Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-03-03
JUST as WELL as NOT"
BY MRS. F. D. GAGE,

Ding, dog, ding, went Mrs. Clark sons break
fast bell; tho beef steak sat smoking on its hot
platter, the cooked potatoes steamed up beneath
q half laid cover, and the buekwheat cakes said
as plain as buck Sheat cakes could, 'eas me Quick
for | am not worth a cent when am settled down
into cool calculating adhesiveness.'
Dear me- exclaimed Mrs. Clarkson, 4 never
Old see such a usn as your father; he will sit
there and STICK to that Governors Message. till
the breakfast will all be as cold as a stone, fore
he'll STIR
Doesn't make any odds, mother, whether ig
Vhe Governors Message or the trial Of old John
bcoEu' or Senator Trumbull's speech. | haven't
Known him to come to breakfast till i. was cold.
since can remember said jon.
That's So replied Giles, and its nv opinioa
that its not worth While for a dozen of US to eat
cold vietaals h"cause one is no. on hand to be
s'n the Ceremonies 81 Giles drew his chair up
" the table and made close Acquaintance with the
6uckwbeat cakes, or the instant.
'oh wait !or your father, Giles said Mira.
Clarkson, 10 q depreeating tone. 1t DONE look
respectful for you to sit down SO!
Mother, the team is all ready, and my load is
ia for the city, and you know | ought to have been
of hall an hour ago, to meet the best of the mar.
ket; | can't wait
Ding, ding, ding, went tho bell ugain; and EN-
ma, took of her fathers plate from the table aud
set il on the stove 10 keep it warm.
Giles ate his breakfast hastily and departed.
Joe looked at the hired men as they sat silently
in the warm breakfast room. The gri1dle on the
roaring stove 10 the kitchen, waiting to supply
the DEFICIENCIES which would soon occur in the
buckwheat plate, began to smoke and burn, while
Lissie, who was waiting also for the griddle tc
do it's work, so that it might be removed and give
place to the wash kettle (for it was Monday NOR
ming was in a furious rage.
Sure now, and twill be twelve O'Clock this bles
sed day, before I'll be getting at my work; och but
its a botheration to be waiting for the gintlemen
so, and faith its not | can be seeing what's in that
bit Of paper that he needs be given over till it entire
ly to the lOosing of his breakfast. For by it be not
the divil himsel, that's there justt to be keeping US
ell from the business
So matters stood, and 80 stood a household of
twelve, all waiting for the head Of the house to
finish the paragraph.
Twelve men and women, fifteen minutes lost.
Three precious hours of a short winter dag wasted,
bu oACeliouI UT6uhltbI udlt SpOllsu-ndll tue ldIll-
ly at least-put into an impatient humor. Lissie
made cross all day, for by time breakfast was over
she was nearly an hour behind hand, and the fret
ting of mind made her work go crooked and slow,
her clothes were not out in good season-and had
10 all be brought in wet at eve, lest providers
should forget in the night to whom they belonged,
Ella declared she should be tardy, so left with
only q piece of bread and butter in her hand, &c
q sustain her through the long and arducus duties
& Of the day. as the teacher Of q district school. She
felt the want of her breakfast as she hurried or
over the rough road. meeting the piercing wirteI
air, and Of course was not so we'll prepared to dea
patiently and justly with the fifty restless littl'
spirits under her charge.
30 Ding. ding, ding, went the bell a third time
and Mrs. Clarkson, urged by the waiting ones al
around. put her head inside the sitting room door
aud suiting the word to the spirit said tartly-
Mr.. Clarkson. do you know We have all beef
waiting this half hour for you 2 what is the rea
con you can't read the rest of tina; after breakias,
we're every one of us being put out of time jus
by your sticking to that old paper. wish Their
q -wern't no such thing as papers-they provoke m
TO DEATH
Mr.. Clarkson always jumped when his wife be
gan TO scold; 4 mild remonstranoe tad long sine
e llostall effect on him, and so he tried her patiene
more and more, till she, poor woman, having t
be the receptacle Of all the troubles of the numel
Gus house-'he g .'etw,el Of father and s,ns-an
fatLer and daughters; had grown into what tn
world hates-a frettiug wOnan-or ia otbe
wOrds, a woman that was compelled to keep a
the time talkiog. asking. reminding, and ever teal
ing, and when these would not do, as in this il
stance, Seeding.
Inst as Tel as not might all this have bee
for a little self qualification, had emembered tn
rights Of others. But why did they not all s
down and eati you will ask.
islg Because Mr.. ClarksOn was a man of fixed bal
for his household to have eaten breakfast till b
"a appeared in bis place. as for him 20 have laid dow
bis newspaper at the first bell Then il was b
practice to ask Gods blessing over the eomfor'
and ~lux1ries presided, and it would have 81
'sg aside this duty for a part to have been engage
. in tue business of eating and to have been checke
10 such an operation for such a purpose.
Dir. Clarkson dashed down his newspape
ysushed to the dining room, ezelaimins as he wen
'"Tis astonishing how much disturbance 10 mad
every morning, because / want to read a momer
.CAttsr the bell Tings." Seats himself hastily in b
"A pl4ceg 'cons, come, boys. your mother 10 yer
J ippNisnt this m~Orning,'
'Pm aura somebody ought to be, is IAoaheI's n
joiudeT, ~ with flushed brow and grissed bear