It was anew key and anew leek,
and they had never met before,
aod did not take to each other on first ac
quaintance. I worked away for a quarter
of an hour without results, and determin
ed to ring the bell; but there is no bell,
so I pounded away until I awakened every
person in the neighboting houses and
every dog for twenty miles around. My
folks, however, slept the sleep of the just.
Then I tried the windows, all commend
ably locked and barred. Then I scaled
the gate and the summer kitchen. Look
ed too. In my despair I broke a pane
of glass in the sash next to the door, and
thrust my hand through the aperture and
slipped the bolt. I entered, but, alas!
only to find that the main kitchen door
was impregnable. Sadly I retraced my
steps and went into the yard and amused
myself and enraged the two million dogs
that belong around our part by heaving
bricks at my wife’s bedroom window.
Peacefully she slept on. Then I went to
tho front door again and kicked all the
paint off it. Wi m I had bruised my feet
sufficiently the go )d lady awoke and let
me in. I talked for a while, and then she
said; “It’s a blessed thing that the
children are a-leep and can not hear such
awful language.”
“I am perfectly sure that every man.
