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Show wash up the dishes and do the bakin', well and good, but somehow it's gat to be done." ' "Oh, dear," groaned the old gentleman, gentle-man, as he meekly began tying a cloth to the nose of the coffee pot for the medium of the calfs first meal, "sometimes "some-times I wish you wasn't so sot, Mirandy 1" "When I do put my foot down," announced an-nounced Miranda complacently, "it means something." "The trouble ain't that you put your foot down," said Mr. Melrose, with unexpected un-expected tartness. "All I have to complain com-plain of is that you never know when to take it up again." And so struck was his wife with the force of this remark that next morning she said gently: . "Silas, I've been thinkin' mebby the calf had better be sold." Youth's Companion. Successful Rebellion. Mrs. Melrose was famed throughout the country neighborhood for her decided de-cided opinions and emphatio expression of them, and her husband, "good, easy man," was equally famous for his absolute abso-lute docility in following her lead. Only once was he known to protest against her mode of government, and this mo-I mo-I mentary rebellion was mild, like himself. him-self. A slight difference of opinion had arisen between them about bringing up a calf which had lost its mother. - "It's got a splendid white star in the forehead, and well keep it," said Mrs. Melrose cheerfully. "It's an awful job to feed it," murmured mur-mured her husband, who knew well that the whole duty of teaching it to drink from a coffee pot would devolve upon him. "Nonsense! it won't take half an hour, morning, noon and night" "I've tried it before, Mirandy, and I know!" "And I know a good calf when I see one. Silas, that, animal has got to be kept, and one of us has got to feed it If you'd ruther have me do.it while you |