Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-07-23

peter said my uncle, knocking the ash
es from his pipe, and laying it on the corner
of the mantel. piece, and then fixing his eyes
on the andirons, 'Peter, those andirons cost
me one thousand dollars y
Dear ne = exclaimed my aunt.
'Oh, father! y cried the girls.
Impossible = said !.
True, every word true. One thousand,
did | say Yes-two thousand-luIl two
thousand dollars
We'll, we'll said my aunt, folding up her
knitting for the night, i should like to know
what you are talking about
My uncle bent forward, and planted his
hands firmly on his parted knees, and with
a deliberate air, which showed no doubt Of
his being able TO prove his assertion, he be-
GIN:
We'll, you see, a good many years ago,
we had a pair of common oil andirons.-
Your cousin Lefty says, one day, Father,
don't you think those old andirons are get
ting too shabbyP Shabby or not, | thought
they would hold the wood up as nicely as if
they were made of gold. So | paid no at
tention to Lefty. | was afraid she was crow
inr proud. Soon after that, Peter c%ontlnu-
ed my uncle, your aunt took it up:'
There it goes interrupted NY aunt you
can't get along without dragging me inn
Your aunt took il up, Peter, and she said,
Our neighbors could afford brass andlrons,
and were no better of than we were.' And
she said, Lefty and her sister Jane were just
getting old enough to see company, and the
Strengthening old andirons might hurt their
MARKET | knew that women will have
their own way, and there was no use in OBJ
i%ecting. and so ! got the andirons. The price
of them was four dollars and a half
'Ah, that's more like it, cried my aunt
j thought you said TWO thousand dollars
MY dear, ] wish you would not interrupt
me. -Four and a half. Well, the first night
after we had got them, as we all sat by the
warm fire talking over the matter, Lefty cal
led my attention TO the hearth, the stones of
which were cracked and uneven. The hearth
was entirely out Of keeping with the new
andirons, and | thought | might as well have
it replaced first as last. The next day a ma
son was sent for TO examine 1t. lie came II
nv absence and when | returned home
your aunt and cousins all beset me at once,
10 have a marble slab. The mason had con
WINGED them the hearth would not look de
cent without a marble slab, and they put thel
heads together
LA, me y exclaimed my aunt, rhere wa
no putting any heads together about it. Tn,
hearth was a real olu WORKOUT ullnSi MOI IL
for a pig PEN"
They put their heads together, Peter, al
was saying, and continued till | got a mai
BILE hearth, which cost me twenty dollars
Yes, twenty dollars, at least. Then | tho
| was done with expenses-but ! though
wrong. Pretty soon | began to hear 81,
hints thrown out about the brick-work aroun,
the fireplace not corresponding with tn
hearth. stood out for a month or tw
against your aunt and the girls, but they q
length got the better of me, and | was force,
to have marble instead of brick. And thel
the old wooden mantel- piece was So out O
character that it was necessary to have
marble one. The cost of all this was ncarl
one hundred dollars. Aud now that the spil
it of improvement had got a start, there wa
no stopping-Place. The new marble mantle
put to shame the old white.wa.hed walls