Show THE BREAKER in appearance be WA was about As comi misplace moo mos place as a other peonie a middle aged nan man inclined to lne As A the imin 1 mow na be bo loused discussed lc used rommon place subjects with me mo in a corn coin moo place way I 1 ifould not have been to have bare been toll told ht lift he was a stockbroker s ci a solicitor or dat be wa was engaged in the toa wa trade in the coune course of our cht chat something happened to be said id isbart ctr carlous lous occupation e cu well aid said my companion 1 I do dot not suppose that there theft Is t any mort ore curious occupation than my own I 1 am a breaker break er I 1 it bad not a t at all 11 the appearance of a man used to horses but I 1 out A borse breaker you Y 0 U meant no a be said id just a plain n breaker A man who bo breaks things bleaka anything th ing that retire to be broken ret bis his ROD living S by breaking I 1 glanced d nervously at the comment cator rotor though be looked ev even e n if less like k a lunatic than he b did like a boric borse breaker 1 I see he ald said smiling I 1 that I 1 must lust explain when I 1 left cambridge ith fill a classical degree no prospect and no tt It fluence I 1 looked about tor for a profession I 1 found ev everything grything over crowded besides none note of the protes lona appealed to me at all 11 II I 1 ilk like to travel about little and dd I 1 enjoy octal social life I 1 like ilke talking talking to anyone I 1 hate work ot of aay any kind this taing the cae case I 1 looked about me too to see it there wn rs not a chance for or oae some new profession prot ealon it if among our million anti wants there was not one that was not supplied the idea came to me by I 1 was topping stopping at my uncle a house when he be received re a present from his hi wife a brother a on in ugly but very valuable pair ot of oriental ilia ills wife a brother was wa frequently in my uncle a houe house cd c d 4 therefore these abomination abominations bad to be displayed I 1 heard beard him grumbling about this I 1 suggested luc that he should sell ell them the idea wai was of coure course absurd he told me so 10 nor he aid said could he be break them himself melt bl tor for his hi wife a brother would never forgive mm him or rould r be hakala hak oak big hla wife to break 1 them because although alt houch he had hal been married fifteen year years be he felt that be he did not know her well 11 enough nor could he be aik ask the servants 1 to break them tor for tbt that would encourage care le lenneau and that Is all right I 1 aid said I 1 rose tron from my place and smashed the vases one after the other on the floor sorry I 1 waa was no clanry 1 I 1 aid said you hid bad better ring and have this rubbish cleared away lie rant ring and told the errant servant I 1 had broken them accidentally when NN heu bo bad aano he be said without a amile smile it seems rather f P pity I 1 I 1 said 11 1 I am very abort short of ready money could you lend me fire five pound jT iia lie wrote me a check for twenty and aid said that I 1 wa was a it useful man to know of then I 1 said recommend me to your friends nr or I 1 to the possibility a r my furtun profession 11 he mentioned me to some half dozen people h he 0 knew orae some of whom I 1 had never as e n ID in my life before they I 1 lent ent a I 1 lav it 1 cv T e D lt i I 1 AW I 1 I 1 jl I 1 0 I 1 W t k I 1 W I 1 N I 1 xa I 1 I 1 U I 1 W SMASHED THE VASES uon to their ho honea less and they indicated the object objects on which I 1 waa was to 0 operate la irk my first week I 1 broke 1 I remember a lamp shaped like an owl an ell painting a tea serviced and d a dining room table but an in oil painting I 1 aid said how ilow does one break an oil painting it la Is simple enough he eald said I 1 first of all undid the wire wires so tb the a picture fell then in picking it tip I 1 put my toot foot through the face it was a portrait of my host a e wife a aunt it waa was more difficult to break the din In ingroum groom table I 1 recollect that it became necessary for the purpose to tri invent a somewhat eom some shat boisterous bolet erous form cf rt round game even then we had to play it for three evenings 1 lefore the leg came off when I 1 left this ouse my boet host handed me a check and pom mom led to recommend me to other people I 1 never advertise and I 1 have more tr breaking tre aking to do than 1 I CA can possibly und unto for if I 1 could find an a young man with plenty of tact I 1 would take him at of it u assistant it murt need some tact tiet I 1 sug UK keeled it doel it eo so ottea happen happens that I 1 am employed by the husband without the knowledge of the wife or by tile wife without tua knowledge ol 01 the husband even with the utmost tact one OUS set gets oneself hut bua that gt I 1 mutt must put up with the other day ona ono 0 ot t my clent a ked me to come to bli his house to break a dinner service I 1 dined there and made wade myr if as pleasant Plea tit as a I 1 could and told several 9 good stories to rlee dut but then I 1 also broke the dinner servi service elp or most of it and it wa was one to which my hostess hoste wa was much attached she aid to him afterward 7 hlll never have that tb at brute in ill ayr 7 honee booze again and what did be bay say he a said 1 I fully agree with you my dear to the best beat of my belief the man wa was drunk if it be he hai had not been I 1 the h 0 eon son ot of an in old college friend I 1 should never hare bare asked him at all I 1 that was wa a little men hut but thin it wa was necessary for him to cover him aalf in some way and as a anever never break a a dinner service under twenty five pound pounds I 1 received ome some tor for the indignity HATO you got any engagements at present presen tr I 1 asked yes he be bald I 1 am going to one oce now but it Is A trilling thing 11 DO no tact at ail had i an assistant aas latant I 1 should have bays sent him I 1 am to go the day after a wedding reception aton tho th presents pree enta are sire belne being parked those which from their or worth leuba are ard ar D not lot worth packing up and sending to the a distant home bare have been placed on an a separate shelf I 1 shall upset 1 that shelf and accidentally 1 1 bt step P on an anything which la Is not broken in the tall th joep won t lake take five minutes and nd i crt get three tu guinea in as iu for iti 0 aa ant o doing it for the b rt degrood de grOOM without the th tte the bride knowledge edge of men begin to 11 won wom ft borr ry oon soon 1 nod find baz 1 I have I 1 said one or two little a eject in my own on acme bl bf h n S Y but at till moment lb IS train tem let orle station and though I 1 sentence atac otac ot ac to CoIn plato mr my bud nd my ubo bald 14 that it old would bs b glad tad at aar tiar time to oblige nr MO la in the confusion at mif 11 I 1 rl lct elf to ur take his bm name and or of to give him alna rain rala |