Litchfield enquirer., 1850-01-10

1 She sot on all her common erockery, and
 borried a good deal at Smalley's store,
 calculating if any ont was broke to pay
 fort. But when she see so many folkS
 come crowding out, she fetcht out her
 mothers Chany cups and sot 'em on the tea board. But Glory Ann got alonr without using 'em and there they sot, and when the tea board fell, they fell tew, and every one on 'em was broke or crack ed. Gracious! how Miss Scrantum look ed when she see her precious Chsny all to pieces. She didn't say word, but her lips quivered. and trembled all over. But she seemed to overcome it it ip a minnit, and went and brought 9 basket and begun to pick up the pieces, and ( and Jeff took hold :. and helped her. A good many of the company had gonf
 back into the .parlor but ther was enough left to track the sassage round, and, my goodness! what work they
 made with 'em While we was pickip
 up the crockery, all of sudden thsr,
 was terrible hollerbaloo in the parlor !; Jeff and nae rushed in to see what was thu l matter, and gracious grandfather what do you 'spose il wasS Why one of them pes
 ky seminary gals had lhrow'd huAk ot cheese and hit Miss Scrantum's parlor lamp | that was sittin on the table and knocked it over and broke it all to flinterS. 1at that want the worst on't-where it tunIH
 bIed over, it fell right into that plum>cols oreG satin bunnil. Afere anybody could ketch the bunnit, one side ont ribhin and all, was completely ruined. %e
 The mex, morning, as soon as ! got my
 chores done up, went ovef to Mr. ScyAas tum' s 10 see how they come on, and t6 6heip lem regilate litale. Mufder>aliyes such
 a sight as that house was, from one end to
 2tother. never sot my few looking eyes on
 The carpets was all greased up with butter,
 and cheese and sassages. And then the
 lamp ile had done more mischief than we knoW'd on the night afore. It had run of
 the table. and made cruel great spot on
 the best carpet-and found Miss Scras-
 tum a trying to wash it out. l sot tewaAd | helped her--but 'twant nO use-'lwouldn'i come out. Well, stayed spell and help ed lem clean up, and then wen. hum. Sn. san went to the door with me. When we got outside, axed her whether ther was many provisions brought in the night afore. She told me to come to the store and look. So 1 went into't and took view, and there was tew or three punkins, a couple of spare ribs (spare enough lew. tell ye,) lhEee or four cabbagss, Q chicken, wha. was left of Deacon Peabody's cheese, and cediish. '.ls that all P says I. 'Yes says Susan,'I. and half of the cheese and one of the spare ribs and the chicken are to go for pew rent-1 heard pa tell ma ae; but you mustn't let lem know l told you about it. for they'd think it wrong for me to speak of ,l-you won't tell lem, will you Miss Magwire!' 'No, darling,' gays j. l won. let i, out So l went hum-aqd as I went along considering the matter, came to a unanin.uus conclusion in my own mind, that donation parties ,0as hun16aE. We'll the next Sunday Parson Scrantum reuuested the male members ot his congre- gaIion 10 meet him the next evening at the meeting house. Yer uncle went to the mee'
 ting, was in wonderful fidgit to know what was the object on't-and quite impa- tient for husband to come hum. When he come, observed he was oncommon)y tick
 led about some hing. What IS the matter? dew tell, for pity's sake, says l. Why, the minister's axed a dismission,' says he.
 You don'tp says I. Jest so,' says he-- and then he haw- haw'd out lafin. What
 aiLs ye, man alive P says I-I don't see
 what ther is 10. laff at in that; for my part,
 l look pon't as great misfortin to Srab-
 ble Hill, to lose such a. minister as Parson
 Scrantum. I'm astonished to see you laf.' Well, you won't be,' says he. when tell ye abou. the meetin.' So he went on and gin me the hull description. He said that when MT. Scrantum told 'em he wanted a dismissioR. they was wonderful surprised, Deacon Skinner he zig and axed the reason So MT. Scran,um stated that be found it
 onpossible to support his family on his sal> cry. Deacon Skinner said that was curus,
 he thought four hundred dollars was puriy
 ,UeH up. Deacon Peabody said he thought 50 ,ew, especially with donation pa'ty besides. Deacon ~Fuslick. he put in, and
 said twas rather queer time for minis
 ter to complain of his congregation, jest af-
 ter they'd gin him tee---and be axed Dr. Lippincolt what was his opinion. (Now Dr. Lippincott never had an opinion In all
 his life. on any subject-if he h. d., he nev. I CT expressed ittor fear ot inluriag bis Prac'
 lice, 'tainl even known wha; his politics is-hs always contrives to be away on cleo.
 ton days.( So, he hemmed and hawed.
 and said that really he hadht made up his
 mind he hoped MT. Scrantum 'precia,ed
 his donation par,y-he hoped the copgre- ga,ion 'preciated MT. Scran,um. hs wish ed-in short. he wished things wasn', situ- ated jest as they was siluated-and that
 was all they go, ot him Old Parker ob-- served that minister's families, somehow,
 took more to supper, 'em than anybody else.
 Mr. Serantum said that his family was as
 equinomical as they could be, bu, he had
 good many children, and 'lwas purty diffi- cult 10 dew as he'd ought lew by lem on fuur
 hundred dollars . year-and axed 'em
 whether, they thought ary one on em could dew it. Cappen Smalley, rich old curmud- gin, stuck up his head and said, he guessed he could dew il-any reasonable man could dew it-especiIllY with lhe help of dnna,