134 A WAY TO BE HAPPY.

 

written upon each face; and sometimes he
would walk forth to breathe the free air
and see every thing to be seen that could
_ delight the eye.

Much as the hatter gloried in this free-
dom and boasted of his enjoyments, after
the first day or two he began to grow
weary long before evening closed in, and
then he could not sit and quietly enjoy the
newspaper, as before, for he had already
gone over them two or three times, even to
the advertising pages. Sometimes, for re-
lief, he would walk out again, after tea, and
sometimes lounge awhile on the sofa, and
then go to bed an hour earlier than he had
been in the habit of doing. In the morn-
ing he had. no motive for rising with the
sun; no effort was therefore made to over-
come the heaviness felt on awaking; and
he did not rise until the ringing of the
breakfast-bell.

The “laziness” of her husband, as Mrs.
Parker did not hesitate so call it, annoyed
his good wife. She did not find things