The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1901-04-22
TURNED On THE GAS.

the gas office on your way up and make
your deposit and have the gas turned on"
Much obliged for mentioning that to
me" replied Mr.. Newsplice. I'D sure have
forgotten it if you hadn't, and we'd have
been in a dickens OF n pickle over night
without any gas, wouldn't we!'
Newspice got up to the new fiat about
half-past four, and found Mrs. Newsplice,
with her sleeves tucked up and her hair
wrapped in towel, setting things to rights.
"By the way" remarked Newsplice, see
ing no signs Of any dinner preparations,
anything doing in the way of food for
hungry man around this plant? Man cant
live by putting up pictures alone, can he?y
II do declare, forgot all about dinner,
exclaimed Nlrs.ANewsplice. Wont You
Just run down TO the corner and get a small
steak and some potatoes and a lew little
things-lll give you list Mercy on Us.
l completely forgot that the poor thing ia
supposed to eat
1t was kind of cherries business, this
Just starting off after food for dinner, bnt
Newsp'ce put on his coat and went after
the stuff his wife wrote down with a stub
of pencil, and came back with two arm
loads.
"Ah, now can have little patched up
dinner inside OF an hour easily said his
wife. Wont you please get at that barrel
and unpack the dishes for me:'
Newsplice got at the barrel, and while
he was out in the kitchen slowing away the
excelsior he got to looking at the gas range.
1t caused him to think OF something. lie
went into where his wife was draping for
the four hundred and nineteenth time the
front room mantel, and inquired
"ErT-um--by the way, where's the coal
rangeT'
Coal range" replied Mrs. Ncwsplice,
"Why, there isn't any. Wen cook entirely
with the gas range here, My, how old
fashioned you are! Why should there be a
gas range and coal range, too?'
well, you'll have to pass me on that
replied Ncwsplice. But know one time
when you're not going to cook on the gas
-ange, and that's to night. Now, don't go
of the handle and tell nc I'm a pnhead-
which | am--and numbskull am
agan--and a mental jel'ytish (which, once
more, gricve to say am but forgot to
go to the gas office and make the deposit,
and SO there'll be no gas tonight
And you know particularly told you TO
attend TO the gas reproachfu!ly said Mrs.
Newsplce
Il know it-So did the agent-so did my
own inner consciousness, replied New
splice Every thing that was near and
dear and precious 10 me IN tins lie should
have inspired me to g to the gas office and
make my little deposit but didn't do II,
and so what the deures the use OF IIarplng
upon it: Forget 1t IN 60 down and zee
EN- before breakfast tomorrow morning.
Meantime, Ill go ont and got lot o
boiled ham and cured tongue and canned
salmon and saldin", and crackers and
cheese and weiss beer aud stun like that,
and we can make II meal oft OF that truck,
and III also get some candles, and we can
see 30 90 to bed by the light OF EN-, and
oh, what larks Won't it he just too cute
and larky for anything TO g. to bed by
candle lght?" aud the man laughed Il
hoarsc croaE, while lis spouse regarded
him mnurnnly.
Pretty hungry By this time. he went out
and bought nearly all Of the articles he had
enumerated. together with a dozen OF the
Largest sized candles tat cu;ld be bought
for lnpuay, uyd Yruuucd to the fiat, lie
noted gl0umiii, On M. NAy upstairs that
nil Of ih, other lcrr,ui4 had as, Of course,
and he wondered il hI, wife. solemn dee.
hmtinn that he was losing his memory
were really -. However he put an imlta-
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