The Prescott daily news., 1908-11-10

Auu lneu, Oi COul ott AA tof. of uncertainty during s' of tbs even ings of next week vou,ve got to stan,
 .rhnts ~a. w wife to greet visitors.
 na the way it works out with "'' hVery evening this week we've ncsh been looking as pretty as the dickens after dinner-until last even. ing.
 "On Monday evening last, to begin with, by way of illustrating lot of weeks we've passed through, said I to the wife:
 By the way, I met Jim Annyday on Saturday, and he said he and Mrs. ,Annyday'll be digging us up some evening this week. So I guess we'd better not get into the easy togs for, while tonight eh? '
 "Of course she agreed with me. Now. our easy togs, worn when we're not expecting anybody, are nothing short of disreputable. Well, when one or the other of us sounds the warming that maybe therell be visitors of an evening of course we don't put on this delightfully."- slouchy makeup of ours.
 We fixed up and sat around on Monday evening last in expectation of the Annydays. The Annydays are Q swagger sort of couple-though I've no doubt that in their hours of relax ation they look just as bum as we do- and of course we didn't dare to take a chance on having them sail in on us and find us looking like pair of out casts.
 Tuesday evening, the same But the Annydays didn't show up Tuesday evening either. The wife and 1 sat and yawned in each others faces and read sort of abstractedly and felt sort of stiff and sewed up and each had a sneaking sort of longing for the punkerino old togs that permit of so much Jolly comfort, but of course we couldn't switch so long as there was chance for the Annydays to drop in.
 Same goes for Wednesday and Thursday evenings We sat aroand stiff and wretched and yet in fear that if we permitted ourselves to get com- fortable the nevitable-according to the dope we've kept on this thing, as I say, ever since we were married would happen again.
 Last evening after dinner l felt dog tired. It was hot, and I'd had feel little bit like sitting around in clothes.
 I'm going to .ake a chance says to the wife. Those Annyday people won't come out on a night like this rain threatening and all that-even If they're even meaning to come. I'm going to shed this gear and get into the h HAd stnff Might fsnNAhil fsnNhi Sssn3ahb1ss ss abss other old night.
 But wouldn't it be awful if they were to come?' said the wife. I really am afraid myself to put on
 "'Oh you've got to change into the . old stuff if do, my dear said to her. It wouldn't do a particle of good if you were all fussed up if they came and caught me looking like a tramp. Whats the difference? It'd be give away anyhow. So come on.
 Which we did. The wife removed the nine or ten pounds of suppositi' tious hair that she packs around on her head and climbed into the easy stuff, and me similar. Wed just got rigged that way, and were spraddled out comfortably in the sitting room, me reading the baseball junk and the wife pulling on some best seller, when
 But you know the rest. Yes, 1t was the Annydays, logged to within an inch of their lives. The maid had gone of course, and I had to answer the bell. My wife hadn't time to make her visit to her room to tidy up before the visitors were in the apartment. And there we were, the pair of us fairly caught
 We tried to square it, of course. with a lot of cheap witticisms and such like, but nix, didn't go. The An nydays pretended to take it as fine joke, the horrible way we looked, and just laughed and laughed about it, and made as if to let us down easily by saying they themselves often made themselves comfortable of evenings the same way-which was no doubt true; but all the same I'll bet hat they went away commenting on what a pair of sights we looked and all like that.
 Never knew this to fail, as say. And if there really Is any such thing as luck, why, wonder why we don't
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