Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-04-07
M'NAGGETYS WOE.
HIS MOTHER-,N-LAW THE CAUSE or
ALL HIS TROUBLE.

That 1T 1t Wasn't For His Wife,
Relatives He Might Get ON 1. the
World.
Mr.. Twitt McNaggett' sim other-in- law
has been visiting him lately, and the I'M
holy haste Of that gentleman to see her to
the train on the morning of her departure
caused much bitter comment
when come to pay you a visit again,
Mr.. McNaggett, she said with asperity,
II guess you II know it!'
"Of course III know it, he retorted.
/ ye think there's anything that goes on
in my house that I don t know?'
The old lady turned and fred a turret
gun.
II should say there Was, - she replied in
very suggestive tone, II should say there
was. Oh, if you only knew!'
And with this uncomfortable assertion,
taken from the magazine of her imagina-
hon, she was borne away by the train
Mr.. McNaggctt walked up from the sta
ton in a seething condition.
THAT: diabolical old woman has some
| thing up her sleeve, he nuttered. Now
what is there going on in my house that I
don't know abOut?'
He fell in upon his wife in a condition
of white heat that startled her into drop
ping coffee cup and breaking it.
whats the matter dear?" she queried
nervously. ''Ain't you well?''
| He flung off his hat and coat
"Get Inc the grocer's book, and the
butchers book, and the bakers book, and
all the books!" he cried
why, Twitt, are you crazy?''
DO as I tell you,' he shouted, s'or
may forget myself and usebad languager'
And for the next hour he "toted'' up
; accounts.
Then he invaded the pantries and cup
boards, ''sized up canisters OF tea and
sugar, ripped into the -four barrel, weigh
ed the ham and bacon, cmelled and tasted
the butter and at last brought up in the
lair of the lioness cooks Kitchen
whence arose unpleasant sounds Of this
| character:
You had a seven pound leg of lamb
yesterday, cook.
well, know that
Where is it?'
"Shure, yez ate it,
"What Ate seven pounds of lamb
since yesterday?'
. 'Dadc yez did. There was tree av yez
an four av us, an hashed lamb wild eggs
this marnin for breakfast, an some lamb
! sangwiches for Mrs. McNaga etts mother
on the train.
Its very strange, - shifted Mr.. ,McNag~
gett.
But he had not the bullying tone that
he used upon his wife.
Still there was suspicion in his voice,
| and cook took fire in an instant.
Il niver knew a real gintleman, size
! sp1uttered, who wint around nosin into
| a kitchen where a dacint woman is a-doin
her Dist, God knows, to make a good
| shown wild mighty ,ittle The bone av
that lamb must "a weighed pound an a
half Shall find that for yez:'
! Mr.. McNaggett came up stairs in some
haste with q flushed face
II want the servants trunks searched, -
he said, with emphasis.
| His wife collapsed upon the sofa with a
Attle CRY Of amaze1nent.
I why, what do you mean?" she gasped.
"Have you-have we-been rohbed?'
No doubt Of it in the world,'' he re-
piled, and mean to put stop to it,
But, dearie, it will be an awful thing
to search the girls trunks she protested,
- dreadful insult. What have you
mlssed?
| IL don't exactly know, - he growled,
':but will very soon
! And nice little time there was when
the three do,nestics were called on to un-
pack their boxes in the presence of Mr..
McNaggett and his weeping wife.
J ''Shure, he kin ave me key an me quit
tance wild it,, said cook, IAN I'll be glad
to git away to dacint people afther workin
TWO years for q Zulu!"
| And the other girls quite agreed with
her
Nothing of suspicious character was
found, and the McNaggetts that night
were obliged to 60 out to dinner, as the
house was servantless. 1t was not a COM
Portable meal, for Mr.. McNaggett spiced
| it with remarks of this sort:
"You write that mother of yours that
she might be in better business than try
Ing to stir up discord in happy home. II
it WASH for his wife's relatives, man
would have fair chance in this world -
| New York Herald.