rendering the subject much clearer by shaking it mrs put the baby away in a cradle and folding her arms sat rocking it angrily with her foot how you stand there said mrs to her husband why don t you do something because i don t care about doing anything mr replied i am sure don t said mrs ill take my oath i don t said mr a diversion arose here among and his five younger brothers who in preparing the family breakfast table had fallen to for the temporary possession of the loaf and were one another with great the smallest boy of all with discretion hovering outside the knot of and their legs into the midst of this mr and mrs both themselves with t d great if such ground were the only ground on which they could now agree and with no visible r of their late laid about them without any and done much execution resumed their former relative positions you had better read your paper than do nothing at all said mrs what s there to read in a paper returned mr with excessive discontent what said mrs it s nothing to me said what do i care what people do or are done to suggested mrs ko business of mine replied her husband deaths and marriages are those nothing to you said mrs if the were all over for good and all to day and the deaths were all to begin to come off to morrow i don t see why it should interest me till i thought it was a coming to my turn grumbled as to marriages i ve done it myself i know quite enough about them to judge from the dissatisfied expression of her face and manner mrs appeared to entertain the the haunted man same opinions aa her husband but she opposed him nevertheless for the of quarrelling with him oh you re a consistent man said mrs an t you you with the screen of your own making there made of nothing else but bits of newspapers which you sit and read to the children by the half hour together say used to if you please returned her husband you won t find me doing so any more i m wiser now wiser indeed mrs are you better the question sounded some note in mr s breast he and passed his hand across and across his forehead better murmured mr i don t know as any of us are better or happier either better is it he turned to the screen and traced about it with his finger until he found a certain paragraph of which he was in quest this used to be one of the family i recollect said in a forlorn and stupid way and used to draw tears from the children and make em the good if there any little or discontent among em next to the story of the robin red breasts in the wood melancholy case of yesterday a small man with a baby in his arms and by half a dozen ragged little ones of ages between ten and two the whole of whom were evidently in a condition appeared before the worthy magistrate and made the following recital � ha i don t understand it i m sure said i don t see what it has got to do with us how old and shabby he looks said mrs watching him i never saw such a change in a man ah dear me dear me dear me it was a sacrifice what was a sacrifice her husband inquired mrs shook her head and without iu words raised a complete sea storm about the baby by her violent agitation of the cradle if you mean your marriage was a sacrifice my good woman � said her husband i do mean it said his wife why then i mean to say pursued mr as and as she that there are two sides to that and that was the sacrifice and that i wish the sacrifice hadn t been accepted haunted han i it hadn t with all my heart and soul i do assure you said his wife you can t wish it more than i do i don t know what i saw in her muttered the i m sure � certainly if i saw anything it s not there now i was thinking so last night after supper by the fire she s fat she s she won t bear comparison with most other women he s common looking he has no air with him he s small he s beginning to stoop and he s getting bald muttered mrs i must have been half out of my mind when i did it muttered mr my senses must have me that s the only way in which i can explain it to myself said mrs with in this mood they sat down to breakfast the little were not to regard that meal in the light of a occupation but discussed it as a dance or trot rather resembling a savage ceremony in the occasional shrill and of bread and butter with which it was accompanied as well as in the intricate off into the street and back again and the up and down the door steps which thb were to the in the present instance the between these children for the milk and water common to all which stood upon the table presented so lamentable an instance of angry passions risen very high indeed that it was an outrage on the memory of doctor it was not until mr had driven the whole herd out at the front door that a moment s peace was secured and even that was broken by the that had come back and was at that instant choking in the like a in his and haste these children will be the death of me 