MAY DAY MADNESS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 2614, 10 August 1876, Page 3

MAY DAY MADNESS.

Tho oity editor of the Buffalo Express says an American paper, made a May-day movomont on the' lst inst., and unloaded the following : When it comes to lifting the stovo into tho express waggon, it is a good time to go into tho woodshed and spend ten or fifteen minutos looking fos tho coal souttle. Your wife will do just as Well to assist tho oartman. It is wrong to make paterfamilias carry more than two olooks, four vases, a group of statuary and the baby all at one and the same time Heads of, families have some rights whioh wivos are bound to rospoot. Abovo all, do not swear. If you feel in a profane mood, stop a moment and aing a verso of "Old Hundred.'.' Do I no.yoftd the waggon too heavily. It is i the -last ohaiv that frequently knocks the lamp > into "smithereens" or "puts its foot" in tho eye oE" George* Washington at tho battle of Yorktown."

The children holp things along amazingly. It fills the parental heart with joy to see two of them oarryirig a olothee pin down stairs and indulging in three fights on tho way, as 1 tp who shall rid 6on the noxb load.

The joys of life are completed when you sit 00, the t tap oi> the .atovo in youe new homo, auwottudod byibrulaed and mangled articles of furnituro, and a oompany of feline trouba- 1 dours strikes up a serenade in the baok' yard. Thon it Bponjs;ft» though there wero nothing more to Hyolor. ,; ( . ■ i . • -,\ < .>■• . I It is interesting to see a oartman whip his horse intp,aru.nwi(^a fulUoad of furniture. Tho .oropKor!p don!t enjoy it muoh, howovor.

! Have all tho ohildron of the neighbourhood , looking on. It is so pleasant to get your legs ontangiedii&adraallboywh^ you a»e trying, ' to keto v^ v dno,end of the stove and the jamb' 'of the door is sawing an ounce or two of floah off your knuokliNi,.^:,,',^' i .. oof '> ■ '•' -.I; H" 1 , Keep tho rat poison away from the baby it may disagree with him if he eats too muoji ;o f j[(j, ..■< ■■ '■ - ~<>~