Show ay how a lazy man xan was reformed Re formed formea mr ey was one ono of tile the most good natured idle happy dont jont dont jont care sort of a mail man that the tilo sun gun un ever shone abone upon it trouble hini hinl an iota iata whether ikera was a war in the kitchen or the crimea if lie he had but a newspaper a cigar and aud a lounge us as tall as himself whereon wl ereon he lie could recline at full length arid and see the ilia blue smoke curl up and waft away lie care where if mrs easy in the mood of or talking the whole family of little eagleb dance around s spin pin tops lops play ball bali overturn over turn the coal hods linds arid and take his best hat for an ottoman without his ever turning his eyes III in that direction but cut a very different kind of person was mrs easy she cho cherished that tha idea that nature intend cd ed her tier to be somebody and that the only obstacle 10 her tier rapid rising in tit the estimation of mankind generally was the of her slothful and easy husband when the thermometer indicated less than seventy degrees the hous house ewas was comparatively ively quiet and if it jimmy did pull beni Bent bennys bennis lys tys hair and set him to crying and then in III his effort to run away fall over his liis fat lat lathera lathers herlit boots and upset his mothers workbasket work basket why mrs airs elsy disy never pursued him farther than the door and then on ier ker her return would make him place tiie the news newspaper P a little closer to liis his face to conceal his ilia merriment oil on wednesday afternoon just after the dinner been cleared and everything arranged ranged cr orde arderry or derry i ra mr air easy was wait occupying hig his its fa favorite 3 pice alce pl ce on the tile lounge and his wife was eng eug iced sewing sawing the tha last button on a garment germent for jimmy wll wil when ea mrs easy exclaimed 1 I wish I 1 could jo go t to the file sewing circle this arter afternoon ter noon mrs airs ray and mrs airs holbrook and almost everybody I 1 know is going and they are to choose officers too and I 1 heard they talked of nominating ing no 1110 for president well gell do go said the tile husband laying hying down ts als paper to her tier utter astonishment having no her tier remark without her tier repeating it 1 I dont feel very well weil and I 1 will wili stay at home nd seo see tobe toba to vba tha children and have everything first rate when whoa you get back 11 first rate repeated ile lie the wife a little excited sou you yon have kept house before and when I 1 lot got home lome tome it looker as 43 though there had been a fire here and I 1 tad tai sai then I 1 would never leave you again with uie hie children well my dear you yon know experience ta la abood nood a teacher so just try me this once and see if you dont it nind find ii d things in good shape chape when yo you if ge get t back t the wife hesitated a few moments and then the desire to spend tile the afternoon with wild her friends and the idea too that when she returned she might bo be an officer in tile the society prevailed av oyer her fears of household disorder so after giving ier lier ller ter husband various instructions row how low to proceed for the next six hours of which lie heard not a word though a nod now and then caused liis ilia more ambitious half to believe that lie he treasured up lle lie the whole of them sho she went to her chamber to dress for the occasion half hlf au an hour after arter afterwards wards warda mrs airs easy entered the sitting roam room and her husband thought lip lie never baw saw lter her look more mom attractive attract ive ivo than she did in he her closely fitting boddice and brocade skirt and nd lie he firmly resolved res reg elred elved to do his liis best to merit ller her approbation when slie she returned VI 1 I want a piece plade of bread ani and butter gald slid jimmy about half an hour after his lia nother bolher had left ills his father fattier was waa still on the lounge with tile the newspaper benore before him and not bein being 11 accustomed to attend to the wants of the tha children abild ren he lie already 7 forgot the responsible trust ho he had assumed so jimmy 11 inding binding ills his request unheeded proceeded to help himself and going to the closet lie climbed to the top shelf in ae bearch search ach of the tho articles lie he desired but making a misstep down came jimmy bread butter mrs eases favorite soup and several other dishes dis liea come down jimmy said his father the crash having brought him to to lia lla his hia its senses 1 I am down implied the tha boy trying to extricate himself from among the frag frog fragment menti 1 I should think you were down and arid all your mothers china with you on gaid gald e aid ald mr air easy with sor sorrow row depicted depleted on his countenance but butt heie thelle there jimmy dont cry cryl ill buy some more before your mother gets gels back so you be a good boy and run out to play heres a cent for you 1 I and the tle father fattier took his pocket handkerchief an and ana d rubbed the tha butter either cither la in or off the loyb toys face and left it shining like an apothecary bottle by gas liblit hialit then gathering up the braken broken ware and putting all into the lite swill pall pail lie swept