And finally, when the snow came, the water trickled down the wall and ran into an eight-hundred-dollar piano, which will be closed out at a low figure to anybody who wants mahogany kindling-wood.

When the tin was removed and the new slate roof was put on, the slates used to get loose and slide down on the head of the hired girl while she was hanging up the clothes.

And when the man came to replace the slates, he plunged off the roof and broke four ribs and his leg, whereupon he sued me for damages.

And while the case was pending in court a snow-storm came.

The snow blew in under the slates, and my oldest boy spent the day with some of his friends snow-balling and sledding in the garret.