The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-10-21
PUTTING UP y, TIE STOVE.

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PUTTING UP U, TIE STOVE. s3ss
The melancholy days have come that no house.
holder loves, 7 81
Days Of the taking down OF blinds ana uuttine
up Of stoves; 35 "a
The lengths Of pipe forgotten lie in the shadows
OF the shed,
Dinged out Of sympathy they be and all with
rust are red;
me husband gropes amid the mass that he
placed there anon,
And swears to find an elbow-joint and clio a
leg are gone.
SO Jared it with good Mister Brown, when his
spouse remarked: ''Behold!
Unless you wish US all to 60 and catch orr
deaths of cold,
Swift be yon stove and pipes from out their
storing place conveyed,
And to black-lead and set them up. 10! will
lend my add
This, Mr.. Brown he trembling heard trow
his heart was sore,
For he was married many years and had been
there before, F.
And timidly he said. my love, perchance the
better plan
AAAO
him send man?''
His spouse replied Indignantly: $50 YOU won,d
have me then
To waste our substance upon riotous tinsmith,s
journeymen?
"A penny saved is twopence earned rash mod
igal of pelf,
Go! false one go! and will black and set if nm
myself
When thus she spoke the husband knew that
she had sealed his doom;
Fill high the bowl with Samian lead and
gimme down that broom.
He cried; then to the clubhouse marched Anart
the doors he hove
And closed in deadly conflict with his enemy.
the stove
Round 1.-They faced each other: Brown to
get an opening. spared
Adroitly. His antagonist was cautious-on it's
guard.
Brown led off with his left to where = length If
stove-pipe stood
And nearly cut his fingers off. (The stove al
lowed first bloody
Round 2-Brown came up swearing, in Gra,co-
Roman style
Closed with the stove, ana tugged and strove
at it q weary while;
At last the leg he held gave way; fiat on his
back fell Brown,
And the stove fell on top of him and claimed
the first knock down.
The fight is done and Brown has won; his
hands are rasped and sore,
And perspiration and black lead stream from
his every pore;
Sternly triumphant, as he gives his prisoner
shove,
He cries, Where, my good angel, shall put
this blessed stove:''
And calmly Mrs Brown to him she indicates
the spot,
that he looks hot.
And now comes in the sweet O. the day; the
Brown holds in his grippe
And strives to fit six-inch Joint into five
inch pipe:
He hammers. fattens. bends. and shakes, while
his wife scornfully
Tells him how she would manage if only she
were he.
At last the joints are jointed, they rear pyra-
mid in air,
A tub upon the table, and upon the tub a
chair, l9
And on chair and supporters are the stove
pipe and the Brown,
Like the lion and the unicorn, a-fghting for
the crown
While Mistress Brown she cheerlly says to
him, Il expec'
'Twould be just like your clumsiness to fall
and break your neck
Scarce were the piteous accents said before
she was aware
OF what might be called "a miscellaneous mu-
sic in the air.
And in wild crash and confusion upon the floor
rained down
Chairs, tables, tubs and stovepipes, anathemas
and-Brown.
There was moments silence-Brown had
fallen on the cat;
She was too thick for a book-mark but too thin
for mat,
And he was all wounds and bruises, from his
head to his foot,
And seven breadths of Brussels were ruined
with the SCOT.
20 welded love, how beautiful, how sweet a
thing thou art!''
Up from her chair did Mistress Brown: as she
saw him falling start
And shrieked aloud as a sickening fear did her
inmost heart-strings grippe.
"Josiah Winterbotham Brown, have you gone
and smashed that pipe?"
Then fiercely starts that Mister Brown, as one
that has been wode
| And big his bosom swelled with wrath. and
red his visage glowed;
| Wild rolled his eye as he made reply (and his
voice was sharp and shrill.)
| Il have not, madam but, by-by-by the nine
gods, will!''
| He swung the pipe above his head, he dashed ii
on the floor,
And that stove pine as a Stove-nine it did ex-