| Show A SLENDER REPAST mr brings horn home cou coil amny pany to dinner on pay tB brooklyn rooklyn say my dear deal whispered mr d ace closing the door carefully an and apar approaching one li I 1 his ls i wife with a broad grin on lincis his visage say my dear clear down stairs stai rain in tho the parlor he ile has come to take dinner with 11 great grent gracious I 1 exclaimed mrs dropping lier her work and astling up tip to the glass to arrange her hair bair what did he come today to day abr dont you know its ww washday wash liday day he ile came for dinnell din nerl retorted mr Spon turning pale palo around round a the lips what wha t dye I 1 ose he came lor for to be washed washday wash day got to do with it think the man mah can be soaked in a tab and hung over the clothesline clothes line lina with a measly wooden pin I 1 astride of his back W well all he lie he be came for grub and anti bod you want to hustle around and get it pretty lively fur for him or ill begin to serve up things myself before long 14 but my dear remonstrated mrs theres noth ing in the house I 1 the clothes t then serve up the tho clothes roared mr who bad utterly forgotten tho the day of the week areek when he invited his friend and now wanted his wife to get him out of tho the scrape somehow and at the sometime same time not let him bini down with Speckle just put the clothes on a platter and set them before him I 1 you jean can explain to him that we only eat three times a week like a dog in hot weather I 1 satisfy him bira so ion long 9 as he has the clothes to eat you dont imagine he be would want to cat eat the clothes do 10 you 7 asked mra mrs innocent ly juet just try him I 1 yelled mr on op endyke enraged at the of being taken literally try itry him and sling in some of natural grace you always put on at the table mr Speckle have bave some of this fricasseed fricas seed petticoat and mr P endyke held out the legs legit of his trousers as a woman in an holds her skirts and waltzed around the room mr speckle have a little of this poached night shirt now mr tie ile do try some e of these fried socks and aalice of the pillow illow sharn I 1 mr speck Speckle I tg pray let help you to a piece of th this shirt collar and a pair of stuffed cuffs cults made them myself and though they are not aa tu good as the way to do it I 1 continued mr suddenly conclude conc ludi his remarks with a war whoop pi presenting r benting himself before his all out of breath think got tho the bill of faro fare all right your way clear to a successful dinner party now i 11 theres heres some cold colit shad downstairs and I 1 think there is raw ham hani in the cellar ruminated rumina ted mrs S ie regarding garding her bulland lius band with a startled look of inquiry as if ask ing if lie thought Speckle would mana the meat b being and the fiali fish a trifle cold 1 I dont think he hag has anything home mondays except cabbage and beans or perhaps lie may have doughnuts and pie she site continued hastily seang seema her husband swelling g with a retort and im sure and doughnuts and pies are good what ha lie wants howled mr air bring furth forth the ahn that froze to death in house of the bain with a crumpled horn that milked the shad that croo to death in the house of develop the measly banquet and let joy be unconfined aint yo got any more sense penso than a bunghole bung hole think im going to brin bring tho the aristocracy here to fatten on oil dead lead fish and live liggs how long arc are you going to let that madwit man elt downstairs in a state of starvation wheres that roast af beef I 1 brought home hoine the other day 1 I think we etc that all U up p the tile day da y it came can e home bome sighed 1 mrs PPe dyk dodou do you mean that tila i roast ith the tile q queer leer little sticks in it vo the came 1 replied mr endyke nervi nerving ng himself for another ordeal did we eat the sticks am I 1 to understand that there is not one little baick left of all that affluent luxuriousness lift tho tile impenetrable veil of obscurity off the secluded bower of the shrinking ilir sticks he lie yelled as it dawned 0 on him that Speckle afas vaa in tho the parlor waiting to be fed and that t the 0 social problem wag no near ersul ution than when he started let us avel the mystery that hanga like a pall over the fate of the unhappy sticks that they may come gottli forth and fuld fructify y speckle and wad in the tile exem of his emotion mr gasped for breath and resting resting hia his hands hand 3 on his kneas looked aa na llie he berc inviting his wife to a little game of leapfrog Vi theres teres some lettuce in the house and I 1 bought some strawberries today to day and I 1 could cook the steak I 1 sayad over for breakfast murmured mra mrs coming out triumphantly in the end ond womanlike woman like and I 1 will put on my new wine wino colored satin and we wi will give I 1 him ilia a nice nice su supper peer going to put that wine ine cored colored ratin ou on the thad or tho ham I 1 howled mr who ho had a roans mans idea that a it dinner is not a I 1 dinner until ila its roasted TI think ink I 1 brought that man here atil at ue in the afternoon to take b breakfast gat some kind of a notion that cold wormy worm lettuce green straw fried cow are going to in satisfy the arav ings of a man who had just won a bet of a clinner on od 1 b but lit here liere air Mg topped short the last reMU Iou wa waa ug unintentional intentional ita it a bet dear asked airs mrs POON d iko in dul tl you on bring bring life Speckle S 11 here ere on oil a bet 1 if I 1 had known tb that at and you had given i yen mo me time 1 would have hialit had a nice nice supper j for r you I 1 dont suf LI that liaw i uld have cared fur a cold meal u aider the circumstances circumstances I 1 really think 1 that got settles bics tics it squealed sir mr mad at himself f for or what he lie had divulged and anti angrier still a he lie baw fa v he mw t explain to e c 1 ae how bow ho wai was fixed when V h you ou commence to chii think ak the free F list t is is entirely suspended some day wien I 1 catch you you thinking I 1 am going to drive a i in your going head lica and advertise science on lap 61 bock science a dimo dime extra free lunch from froin 11 to L I 1 1 and with this prospectus sir fr dashed down stairs and explained tw that owing to sirs mrs bavi having liga a were re lic headache adache had better post postponed pond the file dinner or go to the d it i 1 I dont care mrs irs Sp drawing a paper candies cardies from a bureau drawer 1 I dont care it must have been a very important tiling thing they let bet on when cold shad warmed over and a nice beefsteak 1 good enough to pa pay it anyway hell 6 be glad it for or brea breaL klat lait and the next ho lie bringe a wan here fiere to dinner will pick some other di dayi y than monday thou though it I 1 suppose suppo tse that mr e will go homo home tell fell his wife th that t wa dont have anything to cat eat here front one olle 11 end to the other Ally anyhow bow owes me mea a calli call and I 1 hear bear that dressmaker disappointed harall her all week so she won t V any y much attention to what lie does dubs say mrs delit down 6 her supper of strawberries add lettuce while her husband took it q in filets of beef bee f yellow cliquot clicquot Cli |
