Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-01-30
IRASBURGH. VERMONT FRIDAY, JANUARY 80 1867.

brance-but you've got a house full,
ma'am."
mo, sir, only three = ''asWered widow
Glenn.
aThree, only three ? God bless me,
ma'am, / wouldn't be poor woman, with
two, no, with one incumbrance at my pet
ticoat tails-for the biggest ship and car
90 old Steve Girard ever owned, ma'am."
:" 1 might" meekly said the widow,
"put my son with the printer, sir; he has
offered to take my poorboy."
d" 1.-Two girls and a boy?" inquiringly
asked the old gent, applying the dust
and manipulating his box. "How old ?
Eldest thirteen, eh?-boy eleven, and the
youngest seven, eh ?" and working
traverse, or solving some problematic
point, Job Carson struck his hands under
his morning gown, and strobe over the
floor after few evolutions of the kind,
he stopped-fumbled in drawer of a
secretary, and placing a ten dollar note in
the widows hand, he said;
There, ma'am l don't know that l
shall want you, but tomorrow morning if
you have time, from othersand more i'm
portant business, call in, bring your chill
dren with you; good morning, ma'am-
Banquo!'
Yis, sab; Use heah."
Show the lady out-good morning,
ma'am, good morning"
81 like that woman's looks" said old
Job, continuing his walk; "she's plain and
tidy she's industrious, I'll warrant if
she only hadn't that raft of membranes;
what do these people have incumbran-
ces for, any way P"
Lady at the doo-ah, sah,' said Ban
quo.
"Show her in. Good morning, ma'am;''
Banquo, a seat for the lady: yes ma'am,
/ did l want housekeeper. 1 adver-
tised for one. How many servants do I
keep ? Well, ma'am, l keep as many as
I want. Have visitors ? OF course /
have. What and where are n7y rooms ?
Why, madam, / own the house, every
brick and lath in it. go to bed, and
get up and go round; come in and out
when / feel like it. What church do |
worship in !? I've assisted in building a
number, own half of one. and a third of
several but, ma am, between you and |
i don't want to be rude to a lady,
ma'am, but 1 do think, this examination
amt to my Iking-you don't think the
place would suit you, eh !? Well, I think
your ladyship wouldn't suit me, ma'am, so
I'll bid your ladyship good morning" " said
old Job, bowling very obsequiously to the
stiff starched and acrimonious dame, who,
returning the old gentleman's bos0 with
the same "high pressure" order, seized
her skirts in one hand, and agitating her
fan with the other, she stepped out, or
Jfaikined along to the hall door, and as
Banquo flew around and put on the ectras
to let her ladyship out, she gave the dar-
key a pat ON the head with her fan, and
looked crab-apples at the poor negro, she
rushed down the steps and disappeared.
Thank you, ma am come again, eb
you please-of7n,' said the pouting negro.
Well, sab here's nudder lady, sab, -
says Banquo, ushering in q rather ruddy
jolly-lookinga and perfectly-at-home daugh-
ter of the ''gim o the sae." The old gen.
tleman eyed her liberal proportions, con-
sulting his snuff box, he answered, "yes,
to the old woman's inquiry if he was the
gintleman wanting the housekeeper.
" Did you read my advertisement,
ma'am?"
"Me rade it? Not I, fax. Mr.. Null
lony, our landlord, was saying till US"
" Are you married, too ?"
" Married toco Do I look like a wo-
man as would marry two no, sur I'm
a dacent woman, sur my name is Han
nah Geaughey, Jimmy Geaughey's my
husband, sur he, poor man, wrought in
the board-yard till he was sun struck, by
names of falling from cart, sur"
/ Well, ma'am, that will do, I'm sorry
for your husband-one dollar, there it is
you wouldn't suit me at all good morn.
ing, ma'am. Banquo, show the good
woman to the door.
But, sur, want the place y
81 don't want go,e-good morning"
"Dis way, maam, said Banquo mar
shalling the woman to the hall.
Stand away, ye nager its your mas
ther I'm spakin vic"
{" Go along. go along, woman, go, go
go !" roared the old gent.
& RlIt as was SAVING. Mr. NfufJo,,