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"What should I have, pray?"

"A woman's, and a man's, and a child's, to be a perfect wife and mother; that is, you must be able to coht"

"Yes, irritable toward us all, and I so hoped to have everything pleasant this evening"

"He, too, had his hopes to-day, and they were flung to the ground, and broken before his eyes"

"What do you ent of a coet, has been in town"

"Yes, I know"

"Yesterday this agent led him to suppose he was to be the favored one All to-day he has been working toward that end, and near night he heard that this ood-by You re, with scarcely a bite of breakfast; he took very little luncheon, and----"

"Well, we had dinner at the usual tiry, I'd have hurried it"

"He was not hungry--he was much more than that Did you ever see a vessel whose fuel is well-nigh exhausted drag herself into port? What is the first thing to be done?"

"I don't know--replenish her?"

"Yes, put coal on board Nohen I saw your husband walk up to his front door, I said tostation; remember that"

"But what of me?" she asked with some impatience, "I, too, have ?"

"Frequently," I answered

"Well, who is to coal me, I should like to know?"

"Yourself"

"That's rather one-sided, I think Why shouldn't my husband look to that?"

"My dear," I said earnestly, "I never knew but one , and attended to her wants When he died (for the gods loved hie--at least so the doctors said, but I knew all the tis had budded"

"Well, this life is too much for me," murmured Mrs Purblind drearily

"Then don't attempt the next"

"I shan't, if I can help it, and yet I' on a visit to us, and I know she'll worry the breath out of me"