Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-12-19
HIS HOLIDAY.
Mr. Sparks Attends TO n Number o.
Attie Things Before the Ball
Match

Marie, said Mr.. Sparks to his wife
loyfully, I'm going to have q holiday
Tomorrow
Are youP" said Mrs. Sparks.
That is nice. There are a number OF
little things. about the house want
you to do for me-
Weller said Mr.. Sparks dubiously
Il rather thought I'd go to see the
baseball match haven't seen a game
for 1 don't know when"
We'll, you know yourself, Mr.
Sparks, without my having to tell you, >
said his wife calmly, that the wind
comes Into my window in a whistling
cyclone without the weather strips.
expect every night the baby will wake
pity to have a plumbers bill to pay for
fixing the sink when you could do Il
yourself in ten minutes.
oh! if that's all you want done,
Mr.. Sparks exclaimed, cheerfully.
can do those IN the morning and go 70
the match afterward.'
1T isn't quite ALL replied his wife
guardedly, but they are all tritling
things
Mr., Sparks woke in the morning
with a delightful consciousness OF not
having to hurry about getting up. 1t
was quite 10 O'Clock before he finished
his breakfast, and then he drawled
over the paper an hour before he went
TO work. Then he put on his old coat,
hunted up all his tools, and said to his
wife, courageously:
Now, Maria, Just tell me all there i:
to be done so you won't be saying
afterward that you wish 1 had done
this and that that you didn't even men
tion to me-"
Very well, AIr. Sparks, replied his
wife, composedly. I'll tell you all
can recollect. L want you 10 put OF
the weather strips in my room, and
while you are about it you might a!
well do them all over the house. Ther
you'd better Ok the sink, and whils
you are down in the kitchen see il you
| can mend the wTinger. Sarah says II
won't work, and l think she'll leave il
she has any more trouble with IL
Then there's that picture that's beer
standing in the parlor for weeks wait
ing to be hung, and I want you L
stop up that hole in the diningToou
with putty so the mice can't get up
| Then you'd better tx the caster on th'
dinlng-rOom table. You know yOI
SAID a good deal about it when yoI
were carving the roast beef and TIT
table wobbled so. Then there IS tha
shutter that Flaps so at night, and
Great Scott, Mariap exclaimed tht
master of this house I didn't say
had a weeks holiday. L told you
wanted TO 90 to the baseball match
You don't want to go ut IL O'Clock
do youp' Inquired his wife, cuttingly
| 1T doesn't begin until 4, 1 believe
And the longer you fool round tn,
later you'll be getting DONE
Mr.. Sparks saw the force OF thi
reasoning and went to work at once
/ while he WAS fixing the weathe
strips his wife reminded him that tn
springs of the shades were all loose
| He did not receive this suggestion
| very am!cably, and he was quite saw
age when she came into the dining
room and suggested that the stow
ought TO be set up at once while he Wa
grUyelling on his hands and knee
under the table trying TO get the cast
ers even. During ALI his yicissitude
the wary Mr.. Sparks kept his eye ol
the clock, for he was by no mean
weakened in his determination not I
lose the baseball match. At $50 b
| uEOHEGI tue AAA4AAAlEA anu N1ASh9 GAL
dashed hurriedly upstairs to change hi
| coat
"Why, James, are you through
asked his wife, mildly. won't yo
look here at the sewing machine
mInuteP"
tI can't indeed, Marie gasped Nj
Sparks, Is he struggled into his Goa
1t is halt-past three now and the mate
begins at 4"
"Half-past threeT" said Mrs Spark
why, it's half-past four. The dir
ing-room clock lost an hour. L didn
ask you to Tx it when came in ther'
for you seemed annoyed, but"
Mr.. SpIrks waited for no furth'
explanation, but tore mai'y OF 10 u
match. He WIS too late to get a sc.
to see much or the g8we, Cu- his Zee
ings found a slight vent IN savag
shouts OF dIsappTOyal OF every error I
the Giants.