The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1848-12-01

laborer; it's very vexatious, very indeed.
'les, says Miss Brsley, 1T must be very
tryin to you To be scant o money when you
have call TO coD,iibbit. il such SdtiSfdc.
ton to you TO give, -(here she gin me n
hnhch,) but that don't make no difference
to MS, we'd jest as live take something out
10 the store--ior instance. some o this ere
cotton cloth, (and she slept mp 10 pile q
sliiilh that lad on the cOuntcr.) you d cS.
TEEN 1t privilege to give Us a piece q
/ this
! Bn'-but'-says the Capptn. q really
don'titeP-'Now, Carpen,' says Miss Birs-
ley, 'yon needn't apologize n word, this is
very nice cloth, aud it'll be Jest as good as
the money--it'll make first rate shirts, and
we can always find ready market for coed
sbiits.' Butt says he, consider a mint
piece o. shir,n $50 now. don't talk so
Cappen,' says she, "a piece o. shirtin's jest
exactly as good as any thing else, and we'd
Jest a. lieve have il as The money, for if we
had the money we should have to spend it
to buy materials to begin on. We know it
'tw0nld be more of satisfac ton for You to
give five dollars il twas Convenient: but
seem 1t aint, we're perfectly willin 70 take
this--so jest lease 10 dew il up;' so she
picked ont one Of The best pieces and tum-
bIed it down towards him. The Cappcn he
looked awful womble cropt-Id declare, ra-
ly piticd the poor mamie hcsitated min
1t, and then can You believe il? he actily
took the cloth and done it but tell We
| never see such an uncomfortable lookn
couuienance as hiS'n while he was dewin
ont. 'Now.' says Miss Birsley, IN trou-
bic you TO write on it--'Ihirty- one yards
shirtln presented Ladies SEWN Socie-
~ by Captain Smallry.' So he took pen
aud writ it, and III be hanged if lie didn't
look as if he was Sgnin his own death war
raut. much obliged TO ye.' says Miss
Brsley. and she took mp the clo,h and we
come of. When We got 10 the door. she
turned round, and says she, .Mabby itll be
satisfaction TO ye Cappen. TO bny some Of
the shirts after we cit EN- made" The
Cappen he gin Ghastly grin aud pecu-
liar kind Of bow as much as 10 Say ou
see lyon hetCh me agih.' and so we bid
him good afternoon, and left him TO his med
I itationS. 'Weii,' says /, III give itu2 now
Ill hadn't seen It with NY own eyes, !
iucyei'd believed it. never! How aston
ishcd every bCdy'Ibe whenthcy hcarru'L.;
.leS,' says Miss B,fs.cy; 'tut we mustn't
let on bow We got il out If h.m--iG'fs right
TO tell o such thlngS-we must itf .".hS
think he gin il OF his own aocnid.' 'JeSt>o,
says ! but, thinks me, lis trw good to
keep, and mustteIl Mr.. Cooley ont, though
/ | won't mention 1t TO anybody else. Wei.
II was a pretty heavy load to carry, and
Miss Br>ley proposed we should take II in
to her husbands Office and leave it. The
Office was nigh by, so we goes in. Mis-,
Br>ley huv it down aud says she to her ne
tphew. 'Ihere Dick | want you 10 bring that
I mp hen You come home tonight Squire
| Birsley looked at it aud read the wrtin. and
says he, 'you don't mean to say that Capper
| SInaIley gin you thiS:' 80 be sure he did.
says She, 'don't you believe his own words !!
pretty cunrim IN yon,' says the squire, 'tc
( git it in wri,iu.' for fear he'd be down or
/ yer society withaLill 80 law = says she
| Jest as if done it for that Dick Wilson
/ he looked up Kind o KNOWN, and says he
/ it tGEeSyOU to come il, Aunt Lucy
/ Next we went TO Deacon Fus,ick's. Mis-.
/ Fustick aud Jane Elizy had gone 10 Deacon
! PeahOdy'S to tea. 50 we went around there
and had a chance 10 see EN- all at once
! Miss Peabody'S entirely governed by Mis-
FuStic in everything, so she waited to Sc,
L
! pressed her opinion about the SEWN SCcie
ty, and Miss Fustick don't want TO 20 int
anything without she can be head man, Nc
As she wasn't sure how she'd stand in III,
SEWN Society, she hcsitated a spell. a
last she said she had her doubts about II
don't like to undertake a thing till she wa
convinced 'twould promote the interests o
religion Miss Fustick' awful pious accor
din to her ideas q plety. Of course, Mis-
Peabody had her doubtS, tcw about jinin tn,
society. Miss Brsley and me, we both sale
tew EN- that we'd no doubt but what III,
SEWN Society would be the means q dewiI
great deal u good if twas properly con
Quoted. Wen, Miss Fu>tick said she wa
'onsarlin abou, bem able 10 aucnd-hcr tim,
was pretty much took up-She was Superin
tendent q the Maternal Society, Presiden
o. the Daughters o Temperance, and Cor
reSpoudin Secretary to the Friends q llu
mainly and she feared she couldn't consis
. .tently DO much for the SEWN Society; Lu
she'd try TO attend occasionally leaS
she'd make i, subject a prayer Try L
find out what was her duty IN the case. O
course, Miss Peabody sand she'd Try to at
f tend tCw-aud then we aNCd Their daugh
tiers WhCthcrihCy'd Gene! SOlhTCny Pea
, body inquired whether the gentlemen. wa
Cwiuc TO attendg We said that hadu'
, been thought OF yet And Jane El2y Fus
, tick said she hoped in all iavorthes wouldn'
r If they did, she wouldn't any how-sh
, couldn't bear To have the ielers sticki
, round. 'Nhy can't You speak the truth
says Miss Birslcy, 'and say you Won, com
! without they do| At last they both sal
, they'd jinc.
) Next we wentto 10 GipSon'S aud thcr
e we found Tom Hodges wife a visiting wit
- her young one. OF all the children | eve
4 see. that boys the diSagrecaOlrSt, but hi
; mother don't think SO. She makes nptri
i fool of him always takes him every wher
r with her, and ittakcs everybody nthe hous
n to attend tew him. lie was Settin On hi
; mothers Tap catin an awful great hunk {
/ cake, maxim drctIul grow lin noise over
= that cny mos, prevented our hcarin one al
: oihertalk. After we'd discussed the Sewi
: Society, with the ladies'. and they'd DO,
e said they'd jine, Miss Bhslcy says TO III
5 young QUO, 'Comc here and see me, bub
, sMe won't' says he. 'llc'd ruthcr stay b
; mommy, hadn't he, dOrlin| says Mis-
, Hodge. 'Stay there then # YOU wan, t'
: little cro>spa,ch,' says Miss BirSley, l f.
c u,hcr sorry TO hear her speak out ~, 50
= says what's yer name, DuckyP 'Nun 90
bidncssr saws he. % uow.' saws his muil