Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-05
WAS VERY AWKWARD.
% the Man Who Had to:D0 the
Reading Decided.

HCA0AhS DcclQeQs
| a Worcester man once had a very
disa greeable experience with a pail
OF trousers, or perhaps it would b<
better to say without pair of trous
| ers, or, on more mature thought, i,
might be still better to say with the
wrong pair of trousers. for, outside
the fact that this story is about a
| pair of trousers there is nothing to
shock the tenderest feelings. ANY
way you put it the experience was
| disagreeable, and it determined the
| man never again to talk business
while dressing to go out. II would
| not have been so bad if it had been a
dinner, for IN such case, by deXterous
and intelligent management of chair
| backs and draperies and a final grace.
| ful disposition of the tablecloth, a
| man can accomplish wonders. As ii
| was, the man was scheduled to take
part in reading snd he was to have
no reading desk; so he was really in
| an unpleasant position.
Another man came to see him while
| he was dressing to 60 to the reading,
and the business on which he came
was business tnat was important to
| the man with the trousers, as he may
be called to distinguish him from 9TH
er men, so that while he dressed him
self perfectly in all other particulars
he neglected to take off the gray
striped trousers of his working
clothes and to replace them with the
black ones of his evening dress. This
was not so bad, of course, as if he had
remembered the first part of the prop
Los f,yh hot n
unpleasant thought), but it was bad
enough, and so he believed when he
reached the house where the reading
was to be given and was about to go
out ON the improvised stpge to fulfill
his part of the programme.
1t was then that he noticed it. He
hastily summoned the hostess, but
even when she arrived the situation
presented some difficulties.
81 must ask you to put off my APP
pearance for little while," he said
81 have forgotten-er-my glasses
Can't read word without 'em."
The hostess reminded him with
some distress that his home was a
long distance away and that there
was no carriage at the door at that
hour. "The audience will all be gone
by the time you get back" she said.
Cant help it," said the man with
| the trousers. ''What / want to read
is in that particular book, and I have
brought the wrong one. Must get
time to slip home and change them
| change it, 1 mean"
"But perhaps l can find you a copy
here" said tie lady, a little puzzled.
won't do," said the man, becoming
| much embarrassed. Il have to use
that handkerchief in the reading
| Must go back for it, And in his ex-
| citement he came out from behind the
chair, and the hostess is believed to
have perceived the cause of all the
| trouble.
cat any rate" she said smilingly,
"I'H call my husband. He can supply
you, l am sure"
'fBut it must be black ones-a black
| one, 1 mean,' said the man, greatly
agftated.
"He has a black one, I am sure,
said she and vanished.
When the husband came in, he wore
q broad grin and appeared to have
come to a complete understanding in
the matter. 1t did not take long to
arrange things. They went to the hus-
bands room. where they conducted a
swap, and the husband gave the man
with the trousers what he judged
would do his nerves good, and, sure
enough, it was just the thing. Then
they went down stairs, the reader 60
ing out to read and the husband
standing in a doorway. with portiers
arranged in the position in which he
believed they would do the most good
After the reading they went up stairs
and swapped again, and the man with
the trousers went home happy.-Wor-
cAster Gazette