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ee i ——— lll elle 16 TIM BUMBLE’S CHARGE. viding it, she took up an armful and walked into the house. Tim followed with a dogged air, and nursing his finger ten- derly, though by the pucker in his lips, they had a decided inclination to whistle. “Now mind the fire, will ye, unless ye'll have lockjaw iu the eyes wid the pain of looking. I’ve got news for ye, —sure, an’ hasn’t the gintleman of the Grove been here ?” “Ye don’t say!” cried Tim, nearly upsetting the tea- kettle, which stood near, ready filled, as he sprung from his seat. “There ye go!” shouted Bridget, saying it by & masterly bound. “Tim Bumble, ye’re the most ongracious, onruly boy I ever did see. Ye can’t move yer foot widout doing some mischief.” “Nor me finger either,” spoke Tim, dolefully ; “ but come, aisy, Bridget, jist tell me ‘what did the gintleman say to ye? ” “The first thing he did Was to be plazed because ye’d a wife that knew something. ‘Ah. says he, ‘so Tim is got a nice tidy wife of his own.’ Says J, ‘ Yis, yer honor; and it’s mighty little he does toward gitting her a livin’, anyway. It’s I that have to kape the pot bilin’, and put what's in it— an’ split what's under it, 1005 TR A “Ah, now, Bridget, ye’re too upon me intirely, an’ I wid me finger kilt.” “Didn’t I jist till the truth? An’ thin he says, says he, “ Well, now, perhaps I'll give him somethin’ to do—'t'll be aisy—so I'l jist call agin” ” “ An’ sure, that’s himeelf, though it’s bowed down that he is, poor gintleman, an’ no wondher. Bridget, ye’ll go out When he comes in, I’m sure he'll want no women in the way. ” “Til not do that same, thin. No, I'll not,” cried the woman, as a gentleman outside reined up his horse and dis- mounted. — “Oh, well, ngw, honey, p’raps ye will,” said Tim, good- naturedly, pleased at the prospect of having his own way for once, “if the gintleman says so.” And the gentleman did say so; almost his first request was that Mrs.*F hadi leave the room, and she, though comichbooks.conn