Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1850-10-05

HOt OedI W IttdCt any tuiiiSs duu aUoNc all,
to be convinced that he was wrong by a
woman. I'd M ff n aafesvA
However, with commendable wish to
remove the unhapplness he had caused, he
suggested that ssas the papers were care
fully saved, and as she bad found them in
teresting, she could read them all over
again, beginning at January, and taking
one week clear through the year-they
would come out even," he concluded, as if
! it were singular fact that they should do
| so.
Notwithstanding this admirable PROPOSE
ton, he still felt some uneasiness. 1t fol-
lowed him as he walked up the pleasant
lane to the pasture, and it made him speak
more sharply than he was wont, if the
cows stopped while he was driving them
home, to crop the grass where it looked
the greenest and sweetest on the sunny
slope. 1t troubled him till he heard his
| wife call him to supper in such a cheerful
tone, that he concluded she did not care
mch about the newspaper after all.
About week after this, as Mr.. Heath
was moving one morning, he was surpri-
sed to see his wife coming out dressed as if
for visit, "I am going," said she, '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 about it Just long
enough to say to himself, sShe don't 90
visitin' to stay all day, once year hardly,
and 1t is strange she should go in hay
| time"
Very long the day seemed to him. to
go in tor luncheon, dinner and supper, and
have nobody to speak to; to find every
thing SO still. The old clock licked stiller
than usual, he thought, the brood of pretty
white chickens, that were always peering
round the door, had wandered off some
where, and left it stiler yet; he even mis-
sed the busy clink of the knitting needles,
that were apt to put him out so when he
was doing any figuring. '''
"I'm glad" he said to himself, as he be-
gan 10 look down the road at sunset, "that
Millicent don't go visitin' all the time, as
some women do-there, she is Just COM
ing" 7 tF-.as I
"How tired you look" said he, as she
came up 'why didn't you speak about it,
and I'd have harnessed up and came after
YOU" '..
"Tm not very tired" she answered but
her looks bried her: indeed, her husband
declared she looked tired like for day or
two after.
What was his amazement TO see her go
away the next Tuesday in the same man
ner as before, without saying much about
it before she started.
To his great dissatisfaction, everything
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 down alone
10 dinner. In the same grumbling mood
hr recounted the mishaps of the morning,
which seemed much after the manner set
forth in certain legend of old time, for he
embelished bis recital by allusion to
"The sleeps in the meadow,
The cows in the corn"
adding that they wouln'nt have been there
it Mrs. Heath had been at home, because
she'd have seen 'em before they got IN, and
hollered. She would have seen the oxen
too, before they got across the river, and
saved him the trouble of getting them back.
But after tracking all these outward events
to her absence, he said to himself, consol-
ingly, 81 guess she won't go any more; she
always was home body" .as .. ..
Mrs. Heath did go again though, and
again; and the day she went for the fourth
time, her husband took counsel with him.
self as TO what he should do to "stop this
gadding." Seated on the door step, in the
shade of the old trees, he spent an hour or
two deyising ways and measures, talking
aloud all the time, having the satisfaction
) of nobody to dispute him. rH' -r.
s'It's hard TO think of her TO be gettin' tc
be vistin' woman," said he, sand it's cleaI
it ant right. keep her at home,' Pve
read in the Bible, (Old Richards Biblt
knowledge was somewhat confused, anc
his quotations varied slightly from the
scriptural phrase 'keepers at honey but i
says, too" he added, with the true science
OF sincere man, ''that husbands must Sc
great store by their wives, and treat Zen
we'll. wont scold Millicent; I'll har
ness up and go after her tonight, and com
i'm home I'll talk il over with her, and tel
her how bad it makes me feel; and if tina
don't do Pll-try something else" H
In accordance with this pralseworthy
: resolution, he might have been seen abou
sunset hitching his horse at MIR. Brown
door; for strange enough, Mrs. Heath
y visits had all been made at the same place
Going up to the door, he stopped in amaze
ment at seeing his wife in the kitchen ia
king off great WOODEN wash-apron, ant
I. putting down her sleeves, which had beel
d rolled up as If for washing. He listene'
a and heard her say as she took some none,
e from Mrs. Brown, SIT won't be SO that
o can do your washing again." n1
SIT has been great favor to have yo
is do il while Pve been so poorly" answer
y ed Mrs. Brown, sand | am glad to pay 70
it, This makes -four times, and here's tw
% dollars. 'ris just as well that you can
b come again, for think / shall be we
1t enough to do il myself" 8-ssl apama.
n "Two dollars--,just the price of tn
!" newspaper !" exclaimed Mr.. Heath, as th