The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1859-07-28

Last Monday morning. a.zss.zs
}, Monday morningI You did not go
to her for tub on Monday morning, did
u YOU ?" AaE1 aEE#TI a
I" / did. And what other time should
I want a tub ?"
Yes. But she would of course want
it herself then, and you could not expect
her to lose a whole day. just TO do you
favor" w. }4A24
/" Well, only asked her for It, and it
was mean Of her not to let me have it,
after we have done so much for her"
We !aJohn wanted to say that are, like
the editorial singular, meant only him
self; but he did not wish to stir up any
more strife. fr. .g.s.E..r 50.
She told me she had clothes in it,"
continued Mrs. Paley.
"Well?" o1 o' 'saia a-
"a" She didn't seem willing to lend 1t to
me so when she offered take them out,
and let me have the tub, l told her she
needn't trouble herself" z 9vEE
@" 1t was very wrong, Mary, for you to
ask her to lend you her tub on Monday
morning" --.
=" I suppose so; if any one was wrong,
am the one," pouted Mrs. Paley, dis
gusted with her husbands partiality and
injustice. a 'aaaaa
Never mind, Mary; is supper ready?"
d" No; that wood you got last is such
miserable stuff, it won't burn at all"
" 1t was the best I could get, and the
best there is, for that matter. / gave
eight dollars a cord for it." as.
/" A fool and his money are soon parted. Z"
"A fool and her husband But
John cut the sentence short, thinking it
little too wicked for the occasion.
" Just like you if there is. a fool any
where, am the one" safs rf s...-.-..
-ra Never mind, Mary. Let us have sup
per as soon as you can. | am gong to
the caucus this evening" -
I" You are! You never stay at home
evenings, now"
"Why, my dear, I have not been out
Of the house of an evening for a month, J"
Why need you go at all - 5sa-s.a
"Because [ am deeply interested in the
election" s .-...s-.a-- -...-..... .fa
"More SO than you are in your wife, :"
she replied, petulantly, as she opened the
stove oven to see if the biscuits were
ready. a s., ss.iisaa Ea. efu4 1tl rs
81 declare! This is the meanest oven
| ever saw. 1t will not bake worth a
cent" . ...
"Have you just found that out ask
ed John .ala- r-a aI l.agc-
-a." 1t never was good for anything
And SO Mrs. Paley went on from one
thing to another, regularly and systemat-
ically condemning everything upon which
she set her hand. She was not suited.
Everything and everybody were out of
Joint. Nothing went right nobody could
do anything to suit her. r- ....sa.a -..
John Paley was lot particularly happy
in his domestic relations. The porcupine
temper of his wife was continued an
noyanee to him. 1t was very hard to use
his best endeayors to please her and then
fail. He had to study her wishes, but
they were mere caprices; and in despair
lie gave up his attempts. Nothing that
he could do would please her; nothing
but that she found fault with him. faE
CHAPTER IL-SECOND DAY.
John Paley was Of an easy temper. He
was disposed to make the best ofthings
as he found them but there was no such
thing as compromising with incessant
grunlblmg. Unlikemany others, he could
not be driven to the dram-shop, nor even
to the usual haunts of loafers in the coun
try places. He was obstinately bent on
staying at home in the evening He was
fond of reading, and home was the cen
fer Of his thoughts. Even the perversity
of his wife could not eradicate his deeply
seated love for home. .,. ~ ..,. il ~a.. n.
Still, home was not pleasant place
for him-at least not half so pleasant as
it might be. Mary loved him-he could
not doubt that During long illness,
the winter before, she had been unremit-
ting in her devotion. A piece Of red hot
iron flew into his eye, SO that the ball of
| it had nearly run out. He suffered the
most intense agony Day by day he had
groaned with anguish and seen the tears
of his wife fallas she witnessed his suffer-
ing, BY night when he tossed in agony,
she had watched by him nor slept for a
week. His pain was hers. and while he
suffered she never complained of the
watching and privation that his illness
occasioned she never used an ungentle
word, even when, worn out with suffer
ing, be became testy and impatient.
She loved him; she sacrificed all her
comforts for him and why should he not
bear with her infirmity? Should he, who
had been so tenderly, SO devotedly loved
by her, cast her out--should his affection
/ he oGnnotad from har2