The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-01-19
VOLUME 4.


made him speak more sharply than was
his wont. if the COVE stopped which he
was driving home, to crop the grass
where it looked greenest and sweetest on
the sunny slope. 1t troubled him till
his wife called him to supper, in such
cheerful tone, that he concluded that he
didn't care much about the newspaper
after all.
About a week after this as Mr.. Heath |
was moving one morning, he was sur
prised to see his wife coming ont, dress
ed as if for a visit.
81 am going" said she, "to spend the
day with Mrs. Brown. / leave plenty
for you to eat; and SO saying, she walked
rapidly on.
Mr.. Heath 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
this time.'
Very long the day seemed to him to
20 in for lunche, dinner and supper, and
to have nobody to speak to; and find ev-
erything so still. The old clock licked
silenter than usual, he thought; the
brood of pretty white chickens that
we're almost always peeping around the
door and wandering off somewhere, left
it stiller yet; he even missed the busy
click Of the knitting needless that was
apt to put him out 80, when he was do.
ing any figuring.
81 am glad" he said to himself, as he
began to look down the road at sunset,
"that Millicent don't go visiting all the
time, as some women do-there, she is
just coming"
"How tired you look" said he, as she
cane up; why didn't you speak about ii
and I'd have harnessed up and come af-
ter your"
"I am not very tired" she answered
but her looks belied her; indeed, heI
husband declared she looked tired for 9
day or two after.
} What was his amazement to see her g
) away the next Tuesday in the Fam'
manner as before.
To bis great dissatisfaction everything
seemed that day to partake of his wife
: propensity for going from home. ~
Z man don't want cold food in hay time,
: said he as he sat down to dinner. In th
! same grumbling mood he recounted tn
mishaps of the morning, which seeme
] to have been much after the manner sc
t forth in certain legend out of the old
r en- time; for he embellished his recits
!. by an allusion to
u "The sleeps in the meadow;
e The cows in the corn"
II adding that they wouldn't have bes
l. there if Mrs. Heath had been at hom,
d because she'd seen them before they g
ID in and halloed. She would have see
1- the oxen before they got across the rive
Of and saved me the trouble of gettir
them back. But after tracing the III
r toward events of her absence, he said
II; himself consolingly, 81 guess she won
y go any more, she always was hon
1e body"
to Mrs. Heath did go again though, AZ
again, and the day she went for Il
n | fu.tk .;roo hor husbapd took noupe
at with himself as to what he should do
re- "stop her scolding." Seated on the do
an step, in the shade of the trees, he spe
an hour or two in devising ways al
RS. measures, talking aloud all the tin
on and having the satisfaction of hearing
one dispute him.
nt- at is hard to think of her getting
be visitin' woman" said he, "and
EN- clear it ain't right-keep her at hon
his I've read in the Bible, (Old Richar
Bible knowledge was somewhat conf
IT'S ed; quotations varied slightly from
Try scriptural phrase keepers at honey
icy it says too," he added, with the tr
sincere man, "that husbands must
OF great store by their wives, and tr
!: them we'll. l won't scold Millicent;
per harness up and go for her tonight, &
do coming home I'll talk it over with
or and tell her how bad it makes me +
ing and if that won't do I'll-someth
in else"
ou' In accordance with his praise wor
io" resolution, he might have been s
about sunset hitching his horse at
~" Browns door, for, strange enough, \
Heath's visits had all been to the 8,
u place. Going up to the door he stop
ia in amazement at seeing his wife in
10 kitchen, just taking off great woo
June wash apron and putting down her sic,
Wv" which had been rolled up for wash
0A He listened and heard her say, as
""' took some money from Mrs. Brown:
i'en won't be so that can do your wasl
again."
WIZ" att has been great favor to have
00"' do it while have been poorly"
Mrs, Brown, and am glad to pay
nou. for it. This makes four times, and b.
u " two dollars.
"'Tis just as we'll that you can't {
% again, for / think shall be well enc
'''' to do it myself"
1.-TWO dollars-just the price oi
1--WE" newspaper exclaimed Mr.. Heat
80 the truth flashed upon him. Rath
'e silent ride they had home, till at la
eu W said:
81 never was 30 ashamed in my
"Of what?" asked his wife.
f' "WhY, to have you go out washil
amt 30 poor as that comes to-"
" - "Well, 1 don't know" replied
wife; "when a man is too poor to ta
,a newspaper, his wife ought not feel q
80 going out washing"
~ Nothing more was said on the su
at that time, though some i'll fee
fingered in the hearts of each.
making up was no mawkish see
ii kissing embracing and crying, su
romance writers build their u
fabrics with; but as Mrs. Heath W,
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