The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-07-20
LEAVING OUT THE WASHING.
What May Happen When 1t Comes On to
Blow In the Night.

Blow In the Night.
whether to leave the washing out
or not" said Mr.. Flatdweller, may
easily be a question of Importance.
Why it is thought of leaving it out is
simple enough; it may have been
damp or drizzly day, and the clothes
may not be dry when night comes;
they are to be left out to blow dry in
the night. The question in the SUBJ
urbs or in the country, where the
clothes would be left on lines stretched
between post set in the ground, is one
mostly of safety, for there they must
be left where they could easily
be stolen by anybody that might
take fancy to them. In the city,
if you live in fat, the principal
question is, Win it be too windy?
for, if it is, the clothespins, when they
work off the line, don't fall on the
grass, but into the fathomless
abyss of the rear area; and if the
washing drops from the line it goes
there. too, or off over some neighbor-
ing roof, or it whips against the poles,
or the blinds, or the fire escape, or 1t
winds itself around the pulley line so
that the line won't bulge either way
and there the washing is out in the
air, and you wonder how you are going
to get it. So it may easily be seen that
in a fat it is really question OF some
importance whether the washing
shall be left out or not, and IT the
wind rises, it is still more important to
get it in.
What do you Think says Mrs.
Flatdweller, do you think it is going
to blow any harder than it does now?'
"And you look out at the cold stars
and take a glance around generally,
and then you say no, you don't think
| it is; and after little further deliber-
alton Mrs. Flatdweller decides to leave
'em out; it's pretty breezy, and you can
hear 'em now and then swapping in the
| wind, but if it doesn't blow up any
more they're all right So you leave
'em out and go to bed.
along about four o'clock you begin
to dream of the sea story you had read
the night before. Off Cape Horn in a
! bowling gale in winter; cold and snow
and ice; rolling seas and tempests and
danger everywhere; it's your watch be-
low; suddenly you hear somebody
rounding on the companion slide with
a handspike, and a moment later you
hear voice shouting down the fo'c'sle
ladder:
".All starbowlines ahoy"
That means you; it's all hands t.
shorten sail AS you jump from you
bunk you feel somebody pushing or
your shoulder and you hear Mrs. Flat
dweller say:
Ezra, guess you'll have to TAXI
in the clothes
YOU'RE awake now and getting int
your boots and garments, not forget
ting your tarpaulin and your sou'west
err. and minute later you are on thu
fire escape, with Mrs Flatdwelle
standing inside to take the things a
you hand them in.
wind a-how1ing, sheets a-fapping
, shirts swapping, pillow cases cracking
, everything cast loose and whipping 1t
self into ribbons, or getting ready to
Rain in torrents and general uproa
, everywhere. Whip! comes shee
, across your face and away goes you
SOu'weSter, Dut you graz eno shcee an
fist it as you would a sail until yo
: come to the line; you grab off tn
clothespins and sheets and hand it i
!, to Mrs. Flatdweller. No foot rope
! here, SO you must bring the sail t.
! you; you overhaul the pulley line
blocks a-creakin' under the strain an
/ adding to the. weirdness- Sail afte
, sail you get in till you've got it all
. and she's just a-roarin' along undo
{ bare poles.
.sClew garnets and rattlin' stuff
a Topping lifts and bowlines! In thes
4 degenerate days of teakettles instea
of clipper ships. if man really want
a sniff of the salty ocean let him shi
!. in a 1atr'-N. Y Sun.
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