Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, page 69 by Various Authors
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d help?"
"Am helping."
"What are you doing?"
"Packing."
"Packing what, I'd like to know?"
"Victuals."
"Of course! I might have known without asking. What in the world shall we want with victuals, in the street without roof or bed?"
But the father told him to hold on to his basket.
"You may be sure he'll do that," said the mother. "What in the world are all those boxes you've got there?" she asked as she dragged a sheet full of articles to the front door.
"Some things from my office," the doctor replied hurriedly.
"I just know they're those plants and fossils and casts and miserable things that have been in my way everlastingly. I was in hopes they'd get burnt up."
Without heeding his wife, Dr. Lively disappeared into the house for something else.
"Take those boxes off," she said to the drayman.
"Blast my eyes if I'm going to be lifting boxes off and on here all night for any darned twenty-five dollars that ever was paid. Hurry your things on here, or, by Godfrey! I'll dump 'em and be off. Blast me if I'll wait here a second beyond five minutes."
Just then the doctor reappeared, and began to turn over the contents of a sheet before tying it. "Oh, my dear," he cried in a tone of mingled remonstrance and despair, "we can't spare room for these worthless traps;" and he pitched out a pair of vases, two pin-cushions, a dustpan, a sieve, a kitchen apron, a statuette of Psyche, a pair of plaster medallions, Our Mutual Friend in paper cover, a pink tarletan dress, a dirty tablecloth, an ice pitcher, a flat-iron, a mosquito-bar, a hoop-skirt, a backgammon-board and a bottle of hair restorative.
"They're worth a thousand times more than those old rocks and things you've loaded up the dray with," Mrs. Lively maintained.
At last the truck moved off, followed by Dr. Lively, shouting to his wife to come on and not lose sight of him. Mrs. Lively seized a carpet-bag in which she had packed her silver and jewelr