Year: 1873

The man across the way is in Ridge
field this week, visiting his uncle Joseph.
lie took his wife and boy with him.
They left on the 9:45 a. m. train. There
is nothing remarkable about this, but
the preparation and getting away was
SO extremely natural that we thought
we would speak of it. The night before,
they staid up until twelve o'clock, yet
ting everything in readiness, and as the
train was to leave at 9:45 they got up
the next morning at 4:30. His wife got
up first, and looked out of doors to see
IL 1t was going to rain, and was quite
sure 1T was, and as it was too dark mt
that hour to see objects you couldn't
touch, it was extremely probable she
was right. While she prepared the
breakfast he sat on the edge of the bed,
and endeavored to dress the progeny,
but not succeeding, owing to a great
weakness of the eyes, in getting the
boys jacket over the boys legs, he gave
up the effort and fell to dressing him
self. After breakfast, during which he
fell asleep and tipped over cup of cof-
fee, he looked out of one window, and
concluded it would rain sure. and imme-
diately looked out OF another window
and expressed belief that it was about
to clear off again. Pretty soon he went
down street to secure a hack and came
back again to wait for it. This was
about eight o'clock.


AT a quarter past eight he came over
to ask us if we thought i would rain.
Twenty minutes past he asked the party
next door what he thought Of the
weather. AT twenty-five minutes past
he solicited the opinion of a little girl
OIL the next street, and at half-past eight
he was waylaying everybody on the top
ic. About this time, the wife having
twice re-packed the trunk, and twice re.
dressed the progeny, had got OH her
redingote and jockey, and with boquet
in one hand and smelling-bottlei in the
other, took up position in the parlOr to
wait for the hack, which was due in one
hour and twenty minutes, city time.
After sitting there in a calm and patient
attitude for ten seconds, she jumped up
and came over to ask our wife if she
thought the back breadth was not lit
tie too full. The lady consulted, at once
made regular examination of the back
breadth, and was briefly able to make
the gratifying announcement that the
back breadth was not bit too full.
With her suspicious allayed, the wife of
the man across the way returned home,
reaching there just in time to rescue the
progeny from tub of rain water, into
which he had promptly fallen OH discov-
ering that he was alone. He was dress
ed at once. (Some people would have
emptied that water early in the morning
and set fire to the tub, but they do not
live across the way). AS it was nine o.
clock, and three-quarters of an hour be-
fore the train would start, it was reason
able to expect the arrival of the hack
man, and the advent of that worthy
was accordingly looked for. The man
took up his station at the gate and the
next corner, and between those two
points he moved with commendable cell
erlty. His wife took advantage of the
lull TO come over and ask our wife if
she ever saw anything like it, which
that lady conscientiously admitted she
hadn't. Then the first lady put her head
out of the window and looked down the
street, but seeing no indication of the
hackman, asked her husband if the man.
had come yet. Thirteen seconds later
she ran her head out again, and asked
him where the progeny was. He didn't
know, and as it was absolutely necessa-
ry he should keep moving between the
gate and the corner, if the hackman ev-
er came, there was nothing else to do but
go after the progeny herself, which she
did. lie was in the back ward, running, IN
connection with another boy, a double
barreled bakery, and was completing an
order for hive mud pies, when his mother
lighted upon him. His transit to the
house was in much less time than any
boy could reasonably expect to make
BY the time he had got into the fourth
clean suit, the hackman came, and drew
up IN front of the house, as did also the
children of the entire neighborhood.
The arrival of the hack was the signal
for general and complete confusion.
The progeny was poked into the carriage
by his mother, and Immediately pulled
out again by his father, who cuffed him
on the head and asked him what he
meant. Whereupon the children laugh
ed, and the progeny turned his eyes on
hiS hoec anu hept Ineiu There. Alter
the family was loaded and the baggage
got aboard, the man of the house COM
menced to think of the things left behind,
and the next five minutes were employ
ed in recovering those articles. Finally
the hack drove off, the women protest
ing that something was forgotten, and
firmly asserting that nobody else ever
went away at such short notice and so
illy-prepared as she was obliged TO do.
Then those of the children who failed to
catch on behind, as the hack drove away,
fell to calling the more successful ones
what names they could think of in the
hurry, and the women of the neighbor-
hood moved back from their blinds,
where they had been posted for the last
half hour, and came out of their doors to
exchange opinions over the fence. -
Ddab,trg Netos.


SWINE CREEK-ORIGIN OF THE N NAME.
About seventy or seventy-five years
ago, there was man who lived at the