s the breed my dear returned pa i think it is because they are not done they ought to be said yes i am aware they ought to be my dear rejoined her father but ain t so the was put in and the good tempered who was often as un employed in his own family as if he had been in the employment of some of the old masters undertook to the fowls indeed except in respect of staring about him a branch of the public service to which the is much this domestic discharged as many odd functions as his with the difference say that he performed with a brush on the family s boots instead of performing on enormous wind instruments and double and that he conducted himself with cheerful alacrity to much useful purpose instead of himself in the air with the intentions helped him with his and made him very happy but put him in mortal terror too by asking him when they sat down at table again how he supposed they cooked fowls at the dinners and whether he believed they really were such pleasant dinners as people said his secret and of remonstrance in reply made the mischievous laugh until she choked and then was obliged to slap her on the back and then she laughed the more mutual x but her mother was a fine at the other end of the table to whom her father in the innocence of his good fellowship at intervals appealed with my dear i am afraid you are not en yourself why so r w t she would reply because my dear you seem a little out of sorts not at all would be the in exactly the same tone would you take a merry thought my dear thank you i will take whatever you please r w well but my dear do you like it like it as well as i like anything r w the stately woman would then with a appearance of herself to the general good pursue her dinner as if she were feeding somebody else on high public grounds had brought and two bottles of wine thus shedding splendour on the occasion mrs did the honors of the first glass by r w x drink to you thank you my dear and i to you pa and ma said permit me mrs interposed with outstretched no i think not i drank to your papa if however you insist on including me i can in gratitude offer no objection why lor ma interposed the bold isn t it the day that made you and pa one and the same i have no patience by whatever other circumstance the day may be marked it is not the day on which i will allow a child of mine to upon me i beg � nay command � that you will not b w it is appropriate to recall that it is for you to command and for me to obey it is your house and you are master at your own table both our drinking the toast with tremendous really am a little afraid my dear hinted the meekly that you are not enjoying yourself on the contrary returned mrs quite so why should i not thought my dear that perhaps your face might my face might be a but what would that import or who should know it if i smiled and she did smile the blood of mr george by so doing for that young gentleman catching her eye was so very much appalled by its expression as to cast about in his thoughts concerning what he had done to bring it down upon himself the mind naturally falls said mrs shall i say into a reverie or shall i say into a on a day like this sitting with folded arms replied but not audibly for goodness sake say whichever of the two you like best ma and get it over the mind pursued mrs in an manner naturally to papa and mamma � i here allude to my parents � at a period before the earliest dawn of this day i was considered tall our mutual perhaps i was papa and mamma were unquestionably tall i have rarely seen a finer woman than my mother never than my father the irrepressible remarked aloud whatever was he wasn t a female your retorted mrs with an awful look and in an awful tone was what i describe him to have been and would have struck any of his to the earth who presumed to question it it was one of mamma s cherished hopes that i should become united to a tail member of society it may have been a weakness but if so it was equally the weakness i believe of king of these remarks being offered to mr george who had not the courage to come out for single combat but with his chest under the table and his eyes cast down mrs proceeded in a voice of increasing and until she should force that to give himself up mamma would appear to have had an of what afterwards happened for he would frequently urge upon me not a little man promise me my child not a little man never never never marry a little man papa also would remark to me he possessed extraordinary humour that a family of must not ally themselves with his company was eagerly sought as may be supposed by the wits of the day and our house was their continual resort i have known as many as three copper plate exchanging the most exquisite and there at one time here mr delivered himself captive and said with an uneasy movement on his chair that three was a large number and it must have been highly entertaining among the most prominent members of that distinguished circle was a gentleman measuring six feet four in 