WORRYING WILLIAM

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1819, 19 April 1888, Page 3

WORRYING WILLIAM

Jt Is this kind of wife that make 3 some men old and grey before their time.

' William,' ahe Bays, after William Is curled snugly up under the blankets for the night, ' did you look the front door V ♦Yes' says William, britfly. * You're sure you did V •Yea, Bure.' ' And you slipped the bolt, too ?' 'Yeß.'

( You know yoo forgot it onca, and it gave me Bach a turn wtion I found it out m the morning I didu't &ot Gver it for a week. We haven't much aoybody'd want to steal, I know ; bat I don't want the little wet have, taken, for I '

'I tell you I attended to thodoora.' v Well, I hopa bo, for goodness sake. You attended to the baaemtant door V

• Yoa, I tell you.'

1 Because if you had'nt you or 1, one or the other, would hava to get up and attend to it now. I read to-day of—— ' { Don't caro what you read.' ' It said that a maa forget to——, « I dou't care if he did.' 1 And m the night a burglar walked right m and , •I don't believe It.'

• I've a notion to get up and ae* if yon have locked that door. You're aura V

1 flow many times have I to toll you that I did lock it V

1 Well, you thought you'd lookod It that time when you left it unlocked. 1

• Will you be qatot. 1 ' I don't care, William, you know yourself how careleaa you are, and-——, ' See hero, Mary Jane, this muat end here.'

Bat it dooan't end there ; and it doesn't end for an hour, and William ariasa m the morning with the lines oa hia brow a little deeper, and the hopeless, desperate look Btlll m hia fuco.