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Updated: June 6, 2025
I got in a pretty good check several days ago, but I'll not give any gifts this year the money must go to pay these extra expenses that have been inevitable. I wish you'd see to it that Wifey has as big a bunch as possible of receipted bills. It's the best I can do this year, and you all understand."
"Pirate men velly bad," the Chinaman said; "plunder many junk on river and kill crew. Me muchee hate them." "Can you do anything for us?" Jack asked. "You will be well rewarded if you could manage to get us free." The man shook his head. "Me no see what can do, me stranger here; come to stay with wifey; people no do what me ask them.
Yes, a merry, happy season it had always been for, while all the comforts of a refined home had ever been theirs, the provision of these comforts had required constant economy and management on the part of the busy little "wifey" of the house.
Hedden, as she cut another slice from the big brown loaf that had rapidly been growing less under her shining knife. "Ha! ha! they can't help hearing that," she laughed, as her husband blew a blast even louder than usual. After waiting a moment, Mr. Hedden came in, throwing the almanac on a low wooden settee as he entered. "No use waiting any longer, wifey let's sit by.
"Not quite so far, thank you," retorted Chiffield the genial; "but I don't mind walking to the next corner for a smash." Chiffield rose, put on his hat, and stepped toward the door. "Good-by, wifey. I sha'n't be gone long." A growl, bisected by a sob, was the only reply. "By-by, poppy," said Chiffield, with a flippant wave of the hand. Mr.
The family became vaguely uneasy as the spring merged into the summer, and a plan was proposed for the plump little five-foot "wifey" to take her big husband, the Captain, on a long trip to the seashore and mountains.
It appeared that after seeing wifey off for the seashore he felt the joy of bachelor freedom so strongly that he dropped in to see Essie's mother, who gave him a glass of sub rosa port, which so warmed his heart that he tried to embrace her. Grandma was only thirty-four and would have been pretty except for gaps in the front ranks of her teeth.
As his bare head was revealed in the dim light, the woman uttered a low laugh. "And was Belle as charming as ever?" demanded Mrs. Morrell sweetly but icily. "Go in carefully now, so dear little wifey won't know." She laughed again and moved past him. He stared after her with a vague sense of injustice, somehow; then went on.
"O, Dick, do be careful, for we have arranged it all so nicely, and in another week we'll be making up that pie, so don't spoil our plans now, for how much more father will enjoy it if his dear little 'wifey' shares the pleasure also. And, by the way, Dick, that reminds me of something that must go in for mother.
"And where's the money, father?" asked Faith. "Gone to pay debts, child," was the answer. Mrs. Gartney said nothing, but she looked very grave. Her husband surmised, perhaps, that she would go on to imagine worse than had really happened, and so added, presently: "I haven't been obliged to sell all my railroad stocks, wifey. I held on to some.
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