A TALE FOR -CHILDREN [To the Editor of the SrEcraTon.]
Sin,—Finding invention to seek, in the matter of a Tale for Children, I made application to my youngest niece. She, promptly, without ifs or ans, came forth with the brief but poignant narrative which I subscribe verbatim :—
Lomae's HUSBANDS, on Law ROBERTS' WIFE : A Tale for Children.
Lew Roberts went out of his house for a nice walk one afternoon. The wind was blowing quite gently and it was a nice fiiii3 day, Turning the corner, he met a man, and the man killed him.
Meanwhile Louisa Roberts, the wife of Lew, was thinking that she would like a nice walk, too. Why should Lew, she thought, have a nice walk, and not me, too ? So she put on her things, and, taking her umbrella from the stand, she stepped out.
The way to the nicest walk, she said to herself, is just round the corner. ; and so she went round it, and there was Lew, lying killed. It did surprise her. She poked him with her umbrella a bit, but he did not come to ; so she went back into their house.
I say ! " she said to Lydia, who was the servant they had, " there's Lew, my husband, lying killed just round the corner ! Did you ever ! " Lydia was sorry, because Lew was a nice-mannered man, though a Welshman by nature, and accent, rather.
So it came about that Louisa married again, another husband, of a different kind from the first, he being an Irishman, who went off with Lydia, who liked him.
So Louisa, this being so, gave up marrying husbands, as it seemed not much use, somehow.
And she lived happy after_ that , The. name of her second husband was Jones.
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