Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1859-02-22
Nj. Heath was 1 kind husband, as thai

stood that is, be did not beat his wife,
and always give her enough to eat
More than that, lie had certain regard
Tor her happiness, which already made
him ashamed of bis decision. but Ike
many other men who have more obstina-
lcy than wisdom he could hit bear to re-
tract anything and above all to be CON
WINGED that He was wrona BY woman.
However, with commendable wish to
remove the unhappiness he eauaed, he
suggested that as the papers we're care
fully4filed, and she had found them inter-
estiEg, she could read them over again,
beginning At January, and taking one
week clear through the year they would
just come out even, he concluded, asif it
were 4 singular fact that they should do 50.
notwithstanding the admirable ptopo-
sition he still felt some uneasiness! 1t
followed him as he walked up the pleas.
ant lane to the pasture, aud il made him
speak more skapely than was His wont, if
the COWS stopped while lie was driving
them home, 10 crop me grass where, i
looked greenest and sweetest On the sun.
ny slope. 1t troubled him I'LL he heard
his wife call him to supper, in>such a
cheerful tone. that he concluded she
didn't care much aboutthe newspaper At.
ter all.
About a week aftersthis, as Mr. Heath
was moving one morning, he was SUR
prised TO seq his wife coming, dressed as
il for visit. al
I'm going. said she. To spend the
day with Mrs. Brown; / leave you a
plenty 70 eat, and 50 saying She walked
rapidly on. Mr.. Heath thought aboutit
just enough 10 say to himself. she don't
go yisitin' to stay all day, once year
hardly, and it's strange she should 90 in
hay time
Very long the day seemed to him to
60 in for luncheon, dinner and supper,
and tollaye nobody to speak To-; to ind
everything so still. The old clock licked
stiller than usual be thought, the brood
Of pretty white chickens thatWere alfno t
always peeping round the door, had wan
dersd off somewhere, and left it stiller
yet; he even missed the busy click Of the
knitting needles that was aptIto put him
out Sc, when he was doing any figuring.
Il am glad, :. he said to himself, as lie
began ID look down the road at sunset.
that Millicent don't 90 a pisitin' all the
time as some women do, there she is just
How tired you look, said lie as she.
came up; why didn't you speak about
il and I'd have harnessed up and come
after you.'
: am not very tired, she answered
but her looks belied her; indeed her
husband declared she locked tired for a
day or two after. II
n What was his amazement TO see her
go away the next Tuesday la the same
manner as before.
10 his Great dissatisfaction. everything
seemed that day to partake Of his wife's
propensity Tor gong from home. A.
man don't want cold food.ln hay tlne,f
SAID pc, az ne sat down 70 dinner. I'm the
grambl,aig mood he recounted the he mis-
hsps Of the morning, which seemed to
have been much after the manner get
torth IN certain legend OF oiden time
for he enlbelllshed his recital byallpsion to
s.The sleeps in he meadow.
i U Ths1eows are in the cOt tni
Adding that they wouldn't have been.
there,5if Mrs. Heath had been At home,
because she'd have seen them before they
got in, and halloced. She would have
seen the oxen. too, before they got across
the river, and saved him the trouble Of
getting them back, But after tracing all
thess outward events to her absence he
SAID to himself cQpsolingly, | guess she
wont go any more, she always was a
home body.
II Mrs. 3 eatl dld go though, and again.
ana the day she went for ths fourth time,
lef husband TOOK counsel win h!msell as
70 Waat pc should 40 % stop per gad
aoinS Seated on the door STEP ~ me
shaoo o.! tne ola trees ne spent an hour
or two ~ devlsIng ways and measures a
taking aloud al the time, ana having the
satisfaction q hearing nobody dispute
tim.
,Es II Is hard TO think Of her getting TO
Pc Be ay!sitin woman. sad he. and It's
clear y ann right. heeP her a. home,
iFe read 70 the bfoie, loid Richara' z 81
pie knowledge was somewhat confused,
quotation varied slightly from ne scrip
turai phrase. keepers a. nome, Dpt y
says VOC, ne adaed. WIN the Vue, SIN