The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1862-03-21
THE GOOD WIFE.
A NORWEGIAN STORY.
CFrom the Continental Magazine
CONCLUDED FROM LAST WEEK.
PART II.
GuDBRAND AND HIS WIFE.

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woman you've come back, then, God
be praised How did you fare all day p
Neither well nor ILL., replied Gud-
brand. when l got to the town, l
could find no one there to buy our COW,
and so traded her off for horse
For horse = said the wife AN
excellent idea, and l thank you with all
my heart. We can so to church, then
in wagon, like plenty of other folks
who look down upon us, but are no better
than we. If we choose to keep horse,
and can feed him, we have a right to do
it, suppose, for we ask no odds of any
body. Where is the horse ? We must
put him into the stable
Il did not bring HIM all the way home,
answered Gudbrand, for, on the road,
changed my mind; exchanged the
horse for hog
Come, now,' said the wife, that's
just what I'd have done, in your place
Thanks, hundred times over Now,
when my ueighbors come to see me, I'll
have, like everybody else, a bite of ham
to offer them. What need had we of a
horse? The folks around us would have
said, "see the saucy things they think
it beneath them to walk to church." Let
us put the hog in pen ?
I didn't bring him with me, said
Gudbrand, for on the way I exchanged
him for She goat
Bravo ? said the good wife. What
a sensible man you are When l come
to think of it, what could | have done
with hog? The neighbors would have
pointed us out and have said, ~Look al
those people-al they make they eat p
But, with a she-goat, l shall have milk
and cheese, not to speak of the little kids
Come, let us put her into the stable
I didn't bring the she-goat with me,
either said Gudbrand 1 traded hel
again, for ewe.'
There That's just like you,' exclam
ed the wife, with evident satisfaction
1t was for my sake that you did that
Am young enough to scamper, over hill
and dale, after a she goat? No, indeed
but eve will yield me her wool as vel
as her milk /; so let us get her housed al
once
1 didn't bring the eve home, either,
stammered Gudbrand, once more, but
swapped her for a goose
What a goose! oh thanks, thanks
a thousand times, with all my heart--for
after all, how could I have got along will
the eve? I have neither card nor comb
and spinning is heavy job, at best
When you've spun, too, you have to Gu
and fit and sew. It's far easier to buy
our clothes ready made, as we've Away:
done. But a goose-a fat one, too, nt
doubt-why, that's the very thing want
I've need of down for our quilt, and my
mouth has watered this many a day for
bit of roast goose. Put the bird in tn
poultry-coop.'
'Ah I've not brought the goose, for
took rooster in his stead
Good husband = said the wife, your
wiser than would have been. A rooster
splendid why, a ROSTERS better thai
; an eight-day clock. The rooster viii
crow every morning, at four, and tell u
when it is time to pray to God and Sc
:. about our work. What would we hav
done with goose? don't know hoy
to cook one, and as for the quilt, Heavel
be praised, there's no lack of moss grea
S deal softer than down. So, let us put tn
T rooster in the corn yard
Il have not brought even the rooster,
1t murmured Gudbrand, 'for, at sundowr
: I felt very hungry, and had to sell m
looster for shilling, to buy something
1t eat. If it hadn' been fer that mus
n have starved to DEATH
e God be thanked for giving you thu
lucky thought replied the wife. "A
that you do, Gudbrand, is just after m
r own heart What need we of rooster
= :, Here you are, my dear husband, safe an
- sound. I am perfectly satisfied, and hay
need of nothing more than your presene
- to make me happy
- ~ Upon this, Gudbrand opened the doc
- - Well, neighbor Peter, what do yo
say to that? Go, now, and bring IL
your twenty crowns
= So saying, Gudbrand hugged and kis
ed his wife with as much fervor and hear
mess as though he and she had just bee
d welded, in the bloom of youth.
), PART III.
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