Then the parlor furniture could be moved in, and there would be
two comfortable rooms, in which Mr. and Mrs. Peterkin could sit
while the rest of the move went on. Then the old parlor carpets
could be taken up for the new dining-room and the downstairs
bedroom, and the family could meanwhile dine at the old house.
Mr. Peterkin did not object to this, though the distance was
considerable, as he felt exercise would be good for them all.
Elizabeth Eliza's programme then arranged that the dining-room
furniture should be moved the third day, by which time one of the
old parlor carpets would be down in the new dining-room, and
they could still sleep in the old house. Thus there would always be
a quiet, comfortable place in one house or the other. Each night,
when Mr. Peterkin came home, he would find some place for quiet
thought and rest, and each day there should be moved only the
furniture needed for a certain room. Great confusion would be
avoided and nothing misplaced. Elizabeth Eliza wrote these last
words at the head of her programme," Misplace nothing."
And Agamemnon made a copy of the programme for each member
of the family.
THE PETERKINS ARE MOVED.Page 126. The first thing to be
done was to buy the parlor carpets. Elizabeth Eliza had already
looked at some in Boston, and the next morning she went, by an
early train, with her father, Agamemnon, and Solomon John, to
decide upon them.
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