Show 4 A OBJECT LESSON WK WAS ENOUGH after the illustration mr mrs jones was able to understand just how it happened mr air jones believed thal no one need ever tall fall down it was pure carelessness he said anyone who walked straight and did not dawdle round was in no danger of losing his balance he said so to mrs jones many times but she only smiled in a provoking way one bitter cold january morning he I 1 changed his mind everything outdoors had a coating of ice the path leading from the barn to the house bouse was smooth as glass and slanted treacherously on either liani h and aff n B oss 0 side of it was an old cellar where the house had once stood jones was coming from the barn after doing the morning chores with a pall pail of milk in each hand lie he was just opposite the cellar when out flew his feeland fee tand down he went on his back the next instant he be had slid in a shower of milk over the edge of the cellar hole and landed on the hot bottom tom with a thump that fairly took away his breath he looked round in a dazed way for a moment and then crawled to his feet after making reasonably sure that none of his bones were broken he climbed out and went limping into the house to tell his wife 1 I matilda matilda ia tilda he called come out here I 1 I 1 obediently she came cama why hiram what has happened are you hurt she exclaimed startled yes answered jones 1 I tell fell down that old come here and ril you mrs jones followed her husband husban d gingerly see matilda he said as he rench reach ed the spot and turned 1 I stood right tere like this when once more joness feet flew RP bp and in precisely the same manner as before he landed in the bottom of the cellar silence reigned while mrs jones gazel atthe at the spot where her husband had bad stood ther then she saw his head appearing over the top of the bank hiram Hira tx sho bho said yom voi explain avy ary further I 1 understand exactly how it was done but hirama answer was a thoroughly ill tempered grunt youths mouths companion |