Norwich bulletin., 1914-06-11
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barn over night and bring them out the next morning"
 Would you mind disclosing" in- quired Mrs. spogss courteously, "yo ar suitably early hour in the morning and doing tho job up in one dayf
 My dear, Spoggs explained kindly, the vens were busy all day up to the hour l have named and"
 Then why didn't you hunt up an other van eompanyr
 Ethel" said 6poggs in disapprov- ing and dignifled tones. .I wish you would not interfere in this affair. l am running it and I assure you that everything will be entirely all right. Moreover, it is lots easier to get set tied in the morning when every one feels fresh and bright instead of hav- ing load of furniture dumped on you at dinner time when it's dark"
 'Humph!" said Mrs. Spoggs.
 And there is no need tearing up the house weeks ahead of time," added her husband. The packers will ar rive with the vans|I especially ordered it that way. Whats the matter-are you i'll n?"
 T think I'm going to die,' moaned hisS wife. At least I know I am Jn moving day!" she ended viciously.
 There is no need to worry" Spoggs insisted. For once you will see things
 The vans and the packers arrived at the Spoggs home at 6 o'clock instead of and there was hideous carnage until midnight, when the weary and disheveled Spoggses slunk out to a hotel.
 The next morning Mrs. Spoggs was so tired that she did not get up when Spoggs left for the office. He had scarcely got there when a perfectly frantic telephone message called him.
 The complaint was from the per- sons in the act of moving into the house he had just vacated. They ah- nounced that there still remained three packing cases. a gas stove, a crate of fruit and a bundle of brooms belonging to the Spoggses and tliey wished to be relieved of the burden.
 Spoggs immediately got his van people on the phone.
 The manager said he supposed the things were there because there had mt been room for them on the van the night before and he wasn't quite sure when they could get around that way for them. He listened unmoved to Spoggs' violent remarks. When he ceased talking the new tenants again were still there.
 Spoggs called three moving van firms, who one and all informed him they were engaged till next Christmas, judging from the present rush. Mop ping his brow, Spoggs called up the
 
 their van people load on the things and bring them over and charge it up his his own moving van firm. Then he called their van people, who jeered at him. MT. Spoggs might run around the block till he was out of breadth for all of themi Spoggs smashed an ink well and discharged the stenographer because she giggled. His mornings mail was still unopened and there were five people waiting to see him.
 Spoggs was still telephoning when his wife walked in at lunch time. She looked calm and cheerful and listened patiently to his tale of catastrophes. Yes" she said. its all right now, however. I went back to the house after I had breakfast to see what they hadn't done that they should have done, an1 then I just went around the corner and got an expressman to load on the stuff and take it across town, I've been out to the new place and the express wagon stuff has reached there but your moving van hasn't come yet'.'
 Spoggs proceeded to make feeble motions with his hands. "You-you tend to it," he said weakly. You see about it, Ethel. l I'm too busy!"
 T should think you'd be ashamed of yourselfI' said Mrs. Spoggs, who was only human. After you have made such a success of it so farI" "Hush!" said Spoggs. GO buy any hat in town you want!H-Chicago | News.