Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-07-09

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\ ing the story
I've noticed that
when You have
ANYTHING unpleas-
ant to do il gen
orally Is a hot
AAt N ALPHABETICALLY q
q I'm n sticky hot day in
~ 10 rhe bargain
w. so that your pom
% padour clings 10
ga your face and you
hate your fellow
man and the powder you put on your
complexion resolves itself into cum
ning little marbles Of dough.
/ Anyhow. Tom and 7 should have
known better than TO rent our fat
furnished when We moved away. Or
else. / never should have come back
10 pack up The furniture. We should
nave let the fat remain a glad mem
DRY in all It's original glory. Then 7
should have been spared the sight OF
my best Boknara rug in the passage
way between the kitchen and dining
room and my best vase being used as
an ash receiver, I saved all my ten
cent pieces for six months 10 eucom-
pass the purchase Of that yase-and
then the tenant, who wore diamonds
and said she loved .Vogner' music. said
she couldn't find anything in the
house she dared give her husband TO
use for ashes until she stumbled on
that cheap little colored-gIass thing
on the mantel' She said she thought
colored glass vulgar on the whole
didn't 7?
don't know why it is that the
most vigorously moral persons, on
renting somebody else's home fur
nished, at once become gIadsomely IT.
responsible heathens.
Still. think could have stood II
al If II hadn't been for the picture Of (
Washington Crossing the Delaware
didn't own 1.-THE tenant did.
didn't even know it was in the far. I I
was TOO much engaged in waiting on
the misanthropic man who had ar i
rived with what seemed like Z lumber /
yard and an excelsior factory 10 crate
my own pictures for shipping.
Mournfully I carted them in and
deposited them about him in a circle
Ike a funeral pyre. l felt that way
because, OF course. l didn't know
! ever should see them again
except in small fragments. This NOV
ns IS so uncertain. But the packer
vas q good man at heart and assured
NE that he would do his best.
And he did. Such layers of excel
iior, such bracing and waddins Of
corners l never hope TO see again.
well upon this particularly in view
II what happened later. That man
oiled for hours-and | was paving
nm for his time He tugged and
and nailed and tied and ,
tuned excelsior till finally that huge
rate was as solid as brick.
ont believe you could have sot 2 min
Inserted in il, for there wasn't a crew
&c big enough anywhere. Il was a
triumph Of packing. {
Just as the man paused before
irving the last nail 10 wipe the sweat
rom his brow. the tenant tore madlv I
40 The kitchen where We were She
as little woman and she houued
round like a distracted chicken.
" Where. she shrieked. where is =
" Washington? My Washington !
rossing the Delaware
The packer and gszed stupidlv ar :
leh other. l think by this time the b
Ieelsior had got into our brains.
1 dunno, ma am the packer STAN
cred. after staring wildly into the
nk and under the kitchen table Is IA
dog or cat?' Ii
Don't try to act innocent cried
e tenant. shaking her finger at him
was my Washington that nv great .
mt brought from New Hanipshire as u
present the year all of us children
ID the measles and she came IN -
SIT pa, set it down BY the rasi. -
Dr. right here-aHd it's gone, You've
{ 1t in that box and you've Just cot
unpack III NJ
mere was an agonized instant in at
lieh the packer swayed Imply and bl
anu
ng scroSs that huge box like a rag
hen he got his breath he said he'd
everlastingly something or other il Ini
did, Unless he got paid for it, he
The tenant had fierce ewes. I mur. ga
red a few weak. temporizing things
n AS that | would send the picturs
X after | unpacked the box 81 its =.
I even suggested buving u -,s
another. Thereulon she exnlos- r., -
She said had no feelings and '''-
I she was going to have her orisi.
Washington that her revere5 A
at-sunt had given. and that no vol
ney could replace it. I gathered thar son
vas work OF art done BY an Old S S-n
s7er aud that the rest Of the CON Pr
IS Of the box were dross to il me-,
Beneath her gaze crumpled and me sie
e the word TO unpaek. sho
didn't watch the process sroI
dat have stood rhp sss-H. - >, sun