The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1857-02-26
Original.
Peggy Pillars Soliloquy.

BY KATE CARROLL.
What in nature is the use Of trying TO do
ones duty I'm sick of thinking it's possible !!
Here I've lived in this family six years, and its
=" Peggy, why don't you make lighter bread r.
when, perhaps, last week the very same was ex
tolled to the skies; or Peggy go this errand,
that, and the tother,' as though body's body
could be in dozen places at the same moment!
Sometimes mistress gets so uppsh that she
threatens to change help. and actually goes to
the intelligence Office TO See about it. But she
always comes back with the observation that
she will, out Of pity, bear with me little lon
ger Out of pity.7 guess that its out of pity
to herself, not Ne. She thinks that small room,
stiff ID with thirty or forty female breaths, not
the best place 10 obtain the best perfunery in
A glimpse of those thirty or forty pairs Of
doubtfully clean arms, scares her out Of making
choice of pair TO manufacture the elbow grease
that is forever in demand here. She fears that
row of beseeehing eyes wouldn't be able to gi7e
her an eye for everything such as she alas had
in Peggy Pillar. There's the bell II don't even
find minute to talk to myself in. s'pose its
only to find an odd stocking, or stray petit
Goa for Miss Martha who cannot find cen her
self, because of the great distress she's in over
the trouble Of some heroine of some book
PROBABLY its the MEAEDERTNG GENTLE, that's
wilted her down to-day. l got it lust night for
her. Pretty Sunday reading in the Mesnderirg
Gentile Pretty Sunday reading for a Sabbath
School teacher too don't believe my teacher
was Just Of the Miss Martha stamp II che had
been should no, remember her with just the feel
ings that do. SIZE alas seemed LIKE AN ANoEi
WHO HAD FOLDED ITS WINGS ON EARTH. So every
body ought to that, like Miss Martha, has ii1f
Bible on their tongue in company, or that had
rather hide it in their hearts ms cad of masking
such display of their acquaintance with it."
Peggy, didn't you hear the ball?'
Yes mistress" hunbly answered Peggy, who
invariably commented" this time AN tc
blame.
"Then answer itat ONCE! Martha wants yor
to find her Sunday CATERS; Flank is waitin!
for you TO black his boots; Father wants t.
know if you remember where he put the cucum
Der seeds last TALL; he thinks of planting littlt
to.day; has concluded not TO 90 to church be
cause we are going to hare such dull preacher
The baby is crying for you TO wash and dres
him, and hope you'll cook better dinner to
day than you did last Sunday. Not time to Dc
everythingT Who asks you to do everything
Not /, nor father, nor the chidrcn We ar
all very reasonable in our demands upon you
Especially when we know that we could get
better servant for the same wages! Come, hurr!
up. You ought to have all your morning wor
done, could by this time, if did my own work
''But there-I aren't strong enough!' and mis-
tress sweeps out of the kitchen to Peggy's in
tense relief.
"Do all the work yourself7' Iwish she'd tr
it. I'd leave this blessed minute, if it WASH
for that precious baby, 10 whom, by staying,
may be able to do some good. His soul sha
not be corrupted as the others have been.-
Save 'emI'