ill III there e r mallis mains maing of the butter into the dustpan dust pan and seated heated himself on his liis favorite spot but his lis its troubles hleb bles wera were rot lot rot yet ended for jimmys mishap and outcry had llad awakened dilag ella dila the youngest who wha had been F weeping sleeping in fit ho the cradle slie she vociferously do mand banded ed where was nn mi oh lord said sald her tier father hair half musingly ashes none gone one down to mrs No to the dewi sewing it g circle if it wu was a it man who invented them I 1 hope he lie will have to kee keep leep tio flo house every wednesday Y afternoon f as long as ha lives I 1 gone down to mrs airs No norwood repeated benny to whom jimmy had told the story of 11 liis ilis Is and who was now viewing ilia tile ruins ill go right straight strai lit down and find tell her that ilat jimmys broke a whole aole lot of dishes and the babas crying and pa wont give us bothin to eu 91 comeback come como back shouted the father while 3 tho tile perspiration K mood in drops on ott liis ilia face but the tile boy luew knew that hat his pa never used the rod so the call had no other effect than to make liim birn increase his its speed in tile the erection of mrs airs norwood No house the tha parent did not wait to give a second call but started jn ja pursuit of the fugitive lie ile was just descending the steps that led from cheout tile outer bidoor door to the pavement when owing to the butter on the soles so ies les of his boots he lie slipped clipped and fell reaching tiie the street without any mus muscular cular eular effort on his part me alt eab dasy easy T groaned aloud but lie he had no time lime to ascertain if any of his loues LOUPS were broken so away he lie hob hobbled blvd much to the tile amusement of a group of shavings boys who were weye on oil the tho corner opp opposite ogile in III pite spile pile of all his bin ex exertion exertions r tile the distance widened between him and hi fit undutiful son bon so lie he hire hired one of the tile boys bos bob to overtake denny benny aid bring liim ack b ck A away way went vent the boy on ilia ins errand while the tiie housekeeper forgetting he had left the tile biby wily b iby at home homo nione alone stepped in tiie tile nearest shop to rest presently present y he lie heard an outcry in the street and on oil coing going to tha ilet lift door lie he beheld his hit gou sou who had komg some of his ins mothers blood III in his ilia veins in mortal coni blit blat with the boy who was trying to force luin turn lionie against his ilia wiil will bean dean benny y had alread received a black eye ec tile the blood flowed freely from his nostrils and lils liis clothes were considerably the tiie worse for tile tiie arter after afternoons wear away went mr air easy to the rescue and antly captured son pon whose garments fluttered in tit the wind nind the tile group of bos bob volun voluntarily taril escorted them thera to their thresh hold and made tile air resound with vocal music thus giving publicity to tile file and aud increasing air eases troubles which se emed seemed to have no end ela eva eia who had seen between betseen between two and three years aars of life was of a very inquiring mind igind und when slie bile sw herself the occupant of tile the room and aad found that if ir she did cry there was no one to lle lie heir ir her tier she climbed up the lle ile lie side of the die cradle tipped it over mad started oil on a voyage of discie diseth ery on her tier own account her first attempt was to obtain a drink of water in III doing w bioli ilie mie i flie file lie lle upset a brimming pall pail and then stooped to qu tich ilch lier tier thirby from tile tiie brook siim slid llad had mide made m ide next she slie proceeded to all ati escritoire upon a small smail table tabie abl iii in the file corner of the tile killing room the large buk bibik bak marks the lle ile lie ink made oil on llie tile paper pl blaed ased her tier very much but in fit continuing thiis tills occupation the tile ink bottle was wass soon oot upside do down wll wit on oil th tha carpet tile he dark liquid spreading rapidly 1 though ellis ellas edu elu education cation catlon was limited she had learned to somo somkhut hat hut between right i and wrong her tier last bet net she concluded must be of the latter cluss class and to nuke amends she en deavo red to scrape up tip the ink with lier ller hands bands at this moment a fly lt ht on oil her lier nose noso and i ith the tile same hand she routed him hlin alter after tili tilli f it would I 1 have been difficult to 0 o determine to which or of the tiie five races gile blie oved obed her origin the next scene of action was the kitchen hitchen closet when wilen a pitcher pit aller olier of milk was partly drank and the tiie remainder poured into a pin pta pan pia of flaur ella began begin beg leg in to knead the ilia contents but slie site preferred prel erred more room so slie she dragg dragged the pau into the centre of the tiie parlor par or the door of that apartment being A few feuy moments after mr air dasy easy entered with liis ilis lis its sons sous determined 0 o shut them then up for tor tile the rest reft of the afternoon but what was his ilia horror to find his kitchen afloat tile the sitti