The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-04-17

hanging the boy to the nearest lamp,
post.
The girls were in bad humor, because
they had been unable to get out shopping
that afternoon on a holiday shopping ex-
pcdition while mother was worried be-
cause tie bread had not turned out well,
and the buck wheat cakes showed ten
dency to become sour.
Mother said something about the bread
said she had been over the baking
nearly all day. aud it seemed as though
it never would rise. She said, Il think
either the -four or yeast is bad.'
Father, just to be disagreeable, sup
pose, said, "A bad workman always COM
plains of his tools
Mother flashed up instantly. She was
a good bread maker, and she knew it.
She sad, ''That don't apply to me. We
generally have as good bread as any one.
Don't you think so, Robert?"
Bob, who looked as though he was
working out scme problem in mental
arithmetic, answered, II don't presume
to crisicisc the fare at my boarding
house"
This was improving (O things, rapid
ly,-Bob calling our house his boarding
house.
After supper Bob went up to his room
and smoked cigar, and afterward came
down in more social humor. In ac-
cordance with previous arrangement,
he and Lizzie sat down to practice an in
strumental duet.
l sat in the parlor reading, and SO long
as the music ran smoothly on, paid no
attention to it; but suddenly there was a
discord, and then it ceased.
"You made u mistake there" said Bob.
pointing to the music.
No, it was you," said Lizzie, "and
there is whore it was" pointing at one Of
the hieroglyphics With which composers
dis6gure paper.
II beg pardon said Bob; "but l
| could not have made such a mistake, as I
am quite familiar with the piece. I
played it with Miss Peterson the other
evening, and she made the same mistake
you did-only she saw it when I pointed
it out"
'.Oh, yes; she would see that black
was white, if you pointed it out. What
has Miss Peterson to do with me ?''
surely thought that you and [ had
lived long enough in the same house
together, and were sufficiently intimat
if not friendly-to allow me to differ from
you sometimes, and even to quote author:
ity in support of my own opinion when il
was at variance with yours"
"Whatever friendly relations there
were need not continue You have chosen
to define your position in the house as
that OF mere boarder, and, as such, hao
no right to fout another young lady II
my face, and claim that because she
made a mistake, must have done so
too. You talk queerly about this music
anyhow. IF you arc as familiar with thu
piece as you pretend, why do you prac
tice it? know you are not right abou
that mistake, aud I don't believe yo,
think you are, yourself
If man had given Bob Carver the Ii
SO directly, I suppose he would hav
knocked him down. AS it was, he jump
ed up, without word, and went to hi
room.
Lizzie played several very lively airs
with great animation, and was as merr,
as bird until she went to bed.
Her apparent triumph over the matte
angered me-. and I bluntly told her sh
had been ill-naturcd and unlady-like
whereupon she informed me that "chil
dren should be seen and not heard"
At breakfast, next morning, all of u
had apparently regained our good humo,
but therc was something forced abou
Bob's gayety.'' I noticed that he an
Lizzie said nothing to each other. Whe
he left, he said he would not be back t
supper. Gle always dincd down town.
Asthis was not altogether unusual, n
one but myself appeared to notice it, e.
cept Clara, who looked at Lizzie with
sort Of II told you SO" glance.
Bob came home late that evening, an
1 we did not see him until next morning
| At breakfast Lizzie seemed about to sa