The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1846-11-19

|IfS.a aH XIII IRON Meals saturoay oa.s...-,
The Widow Red0trs TabIe-laIk.
4 THE BORROWED PUMPKIN.
i Speakin o punkins reminds me of a trcl,
Miss Jinkins sarved me snce (she Twas Poll
bingham )--l never see punkin without
'hnkin on't--and its tew good 10 keep
though don't want 10 say nothing TO niure
Miss Jinkins. Twas tew year age this fall
somehow or other our punkns didont dew
we'll that year. Kier said he dident know
i wheiherthe seed was poor, or what 'twas--
any how, our punkins dident come 10 no,hip
at all had 10 make all my punkin pies out
10 squashes--and them rint no wher nigh as
good as Punkins. Well, one day | see Sam
and Bill Jinkins 20 by with a load O pun
kins--so says 10 Melissy, says /, g mean
to jest run over and see if Miss Jinkins
won't let me have ono o. her punkins, ,"--the
sight on EN- fairly makes my mouth. water.
So throws ON my shawl and goes over
4 though very seldom axed any fayors o. her
--notwllhsiandin' she was ctarnally bofrerin
o me-Nhy ther want scarcely a day past
but what she sent 10 borer someihin or other
la loaf o. bread--or a drawing o. tea---or a
little molasses, or a little sugar, or what not
I--and what's mofe--slie wa'ut wonderful
perilckler about payin---aad It's a solIem fact
the times, that critier had had my bake pans
and my fats and my washboard, aint TO be
numbered. make il PM never 10 borrer
when ! can pessbly helpit. Thsr is times
to be sure-when the best o. house-keepers
is put to't and obliged to ak favors o. iher
nabors--but as for borrern every day---week
III and week out, as the wilder Jinkins does
--ther amt no need on't--but she can't stay
TO hum long enough to keep things in any
i kind O. decent erder. But / was gwine 10
tell how she ssryed me about the punkin.
i Well--l goes Overland | says, says l, /" Miss
jenkins, see you're ge,tin in yer pun
Il kins--and want TO know whether orno vol,
cant spare me one--ourn'sfaed, you know.'
"Well," says she, eve haint got more N
enough for our own use,--but seein it's yeu,
guess soiH let you have one." So she
went and fetched in one--qlite a small one
twas. "Wha's the price on't?" says I, Il
dident sPose she'd TAX anything, for I'd gin
her mess o. turnips few days afore--but
Thought I'd offer 10 pay) I" What's the price
on'l!" says /. 80 nothin' at all" says she.
Lawful sakes" says !, "you don't spose /
want to beg it, dew your meant 10 nav
the money down" g You'd look welI.r saws
she, (" a payin for 't--don't you spose Il can
afford TO Civ away punkin?--purty story if
cant!'' "WelI," siys !, thank you athou-
sand iimes--you must come in to-moffer
arter gil my pies made and heIp eat sorne.,,
"Wel, mabby will,n says she--so | takes
my punkin and goes hum mighty, pleased
Well, next day Melissy and me we cut up 10
the punkis--'twas drediul small and wonder
fnI thn---and when come 10 SEW ill., INV
gracious how il did stew away! The fact
is, Twas miserable poor punkin--good
punkins don't stew down to nolhin' so. NIL.
essy she lookt into the pot and SAYS she to
me says, sGranf'iher grevous! why mar
Pm afread this ere punkia's pwine 10 exas.
lperute iniirely, SO ,her WON'T be nun left
ont" Well, sure euougll---,r,er ,twas sifi-
ed--as true as the world, Mr.. Crane-,ber
want more'n pint on't-a Why, mar,'' says
\ Milessy,. says she--.'twontm make more,n one
/ good sized pie--" Never you fear" says t.
"l'll bel forty gret apples I'll gil three pies
eat ont any way" Some folks, you know,
puts eggs in p6nkin pies, but accordin' 10
my way o. thinkin, faint no addition. When
have plenty o punkin Ismever use sem--
j but Miss Jinkinses punkin turned out so
small, | see shouldent have nun 10 speak
on without ! put in eggs; so 4 takes my
lpunkin and stirs in my molasses, and my
milk, and my spices, and / fills three Of my
biggest pie-pans. There" says l 10 Me-
lissy, didn't say I'd make lhres pies, and
haint | did ii?' Yes" says she, /" bur
ltbey,re purty nuch all inoreiiencas mud