fitting tig room carpet stained beyond all probability of haid nd tile the parlor strown m with ith flour aid lite literally rilly covered with paste jils first idea was of a voyage to australia and of leaving each eacil one to his late but then came the nought thought of his tile poor wife if ir I 1 have llave such suel a hard tinie lime in in taking care of the children for a few hours baid eaid he lie what must be poor susans trials truls s sta i tay ing here all till the tiie time and not only taking care cars of or them but attending to all lier tier other oilier clutier duller I 1 always alays thought women had a very easy time but I 1 give up that idea now and only wonder that so leo lew ure vre in the insane asyl urns from this time forth I 1 ain am easy no longer but I 1 will vill be industrious and frugal and if at home the onit whirlwind blow olympus high I 1 shall not it to lier tier but remembering this ay d ay iy seek for the tha t true ue cause after musing and resolving what to db he lie set himself liim self seif about restoring order once more inore betit but it seemed to him blin to look worse when ie le had imd done than when lie began for as us lie hadt badt thought to wash the tile childrens hands and remove thir their e soiled clothes clo cio thes they had been going al about out leaving their marks neither did his brain suggest lo 10 li in that if lie let the paste dry on the carpet it could be removed without injury but lie undertook to wash up tile tho flour in the same manner as lie he biad i done the water and the I 1 ink uk from tile llie other rooms and with tile the same came cloth too As lie he thought hot water inight be tile tiie best lie went to considerable trouble to obtain it arid and after car barring ring into execution his threat of shutting up the le bos boys lie went on with his work we leave tile the reager to judge how much tile the beauty be auty of llie tile carpet had llad increased an hou ilour r afterwards ahei with ith tired muscles aud and aching heart jie lie arose from his ilia humble position but we will not follow mr easy too minutely through all his troubles oil on that eventful afternoon while jimmy and benny were prisoners in the bed cocin they tiley amused themselves by phy ing luor ball around the room and circus on the llie white count counterpane erpa tle tie in a short time lime the wash washbowl bowl and pitcher were in fragments the looking glass cracked and the counterpane dari dali dangling gling ou on the floor mr air easy in his lis anxiety to 0 o keep keer the youngest one quiet gave iler her she desired As lie found she was mrs airs easy in minli minh turi turo when thwarted liek lie gave her tier bread and arid butter butler to spread for herself silver spoons to drum with wilh to cut a newspaper and when wilen mi lii iri bick was turned she cut lier tier curls and thern thein about the floor then she ehe called for tiie ilia sug gug ir bowl which lie iia considered perfectly harin harln leis but tile file lie room was soon thron thronged ged mth wit wil lifKe flie nnie by this time jimmy and benny after promising ng good behavior had gained their liberty and wi hed for a drink of molasses and waher waler wa lter ller this request was granted and arid they were permitted per pen pitied witted to mix inix it for themselves their thein father having aken taken a seat teat in despair and made up his mind to await pat pal patiently bently the lle ile lie result of all this his better half should retura but a scream from tile the kitchen brought him to his feet again to behold E ell eil lii iii dripping with molasses a large vessel of which benny had upset ella with willi blinded eyes grasped llie the first oll oil object eat that came in her tier way which happened to be lier tier with lis his bis its sunday pants on oil ala aia poor 1 air esy emsy bil bli on finishing his ilia cleaning operation j lie lle found his mi pants so whit flour pastel aid mid ink it would have been hard bard to tell if lie he were a baker or a printer so as his best oars were the nearest at hand lie he d dessi ff d his doured soured garb and i now what a misfortune mr air easy was mad tark mad and at thet tint moment lie caught a glimpse of tile the rod of correct correction iron irin which lay oil on the shelf shell and which lie he had often thou it was wag all nonsense to use but ile he was ilow now of a very different mind and applied it dexterous ly U iltis it OWL and then ceded coded the ilia tragic farce farco by putting them to bed sup BUp perles As lie he had tl not t ap appetite it did not occur to him ilia that they might not bo brt similarly inclined after the llie children lind lynd cried themselves lo 10 sleep steep and the tile house houss was once more still aill mr air easy eany i pondered in tit his mind whether it would ha be best for I 1 him to see his ilia wife or his wife lo 10 gee bee the house first lahd land lie came carne to tile the conclusion that tile the former lormer would be the tile better moda modo of proceeding lie UP kile klie knew she ii intended tended to stay in fit the evening ho bo 1 as it began to grow dark lie crept softly foelly down went to a clothing store near by and purchased a new pair of pants 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