Year: 1859

file House.


From hsssuts raies from ne Morse.


Once npon time there was a man 20
surly and cross, he never thought bic wife
did anything right in the house. SO one
evening, in hay-making timei he came
home soolding and swearing, aud showing
his teeth and making a dust.


Dear love, don't be 90 ongy; there's a
good man, said his goody, tomorrow
let's change our work. t'll 20 out with
the mowers aud NOV and you shall mind
the house at home


YesI the husband thought that would
do very we'll lie was quite willing,


So, early next morning, his roody took
a scythe over her neck aud went ont into
the hay field with the mowers and began
20 mowl but the man was to mind The
house, and do the work At home.


First ofal he wanted to churn the but.
teri but when he had churncd a while he
got thursty, and went down in tho cellar
20 tap barrel Of ale. So just when he
had Knocked the bung and was putting
the tap into tho cask, he hoard overhead
the pig coming into tho kitchen. Thon
of he ran up the cellar stops with the tap
in his hand, as fast as he could, 70 look
aftcr the pig loet il should upset the
ehurni but whom he got up, and saw the
pig had already knocked tho ohurn over,
and stood there roofing and QruntinQ a.
mongst tho cream, which was running all
over tho floor, he was 30 wild with rage
that he forgot tho ale barrel, and ran al
the pig as hard az ne could. He caught
] Il, just as il ran out Of tho door, and gave
II such a kick that piggy lay for dead on
the spot Then all at once he remember
/ ed he had the tap in his hand, but when
he got down to the cellar every drop Of
ale had run out the eask.


Then he went to tho dairy and found
enough cream leil 10 fll the ehurn again,
and 80 he began TO churn, Tor butter they
must have at dinner. When he had
churned BIT, he remembered that thoil
milking COW was still shut up in sho hyre
and hadn't BIT 20 cat or a drop 20 drink
all morning al morning, though the sun
was high. Then all at once he thought
twas too far 10 take her down to The
meadow, so he'd just get her on the house
top-for the house, you must know, was
thatched with aods, and fine crop o


grass was growing there, Now thet
house lay close up against a stoep down
and he thought II he had laid a plank a
cross 20 the thatch at the back he'd casil,
get 70 the COW.


But still he couldn't leave the churr


for there was his little babe crawling a
bout on the floor, aud IL leave IT, h
thought, the child is sure 10 upset Il. =
, SO he took the ohurn on his back an
. went out with Il; but then he though
1 he'd better first water the COW before h
> turned her out on the thatch; 80 he too
= up a bucket 20 draw water out Of the wei
! but as he stopped down at tho well


brink, all the cream ran out Of the churl
\ over his shoulders, and 80 an down TO III
! well.


4 Now il was nour dinner time, and h


hadn't even got the butter yet, so h
! thought he'd best boil the porridge, an,
! filled the pot with water and hung il owe
the fire. When he had done that, b,
thought the COW might perhaps fail Of
the thatch and break her legs or neck
, So he got up on the house to tic her up
One end Of the rope he made fast TO IN,
cows neck, and the other he slppe,
% DOWN lhe chimney ana hcd around h
I own thigh, and he had to make haste, fo
T the'water now began to boil in the pot AM


be had still 70 grind the oatmeal.
/, SO he began to grind away, but Will
) he was hard at Il, down fell the COW oi
! the house-top anor all, and as she fell
she dragged the man up the chimney b,
I the rope There he stuck fast, aud q
for the COW, she hung half way down TN
[ wall, swinging between heaven and cart
for she could neither get down nor up.
[ And now the goody had waited seyei
. lengths and seven breadths for her hhs
1 band 10 come and call her home TO din
: ner, but never a call they had. At last


she thought she'd waited long enough


and went home. But when she got ther
I she saw the COW hanging in such an ugl
: place, she ran up and the rope In tw


with her scytho. But as she did thi


down came her husband out of the chin


neyj and 30 when his old dame came in
side the kitchen, there she found hin


standing on his head in the porridge pot.