Show calls essay we are living in the midst of peculiar times the reason we live in them is because we would have to did to get out of them and who ii hankering after death blat you know oa 07 anybody that wants my share of the grim can have it in this respect but in no other alere ia a great similarity between myself and my friend boulanger speaking of that out warrior reminds me that ho lias contributed a full cliare toward making the times peculiar the rapidity and dispatch with which lie and his easy vir tiled iberia change boarding houses would be amusing if it were not EO painful to the movers aliat liat let them rest it aliey can for if the sympathizing friends left behind in giddy parry had him they would gaie him a rest it if they had liala a cliance alie most peculiar tiling just now and tho one eliat country correspondents generally dip into first is the weather for six ion dreary weeks the clerk of that department office is situated upstairs in alio groesback block of glowing city had been bringing m rain every day As a little moisture was needed it did look as if the clerk was about to do something useful at last and make a step ia the direction of earning his salary but the rain tailed to keep sta appointments the official would explain the cause of alie delay showing that lie train was off the track or the clouds were on a strike or some kiich impediment was in the way but it would be all tomor to mor row sure the morrow proved to be like the yester and as a reason had to bo each time for the failure I 1 lie clerk must have been driven to his wile end after having formulated about dozen of those causes for alie delinquencies of jupiter after dragging that venerated gent into print once more I 1 happy in ho thought that t am out of range of any gun in ogden of course the collapse biad to come and the hireling of a subjected administration finally announced that ho had to give it up that owing to circumstances beyond any bedya control the ruin biad concluded no to romo at all that it biad made other arrangement and would pay m a vis t next season at the naiia latee no extra barge ly reserved beats that very night it rained cats and dogs the night and ISar relt played balock Bh lock from and from real life at alie bame timo at fa per head it rained barbed arrows with alie points downward one young fellow who ia tho proud of a sunday gill as most of us are before marriage and occasionally after put up ahe necessary halt a dozen ilen arii for two seats the weather made it necessary for lalni to employ a hack to take ills beloved to alo templo of thesila in and to bring her back ciomo alien the gouge game was oer which akas conr baudi more en route homeward he had hie coachman stop at a restaurant where he gave him half a doubloon to spend in alio llio saloon tho two were partaking of oysters and sich in the hail dispensary tho latter meaning alie austers ousters ou etc not the dispensary costing to more five francs worth 0 bonbonis bonbons afterward corn pletta mhd s las abo bolit catt 0 escoe la 10 ui in thel els tl TO athla id a good 0 thana am la possession of I 1 am homeer ho weer ot having onta at list l oilier fellow wah hate to wait forbore time yet a fea stains of liard earned aenas liaa to do with alm weather 9 it is yet the weather clerk can be induced another prognostication into the situation and male it appear to us hat it is going to rain all summer stopping I 1 fear ma that that ey tiling will be done we all have colda of various cf intensify and mino is BO bad I 1 hit it an effort for me to tell the truth so you may iiii anine how awfully beere it is another peculiar but ery interesting proceeding is alie condon con atal war the reminds me of the fellow eliat hunted a hear and found it ho called to a companion to assist leini in netting ibold of the game but in about en seconds wanted to know it there any means by which lie be assisted to let go of it lie is no doubt the same fellow lio broke up a bumblebees bumble bees convention because il would be such fun to see them adjourn lie also adjourned about the bame time but for a different reason |