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Show Preparing for the Future. Mrs. Jenkins had missed Mrs. Brady from her accustomed haunts, and hearing hear-ing several startling rumcrs concerning concern-ing her, went in, search of her old friend. "They tell me you're workin' 'ard night an' day, Sarah Ann?" she queried. "Yes," returned Mrs. Brady, "I'm under bonds to keep the peace for pull-in' pull-in' the whiskers out of that old rcoun-drel rcoun-drel of a husban' of mine, and the magistrate said that if I come afore 'im ag'in, or laid me 'ands on the old man, he'd fine me forty shillin's!" "And so you're workin' 'ard to keep out of mischief?" "I'm what? Xot much! I'm workin" 'ard to save ud the fine." |