The Middlebury galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1848-1850, 1848-02-22

nc asks vi tne uoI, AhpduehuI-
4 didn't know you wanted the old pair re-
plies the boy
Didn't Mrs. Lundy tell you that 1 wished
them?'
No SIR
well, do. Go and brush them as quick
ly as you can. fought to have been at the
store long ago.
Mrs Lundy, who is coming down stairs with
the children, at last ready for school; hears
what has been said to the-boy, and is thereby
reminded of her neglect in not having infor-
med him that her husband wanted his old
boots.
Il declare, Mr.. Lundy, l forgot to tell John,
she SAYS. i have so much to think about and
see AFTER
time. If YOU want good servant serve your
SELF coldly replies Mr.. Lundy.
The children off to school, Mr.. Lundy about
taking himself off also, says, as he stands with
his hand upon the door:
Il wish, Agnes, you'd sec that Sarah has din
ner in time. You know how it annoys me to
wait
i will try to have it got ready replies the
sing over her face.
are YOU HOl "eii, &AShSS' MI AuiNJ
asks.
No. she replies, I've been suffering with a
dreadful tooth-ache all the morning. and
feel as if every nerve in my head were a.
live
why don't YOU have the tooth out? 1 would
not suffer as much as you doif had to have
every tooth in my head extracted
Mrs. Lundy turns away with feeling OF
i. 10 . baox,lx. htrr1aua1 &
has no true sympathy.
Mr.. Lundy walks towards his store, health
in every vein, and vigor in every muscle; and
his wife goes YEARLY up to her chamber, half
mad with pain, and every nerve excited and
quivering
After Mr.. Lundy left for his store his wife
took the baby and carefully washed and dres-
sing it, during all the time of which operation
its loud piercing scream rang wildly through
her head, and caused both tooth and heart to
throb, as if beaten with hammer. After that
she had to dress herself and 20 to market.
Walking in the open air made her tooth worse
instead of causing the pain to abate. When
she came home she was so completely exhaus-
ted as to be compelled to lie down for an hour.
This brought twelve o'clock, when Macy,
Willy and Mary came bounding in from school.
hungry and impatient, and the mother had to
see about getting them their dinners, and at
tending to their numberless little wants, until
it was time for them to 60 to school again.
Half past one came, and two was the dinner
hour Remembering her husbands last words
about punctuality, Mrs. Lundy went into the
kitchen to see what progress the cook was ma
king. She found Sarah pairing the potatoes,
and looking as unconcerned as if it was yet
two hours to dinner time.
Your dinner will be late again. said Mrs.
Lundy. why is it that you keep things back
in this way, when have told you over and o.
yer again that we wish dinner punctually at
o'clock
My fire got down. replied Sarah, indifler-
emily.
WHY did you let it 90 DOWN.
1T got down, MAN, Sarah answered, with
toss of the head
Well satisfied from former experience that
dinner would be only retarded by any efforts
she might make to hurry Sarah, Mrs. Lundy
retired, and waited with a kind Of nervous
dread the return of her husband, her tooth and
head, meantime, aching with dull, boring,
fretting lpain.
Principally at two she heard the street door
open, and Mr.. Lundy's decided step along the
passage.
is it possible! Too bad-too bad she
heard him say, as he paused, on his way up
stairs, at the dining room door, and saw that
even the table was not set. Il wonder what
good it is for man to have house of his own
if he can't have things as he pleases.
i declare, Agnes. I'm out of all patience
he said, entering her chamber few moments
afterwards Il told you when l went away
this morning that wished dinner at this hour
and there isn't sign of its being ready. Ii
really looks as if it were done on purpose
If | had the cooking to do, you should never
wait minute: bnt can't always make SER
wants do as please replied Mrs. Lundy
That's all nonsense: | don't believe word
of it. l wonder how I'd get along in my bust
ness if were to let my clerks do as they IL
ked / have a certain order in my business
and every subordinate has his duties and
knows they must be done. Reduce all your
household matters to like order, and keep
ever, strictly to his duty, and you'll have
things right, and not without.
Mrs. Lundy feared her husband, or, rather
dreaded and shrunk under his displeasure
But she was a meek, patient suffering woman
who rarely spoke of what she felt, or resented
an indignity. She did not reply to her hus
!
Their than to say to him in subdued man
ner-
If you had ignorant, careless, self-willed /
IRISH girls to deal with, instead of intelligent
clerks, you might find it as difficult as do tC
have all things in order
Send them away if they don't do as YOU
wish I'd never keep girl in the house an
hour if she didn't do everything as l direc'
ted
You don't know anything about it, Mr.
Lundy. 1t is easy to say, send off your cook
if she is ten or twenty minutes too late with ;
meal, or serves it up badly, or does any othel
thing that is disorderly or Objectionable Blu
it is worse to have no cook than badIone
and as to good ones, they are hard to found
) now
Mr.. Lundy met this with one Of his sweep
ing specimens of augmentation; and complete
" silenced his wife.
But said he, impatiently, i can't wait YOU
cooks movements. My business has to be at
tended to-
And awayhe hounced from the house. II