The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1860-12-13

Just wait minute till get my bonnet
and shawl, and let's go round and look
at it.
Amt it beauty? Them balusters
are s2pcrb Step in and look at the par
lors two and an extension; and behind
the staircase there's a sweet little room,
which shall fix up as a boudolr I'll be
as much at home in it as pig in flow
er-gardcn? HumphI You're extremely
complimentary to your wife, my dear; but
| slla'n't resent it here, before all these
workmen. You can say what you please
| suppose it was my misfortune to marry
a man in the pork packing business whose
mind Is always runuing-on all fours ?
vHk you quit interrup:ing me, or not ?
whose miud is always running on his
business. If you'd only drop it at home
and in company, l wouldn't care, seeing
it's made US SO much money; but, as 1t
is, | am almost driycn---into . PIC pen:
almost driven to distraction. You're
uncommon provoking this morning, Mr..
Rasher.
This is a splendid house to give par
ty in; and I've made up my mind to give
the biggest one of the season, if we get
moved and settled in time. You hate
parties Of course you do; you hate ev-
erything that like. You'd be contented
to sit down, and smoke your pipe, and
drink your sherry forever in the Oack sit
ting,room Of that little, mean, three-story
brick. You've no ambition, and you've
no feeling for your wife. Oh, you needn't
be putting your arn. around my waist and
hugging me, with that fellow there a
painting them friskoes looking right at
us | wish you'd remember what I've
told you so often-that it's dreadfully
out of taste TO be showing Jour family
feelings in public. When we 90 out to-
gether you shouldn't speak to me, no
moren if I wasn't there; stead of that,
you invariably keep hanging around me,
and every once and while burst out with;
/" Say, Marier. did you hear that?" or,
+" Come here, Marier, and set side Of your
husband while;" or, Naricr, | won
der if the children are doing well to
home? 2" And that night we played for
feits to Mrs. Fitz, ,Simmons's and you was
Judged to kiss one of the ladies for pun.
ishment. what did Won 10 but kiss me
right before the hull crowd Wasn't
that punishment enough? You needI't
try to turn it off with joke. You know
1t was breach Of etiquette, if not actu-
ally immodest, to choose out Your own
wife in all that company. You was too
bashful to choose anybody else and, be-
sides, YOU hadn't yet got tired of kissing
your own partner? Pshaw that's all
well enough to home. | could see the
Widow Granger looked disappointed. Oh,
now, don't colcr up, dear! Come up.
stairs and look at the next story. There i,
This is the apartment I've settled on for
ourselves; its eighteen by twenty, and
you always like an airy sleeping room
and, what makes it pleasant for me, is
that it looks right over at DR.. Yellow
Docks house; and, as | shall set here a
great deal, | can see their company going
IN and out, and when they take a ride in
their carriage, and how they dress their
servants, and everything. They're very
fashionable people, and they've made
their mouey, every cent Of it, within five
years.
Speaking Of carriages, Rasher, we can't
get along any longer with our one horse
and our single chaise. We must, after
we GO iuto this house, have pair Of black
horses, and acarriage with oar arms upon
it, and place for the footman to hold on
behind. Sit down in the window here,
and take it easy; want to settle it about
the livery, ETC. You don't see as there
will be any necessity for US going to the
livery, if we have an establishment Of our
own; aud as for arms, we'd better keep
our arms in it Instead Of on it? Dear,
dear husband, | wouldn't have had Mrs.
Fitz Simmons heard you say that fer the
world she'd have had her whole set gig
Cling about it the next time we came
where she was. Of course our servants
must dress IN livery; at least have capes
to their coats and buttous on their caps.
Don't YOU know whether any Of the Rash /
ers, in the old country, ever had coat
of-arms? You might consult the book
of hcraldry, aud find out If there was,
YOU must have it painted on the carriage
door, and engraved on all the plate; if
there lever was, why, well just invent
one, that's all. What are you doing on
that scrap Of paper, Rasher? \ coat-of
arms ? Dear NE! dida't know as you
knew enough. Let NE see it, won't you
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