put you out i m sure i don t know she retorted don t ask me who said i was put out at all i never did mr gave up the perusal of his newspaper as a bad job and taking a slow walk across the room with his hands behind him and his shoulders raised � his gait according perfectly with the resignation of his manner � addressed to his two eldest offspring your supper will be ready in a minute said mr your mother has been out in the wet to the cook s shop to buy it it was very good of your mother so to do you shall get some supper too very soon your mother s pleased with you my man for being so attentive to your precious sister mrs without any remark but with a decided of her towards ther table finished her preparations and took firom her ample basket a substantial of hot wrapped in paper and a basin covered with a which on being uncovered sent forth an so agreeable that the three pair of eyes in the two beds opened wide and fixed themselves upon the banquet mr without regarding this invitation to be seated stood repeating slowly yes yes your supper wiu be ready in a minute � your mother went out in the wet to the cook s shop to buy it it was very good of your mother so to do � until mrs who had been exhibiting sundry tokens of behind him caught him round the neck and wept the man oh said mrs how could i go and behave so this reconciliation affected the and to that degree that they both as with one accord raised a dismal cry which had the effect of immediately shutting up the round eyes in the beds and utterly the two remaining little just then stealing in from the adjoining closet to see what was going on in the eating way i am sure sobbed mrs coming home i had no more idea than a child mr seemed to this figure of speech and observed say than the baby my dear � had no more idea than the baby said mrs � don t look at me but look at her or she u out of your lap and be killed and then you u die in agonies of a broken heart and serve you right � no more idea i hadn t than that darling of being cross when i came home but somehow mrs paused and again turned her wedding ring round and round upon her finger i see said mr i understand my httle woman was put out hard times and hard weather and hard work make it trying now and then i see bless your soul no wonder my man continued mr exploring the basin with a fork here s your mother been and bought at the cook s shop besides a whole of a lovely roast leg of pork with lots of left upon it and with and quite unlimited hand in your plate my boy and begin while it s master no second summons received his portion with eyes rendered moist by appetite and withdrawing to his particular stool fell upon his supper tooth and nail was not forgotten but received his on bread lest he should in a of any on the baby he was required for similar reasons to keep his when not on active service in his pocket there might have been more pork on the � which the at the cook s shop had assuredly not forgotten in carving for previous customers � but there was no of and that is an suggesting pork and pleasantly the sense of taste the too the and like the the man u eastern rose in of tlie if they were not absolutely pork had lived near it so upon the whole was the of a middle sized pig it was irresistible to the ia hei who though to slumber crawled out when unseen l their and silently appealed to their brothers for any token of affection they not hard of heart presenting scraps in return it resulted that a party of light in night gowns were about the parlor au supper which harassed mr exceedingly and once or twice imposed upon him the necessity of a before which these troops retired in all directions and in great confusion mrs did not enjoy her supper there seemed to be something on mrs s mind at one lime she laughed without reason and at another time she cried without reason and at last she laughed and cried tc in a manner very unreasonable that her husband was confounded my little woman said mr if the world goes that way it appears to go the wrong way and to choke you give me a drop of water said mis with herself and don t speak to me for the present or take any notice of me don t do it mr having administered the water turned suddenly on the unlucky who was full of sympathy and demanded why he was there in idleness instead of coming forward with the baby that the sight of her might revive his mother immediately approached borne down by its weight but mrs holding out her hand to that she was not in a condition to bear that trying appeal to her feelings he was from advancing another on pain of perpetual hatred om du his dearest connections and accordingly stool ain and crushed himself as before after a pause mrs said she was better i began to laugh my little woman said her husband quite sure you re better or are you about out in a fresh direction f no no replied his wife i m quite with that settling her hair and pressing the palm hands upon her eyes she laughed again thb man what a wicked fool i 