Litchfield enquirer., 1859-02-24

that as the papers were carefully filed, ant she had found them interesting, she could req, them over again, beginning at January, an, i tak'ngSone a week clear through the year they wapld just come out even, he concluded i! as If 1t Were singular fact that they shouIG ! do so.
 Notwithstanding the admirable proposition he stll ieit some uneasiness. It followed hin ! as he walked up the pleasant lane to the pas ture, and 1t made him speak more sharply tLal was his won't, if the COWS stopped while l., was driving them home, to crop the gras. l where it looked greenest aud sweetest on tn, fsunny slope. It troubled him till he heard hi. Ewife call him to supper, in such cheerful tont l that he concluded she didn't care much abou the newspaper after all. | About week after this, as Mr. Heath was moving one morning, he was surprised to Sc, his wife coming, dressed as if for visit.
 ' I'm going" said she, to spend the da, with Mrs. Brown l leave plenty for yol to eat: and so saying she walked rapidly on
 Mir. Heath thought about it just long enough to sayto himself, < she don't go visitn to stay ! all day. once year hardly, and it's strang, she should go in hay time."
 Very loug the day seemed to him to go in for luncheon, dinner and supper, aud to have nobody to speak to to find every thing SC still. The old clock ticked stilIer than usua he thought, the brood of pretty white chick GUS, that We're almost always peeping rouno the door, had wandered eff somewhere, and ! left it stler yet he even missed the busy click of the knitting needle that was apt tc put him out 50, when he was doing any tigur ing.
 II am elad," he said to himself, as he be gan to look oown the road at sunset, "that Mlcent 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"
 ' 1 am not very tired" she answered but her looks beljed her indeed, her husband de- cared she looked tired for day or two after
 What was his amaZement to see her go away the next Tuesday ill the same manner as be- fore
 To his great dissatisfaction, everything seem ed that day to partake of his wife's propensi- ty fet going from home. A man don't watt cold food i:l hay time, said he, as he sat down to dinner. fn the same grulnbling mood, he recounted the mishaps of the morning, which seemed to have been much after the manner Set forth in a certain legend of olden time ; for he embelIished his rectal by alusion to
 '' The shcep's in tbe meadow,
 The COWS are in the corn'
 Adding that they wouldn't have been there, if Mrs. Heath had been at home, because she'd have seen them before they got in, and hallo- cd. She would have seen the oxen, too, be- fore they got across the river and saved him the trouble of getting them back. But after tracing ali these uutuward events to her ab- sence he said to himself consolingly, guess sine won't go any more, she always was home body"
 Mrs. Heath did go again though, and again, and the day she went for the fourth time, her hushapd took counsel with himself as to what he should do to stop her gadding." Seated on the door step in the shade of the old trees, he spent all hour or two in devising ways and measures, talking aleud all the time, and hay ing the satisfaction of hearing nobody dispute him.
 "It is hard to think of her getting to be a visitin' woman," said he. "aud it's clear it ain't right. Keep her at home, Eve read in the Bible, Gold Richards Bible knowledge was somewhat confused, quotation varied slightly from the scriptural phrase, keepers at home, } but it says too," he added, with the true, slil- cere man, "that husbands must set great store by their wives and treat them we'll l ont scold Mllicent, I'll harness up aud go for her tonight, and comn' home I'll talk it all over with her, and tell her how bad it makes me feel, and if that won't do, I'll--somethiDg else"
 In accordance with his praiseworthy resolu- tion lie might have been seen, about sunset, hitching his horse at Mr. Biown's door for, strangely enough, Mrs. Heath's visits had all been made at the same place. Going up to the door, he stopped in amazement at seeing his wife in the kitchen, just taking off great woolen wash apron, and putting down her sleeves which had been rolled up for washing. He listened and heard her say, as she took some money from Mrs. Brown, " It won't be so that can do your washing again."
 " 1t has been great favor to have you do it while have been poorly" said Mrs Brown, " and I'm glad to pay you for it. This makes four times, and here's two dollars. lis just as well that you can't come again, for think l shall be well enough to do it myself"
 Two dollars, just the price of the news paper," exclaimed Mr. Heath, as the truth flashed across him. Rather silent ride they had home, till at last he said
 never was so ashamed in my life !"
 "Of what p asked his wife.
 !" Why, to have you go out washin' ain'1 so poor as that comes to-"
 We'll, l don't know" replied his wife, when man is too poor to take newspa per his wife ought not to feel above going ou washing" Nothing more was said on the subject a that time, though some i'll feeling fingered il the hearts of each. The making up was n' mawkish scene of kissing, embracing and cry ing, such as romance writers build their useles fabrics with, but as Mrs. Heath was finishin! her household duties for the night, she said