Litchfield enquirer., 1839-12-05
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Lend me your EARS. Shakespeare.
Grant graciously what you cannos refuse safely.
% fgfls K. LocoB.
smother wants your sifier, 4 said Miss Ian.
the Howard, young lady Of six years stand.
ing, attired in tnttered calico, thickehed
with dirt; her unkempt locks struggling from
under that hideous substitute for d bonnet. 50
universal in the western country, dirty Cot
ton handkerchief, which is used, al ssaMseG1,,
for alLsorts Of purposes.
"Mother wants your sitter, and she says
she guesses you can let her have some sugar
and Tea, cause you've got plenty"
This excellent reason, "'cause you've got
plenty" is conclusive az to the sharing with
your neighbors. Whoever comes into Mich.
igan with nothing, will be sure TO better biz
condition; but wo 10 him that brings with
him any thing like an appearance OF album.
dance, whether Of money or mere household
conyeniences. To have them, and not DC
willing to share them in some sort with the
whole community, 10 an unpardonaDlec crime.
You must lend your best horse TO gus Cue g
so;t. TO 90 ten miles over hill and marsh, IN
de darkest night, for a doctor; or your team
10 travel twenty after "gal !" your wheel
barrow. your shovels; your utensils Of all
sorts. belonging; not TO y0hfselE bat 10 the
public. who do not think it necessary even 10
ask loan, but take it for granted. The two
saddles and brides. of Montacute spend nlosi
Of their :ime travelling from house 70 HOUSE.
a.r,anback; and have actually known z
straw martingale to be traced to four dwell
lings two miles apart, having been lent from
one to another, without q word 70 the Origi.
nal proprietor, who sat waiting, not very pa.
tiently, to commence q journey. a.
Then within doors, an inventory Of yOuE
nlenishine Of all sorts, would scarcely moro
man include the articles which yoa arc s0lie4
led TO lend. Not only afeall kitchen ulen-
sils as much your heighbor's rs your Ownsbut
he'd steals, bedss blankets sheetss travel from
house to house, pleasant and efiectuaI mode
of securing the perpetuity Of certain efiI0res-
cent peculiarities ofthe skin, for which Mich
iean Is becoming almost a. famous - the
land twixt Maidenkifk and John o'Gr0at's.' Z
Sleeves, smoothing irons, and chnFns, run
about as ifthey had legs one brass kettle y
enough for q whole neighb0rhood and
could point the cradle which has rocked half
the babies in Montacute. For my own part,
have lent my broom my thread, my tape,
my spoons. my cat. my thimbie. my scissors,
nv shawl, my shoes and have been asked
for nv combs and brushes; andfny husband
for lis shaving apparatus and his paDtaloons.
Bot the cream of the JAKE lies IN fhe man
ner Of the thing. II il 90 straightforward
ana honest -none Of your hypoeTitical civil.
" and servile gratitudei Ycurtrne 1epu1lt,
can, when he finds that you posss ythlns
which would contribute To- bic 90 SnieSce,
walks in with. = Arc you going @ 40 YEN
horses so-dsyT' II horses happeh % BE ~
thing he needs. F
Yes. shall probably want theEn.s
.Oh, we'll; If you want them WINS think
ing to get 'em 70 50 up north . piece"
Or perhaps the desired article comes With
infhe female department.
. Mother wants % get sonae batter ~
l'ere butter ycM bought o. Mrs Barton tn'A
.nornins.' = ss a 81 ~ ata