The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-08-03


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About week after. as Mr. Heath WAS NOW.
| ;nr ane morn;no he was ssurrnorT;ssad IN soc
he ,v;fe oom;n, Ont dyassad % e for visit
esT am conc, sss,ag;5 she 2uto snend the day
with Mrs Rrowns K leave nlenty for Won to
eat - and so saving. she walked TanidIv on.
Mr. Heath tbonobt abont II inst lono
anongb 70 COW 70 T;1self 9.be don,i 90 1;s'
;t;ng to stav All dav once q vear hardly and it's
stra1e ee she should 90 in HAVING time
| Very long the aay seemed to him. to on in
| co. l,n.hooo J;n,,o. III ,,,-,,,ar ~ bora 10
The old clock tis3seI stiller than usual he
thought: the broo4 of pretty white ehickens
that were almost always peeping around the
door, had wandered off somewhere. and left it
stiller vet; he even missed the busy click of
the knitting needles that waszapt to put him
out so, when he Eas doing any figuring
"I am gIad,' said ne to himself, as he be-
gan to look down the road at sunset, "tilat
Millicent don't 90 a visiting 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
harnessed up and'come after you ?" q. SO
| ''I am not very tired" she answered; but
| her looks belied her indeed her husband de-
clares she looked tired for DAY or two after.
What was his greet anazement to see her
go away the next Tuesday in the same manner
| as before. h's
To his great dissatisfaction everything SEEM
ed that day to partake CT his wife's propensity
for going away. "A man don't want cold food
in haytime," as he sat down to dinner. In the
same grumbling mood, he 1ecounted the mis-
haps of the morning, which seemed to have
been much after the manner set forth in a GER
tain legend of the olden time; for he embel-
ished his recital by ailuslon TO =
"The sleeps In the meadow,
The cows in the eorn,' fa o p =
adding that they wouldn't have been there if
Mrs. Fl. had been at home, because she'd seen
! them, before they got in, and hallooed She
would have seen the oxen before they got
across the river, and saved him the trouble of
| getting them back. But tracing all the unto
ward events to her absence, he said to himself,
consolingly, Il guess she won't go any more,
| she always was a home body
Mrs. Heath did go again though, and again,
and the day she went the fourth time, her hus-
band took counsel with himself as to what he
should do to sstop her gadding." Seated on
the door step, in the shade of the old trees, he
spent an hour or two devising ways and meas
|
! the satifectiono of hearing nobody dispute him
"It is hard to think Of her getting to be q
visitin' woman" said he, "and It's clear it ain't
right-keep her az home, I've read in the Bi
| bic. fold Richards Bible knowledge was some
! what confused.S2sis orotation varied slightly
from the scriutural phrase "keepers at home, '''
Lbut it saws too" he added. with the true sin
cere man, ssthat husbands must set great store
| by their wives and use them weu. I won
scoid MilIicent: I'll harness up and GO for he
tonight, and coming home I'll talk it all ovel
with her, and tell her how bad it makes m,
feel. and if that won't do I'll-try somethine
else"
| In accordance with his praiseworthy resolu
ton, he might have been seen about sunse
hitching his horse at Mr. Browns door; fol
strangely enough, Mrs Heath's visits had al
been at the same Mace. ,t
Going up to the door. he stopped in amaze
ment at seeing his wife in the kitchen. lust ia
king off great woolen wash apron, and put
ting down her sleeves which had been rolled
up for washing. He listened and heard hel
saw, as she took some money from Mrs. Brown
! ait won't be so that I can do your washing
again"
ssIt has been a great favor to have YOU do i
while have been poorly" said Mrs Brown
and [ am Glad to nav Won for it. This make.
] four times. and here's two dollars. IT'S ius
as we'll that YOU can't come again, for think
shall be we'll enough to do it myself"
1.-TWO dollars; lust the price of the newspa
per-" exclaimed Mr.. Heath as the truth flash
ed across him. Rather silent ride they hat
home, till at last he said
"I never was SO ashamed in nv life" i
"Of what ?" asked his wife.
"Why to have you go out washing. aim
so poor as that comes to- l.-5
"Wel, don't know" replied his wife
his wife ought not to feel above going GU
washing"
| Nothing more was said on the subject al
that time, though some ill feeling fingered IL
| the heart OF each. The making up was n(
mocking scene of kissing, embracing and cry
ing, such as romance writers build their useles: