Mother Carey's Chickens
"We filled one barrel last evening," she explained to them. "Will you please head that up before you begin work?" which one of the men obligingly did.
"We'll mark all this stuff and take it down to the station this afternoon," said the head packer to Mrs. Carey.
"Be careful with it, won't you?" she begged. "We are very fond of our glass and china, our clocks and all our little treasures."
"You won't have any breakage so long as you deal with James Perkins & Co.!" said the packer.
Nancy went back into the room for a moment to speak with the skilful, virtuous J.P. & Co. "There's no need to use any care with that corner barrel," she said carelessly. "It has nothing of value in it!"
James Perkins went home in the middle of the afternoon and left his son to finish the work, and the son tagged and labelled and painted with all his might. The Dirty Boy barrel in the corner, being separated from the others, looked to him especially important, so he gave particular attention to that; pasted on it one label marked "Fragile," one "This Side Up," two "Glass with Care," and finding several "Perishables" in his pocket tied on a few of those, and removed the
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