Show AVER A I MISTAKEN BUT MARTIN BOGGS OWNED UP TO miscalculation after slight accident nt caused by hie his stepping down ce cellar liar perhaps this was the least ho he could do but that was all in the course of a long and eventful life martin boggs had never been known to admit that any of the failures which had besprinkled his career had resulted from a mist mistake alto on his part 16 if his potatoes did lid not turn out well in the new place ho bo had bad chosen for them in the face of advice it was because ho he had planted them there as a warning ka to his son who aho had a notion to try experiments if his children had scarlet fever because ho he had bad failed to take his ills knifes wishes into consideration in regard to a visit to an infected house he them to have it although he thought best to say so if an investment turned out badly he had just put the money in to encourage co mirage the company although he knew it was no use and if a barrel of eating apples turned out sour he be had bought them to make into cider when he be opened the cellar door of a neighbors house one night under tinder the impression that it was the one which led to another room and then stepped stopped oft off Into space and landed on the cellar bottom it really seemed as if for once he would have to own to a mistake when it was ascertained that beyond some bad bruises and one or two easily remedied dislocations martin was safe and sound one of his old friends ventured a little mild banter anter 3 seems as if for once in your life you did make a mistake martin said this courageous person but mr air boggs turned a bandaged and reproachful countenance toward him it what id expect of you ez ry he said mildly to call a little miscal elation like thai thal a mistake youths companion |