Year: 1873

ferent departments to invite the cham


bers within their Jurisdiction to favor


him with their views on the project.


Preparing for the Family Visit.


The following racy sketch by the DAN


bury man is SO natural and lhe-like that


we are constrained to believe Bailey has


ss been there himself - ~ -


The man across the way is in Ridge


field this week, visiting his uncle Jo-s
seph. He took his wife and boy with


him. They left on the 9:45 a. m. train.


There is nothing very remarkable about


this, but the preparation and the get


ting away was 50 extremely natural


that we thought we would speak OF it.


The night before they stayed up until


twelve O'Clock getting 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 doors to see If it was going to rain,


and was quite-sure-it was, and as it was
too dark at that hour to distinguish OBJ


iects you couldn't touch, it was exit eme-


ly probable that 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 great weakness of the eyes, in get
ting the boys jacket over the boys legs,


he gave up the effort, and felhto dress


ing himself. After breakfast, during
which he fell asleep and tipped over q


cup of coffee, he looked out of one win
dow, and concluded it would rain sure,


and Immediately looked out of another
window and expressed q 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 8 O'clock sze,s


At quarter past eight he came over
| to ask us if we thought it would rain.
Twenty minutes past he asked the party


next door what he thought of : the
| weather. At twenty-five minutes past
on the next street, and at half past
eight he was waylaying everybody on
| the topic. About this time his wife,
| having twice repacked the trunk, and
! twice re-dressed the progeny, had got


on her redingete and jockey, and with


bouquetin one hand and smelling bot
! tie in the other, took up a position In the
parlor to wait for the hack, which was
due in. one hour and ten minutes, city
time. After sitting there IN calm and


patient attitude for eleven seconds, she
| jumped up and came over to ask our
wife if she thought the back breadth was
L


at once made thorough examination of


the back breadth, and and was briefly


able to9 make the gratifying announce


ment that, the back breadth was not a
| bit too full With her suspicious al
layed, the wife: of the man across the


way returned home, reaching there just


in time to rescue the progeny from q
latub of rain water, into which he had
j promptly fallen on discovering that he
| was alone. He was dressed 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
1 the way). As it was now 9 o clock, and
three quarters of an. hour before the


train was to start, it was reasonable
I to expect the arrival of the hackman,


and the advent of that worthy was ac-
! cordingly watched for. The man took
/ up his station at the gate and the next


corner, and between those two points
he moved with commendable CELEBRITY.
His wife took advantage of the luH to


come over and ask our wife If she


ever saw anything. like it, which that
4 lady conscientious1y admitted she hadn't.
j Then the first lady put her head out OF


the window and looked down the street,


but seeing no Indication of the hack
/ man, asked her husband If that man
had come yet. Thirteen seconds
i later, she ran her head out again, and


asked him where the progeny was. He


didn't know, and as it was absolutely
\ necessary that he should keep moving


between the gate and the corner, if the
i hackman ever came, there was nothing
! else to do but to go after the progeny
herself, which she did. He was in the


back yard, running, in connection with
another boy, -barreled bakery
and was completing an order for five
mud-pies, when his mother lighted upor


him. His transit to the house was II
, much less time than any boy could rea
sonably expect to make. By the time
} he had got into the fourth clean suit
the hackman came, and drew up IL
= front of the house., as did also thu
: children of the entire neighborhood
!, The arrival of the hack was the sigma
: for general and complete confusion
The progeny was poked into the car
T rage by his mother, and immediatel.
, pulled out again by his father, wh'
/ cuffed him on the head, and asked hin
l what he meant. Whereupon the chill
: dren laughed, and the progeny turnet
| his eyes on his nose and kept then
t there. After the family was loaded, AM
1 the baggage got aboard, the man OF tn
house commenced to think of the thing
r left behind, and the next five minute
: we're employed in recovering thos


articles. Finally the hack drove of


the woman protesting that somethin
q was forgotten, and firmly asserting tina


nobody else ever went away at sue
6 short notice, and SO lily prepared, as sh
: was obliged to. Then those oof th
8 children who failed to catch: on behind
as the hack drove away, fell to callin
1 the more successful ones what name
2 they could think of in the hurry, an
the women of the neighborhood move
. back from their blinds, where they ha
I been posted for the last half hour, an
came out doors to exchange opinion
: over the fence. g. seEg1f So


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