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

From GodeyS Lady'S Bood
EEFs. AND MRS. RASEgEEI.
BY TIE AUTHOR OF "MISS SLIMMENS." "
CHAPTER |.

THE NEW HOUSE.
Say, }Ir Rasher, are You going to buy
a new house, or are yon MT? " You
don't know % Well, lido. You owned
up yesterday that the clear profits of your
business this year was over twenty thou,
sand dollars, and if we re ever going to
live ia a brown stone front, now 5 the
time. You don't make twenty thousand
dollars every year cutting up pork, or, il
you expect to after this, it's high time
we was taking our proper position before
the world. |, for one, intend to 90 out
a little mere than have, I've got thing
to 90 with, aud intend to 90.
You re afraid people will make light
Of US as well as our lard oil? Fiddle,
sticks, Rasher I wish you would quit
them everlasting punS. Its vulgar to
pun; a very low species OF wit, Indeed,
heard Mrs. De Tongue say so, the night
I was to her reception. You can't help
it; you must interiurd your conversation
with EN-? Good Lord, RasherI whatever
else you do, leave yoNr business behind
you when YOU come home. | declare the
silk curtains in the parlor have an odor
Of it! Don't briSt5e up so? There il
comes again its enough to drive woman
mad You can't help "cutting up;
you re so used to it Now, LOOK a here,
husband, we're going to settle this matter
about the house this morning, or we're
not going to settle it. Ifyou'Il quit that
nonsense and listen to reason, | II tell you
what my ideas are but if you don't, |
won't say another word Then you guess
you'll keep on and if you DO you won t
get me to keep still. That's just what
YOU want; you 4 be glad if never open
ed my lips, though which of US is capa-
bic Of speaking with the most propriety
III leave other people to judge.
| picked out a house yesterday after
noon that suits me; and, as a woman is
supposed to be ;he best judge Of such
matters as the house she lives in and has
to stay in from one years end to another,
why, if you can pay for it, that's enough.
It's a brown-stono front, four story and
basement, stoops and balustrades of brown
stone, massive ard handsome; style Of
architecture modern Itaiic, and not sur
passed by any Of similar size IN the city
| remember just what the advertisement
said, which was the reason Of my going
to see it. 1t II be finished next week.
It's twenty feet front, and commands a
beautiful view of the Eeighboring houses,
which are all just as nice and aFistoerat-
ical as our own. It's because liked the
neighborhood so we'll that | wanted that
house in particular. "W hat's the price,"
Sixteen thousand dollars, and considered
cheap, considering the Avenue aud the
Park. Eight thousand dollars Will fur
nish it from garret to cellar; library, PIC
lures, and everything, and we can get
man to do it all without taking any troub,
lie ourselves. You've got thirty thousand
in the bank, | know, and, with your bu-
siness, YOU need not be afraid but that
you can" Save your bacon . dear,
Mr.. Rasher. # you're going to continue
20 vulgar, | don't know as there Il be any
use In cur trying to get where We ought
to be.
The girls will be home from board'n'-
school to their winter vacation in the lat
ter part Of December, and I'd like to get
al! moved, and settled, aud furnished,
and fixed before they come home, just to
give 'em a pleasant surprise. There,
Rasher! knew you had some fatherly
feeling about you, if you had no pride
You're in no hurry this morning, | know.