The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1868-07-28

Just exactly as you please, my
dear
Mr.. Dater calmly sat down in his
easy-chair, lighted cigar, and pre-
pared to read the newspaper. Mrs. Da-
ter, after ringing the bell and consign-
ing the rosy baby to the care of SER
want, composedly took her seat in front
of the rosewood secretaire, and began
her task of writing letters.
If this il housekeeping, it isn't such
bad fun after all y thought our hero, as
ion of mankind, and lazily watched the
golden thread of sunbeam stretched
luminously across the tinted ceiling.
Presently heavy football sounded
along the carpeted hall, and lien, the
cook, appeared.
Ifye plaze, ma'am, what'll we he af-
ter havin' for dinnerp
Mr.. Dater will attend to you, Ellen
said the abdicated sovereign, calmly
motioning with her hand toward her
husband.
Mr.. Dater was little puzzled how to
meet this emergency, but not forworlds
would he have owned 1t
Roast fowls, Ellen, with current jel-
ly and celery-and-and niince pie and
suet pudding for desert (that sounds
all right, any how y
If yez'll give me the money, Sir, I'll
go TO the market right off,
How much do you require, Ellen"
Ellen reckoned up the sum ON the
ends of her stout red fingers.
'Itll he two dollars for the fowls,
Sir, and Il half dollar for the Vegeta
blcs'
'Two dollars aud half! Isn't that a
good deal of money, Ellen p
4 al In.a
money.
BE IA economical as you can, Ellen
Ellen went out tossing her head, and
muttering under her breath certain un-
deniable truisms respecting henhus-
sizes =
THE newspaper bill, Sir said Mary,
the chamber-maid, entering on tip-toe,
with n narrow slipof paper between her
fingers.
What is ii "
Thirty cents, Sir
Mr. Dater again unclasped his port
monnaie and handed out the requisite
sum. 1t was hardly more than "A mo-
mcnt before Mary again came in.
If you please, Sir, the wood you or
dered has come home, and Patrick DAILY
wants dollar for splitting it up
"A dollaru fretted our housekeeper ;
that IL too much
lie worked half day at it, Sir, and
it's what he has always asked said
Mary, respectfully.
Take it, thcnv sharply responded
Mr.. Dater. | must see If l can't get
some one to work for me little cheap
cr. / don't believe in paying the highest
prices for the least possible amount OF
| Worku
This was bomb-shcll thrown bcllig-
erently into Mrs. Datcr's camp, but that
lady wrote screncly on. 1t was not hel
cue to notice any such indirect method
of warfare,
THE big kettle, Sir, home from tn,
tinman's, put in Mary, once more. IT'S
fifty cents, Sir, if you please.
Fifty cents! Fifty cents for mend
ing a tin kettlep l. cried our hero.
'Ycs, Sir; it's soldered in two places
and
There is the groccr's boy coming NJ
thcstrect, said Mrs. Dater, glancing on
of the window. And, sure enough
Ellen entered presently, with sleeves
rolled up and white big-apron tied un
der her chin
'Thc bill from the procer's, Mr., Da
ter. all ready receipted
Mr.. Dater took the bill, and locke,
hurriedly over its list of contents.
. |
flour-eggs-c pins - carpet-tack
--- lemons hum -m-m-fOur dollar
and sevcnty-five cents Four dollar
and sevcnty-live cents for II grocer's bill
of two days standing My dear! IN,
dear! this should he looked into Their
must be some screw loose in our house
keepingP
You complained that the pudding
sauce was not rich enough yesterday
. Edward said Mrs. Dater, dcliberatel
folding the little note she had just writ
ten and last week you said that cake
, without a sufiiciency of raisins am
, spices, was merely galvanized bread
[ A man don't want all his chanC
speeches eternally brought up again'
: him. muttered Mr.. Dater, lookin
: rather confused, while his wife date
: another gilt-edged sheet of paper, an
began "a second letter.
well. what now" demanded NJ
Dater, in IA despairing accent, as Man
came In once more, stepping softly.
It's the shoemaker's bill, Sir; an
= would you be pleased to pay il now Il
L his rent comes due tomorrow, he says
How much is |"
n Seven dollars, Sir Mary hande
l. him the bill.
= 'Sev-en dollars For two pairs
Ia children's shoes! My dear Mari
IF isn't that rather unnecessarily eXtravi
IL CANT"
# 'Ifyou remember, Edward, you 4
v proved me, only yesterday, for allswil
: Bennie to go out walking in such sha
I. by shoes.
y. 'Well, there's no use in saying an
e thing. ! suppose the bill has got to
n paid, as the shoes are bought
is / suppose so, too said his wife, DIR
D. ly.
But no more remarks We're made II
< til Bennie and Tommy, two appl
le checked boys of seven and nine, can
lr bounding in from school, at noon, TO
and boisterous.
Mamma! mamma l want iif
T. cents for my new Geography, al
OF Tommy wants quarter for his slate
le Tommy's going into the cipherlng clai
IT mamma
Go to your father, my DEAR 81
Y Mrs. Dater; and the pater-famili
: slowly disbursed the requisite funds,
r. lently pursuing up his mouth into
H. whistling dose rs he did SO.
Papa! papap stormed in little Toi
=, my, clattering up stairs minute or t'
in afterwari, with all the combined en'
Sc gy of copper-toes and iron-nailed hee
Ellen wants a bottle of olive-oil
,.o | mako dressing for the celery salad