Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1853-10-29

bliged by the loan of pair of glas
lamps. Tommy broke ours to-day an,
she hain't got any to burn
We'll, said Mrs. Adams, not over vii
lingly, she can have ours for to.nigh,
I suppose Of course she will provide 70
herself tomorrow. But you have no
brought in the castor aud olher articles
I lent you yesterday
'La, no. said Jane coolly; Mrs
Brown thought as she expected compa'
ny to dinner day after tomorrow, she'd
just keep en-, and that would save the
trouble Of sending again
Very considcrate, upon my word,
thought Mrs. Adams, though she did
not say it. She couldn't help saying
however, with some slight emphasis, is
there anything else l could lend to Mrs
Brown to dayl'
There now, said Jane. with sudden
recollection, Il came near forgetting
one thing. and should if you hadn't
mentioned it, Mrs. Brown would like
to borrow your gridiron.'
'Gridiron,' said Mrs. Adams in some
asionishment.
Yes. ma'am, we've mislaid ours and
can't find it, and SO, if you haint no OBJ
jcctions, we'd like to borrow yours, as
we're going to broil some steak to.mor-
row morning
Bridget, said Mrs. Adams, in a tone
of dispair, 'get the gridiron for Jane,
and if'-she continued. turning to the
latter you could make it convenientso
return it in the course of fortnighM l
shouldbe glad
'oh yes said Jafs, simply, not no.
,icing the sarcastic tone in which she
spoke, l don't think We shall want j,
above a week .ESs
Il don't see the castor, remarked Mr..
Adams TO his wife, the next day ut the
dinner table. Bridget ought toremen-
bor to place it on the table
so she would, but Mrs. Brown, our
next door neighbor, has borrowedit.'
Borrowed. the cnsiorl--rs,her a
strange request, | think. But why didn't
cook The steak sent homer
'Berause Mrs. Brown has borrowed
the gridiron.'
sMrs. Brown again! You ought no,
to lend her so freely. BY thu way
where are all the umbrellas? It rain.
ed this morning, but | could not find
one in its place
Il don't know, I'm sure. Perhaps
can inform US. Bridget, salt
she, when that young lady had answer
cd the summons of the bell, do you
know what has become of oil the um,
brellas :
Sure, ma'am Mrs. Brown has; go,
two Of 'em. She borrowed them a
week ago.
'And hasn't returned them ye,l'
'No ma'am, and don't bolieve that's
The worst of it,
Just then the bell rung, and Bridget
oheyed the summons.
Mrs. Brown sends her compliments,
said she, reappearing, 'and would like
to borrow our laigcst wash,lub.'
Mr.. and Mrs. Adams looked at each
otherin mute astonishment.
WELL said the former. a. length,
: for sublime audaci,y The palm must
certainly be awarded to Mrs. Brown.
1t is said that three removes are as bad
as fire, but should like to know how
many removes are as bad as a borrow
ing neighborl'
Am | to tell Jane that, sirl' asked
Bridget, little mischievously.
No, no. said Mrs. Adams, laughing
..You may give her the tub, and you
needn't say anything about returning it
it won't do any good ~
..Serionsly, she continued, some.
thing must be done, or the house will
very soon be empty. You don't know
half the extent to which Mrs. Browu
carlos her hnrrowingpropensity. With
in the last week she has borrowed tet
coffee. milk, sugar, -four, eggs, fryinr
pan, table napkins, a castor. gridiro'
shovel aud tongs, and other articles, 4
the auclioneers say in their advertise
men,s, too numerous to mention. TIN,
is bad enough, but Mrs. Brown, in ad
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