Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-07-25

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not bear to retract anything, and above
all, to be convinced that he was wrong
by woman. --.s-tf 3D..
However, with commendable wish
to remove unhappiness he had caused,
he suggested that as the papers were
carefully saved, and as she found them
interesting she could read them over
again, beginning at January, and taking
one a week the whole year through
they would just come out even he con-
cluded, as if it were singular fact that
they should do so. H-t''i' ~t"ii '
Notwithstanding the admirable prop
osition, he still felt some uneasiness. 1t
followed him as he walked up the pleas
ant lane to the pasture, and it made him
speak more sharply than his wont, if
the cows stopped while he was driving
them home, to crop the grass where it
was greenest and sweetest on the sun
ny slope. 1t troubled him till he heard
his wife call him to supper in such a
cheerful tone that he concluded she
didn't care much about the paper after
all. %, ''.'. .i
] About a week after, as Mr.. Health was
moving one morning, he was surprised
to see his wife coming out dressed as If
for q visit. .4 81. f-f
al am going,'' said she, ''to spend a
day with Mrs. Brown. left plenty
for you to eat;" and so saying, walked
rapidly on. . 81 H.. .-4f. IL -
Mr.. Health thought about it just long
enough to say to himself: "She don't
go visiting to stay all day once year
hardly, and it's strange she should go
in haying time" i-A .iii .' .3..l..
Very long the day seemed to him; to
go in for a luncheon, dinner and sup
per, and to have nobody to speak to; to
find everything so still. The old clock
licked stiller than usual, he thought
the brood of pretty, white chickens
that were always peeping round the
door had wandered off somewhere, and
left it stiller yet; he even missed the
busy click of the knitting needles that
was apt to put him out so when he was
doing any figuring.
clam glad" he said to himself. as
he began to look down the road at sun
set, 'sthat Millicent don't go visiting all
the time, as some would there, she is
just coming" r -... .......
"You look tired" said he, as she
came up; "why didn't you say some
thing and I'd have harnessed up and
came after you" ant bs'r1qsl II aasa.
"I'm not very tired" she answered,
but her looks belied her; indeed, her
husband said she looked tired day or
two after. HIE fe-fE g EaE -'u. F.
What was his great amazement to see
her go away the next Tuesday in the
same manner as before.
To his great dissatisfaction, every
thing seemed that day to partake of his
wife's propensity for going away. " A
man don't want cold food in haytime," ,"
said he as he sat down to dinner. In
the same grumbling mood he recounted
the mishaps of the morning, which
seemed to be much after the manner set
forth in certain legend of Olden time /;
for he embellished his recital by allu-
sion to .i.-..... ii-.. ..- aa H-
"The sleeps in the meadow,
The cows in the corn -.
adding that they wouldn't have been
there if Mrs. Health had been at home.
because she'd have seen them before
they got in and halloOed. She would
have seen the oxen before they got
across the river, and saved him the
trouble of getting them back. But af-
ter tracing all the untoward events of
her absence, he said to himself, consol-
ingly, 81 guess she wont go any more !;
she always was home body"
Mrs. Health did go again though, and
again. The dayssshe went for the fourth
time her husband took council with
himself as to what he should do to
"stop her gadding." .., ,,l. ~;
Seated on his door step, in the shade
of the old, trees, he spent an hour or
two in devising ways and measures,
talking aloud all the time, and having
the pleasure of hearing nobody. dis
pute him." 4s. .la. -..-.l.#..f5:
at is hard to think of her getting to
be visiting woman" said he, ''and its
clear it amt right to keep her at home,
I've read in the Bible, (old Richards
Bible knowledge was somewhat con-
fused-his quotation varied slightly
from the scriptural phrase, ''keepers at
honey but it says, too," he added, that
true, sincere man, ''that husbands must
set great store by their wives and use
them well. won't scold Millicent; I'll
harness up and 60 after her tonight
and coming home I'll talk it all over
with her, and tell her how bad it makes
ME feel, and if that won't do, I'll dc
something else" '-
In accordance with his pralseworthy
resolution, he might have been seer
about sunset, hitching his horse at Mr.
Browns door; strangely enough, Mrs
Health's visits had all been made at the
same place. Going up to the door, he
stopped in amazement at seeing his wife
in the kitchen, just taking off great
woolen apron, and putting down her
sleeves, rolled up for washing. He
listened and heard her say, rs she took
some money from Mrs. Brown, cit
won't be so that l can do your washing
again." ..a ''|.. @.
"It has been great favor to have
you do it since have been so poorly
said Mrs. Brown, Sand am glad to pay
you for it. This makes fuor times,
and here is two dollars. 'Tis just as
well you can't come again, for l think
1 shall be well enough to do it myself
now.' ..-..s .....
1.-Two dollars-just the price of the
newspaper" exclaimed Mr.. Health, as
the truth flashed across his mind. Rath-
er silent ride they had going home
till he said:
"I never was so ashamed in my life. "
"Of what" asked his wife.
"Why.. TO have YOU 90 washing;