Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-05-14
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LMlyS mOtnef was 10 leave the next morn
ing. She passed the evening in packing her
trunk, and in giving an innumerabIe quantity
OF charges to Lizzy. The latter was in that
state OF delight and excitement when words of
"aWce are said to "pass in at one ear and out
~ The other" So she answered, "Yes--yes-
ph, VI, yes, indeed! to every injunction, perhaps
ioigettlng 1t entirely the next momento
Inc morning came. The mother looked
tunquiet, as she prepared to set out on her
! journey.
now Llzzy, child, said she, /" do your very
pest. Mind and have all your fathers meals
In season-you know he is very particular
about that. Keep the cream in the cellar, and
keep the stone on the pork barrel Mrs. Simms
will take the churning, with hers, twice a weeE
so you will not be troubled about that. You
know you arc to send for Bridget, to wash. on
Monday. But you will make out with every-
thing else, dear child if you are only careful
and patient You know your weak side, Lizzy
BE sure never to have the house empty--therc
IS no knowing what might happen. Above all,
take good care of little Kitty. | would take
her with me, if were not just as it is, precious
child
Mrs. Talcott kissed her four-year-old baby
as she SAID this, and bidding her other chill
dren good bye was lifted by her husband into
eAAsos
LiMy watched her mothers flutterine green
veil until it was out of sight, and then turned
to the house with hop, skip, and Jump, not
very matronly. Her feelings, if they had been
spoken, would have shaped themselves into
something very like the soliloquy-
/ am monarch of all L survey
My right there is none to dispute!
If any of my readers has passed through a
like experience, she knows very well how to
sympathize with the exultant thoughts that
swelled the little housekeeper's heart. She
spent the morning in building "air castles /"
Tor each day of her dominion as she wandered
IRON cellar to garret, and from garret back to
cellar followed by prattling Kitty, who carried
a Little Maltese namesake in her chubby arms.
Such fine time Us she would have Why.
she could cook just what she wished, and do
Just as she pleased, ,fll the day long! She
would go that very afternoon, and ask Mrs
Simms to let Julia come and stay with her all
the time. Julia was a girl of twelve, her es-
peclal friend. Would they not read together,
and play checkers, and work worsted and-to
be sure there would be the house-work, but then,
she would make nothing Of that she was sure
she could do it up" in a little while Every
hing should be in fine order, too her father
md brother should see that she did know how
o keep house!
Thus soiloquizing, she set about preparing
Inner. This was an easy matter. as her
mother had left special directions for it, She
seated herself very proudly in her mothers
place at table when her father and brother
came in from the field
Here's your health, Mrs Housekeeper,n
said her brother, with demure bow, lifting
his tumbler to his lips.
"Well done for the first time, Lizyo was
her fathers comment /" But mind, YOU will
have to keep up your reputation !"
Lizzy was quite disappointed to find that
Julia Simms could not be spared from home
or two days and was obliged to content her
elf with anticipating the great pleasure she
would have on Friday, when her playmate had
promised to spend the whole day with her
Wednesday passed very creditably. But Thurs
lay morning brought trial in the shape of a
tongue OF beef which her father sent her,
o be cooked for dinner. Lizzy turned it over
It least twenty times, looked at il, felt of it,
md meditated on it,
"Ell fry it, she at length determined And
accordingly, fried in brown slices. it awaited
he coming of the hungry hay-makers to their
noon meal
What's thsto asked her father, with an
accent of surprise and doubt, as he pried his
ork into one of the tough morsels
1t Is the tongue you sent home for dinner,
father"
" Fried!-fried tongue! never heard of
such a thing Why, it's as hard as an oyster
shell You should have boiled it, child
The blood mounted to Lizzy's temples, while
her father pulling the brcad-tray toward him,
discovered a fresh flaw in her management.
"What mouldy bread too, Lizzya One
can't live on potatoes. Haven't you anything
Use in the house,! -
No, sir stammered Lizzy, with starting
ears
Then go down and cut a slice of salt pork.
lere, John, look up the frying pan"
" told you | should have to turn in cook,
IS exclaimed John, slyly brandishing the
reasy iron spoon over her head, as she came
ut OF the cellar. He had wrapped one of her
prOns around him. and sprinkled himself with
our from it, so that he looked like bakers
oy.
Il wish you wouldn't teaze me!" retorted
is sister. very petulantly. Men folks have
0 business with cooking
Llzzy said her father, sternIy, "keep
our temper if you cannot keep your house!2
Llzzy watered the dinner dishes with a small
hover of tears and then wiping her eyes, set
bout conjuring up Something to supply the
lace of the mouldy bread Biscuit she had
ladc, when her mother had mixed all the in
redients So, on biscuit she resolved. A pan
al Of heavy, yellow-tingcd cakes came out of
he oven, causing her some misgivings.
"Oh dear!' she sighed, al am tired of
taying in this miserable house Kere, Kitty
hid, let's go after the cow
Kitty was ready enough to put on her pink
ln-bonnct Away they went, over fences and
ilocks through pastures and patches of wood
md. LiAy, transported to find herself in the
'csh air once more, forgot her mothers COM
,ands as well as her errand. She friskcd
bout, jumped, sang, and frolcked and finally