SOMETHING TO READ ON SUNDAYS.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 718, 23 January 1877, Page 1 (Supplement)

SOMETHING TO READ ON SUNDAYS.

(From the Atalanta Constitution.) The whole family climbed out of the waggon, anl went into the Atalanta book Btore. 'Ihey were father, mother, and sixteen-year-old daughter. ' Mister, W3 want ter sorter get some thin' good to re*d on Sundays, which is powerfull lonesome ia the country.' 'Shall be glad to serve you, sir. \yhat will the ladies like ?'» d'ye want, Sof y V 'I'd chose somethin' ,bout the new fashions, pa ! ? •Of koarse, I moaghfc a knoed that \ I£in you fix her out V ' Oe, yea,' replied the storekeeper, • we have h.9re Qqde, Leslie, Harper's Bazaar Peterson, Demorest, and numaroua other magazines.' 'Qody? W'yyou don't tell me he's 'live and figurin' out fashions yet, dp ye V cried tha old man. 'Oh, yes, ? was tljia reply. ' WqII, centeanial tnakiera and crossbarred breecbas! W'y ole ooman, don't ye mind ye that we had onr wed din' cose fixed up arfcer this plan ? Oody ? OE koaase. Sufy, you'll take Gody, and I'll bet the bo >-tail mule an' the blaok shoat that what he says m the fashion can't hq diaciunted,' ' Wh*t will your wife want ?' aaked the ■ merchant, as the old man paid for the 1 magazine.'

'Somethin* that's got good church readin, m it— rsome reigious paper, ef ye please,' replied tbe old lady. • Hkre is the best we have -? the Christian at Work.' •Hold up thar! Is that' got any of that Beeohera an* Tilting biziness m it?" 'None o' yer bizinew anyhow ! S'pose there is ?' fired up the old lady. •Taint, hey? 1 •• No, 'taiat ? So's its church readiu' it don't bother you, sir, so dry up !' • Well lnebbe that's so ; an' what I read don't bother you. to> ? All right, mister : just hand me out half a dozen 'ilstrated papers full of pictures of legs with striped stpckin'a on an' 50 dollar grafcors and' The old lady chucked the "Christian at Work" uader the table, grabbed the oM man b,y the ear, and if ho hid worn striped Btocki»g3, übout eleven iochas of them would have been seen between the tops of his shoes and the bottom of his pants' lega, as slje made him walk Spanish out to the waggon.