New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-17

l think Hiram always had q good deal o
confidence in me if there was anything t.
be settled; and that's more than you ca,
say OF most men; at any rate. if man.
wife can make good mullins and doctor tn,
children through whooping cough, he doesn'
generally expect much more of her; a,
least that's the way with men about here
But my husband is different
After breakfast-(he ate little Cruel him
self. while | crumbled up the children's
miiklIafter breakfast he says:
And l said, 1--we got it Hiram"
I'm very glad" said he with dread
fully worried sigh: he looked most too wor-
RED to be glad. He asked me to sit up on
the bed and tell him all about it, and to
send the children Off-so I knew how wor.
RED he must have been. So sat on the
bed, and told him my plan, for I'd got it
very clear to myself between three and six,
and it didn't take half minute,
Hiram" said 1, 81 can't teach
No said Hiram, II don't think you
could"
Even if Sarah Pratt hadn't the district
for year to come, and her mother blind,
and her father with that leg"
YES" said Hiram
And plain sewing wouldn't earn our
II don't see how it could" said Hiram.
| There are so many of US; it never did seem
to me before, Paulette, as if there were 80
| many"
ut never did to me" said 1. "And now"
said l, "l'li tell you how I've got it. I'm
going to take the business"
The what :" said he
The business" said l.
Whose !" said he.
"YOurs," said l.
"Well, never" said he
"Of course you never" said l. .'you never
had the chance to-"
But ". L." said Hiram. "If it had been
dry goods without w. L."
LAS if l couldn't manage all the w. 1.
groceries there are in that store' said I.
why, yes" said Hiram, ''as if YOU
couldn't! Well, never " said he.
But Dincks wouldn't have another
clerk" said Hiram, you couldn't make
him put up with the putter Of more than
one clerk round, if it were to save his soul.
Dincks is SET"
"Dincks is sensible said I, land so ami
DO you think, should like to know. that
I'm going to support the family from being
any Of Dincks' clerks"
II don't know. I'm sure" said Hiram,
what you're going to do"
I'm going into partnership, to be sure,
You're not, though" said Hiram. Then
ne raised himself upon his elbow, and began |
to look 80 bright!
I'm going into partnership" said I, gin |
dry goods and groceries with Frank Dincks. |
I'm gong to buy you out II can borrow you |
out at least, and pay any interest you'll |
Ut was the first time that Hiram had
laughed since the attack came on,.
But, said he, II believe business con-
tract between husband and wife won't hold.
1t seems to me wife can't legally make a
contract ANYHOW a0mothinU liza T.. 1vbo+ of |
that now7"
You can make your wife a present, l sup.
"Of all I'm WORTH Why yes. That will
co. co. What else Psulette! ! guess we could
gavemo"
=. No; you're not!' said Hiram, II won't
Nobody wants you to touch it," said 1.
I'm going to add that five hundred dollars
=; = DUCKS needs to be bought over. In fact
. oons know out shall anyway. The shop
candy ought to be Southmands. eyerv stick
OF 1t. and the balnorals Frank Dnoks gets
arc enough to scare trade clear the ofhsr
side Of the river! Now, Hirsm!"
Oh, dear me, Paulette !" said Hiram.
~ course it's dear you." said I, cor I
shouldn't he doing it. Now, Hiram, I un- ,
oerstand dry goods and groceries, don't fp
You've always understood everything !
I've understood" said Hiram.
Hiram is an honest nan.
.. A1d can make money on it, can't I?v !
~. 0f course you can" said Hiram.
linen I'm going to do it," said l.
-, But you'll get molasses on your dreea !
Oh, dear me-" said Hiram.
las II never got molasses on nv dress
It homew said I. I'm going to see bncrs :
his mlnute;" and I got up and put on nv
Hiram never said word, and he looked '
70 pleased. - ~ ''>01 :
I'd got my bonnet ON and rot to the doo- .
Then l stopped. There was one thin@ +. | =
ladn't thought of, and I couldn't 90 With.
ut it, coming up. He was lying With his
yes shut, a. pale a. chalk, and smiling to n
imself. =
"Well, Paulette," for he saw waited q
ound. q.
Il suppose you SEQ" x
THAT I've got to be housekeeper? Oh. n
60; saw that ct first. When I get nm | v
:om this can manage very well. lis not u
10 lifting hogsheads. I'll see to that. | y
ont you mind that" %
But did mind it. I couldn't help it, To N
% him Lie 20 patiently, and take it in-for b,
know he took it IN. To wash tho dishes, o,
I'd run after tho children, and cot the table. 81
I'd chop tho hash, and do all the little y
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