mean burglars ct all. So
they were not to be frightened. AS
the friend had said of the garden of
the tropics, it seemed an ideal place
for sleep; but, as he had also prophe-
sled, there were katydids. For half
an hour after she lay down, the OPP
timist was almost appalled, at the
noises that assaulted her unaccustomed
ear from the innocent looking scenery.
But she dropped asleep at last, till she
was awakened by what seemed to be
the raining of bullets on the roof,
though it soon arranged itself to her
waking ear as rain, merely refreshing
rain. However, it might be raining in;
they had left window open in the
hall, and the new wall-paper would be
spoiled. She rose cautiously, and, as
she stepped into the hall, door
banged. The wind was rising. Well
she was rising, why shouldn't the wind
rise, too, if door banged? And she
smiled, thinking she would remember
that little joke for the breakfast Ia
BILE. A gentle scratching of a match
below stairs told her that her husband
had also heard the rain and the bang
ing of the door. They met on the stail
landing, picturesquely arrayed in am
ateur dressing gowns of shawls and
light rugs gracefully arranged as to
gas.
do you think it was the kitchen
door?" she asked, timidly.
81 should think it was a hundred
kitchen doors" he answered, decided
ly. But he did not swear; the op.
timist was so glad of an opportunity
to test Henrys morals so severely. o.
course, he never had sworn in the city
but there of course, there was nothing
to make him want to swear; while
now, under the most trying circum
stances, he had proved himself gen
tleman. They explored doors together
but not one looked as if it could eve
have banged under any circumstance
whatever. Then it occurred to then
that, of course, it had shut itself il
banging, and so would bang no more
They were vending their way again
to their respective sofas, stopping at q
remote corner of the house to investi
gate the raining-in capacity of anothe
window, when again door banged.
"What is that. father?' asked tn
youngest, rising on his couch from al
inner apartment.
, st is the wind, my child"
, No earl-king could have answere,
7 with greater dignity; but the young
7 est wrapped the drapery of his coucl
E about him and arose from pleasan
s dreams, to join the little procession
n that was seeking the lost door. Again
, however, every door was dutifull
S shut, though again some door Away
! out of sight banged its woe into theil
b ears till they arrived upon the spot
e when 1t became at once resigned an
: silent. 1t was exasperati ng; but thei
t city manners still remained intac
: under fire, and the severest thing tn
5 answering Henry said, was that May
e nard had warned him of having to 81
: up with the house nights, but he neve
n supposed he should have to walk wit
e it. When at last they had traverse