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Sometimes I wonder cf ’Bijah’s crusty, he does such cur’ous things.
Hev I told you about his bedstead yit ?— 1 Twits fuii of wheels and

springs;

It: had a key to wind it up, and a dock face at the head ;
A ll you did was to turn them hands, and at any hour you said,
That bed got up and shook itself, and bounced you on the floor,
A nd then shct up, jest like a box, so you couldn't sleep any more.

W a’al 'Bijah he fixed it all complete, and he sot it at half-past five,
But he hadn’t morc’n got into it when— dear me! sakes alive!
Them wheels began to whiz and whir 1 I heerd a fearful .snap I

And there was that bedstead, with ’Bijah inside, shet up jest like a trap!

I screamed, of course, but ftwran’t no use ; then T worked that hull
long night
A-try in’ to open the pesky thing. A t last I got in a fright;
I couldn’t hear his voice inside, and I thought he might be dyin ;
So I took a crow-bar and smashed it in.-—-There was "Bijah,peacefully
Lyin',

Inventin’ a wav to ml. out a^nin. That was all verv well to say,
o |-_i j •> 1
But I don't b ’lieve he’ti have found it out if I ’d left him in all day.

Now, scncc I ’ve told you my story, do you wonder I ’m tired of life?
Or think it strange I often wish I w anrt an inventor's wife?
M r s. E . T, Q>kbe£t t .
L E S S O N T A L K ,
It is tin :tt 'Mrs, 'lSijn.li llrown ift very much ve^cd Tvlth Mr. Brown. The
tone irnd ni;i;mor ^iiouKl show this nn-r] give expression to the contempt she ftniis
"Viv a 11] £111 who dots ik>L (.‘vtu t:li op Lilt' wood, bufc-wsistes his Lilne 11 111 vent ill1 fijews-
harp to go by BtofiiiL” There is also a vein of ridicule hi this selection -which you
should show by an ut^asionnT half-sneerim; hmgh, tosisol'the liuad* aud a gesture
of tlie arm dowuivard aud baek, fthowii in I^^Lirc 4, Tart 1,
This reading aJTorcEti an excellent opportunity to produce -sheet by emphasis
■ ">:i words aud clauses, ib-r example, the word 11 him " in the t rs* line, an d ‘‘ m e”
in the Fourth.. The chariiettr of TiijnU sbouiil he? personified hy a slew, drawling
II Iterance. When yon rradi the part where be is pictured as shut inside his bed-
liLc^d, Lei. there he n. 3 narked increase of auimaLion aud drain atic expression. iSmplr^
the easy, oonversiituniLil Lune throughout.