New Britain herald., 1917-11-02
REVELATIONS OF A WIFE
How WI1lian' Trumbul1 Described Madge to the New Nelghbors,
 '.All Excited Bout You Movin'.''
ny ADEIiD GARRISON

How Wi1liatn Trumbull Described Madge to the New Neighbors, "All Excited Bout You Movin'.'' I shall not soon forget the day I moved from the Brennan house on the outskirts of the little village of
 Marvin to the home Dicky had bought
 on one of the principal streets of the quaint old town.
 As I look back upon it 1t seems like a 24-hour nightmare, for 1t took us the whole of that time to make good our promise to get every bit of our household goods away from the Bren- nan gate by noon, the time our lease expired
 The worst part of tho work, of course. was Dicky's collection" of old books and periodicals. Because the movers had disappointed us, the time of Jim. ouf man of all work, was taken up with getting the furniture from one house to another by means of the horse and wagon he had se- cured. Katie was busy with the thou sand and one little domestic details of moving day, so Dicky's collection" was left to the tender mercies of Will liam Trumbull, the half witted old vil- lager, who had a dog-like devotion -SA WA AAAA06O o1AN AAySC11 AeLA ordered dozens of sheets of heavy wrapping paper, as many small boxes as could persuade the grocer to sell, and an abundance of strong cord. En- veloping myself In . dust cap and apron. and pulling on an old pair of loose gloves, I worked vigorously put ting the magazines into the boxes for William to nail up, put on his push cart and trundle through ankle-deep mud to the other house.
 It was when had finished the task and had turned to the files of news papers that my heart almost failed me-there were so many of them! Dicky saved magazine sections from almost every big newspaper in the country. He would never allow one to be destroyed, saying that some day he meAnt to clip and file them, and that then he would have one of the most valuablel collections of clippings extant. But I. had lived with Dicky long enough to realize that the day of filing, and clipping would never come.
 'Folls An Excited"
 However. had promised him to send them all over without the loss of a single one. and wrestled with the mase-I almost wrote mess-with g growing feeling of nervousness, and a headache that, beginning mildly, threatened to eliminate me complete ly from the moving before the day should be over.
 St William Trumbulrs accounts of the comments of the nearest neighbors of our new home didn't tend to lessen my nervousness, although had to smile in spite of myself at the tales he brought back Folks, all exalted bout your nov in in, Mis- Gramie." he said on his return from his second trip. T tell you their eyes were Jest glued to their winders. guess they never saw any, body moving such . lot of things with a push cart, They looked at me as if I was some circus feller or; somethin'. but I didn't care.'
 He tried hard to give an effect of nohchalance, but the poor old chap was so pu6ed up with his sudden in- troduction to the nmelight of public ! scrutiny he could hardly stop talking about 1t and attend to the tying up of the bundles Of newspapers, for the bulkier of which had to have his help. And when he started away with his second push. cart load he fairly
 ran, SO anxious was he to show off in his new-found occupation.
 He came back grinnlng widely from later trip. #-s What william Said.
 "Folks jest kaint stand 1t any long, er." he announced. '"They jest had 1 to come down to the road and ask me who's movin' in. One woman, she wanted to know if there was g. rag | picker coming into their neighbor- l hood, and another one. she put her nose up like this and she says: What perfectly impossible people they must be- guess mebbe they don't like l so many newspapers a-coming." he went on naively. T never did see so many newspapers myself in all my life" .t' .i S :. ] What did you tell thern when they 1 asked about us?" I said curiously. 'ewhy, I told them the truth" He
 looked up at mo with such g. trustful, 1 childlike look in his poor, neaT-sight- 1 ed eyes that forgave him the de- scription his next words showed he had given our new neighbors., 1 II said you were awful nice folks" 1 he said earnestly. '9 told them your