Part 13 (2/2)

While this was taking place, Je his keys as he locked up the various stores, feeling particularly proud and self-satisfied with the confidence placed in him

After this was done he had a wash at the pue inside the workshop where the cooper's tools were kept, and when he had duly rubbed and scrubbed and dried his face and hands, he went indoors to stare with astonish the ht as she finished her tea

Jean his This was a new annoyance Sally had scolded ti so late, but this was the first ti present, and he felt bitterly hurt

”As if I could help it,” he said, half aloud ”A man has his work to do, and he ht to have been here”

”And if I wasn't here, it was your dooty to wait forto I' to be ordered about and ill-treated, Jem; you always said you liked your tea ready at five o'clock I had it ready at five o'clock, and I waited till half-past, and it's now five-and-twenty to six”

”I don't care if it's five-and-twenty to nineteen!” cried Jerily

”It's your dooty to wait, saht have shut up after tea”

”Then I wasn't going to, marm”

”Then you oing to be trampled upon by you”

Sally had risen in the loudness of her voice, in her teot up froreat; in fact, the personal height was very s very kittenish and coht little kitchen to the door at the flight of stairs, and passing through, banged it behind her, and went up to her roo at the door; ”very well,married My father used to say that if two people as is ht to divide the house between 'eht to take the outside and t'other the in That's what I' you are, and being above it, I'h to ood bed up in the ware'us, and it won't be the first time I've shi+fted for myself, so I shall stop away till you fetches me back Do you hear?”

”Oh, yes, I can hear,” replied Sally fro shouted his last speech

”All right, then,” said Jeo ahead”

Tightening up his lips, Jear, and then proceeded to e the lid in its place with one fat finger the while

This done, he eether, and left it for a few e loaf from the white, well-scrubbed trencher, pulled it in two, took a handful of bread out of one half, and raising the lump of fresh Somersetshi+re butter on the point of a knife, he dabbed it into the hole he hadthe other half of the bread, and then taking out his handkerchief spread it upon his knee and tied the loaf tightly therein Then for athe knife, but finally concluding that the clasp knife in his pocket would do, he laid the blade on the table, gave his tea a final stir, gulped down the basinful, tucked the loaf in the handkerchief under his left arm, his hat very ate, which he closed with a loud bang

”Oh!” ejaculated Sally, who had run to the bedrooht, Jeone away to his favourite place for s a pipe, down on the West Main wharf, where he seated hi the loaf beside hi of the kind Jeirlish wife

Then he started and stared

”Hullo, Jeht you was at ho yours, Jem”

”No, Mas' Don,” said Jem sadly; ”there's my tea”--and he pointed to the bundle handkerchief; ”there's my tea; leastwise I will tell the truth, o' course--there's part on it; t'other part's inside, for I couldn't tie that up, or I'd ha' brought it same ways to have down here and look at the shi+ps”

”Then why don't you eat it, man?”