St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1862-05-08

opposite end and, leave the pantry window
up for air. Could hs have been taking
notes 10 zee if anything wa ,wanted in the
furniture line Z Or WIS 10 in with the
|poa Masts. aud discovered the difficulty
in the Wy Of paddines aud custard tor
dinnerl It certainly looked strange that
Maine Prairie folks should and out that
Y. wanted eggs just after Fowler took out
the mail. But. next morning dainty
little box was handed Us. It might have
contained Wedding eake-tpened it aud
there sat little hen, an india rubber hen
on polite note bearing the &c 'mplime"t.
Of the Ney York Store, with~.he reason,
there are no egys!" T.: .s.,.....4
Reason enough to be sure! Did ever
any one see the match The speculations
of amateur farmers and city folks in rural
matters are proverbial for absurdity; but
to think OFFS Now York 6rm coming out
west and starting poultry yard, with only
tin rooster On steeple and set Of India
rubber hens, aud expecting to supply the
market With eggs! It beats all Mr.. Spar
rowgrass's experience. Why, if they had
written to the Executive Committee Of
t. State Agricultural Society Of Mime.
sofa, they could have told them that that
kind Of hens never produce eggs. 1t is
not every cold hen" that lays au egg eve.
~ day and the Gutta Percha varity new,
lay at all. So, no wonder Toby has no
eggs. But, this tbickened the mystery.
How did Toby end out that we were in.
tercsted in his having, or not having eggs!
Well, that evening Rurbank's express
wagon drove to the door-the mcssen ger
handed in box saying ~ box Of e5yr,
but on opening,..it proved to ts u b''x If
rat poison, enough to kill all the gophers
mice, reaches, &C., in Stearns county. aud
inst to think Of Barbauk's men not know
ing the difference between that nd eggs |!
Suppose We HASN'T known any more than
they snd AZ had cooked and eaten 4 cou.
ule Of boxes for breakfast? There would
have been fifty cents gone and not rat
killed. But this is not all, for there is
tae general damage t. community in a
man like IL &. u. and all these clerks Of
his "seusible appeari"" young men Is
you'd meet, making such mist4kes-they
Oh whom people depend 10 ell orders from
all around about, not to know even that
eggs are eggs Suppose a lady at Red
River about to light the candles which
hang in tin seonses at the altar of Mrs
llymtu, wanted pair Of white kid gloves
to keep her fingers from being burned,
and sent to Burbank's fur the article
Wouldn't they be just as likely to send \
sper Of cut and dry tobacco. We'tb,nk
Mrs. Darlington would agree with US that
its enough to drive one contracted to see
such ignorance in men Of ren. onstr bile
conditions. But the mistake was MOTH
ing to the added mystery for there! Fur
banks must have known we needed eggs
Tuesday morning Howard drove up in
his meat cart and after we'd got our steak
handed US large package in brown pa-
per remarkiug
! thought you'd like some eggs; and,
sure enough they were. Pretty soon Rev..
Mitchell came in, had been at Maine Prai-
RE, brought Mrs. Benefits compliments
and she vas going to send us some eggs
In a few hours Mr.. Smith arrived from
Rockville with box full Of eggs aud Mrs.
Viewers compliments. Next day Dr.
Hunter called with a basket Of eggs and
Mrs. Hunters compliments; and so it
goes. Every body sends US eggs or word
they are going to, aud We can'ot make it
out. If we had put a piece in the paper
saying We wanted eggs there could not
have been more plentiful supply, and
the mystery is how people know that We
cared for eggs. W. might think it was
spirits if they ever did anything sensible,
but they never do. So it is equally u"ac-
countable-why the eggs come, and what
We are to do with them if they do not stop
coming.