New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1861-04-26
WHOLE NO 81

suppose ltS queer luea OF mine,
iHetty, but, I've notion that man was
'Siah Hawley.' My! but if Hetty's
face did not fire up then! You mis- ght
have lit acandle by it, These incipi-
ent symptoms did not escape the wary
inquisition.
'Pears so to me. Cause those big
whiskers were so much like his'n and
the awkward way he gripped mo with
his great pawsl
Hetty WAS wonderfully busy. She
bent over her work and drew her need
le through so quickly that the thread
snapped. and then she was so much
engaged in threadieg her needle again,
she hadn't time to answer.
Il don't believe that kiss was meant
for me after ALL Wonder who it was
intended for and wonder if you don't
know something about it, Hetty2'
Me! mother.'
Yes, you Hetty. You was mighty
anxious to get me and pap off to aunt
Ruth's this evening; but Inoticed you
were slicked up extraordinary, for all
you wern't going
Now, Hetty, I'm gettin old, 1
know it; but I haven't quite lost my
eyesight yet. I've heard something
about this between you and 'Siah Haw-
ley What are you piayin' possum
for? Out with it l sayp
Our little schener thus adjured, mado
o1oon hro,ct of +ho ,,o+kou. ,o,,.l>
relieved to find that mother hadn't
4 nothin' again him, and would give fath-
er talk about it, and bring him round.
But, Hctty, want you to tell 'Siah
I'd rather he'd not make mistake
again. 1 don't like the feel of his big
whiskers about my face, and don't
approve of promiscuous kissing.
Josiah never heard the last of that
blunder. odd Squire Thomas used to
delight in rehearsing the story whenev--
er all the parties interested would
happen to be present. He would shake
his fat sides at .Josial's discontinue and
his wife's tart replies, and Hetty would
join him, and both would laugh until
the tears ran down their cheeks. 'Nev-
er mind '.Sia' Mrs. Thomas would say
consollngly. Let him laugh. He'd
have been in your place twenty years
ago. He had hard work to get a kiss
from me, then. And / hope it Will be
a lesson to you and Hetty against the
impolicy of concealment and under hand
doin's of all Sorts
aHAVEN''fi' WME.1
Now it's our opinion that you-fib
most roundly. Sit down, keep cool,
and let's talk it over.
Firstly: Your wife, for several years
has wished you to spade up two strips
Of ground in the front yard, and prepare
the soil for same flowers and shrubs
But you never had time, you say! Now
be honest and own that you have been
in town, and over to your neighbours
fifty times in the coarse of of year,
when, had } OH been so disposed, you
coulahave done what the woman wished.
OF course you have. And while the ba
by was sleeping, and the dinner dishes
just put away, she has taken that rusty
spade and tried to do the job. Shame!
Your strong arms could have done it d
hundred times as easy. If you had a.
Ken n notion to have fine shirt made,
and she had put you off a y ear or two,
wouldn't there have been war in the
camp?
No, sir, that is all gammon-you
have stime. And because you care for
nrthing in leisure hour but to read
the paper and spit tobacco juice over
the floor, you should not refase to aid
her in gratifying more elevated taste
to the direction of flowers.
Ysur wife has knit your stockings,
darnded them, washed, cooked your
victuals, and patched your dirty trow-
sers for years, and though the BABY
should be squalling like all possessed,
she must stop to SOW on button that
may happen to be off, Surely, half
a day. or dozen of them, weuld be bus
a Just return for so much Of her time do
voted to you. Before you were mar
ried, we'll bet a shad, if she had wished
ten acre lot dug over and set out to
roses, you wodld have broken your neck
to crafty the girl. Don't treat your
WIFE with any less respect.
Fix that flower bed this spring, or