DISTRESSING ELEMENT OF A FLITTING DAY.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2101, 28 September 1875, Page 4

DISTRESSING ELEMENT OF A FLITTING DAY.

One of tlie most distressing elements in a moving is a small "boy with an aspiring disposition. If he carries anything, it must be a chair, which he takes on his head with the back at the front, so as to prevent him from seeing where he is going, and with, the erect legs in range, of the chandelier and upper-door casing. Thus equipped, he strikes a military step, improvising his mouth into a trumpet, and starts out. In less than a quarter of an hour he has the chair safely on the cart where it is not wanted, and is hurrying back after another. Before the carman has returned for the second load, the one boy has developed into eight, each boy ■ with a chair, each boy under four feefe, and each boy making as much noise as a planing'mill on a damp day. If a boy cannot get aqhair to carry, he wants two bedposts. He wants two, so that he can carry one under each arm. Then he starts down, stairs^ First the posts cross, each other at the front and nearly throw him down, then they cross.at the back, and the front ends^ fly off at a tangent, one of them digging into, the kalsomined wall, and the other entangling hi the banisters. But he won't let one orttiem go, but hangs on to both with exasperating obstinacy. In the meantime the caiWn, who is working by the load and not by i^ae day, is waiting by the foot of tlie stairswid wishing.that he had that boy backet \^© Ito'eTry Mountains for about 15 minutes^ and the anxious father with a straw bed in his arms and his eyes full of dust, is at the head of the stairs, waiting to come down, and vociferating at the top of his roice, until the dust from the tick gets into hia throat and precipitates him into a -violent fit of coughing. By the time the third load is on the way, the'novelty of helping to carry furniture is worn off to the boy, and he and his companions aw firing rubbish from Uio garret at each

other, or fooling with the horse just as some heavy object is being lifted out of the cart. The best plan for a moving family that has a boy is to get him a halfbushel of frozen potatoes to throw, and set him out in the suburbs until the affair is over. —Danbury News. ■ ■ , >