Show annash A washday wash day dayi she had just got fairly fairly started with the weeks washing war hing bing when her worse half larded up and wanted to know when she was going to get dinner reidy ready she jammed a wad of clothes down into the washing machine and calling the youthful cioll of the house bade him keep that machine going upon peril of getting skinned alive and then bolted into the house and com merced fenced making the dishes rattle while the old man sat down on the porch and commenced whittling the kid around the corner of the house tugged away at the machine for a minute or two and then started to cry 1 I cant turn the thing he howled bowled as a his dad came round to enquire what was wrong its all clogged up in there here and I 1 cant move it the old man hated to be interrupted in his whittling and when his wife appeared and berated him for not helping the boy lie grabbed the file handle of the machine and commenced as though he was trying to weak in a yoke voke of young I 1 steers about the third lun lunge lune e he broke the handle of the machine and seeing a grin on the face of the kid who had been watching the performance he fired the broken stick at him the kill kid dodged it and then sat down on the edge of the porch a few feet away to watch his dad put in a new handle when this had bad been accomplished the irate parent commenced again 91 e jam and wrig wriggled kled the machine i around round but all to no purpose 0 abere was too much cloth clothing ilig in and it wouldn t work every moment he kept getting madder while his hia juvenile tormentor sat with the corner of his hat in his hia mouth in ill order to prevent an explosion finally the old man made an all unus unusually kallir vior vigorous jerk which fetched tte the to top P 0 the machine off and about al a ga gal a ion on and a half of hot soap boap bud struck him full in the face the he resulting com comments commenia menta were something something awful he rammed his hia hands down into the machine and yanked anaed out a wad of offending J clothes T the he kid could contain contafi n himself no longer and burst bura out I 1 laughing a ua liing this was too much and with a most imprecation lie he hurled the whole wad with all his force at tha retreating treating le juvenile his wife stepped around around the corner of the house j juat ui t as the cloth clothes escame came sailing through the air she happened to get gel right in their way and they swatted ed her amidships with a thud like unto a kettle ot of cooked cabbage 0 striking a brick wall and then a battle royal ensued the woman fairly shrieked her denunciation at this unexpected bombardment while her irate threatened to clean out the whole ranch upon which his hia wife promptly dared him to start while they ware nare still quarreling the image of his pa cams came back and venturing near the damaged machine the enraged head of the house caught sight eight 7 of him and made an awful k kick ick aimed directly at the juvenile intruders chair filler lie he missed the boy and also his bis footing and down he be went like the price of eggs in the spring he hung to the machine and it toppled over upon and thoroughly drenched him while his hia frantic ejaculations were drowned in a wad of dirty clothes he has been on a drunk druk ever since trying to get even with his wife for lying giving it away |