Show too much mrs laverty an irish lady who lived thirty miles from the american richmond was in the provident habit of las in ing in a store of groceries to last an entire quarter since she ehe could not repair to richmond oftener than four times a year on one of these provisioning expeditious ious timis she laid in a store of matches a disastrous investment since not a match would strike wild was her fury which was kept alight and aglow by her recurring daily trouble to get her firo fire alight oi and aglow without a match her wrath thus zept k ept at boiling point for three months gave the storekeeper a hot quarter of an hour when she burst at last into his store and thundered down the parcel of matchboxes match boxes upon the counter having 1 waited with deferential patience u util until the storm had spent itself he said suavely allow me madam taking a matchbox from the parcel the box lie ha struck it after the manner mahner of ulan men upon his hia trousers see madam he exclaimed in smug triumph holding up the kindled match the divil fly away wid rid yel shrieked mrs laverty do yo think that ivery time ive a fire to light ill thraves thirty miles to a match on the sate of yere breeches richard A king in belgravia |