The Forrest City times., 1895-05-10
the street with flour paste daubed all over his new spring clothes.

dlning-room table and, taking a sight" at the altitude of the room, cut off a strip that appeared to be the proper length. Utilizing crumb brush he spread on copious quantity of paste and then lifted the paper by one enc He put his arms up to their full length but the other end of the paper still lin- gered on the table.
 Why don't ye take hold of ito" he said testify to his wife, who stood du- biously looking on.
 So Mrs. Wigglesworth upraised the other end and her husband stood in a chair. He reached for the border line of the wall, but fell short of it. Why don't ye go fetch tablep" he angrily roared at his wife That's right!" he shouted as Mrs. Wiggles- worth dropped her end of the paper and the pasty side trailed over the back the chair and clung about his knees. You told me to get the table," Mrs. Wigglesworth protested, considerably abashed.
 "Oh, of course!" MT. Wigglesworth snarled, Hay it all onto me. F I'd told ye to jump through hoop s'pose you'd done itl Well!" he yelled. as his arms began to draw out of their sock cts, what ye standing there all day on one foot for? Think my arms are bamboo fish poles with German silver jolnts, don't ye? Why don't ye go get the table, If you're going to, fore I stiffen out here like blamed old num- my and have to go into private col lection under exhibit Alp
 Mrs. Wigglesworth got back as soon as possible, but not before her hus- bands arms had pulled out and he had dashed the paper on the floor and was stamping on it. Nothing relieves a man like stamping, so when they had arranged the table-a mahogany table with shiny top-beside the wall, and put little hassock on top of it, Mir. Wigglesworth felt sufficiently notified to snip off another length of the Beardsley pattern and apply some more paste to its posterior surface. maintain ing steady current of growing at his wife, on general principles.
 'Now don't be fool, this time," he said, encouragingly, as they picked up
 
 to the polished surface of the table with it. Then he stepped cautiously upon the hassock and stood there an in- stant, his knees wobbling painfully.
 Gan you reach?" his wife called from below. She was busy keeping her part of the paste away from the ma hoganv table.
 "Reach?' echoed MT. Wigglesworth, in a concentrated voice. "What ye spose I'm up here for, anyway? Think I'm addressing the county convention? Want me to move an amendment in favor of womans suffrage, don't yep" Then the hassock turned slightly, as the worm is said to do, and in catching his balance and breath Mir. Wiggles- worth jerked the paper out of his wife's grasp. The paper turned a smart corner and Tapped up against the wall and clung in 8 clammy and tenacious em- brace.
 What ye do that for?" shouted Mir. Wigglesworth, as loud as the uncer- tain hassock would permit.
 TT didn't go to-" returned his frightened wife, and with what alacrity she was mistress of she unpeeled the cold and deathlike sheet.
 "Now you let it alone, dye hear?" warned her husband, and acting upon his direction Mrs Wigglesworth re- tired to the far side of the room, where she watched him in species of fascin- ation. This is the tragedy that speedi- ly unfolded itself before her:
 Mrs. Wigglesworth, feeling more and more the treacherous character of the hassock, held his knees at that angle which gives to even the strongest man an appearance of weakness. His arms were thrust out to their full capacity, and, though at distance, Mrs Wig glesworth could feel their dreadful ache. First, her husband pressed his der; the lower end caught on also at the same instant. but in quite another part of the room, and by the time Mir. Wigglesworth had reached painfully downward and fetched it loose, at the same moment muttering something that Mrs. Wigglesworth tried hard to hear, but couldn't, distinctly, the up- per end came away and Tapped down over Mir. Wigglesworth's forehead, leaving more paste there than his wife had thought could be left on one fore head in single afternoon. MT. Wig glesworth's comments upon this trans action, as he frenziedly snatched at the paper, were not only clearly audi ble to the wife, but even penetrated to the hired girl, who promptly opened the kitchen door to see if she might not be able to hear still palmer. Then MT. Wigglesworth, with an earnest ness that nobody could avoid noticing.