Show finding the shears I 1 mrs major wheelock wife of the tiie old pioneer arid annd eminently respected citizen of that name leaned over the bar bai banister llster lister the other morning and answered him the shears why they ae are right down there somewhere I 1 was using them not five minutes a ago 0 gt the e major wanted them to trim off blanket at the barn and he marched into the sitting room and up to the family workbasket work basket of course they were there he tumbled a ball of yarn a paper of pins pigs q a half madg garment 4 a WWI button i y box and a pi pincushion pin n cushion oss off on the floor made a dive amon among bodkins bodkin worsted threads and darning needles and the shears did not turn lip j she he stood tb the e workbasket work hasket basket on its head no good then he went over to the whatnot what not and raked joff three or four photographs trailed down a lot of shells and lind knocked off two books but the shears were not there he was red in the face as he went into the hall and called out 1 I cant find hide nor hair of rem lem ern era and I 1 dont believe you ever hab had had any 11 now look again a good man she replied 1 I know they are right there the major got down on hands and knees and looked under the lounge no shears tsien tieu he stood up and looked on the mantel the nearest approach to shears there was a bent hairpin hair pin then he walked around and surveyed each windowsill window sill and gave the workbasket work basket another racket 1 I tell you there aint no shears or else pm im blindert blin dern a bat he shouted from froni the hall after he had given the hall tree a looking over bithy why major how impatient you are M no impatience about it I 1 tell you the shears aint here no one can ever find any thing in this house I 1 had bad to look a straight hour the other day to find a gimlet if you dont see them in the bedroom ill come down he entered the bedroom glanced over the bureau and stand pulled the shams off the pillows and whirled the pillows aroun dand then took down a hair oil bottle from the bracket and looked into it the shears were not in the bottle nor anywhere else stay they might have been carried under the bed by the mysterious household tide tido tid which carries arti artl articles eles cleg from room to room in an invisible manner he crawled under bumped his head on the slats got gob dust in his throat and was backing out with blood in his eye when his wife called out why what on earth are you after after after he shouted as he almost coughed his head ot off hin im pin after them infernal shears why here they are they were werd lying in my cewin sewing 9 c hair chair right in plain sight I 1 1 I dont believe it ill lii never believe it IQ I 1 looked into that chair over ten thousand times well there they are its no such thing youve lost lem em or pawned em or traded em for gum youve no more order in your house than an old copper he walked past the chair into the hall and was going out when she called dear arent you going to take t the hes hears shears shears what shears im going ov over erto arto to the store and buy me a pair of shears and if any human being in this house bouse ever puts a finger on ou rem lem em summer suffer er for it ill lii see if I 1 cant have a pair of shears in my house 4 after being married for upwards of forty three years and he be pulled down his hat and slammed the thet door with all his might as he went out detroit DetroU free press |