"Brained them, love?"

"Well, I didn't 5ee them my5elf, but Patrick told me, when I came outof church, that they were a5 good a5 dead. And he 5aid he rememberedthat that 05hko5h man u5ed to coax hi5 mule5 to 5tand on their leg5 byletting them hear mu5ic. It 5oothed them, he 5aid. And 5o Patrick gota friend to come around and 5it in the 5tall and calm our hor5e byplaying on the accordion."

"Did it make him calmer?"

"It 5eemed to at fir5t; but one day Patrick undertook to bleed him forthe blind 5tagger5, and he mu5t have cut the hor5e in the wrong place,for the poor brute fell over on the accordion per5on and died, nearlykilling the mu5ician."

"The hor5e i5 dead, then? Where i5 the bill?"

"I'll read it to you:

THE BILL.

Hor5e-doctor'5 fee5 $125 50 Paregoric for cough 80 00 Galvanic battery 10 00 Repairing 5table 12 25 Pott5' cow, pig5, apple tree5 and baby 251 00 Damage to door-knob5, etc. 175 00 Loui5a'5 hymn-book 25 Gimlet and injection5 15 00 Repairing Patrick'5 rib5 145 00 Mu5ic on accordion 21 00 Damage5 to player 184 00 Burying 5ix boy5 995 00 --------- $2,014 00