The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-28
CHIFFONIERS.
AS HE SHOULD HAVE lone.

Mr. Craftyboys household effects
were to be removed from Capitol Hill
to u street northwest on Thursday
morning last. On Wednesday night
Craftyboy, feeling pretty good right at
ter dinner, and observing that Mrs.
Craftyboy looked a trife pale and
tired after her eXertions in locking for
a house, saidA
My dear, I'll have to go to the Of
fice for half a day, anyhow, tomorrow,
but I'll be back here by noon to help
you with the moving. The men, of
course, ii do the heavy work, but I
know what a big lot of packing and
slowing of small stuff therell be, and
l don't want you to wear yourself out
doing 1t. You can just sort o. start it
going, and III be on hand to do the
bulk Of it at noon
Craftyboy didn't feel quite so good
natured and cheerful on the moving
question when he got up on moving
morning.
IF there's any one thing that I adj
mire in this married game, it amt
moving" said he to himself as he got
his clothes on. And what's a whole
lot more, 1 don't go in for any part of
this present moving program, not any,
not if know myself. I'm sorry ] made
that Woody, compromising speech last
might dbOQl bSlllB VI up mere at
noon to stow away a lot of old vases in
excelsior and fruit Dishes and stat
uettes, and truck. I certainly am sor-
ry, for, on sober second thought, I'm
just about due not TO be on hand, COM
promising speech or not. I'll Just fix
it somehow
Craftyboy went right down to his Of
flee, got hold of a telegraph blank, and
wrote the following dispatch to his
Got to go to Baltimore on business
Immediately. Go ahead and move. I'll
| turn up at new house at s tonight"
Then Craftyboy proceeded to kill
time for the remainder Of the day in
his office, for there was nothing do
ing especially in the way of business.
Great scheme, that" he mused two
or three times in the course of the day.
she will get through all right, OF
course. The men'll do most of the work,
and by the time 1 turn up at the new
wickieup tonight everything ought to
be knocked into some kind of shape
out there, and I'll sit fair show to
get a meal of victuals without having
to stand on two-legged tabouret to
eat it,
Craftyboy found it a pretty hard job
to kick around town watching billiard
games and base ball scores until 7.3O,
when he got on a ear to ride out to his
new home. He was pretty hungry when
he got out there, and the CHEEKY lights
in the windows gave him a sensation or
pleasureable anticipation. Both vesti-
bule doors were closed, and so he rang
the bell. A nice looking but very busy
woman with a towel over her head,
came to the door.
why" said Craftyboy lis this"
"Oh, you are Mr.. Craftyhoy. then
said the nice looking woman with
towel about her head. "Your wife was
here only a little while ago, and she
left this note for you. Here it u.s." and
she handed Craftyboy a note in his
wife's well known unpunctuated CHI
Biography
Dear Ed the note ran. ~ got your
telegram soon after you reached your
office, and I'm so sorry you had to go
away, but it's just as well, after all,
for you had no sooner left this morning
than | had a note from the lady who
occupies the house we are going to
move into, saying she could not pos
sibly get her things out today, and that
therefore we'd have to defer our NOV
ing in until tomorrow, and so it's just
as we'll, you see, and I've such a fright
full headache, anyhow, and I've been
unable to do a single, solitary thing all
day, and when the men came to move
us / sent them away and told them to
come tomorrow, and SO you'll be on
hand to help me, after all, and l had
to leave this here for you, because I've
got to see that dinner'll be ready for
you when you get back, and the lady
here will give it to you, and"
Craftyboy stuffed the note into his
pocket without reading any more Of II.
After he left the house to take a
car for the long ride up to his Capitol
Hill home, Il used to think I was q
pretty wise guy before l got married,
but | don't believe 1 am any more" he
thought.
Craftyboy stayed home from business
all the next day and helped to do the
packing Washington Star.