Show A GENTLE REP REPROOF Roop every good wife and every just husband will appreciate the following 0 little sketch it is such a vivid lin linning limning ining of life that thousands will see in it a reflection of something they have witnessed if not realized one day as zachariah Yach ariah hodgson was going to his daily avocations after breakfast lie purchased a hue fine large 0 codfish and sent it home with directions to his wife to have it cooked for dinner As no particular mode of cook cooking hig was prescribed the good woman well I 1 diw knew w that whether she boiled it or jr made it into chowder her husband would scold her when lie he came line home but she resolved to please ilease him if possible and there fore cooked portions of it in different ways she also with some little difficulty procured an amphibious phi bious animal from a brook back of the house and plumped it into the pot in due time her husband came caine home some covered dishes were ivere placed on the table and with a frowning faultfinding fault finding look the moody man commenced the conversation 1 1 1 well wife did aid y you ou jj get tle the ji fish I 1 bought yes my dear 1 I should like to know how you have cooked it I 1 will bet anything that you have spoiled it for my eating taking off the cover I 1 thought go so what in creation possessed you to fry it I 1 would as lief eat cat a boiled frog why my dear acari 1 I you loved it best fried e yo you 11 any such thing you knew better idever I 1 never loved fried fish why you boil it my dear the last time we had fr fresh esh fish you know I 1 boiled it and you said yo you u liked it best fried but I 1 have b oiled boiled some e also I 1 ili I 1 so saying she lifted a cover mild and lol tite the shoulders of the cod nicely b boiled ed were abail neatly y depos in n a dish a sight which would have ni made ade an epicure rejoice but which only added addad to the ill nature of odthe the husband A pretty dish this exclaimed lie he boiled fish I 1 chips and porridge if bod you liada lidid not chot been one of the most stupid k kind you would have made it into EL a 60 cn bowder w r 11 rat Is my ear 5 sard Bh 1 I lavas was r resolved tsa amo 1 vf 1 ac briw to a p please I 1 i cr t wr arsia sia y you OW aji X I 1 tel yx 0 if is your favorite dish 11 I 1 tf y J F favorite v dish P 1 indeed grumbled wic discomfited huab husband and 1 I dare say it is an unpalatable bashy mess I 1 would rather have a boiled fro frog thara than the whole of UP this was a common expression of his and had been anticipated by ln his s wife alio as soon as the pre preference ferance was expressed uncovered a large dish near her husband and there was a large bull frog of portentous dimensions and pugnacious aspect stretched out at full length Zacha zachariah sprang from his chair not a little frightened at tile the apparition my dear said his wife in a kind entreating tone 1 I hope you will at length be able to make a dinnery dinner zachariah Yach ariah could not stand this his surly mood was finally overcome and lie burst into a hearty laugh lie he acknowledged that his wife was right and lie he was and declared that she should never have occasion to read him such another lesson and he was as good as his word |