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H# s#vTs-noY. 41
was forced fo surfer many a buffet an4 threat, for having induced
the car into such mischievous pran#s. The car was then obliged
fo seek safety under the store; but this did hot terminate the
marrer. Master :Brun was cMled upon, and seriously admonished
fo give :[var #a severe lecture, the rogue, for it was a pure scandal
fo conduct himself thus. "
"Well, what is the marrer now ?" inquired the tanner, with
the utmost composure.
"What is the marrer ? ttow dare you ask such a question #
You see on the floor there the cause; but if you do not wish to
hear or see any#hing, you may know that that wretch of a dog
is seducing my car, who never before cut such indecent capers
with stocking-yarn and knitting-needles. Look here–-is that
nothing # and fo stop this, I have to walk here from the kitchen,
and let my bacon bm’n–-is that nothing ? :But if you do no#
wish to inform the boy yourself, that he must either drown hîs
dog, or must #ake him from the bouse, with himself also, :[ shall
throw the wretch into the water myself, if he does hot do so."
"You will hot do it, my child," replied the tanner, quietly.
"Diana is :[var’s favourite, and Ivar is # good boy. tte cannot
bel t) if, that the dog and car cannot a#oTee i all you must do, is to
keep the door shut."
But :M:rs. :Brun was not sat#sfied with this, by no means. As
soon as her husband had walked out after his noon’s naI) , she
stet)ped without hesitation fo the tannery, and lectured :[var so
impressively, that he became very sad, and, looking af his Diana,
he said, ":Before I shall drow-a you, :[ would rather pack up my
bundle, and go myself. As dear as the library is fo me, you are
much dearer. There is nobody in the whole world that I love
so much as I do you."
/V[rs. :Brun’s threats, however, were hot carried into force,
although she repcated them d,#ily, for in spire of ber loquacious-
ness and high-sounding ways# she, ncvcrtheless, held ber husband
in the grcatest respect, and was very c#reful hot to make him
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