| Show buring curing a grumbler or three days at home char CHAP I 1 L FIRST DAY r there my ray dear I 1 brought you home three quarts of berries aid said 1 john paley the bl blacksmith ack as lie he set the basket down upon tile he table tabie tab e what in the world did you bring brins three quarts ts for I 1 cant use more than two y replied mrs urs al rs paley oll oil oh well now I 1 think of it mrs thompson wants wanta a qu artand wished me to get them for her tier it i the man came along today to day 1111 humph now I 1 think of it I 1 want them myself and mrs thompson cannot have them never mind I 1 left a quart at the shop for luncheon tomorrow to morrow she can have them 10 I 1 edo do without yourself certainly if she site wants them she can have them you take good care of mrs thompson said mrs paley with a sl slight gh sneer neer because becaas Be caus I 1 let her have ha a quart of berries that 11 is more mere than any one would do for you or me rne reoh oh no I 1 guess not 1 I a aked Q her tier to lend me her washtub the other oilier morning tand and she doit dolt do it reeled mrs paley rather spitefully do it kl no P lend you a washtub john paley was astonished and indignant ind ignaut mrs thompson was a widow who lived in tle the next house and lie he had frequently been called upon to perform sundry little chores which her lonely condition required arid and now to have hey tier jehuse to lead his wife a washtub was the highest highet ingratitude and ana lie resolved on the spot that mrs mr thompson should not have the berries she an angel added mr mrs paley 1 I never supposed she was she would not lend you her wash tub no sho would not 1 I am surprised when was ill it laist monday morning 1 MO monday d morning mornings 1 you did not go to her for a tub on A monday anday morning did vou you you 1 I did at what other time timi shoud should I 1 want a tub well I 1 onty only on y asked her for it and it was mean of hernot her not to let me have it after we have done ro to much for her wex wel 1 john jhn paley wanted to say that hat we like the editorial singular meant only himself but lie he did not wish to stir up any more strife she told me she had clothes in it continued mrs paley well she seem willing to lend it to me so when she offered to take them out and let me have the tub I 1 told her tier she trouble herself it was very wrong marn mary for you to ask her to lend her tub on monday morning x 1 I suppose so if ir any one was wrong I 1 am the one pouted mrs paley disgusted with her husbands partiality and injustice never mind mary Is supper ready no that wood you got last is such miserable stuff it won burn at all it is the best I 1 could get and the tile best there is for that matter I 1 gave eight dollars a cord for it A fool and his money meney are soon parted 9 A fool and her husband but john rohn cut the e sentence short thinking it a little too wicked for the occasion just like 1 if there is a fool anywhere I 1 am the he one never mind mary let us havo hava supper as soon as you can I 1 am going to the caucus this evening you aret are you never stay at home bome evenings now why my dear I 1 have not been out of the house of an even evening trig irig for a month why did you go D at ak OR all ali because I 1 am deeply deeply interested la in the electon 2 mure so than you are in your wire wife she he re plied piled pil ed petulantly as she opened the stove e oven to see sea if the biscuits were ready 1 I leclare declare this Is tle like tie in eanest meanest oven I 1 ever saw it will not bake worth a cent lullove haye you just fouad found that out asked mr paley aley gir ill it was never good for anything and so mrs paley went on oil from one thin thing to 0 o another regularly and systematically condemning everything upon which she set her iter eyes she was not suited everything and everybody were out of joint nothing went right nobody could do anything to suit iler her john paley ivas was not particularly happy in hi his bis s dor domestic relations the porcupine temper of his wife was a continual annoyance to him it was waa very hard lo 10 ue his best endeavors lo 10 please her and then fail he bad tried to study her wishes but they were mere devices and in despair he gave up his attempts nothing that ile he could do would please her nothing 11 but that he she found fault with him film CHAP II 11 SECOND DAY john paley was of an easy temper lie he was disposed to make the best of or things a 4 lie he found them but there was no such thing as compromising with incessant grumbling like many others he be could not be driven to the drain dram shop nor even to the usual haunts of loafers ir IP the country places ile he was as obstinately bent oil on staying laying is at home in I 1 lie the evening 11 he e wa wave fond of read reading in and home was tile the center of his hip thoughts even the perversity of hh hig wife could cowd not eradicate his bis deeply seated sealed love for home still home was not a pleasant place to him at least not half so pleasant as it might migi t be iary mary loved him lie could not doubt trat eat DU during ring a long illness the winter before nie aie he had been unremitting remit tim in her tier devotion A piece of red hot iron fiew flew flew into his eye so eliat I 1 t the ball hall of it lia lla had bad d nearly run tun out ile he had suffered the most intense agony day by day he had groaned with anguish and seen tle tie tlc tears of ills ins v wife ife ite fall as she witnessed his suf suffering fering faring by night while he tossed in agony she had watched by him nor slept for a week lis nis L is pain was hers her herc anid ard and while lie he suffered she never complained of the watching and privation that his illness occasioned she ashe never used an ungentle word even when worn out I 1 with suffering he became testy and impatient she loved rian tiia she sacrificed all her tier comforts for him and why should lie he not bear with her m infirmity fir mity should lie he who had bean been so tenderly