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Show THE LAWS OF COMPENSATION. Mike Understood When His Wife Had Explained. A New Yorker tells of a young Irish couple in his employ, not long coma from the "ould country." Shortly after af-ter their arrival the young wife, ambitious ambi-tious for learning, entered a night school, since her duties permitted ot that. One evening, when she returned to the servants' hall from school, the husband asked: "Ah' phwat are ye learnin' now, v Molly?" "Tonight," said Molly, thinking to have a bit of fun with Malachi, "tonight "to-night the teacher read to us about the laws of compensation." "Compensation? What's that?" "It's hard to explain, but it's something some-thing like this: If your sense of' smell is poor, the sense of taste is. all the sharper; and if you are blind, you can hear all the better." Malachi reflected. "Sure," said he,. "I see. It's loike this: For example, if a man is born wid wan leg shorter than the other, the other is longer."- Harper's Magazine. |