Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-03-16

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in most matters. 1t sounded so different
from her usual quiet " as you think
best" that he actually stopped moment
TO consider whether it was at all likely
she would do as she said. Mr.. Heath
was q kind husband, as that indefinite de-
scription is generally understood that
is, he did not beat his wife, and always
gave her enough TO eat. More than this,
he had a certain regard for her happiness
which made him already feel half asham-
ed of his decision, but like many other
men who have more obstinacy than wis
dom, he could not bear TO retract any,
thing, and above all, TO be convinced he
was wrong, by a woman
However, with a c~ommendable wish
TO remove the u%nhappiness he had caus-
ed, he suggested that, 4" as the papers
were carefully saved, and as she had
found them interesting, she could read
'em all over again, beginning at January
and taking one n week, clear through the
year-they would just come out even,"
he concluded, as if it were a singular fact
that they should do so.
Notwithstanding this admirable propo.
sition he still felt some uneasiness. 1t
followed him as he walked up the plea
SAINT lane TO the pasture, and it made him
speak more sharply TO the wv as he
was driving them home, to crop the grass
where it looked the greenest and sweet
est on the sunny slope. 1t troubled him
ill he heard his wife call him 10 supper
in such a cheerful tone that he con-
cluded she didn't care much about the
newspaper, after all.
About a week after this, as Mr.. Heath
was moving one morning, he was sur
prised TO see his wife come out, dressed
as if for a visit. "l'm going,' said she,
GO to spend the day with Mrs. Brown
I've left plenty for you to eat" And so
saying, she walked rapidly on.
Mr.. Heath thought Oft just long enough
to say TO himself, she don't go visitin'
to stay all day once a year hardly. and
it's strange she should go in daytime"
Very long the day seemed 10 him =
TO go in for luncheon, dinner and supper
and have nothing to speak to to find
everything so still. The old clock tick
ed sliller than usual, he thought the
brood of pretty white chickens that were
peeping round the door, had wan
dered off somewhere, and left it stiller
yet; he even missed the busy clink Of
the knitting needles that was apt TO put
him out so, when he was doing any
figuring.
"I'm glad" he said TO himself, as he
began to look down the road at sunset,
!" that Millicent don't go a visitin' all the
time, as some women do-there, she is
just coming"
How tired you look" said he as she
came up why didn't you speak about
it, and I'd have harnessed UP and come
after you"
"l'm not very tired" she answered
but her looks belied her indeed hen
husband declared she looked tired like
for a day or two after.
What was his amazement to see hel
go away the next Thursday, in the same
manner as before, without saying much
about it before she started.
To his great dissatisfaction, every
hing seemed that day to partake of his
wite's new propensity for going away
from home. GA man don't want cold
feed in hay time" grumbled he, as he
sat done alone TO dinner. In the same
grumbling mood he recounted the mis-.
haps Of the morning, which seemed &c
have been much after the manner sci
forth in a certain legend Of old time, FOL
he embellishes his recital by a~llusion &c
The Sleeps in the meadow,
The cows in the corn
adding that they wouldn't have been
there if Mrs. Heath had been at home,
because she would have seer 'em before
they got in and hollered. She would
have seer the oxen too, before they got
across the river, and saved him the trou.
BILE of getting them back. But after ira.
cling all these untoward events 10 her alb.
sence, he said TO himself consolingly,
81 guess she wont 60 any more, for She
always was a home body
Mrs. Heath did go again, though, and
again, and the day she went for the
fourth time, her husband took counsel
with himself as to what he should do tc
stop this gadding." Seated on the
door step, in the shade. of the ole
trees, he spent an hour, or two
in Gevising ways and measures, talking
aloud all the time, and having the salts,
iacIion of hearing nobody dispute him.
It's hard to think of her geuin' to be a
visitin' woman" said he, and IT'S clear
il amt right" "Keep her at home,"
I've read in the Bible, Gold Richards
Bible knowledge was somewhat confused,
and his quotation varied slightly from
the scriPtural phrase "kcepers at honey
but it says too," he added, with the truth
science ola sincere man, " that husbands
must set great store by their wives and
treat EN- well. | wont scold Millicent (;
III harness up and go after her tonight,
and comm home I'll talk it over with
her, and tell her how bad il makes me