watched over who had been nursed and nourished so devotedly by her cast east her out should his affection be til all alienated from froma her tier it is true her fault was a grievous one it gave him a continual uneasiness it kept him harrasser harr assed from one weeks end to fhe the other it almost embittered his very existence 1 I will wil cure heri beri ber her said john while he lie was going home one day aa a new idea penetrated hig bis brain she will find fault with me when I 1 carry this leg of veal home it nill will be either too large or too small too loo fat or too loan iwan too good or too wd bad I 1 will cure iier her mary did find fault with the veal it was too fat and too laige and too good for persons I 1 in their circumstances but john held hed his peace and sat down to his ills slipper supper what sort of tea ea is this said lie he as he be pushed the cup petulantly from him what ii i the matter with il it asked bis his wife astonished at such a display of bulk buik sulk on oil his part ait it is too strong of hot water I 1 should like to get a decent cup cun run of tea once iu in my life why john I 1 it is nothing but 1 I am sorry it dont suit you it never suits me lie he added as he broke open a hot biscuit never suits you ano no and at the same moment he threw the he broken bisci biscuit alt ait back upon the plate again what iq the matter with the biscuits johnf johnt lohn john asked mrs at the singular conduct of other llor tier h husband a ab a nd there are great junks of in it if there is anything I 1 detest it is the taste of sal eratus in bread mary took the bicken hiscuit and examined it there is only a single 11 speck p 1 ck to be seen in it I 1 will cut it out pray ta take ke another john john did take another and brok broke P it open but perceived another speck of the offensive substance scarcely bigger than the head of a pin you any cold bread lie fie asked as he threw it back upon the plate there is none in the house replied poor ma ry ready to burst into tears with vexation t give me a piece of pie then mary brought a mince pie strong enough of cloves to strangle z a I 1 fellow filow said he strange that I 1 cant get anything fit to eat ent the poor wife could bear it no more her eyes filled with tear tears and she sobbed aloud john was not disposed to carry the lesson any further mury mary as much as she found fault herself was wag extremely sensitive and she could not slightest censure mary my dear lear do not weep said he lie going up to 0 o herf herp her hen and aud impressing a kis kl kis s upon her cheek I what is the matter with you john you never behaved EO so before 81 8 1 I 1 was only holding up a mirror to you yo you can now tell how I 1 feel when you find fault with everything I 1 do 1 I never will again my own diary mary forgive me if I 1 caused you pain you are too bad john but no worse are almost every day mary alary thought a great deal that night char CHAJT III lii THIRD DAY the battle had been fought and the victory won mrs kaleys heart was full of tenderness and arid sympathy she could not have realized realised reali reail sed the pain that thai her useless grumbling had caused her husband or she never would have indulged the habit babit she would not make him unhappy for the world and arid no now when the lesson leyson less in had haap opened 1 e n ed her tier eyes she set ct a guard tipon upon her tongue almost abw always ays an habitual grumbler is an indolent person A man or woman auman whose mind is is occupied has no time to be discontented but hut mrs kaleys was a krna kine of moral indolence fice kice she permitted pei her noble far ulues ullies to sleep f for or tile the time and discontent stola stela in while tile the sentinel was off egiard she had chosen chasen anew a ne w cou con i re of ric action tion but slie elie had hail to watch with willi cease ceaseless levs lauce just to curb the disposition to complain to hf he indolent was I 1 to ri lose iose the battle and fail i forgive me loh joh johi johl 11 6 4 1 wont say Alliot another li r word my dear lie ad adi 1 ded with a smile th jturner turned it all into shall shail I 1 P put t som pom e more tea led in in tile the teapot le apol no I 1 0 only n v sa ead bad A ulal dial the tile tea is very iery good ah ald I 1 see w viat lat you ou mean it is is al il rient you have inie done nobly my dear by and by cju ju will folget how to complain 1 91 I 1 hepe go 10 john for your sake apa ayd eventually mary did over oter overcome come tha the habit babit slip had all lle the lie bedet of a woman to make her tier happy a good home arid and a klud mud husband so thab her ilfe lilu might have been ben perpetual tuat tuai sunshine I 1 it if she chose to have it so 1 patience Pa tence tenca and perseverance will overcome all things and they will overcome ovel come the file vilest habit labit that ever eier clung to 0 o a sinning shining mortal with her tier the palm of v victory ic tory was d disputed is buted i inch n ch by inch and lier tier husband in had to tell fell ler t er tiie file lle ile lie tea was dishwater that tile the cakes asted lasted of or something g of this kind but the cure was at last complete she leagued to jokat the bright side and ignore the tile dark side cojohn to john calev bi longed the credit of tile the cure another might have been disgusted with matrimony pronounced the whole ihirg a humbug and gone from home to seek solace in tiie the company of the abandoned and aud dissolute disso lute lule to alm ilm 1 im the remembrance of h a cifes devotion iu in sick 1 ness was like an oasis Inthe in the desert deseri it is true it sas was vas her duty duly lo 10 take care of ism I 1 im in in bickne s but her ber devotion dt was not bounded by the of duty it was oas the tile of firring of love it was yas the hearts tribute alid and her husband saw that her tier grumbling was w as oui out only a dark shadow obscuring file the brightness of her character and lie he chased the cloud away laprairie LP rairie prairie farmer |
