Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1855-04-13

any butter, Susy has milk and water
sweetned, and Lizzie mustn't have auy
bread.
Well said /, having dispatched Mr.
Perkins cup, what does grandmother
take?'
lon should have seen her eyes! There
We're the scintillations of fourteen furies
IN them. Who? Oh, YES, understand.
l-oh. never mind mel I'm nobody =
And then sobbcd and sniffled, and Mr.
Perkins was in an unwonted state of ex-
citement and the children exchanged winks
and smiles, and I-sat still. If a woman
with ten grand children all in one lot, to
say nothing Of their probable cousins, is
not entitled to the honored name Of grand =
mother pray who is?
So breakfas. past. Mother-in-law re-
covered her serenity before the meal was
over. Husband,-dear me. what word
that is for me to write. Husband went
about his business, and mother-in-law un-
dertook to invest me with the powerful
keys, enlivening our progress through the
establishment with some very interesting
remarks.
Mr.. Perkins is a very fine man nv
dear, though | am his mother who saws t
"a very fine man; bnt he has dreadful
temper, and You must not let him get set
against you. He is very easy to please.
but you must be eparticular to get up his
shirts carefully, for he will storm like an
earthquake at missing button. He is not
at all difficult about his table, but things
must be served up right, or he will not
eat them. Tn Lis mother and am used
to his ways.
lie is very neat and careful, but he
never puts anything away, and will keep
person picking up after him all the
time; and he wants everything he calls
for rought to him Just to a minute. He
is not all hard to please when one knows
him, only it takes all your thoughts to
do it; but I'm used to thas.'
This was pleasant introduction, GER
tainly, to my marital duties. Then there
the children, she continued, "a nice fami-
ly as one need desire But the Oldest,
that's Timothy, has picked up some bad
habits He will swear drcadfuly, but
he's good for all that. And James, that's
the second son, is a fine lad and willing ;
but You must not expose him to tempta-
ton by leaving loose money about. Will
ly is healthful and well-doing boy in
the main, but he likes to creep into the
store-room. AS sure as he eats a handful
of raisins, and he will 90 it when he can.
he goes into convulsions. Tom is quiet,
but dreadful mischiavous sometimes !;
and thete's no harm in the girls, except
that they quarrel, as all children will, and
wont take care of their clothes no chill
dren do. And John he plaques them
most to death, and Mr.. Perkins has no
government over any of them, and you'll
have to do it all, my dear; but YOU must
not be discouraged. Im here, and if they
don't mind, just turn them over to me-
Do you wish to know what did ? &C
marry yourself to a widower, ten chill
dren and mother-in- law place yourself
foreign substance, among three genera
tions of cognates, and you'll find out.
Just materially as they say out west, went
to my room, threw myself on the bel
and cried. Tears wont provide dinner,
| know. and 7 Ernw II thon but did
not imagine that any one expected that
should fall at once into providing for the
household, a stranger, and in a strange
place-oh, how strange! I don't know
how long l laid there in my half-sleep,
half-sob. Presently | heard mother,
screamed in childish treble-'mother =
growled in hobbledehoy accent-'moth-
erp whined-'mother! shouted-'moth-
er mother mother
'Who is that wretch of mother?
said, angrily, as bounced from the bed
to the glass, and then washed away the
traces of my tears. Who is the wretch,
AMI why don't she answer?' did not
dreem that could he meant. What is
the matter p asked, opening the door,
and running out to find seven or eight OF
the Perkins young fry sitting on theil
chairs. who calls?
'All of u.s. said the Oldest, as spokes
man for the whole. Grandmother said
we were to call you mother
But she did not tell you to set up such
a horrible concert, did she =? If she did,
| forbid it. Call me mother, and I'll try
to be one but never shout the word again,
or call me at all when you are near enougl,
for me to hear you speak in your natural
voice. Come to me when you want me.
Where is your grandmother p
She went out and said she would not
be in till dinner, and there's no dinner
getting ready, and there's nothing to eat
and We are all hungry
Go, then, and eat anything you can
find
But everything is locked up, and you
have the keys. Grandmother said so before
she went out
'Oh, she did, did she?' said I, laughing
and running down stairs over the score a
legs and arms. Now saw the piracy
The pantry was speedily unlocked, and
the key has not been in the door since
Leaving the children to discuss the lunch
| walked to the kitchen. There sat great
lump of a cook, with her feet on the ashes
and her face turned to me with an expires
sion which said, now for the battler
Where's your fire, said l. 'and what.
for dinner ?,
Sure yourself, that's the new musthrees
must tell me what. The old musthrees
tould me was to do nothing till you di
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