Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-08-26
MISCELLANY.
M HUSBAND AND
az WIS. cLARA H. HOLMES.


Mortimer Montgomery and i. My
name. before was married, was Betsy
Jane Higbee.
When / was a girl they used to have
s,,ch spIendid pairing bees, but / did
not like to go very often, because II was
81 much trouble to get ready, AID be-
sides this, I don't like to pare apples
eli the evening for nothing. / had al
ways rather 60 to bed and fead' espe-
cisiIv when | could get one OF those
deliahtful novels, where the heroine
suffers so much, but marrles the man oil
her choice att last.
One night Mehitable Sykes had par
IL, and nothing would do but must go,
and there / saw MIR. Montgomery We
al thought that he was such a nice
Young man, and l was proud, can tell
YOU, when he came and sat down De-
side me to pare from my dlsh. how
fast he did work. be would pare two
apples to my one every time. On,
dearl 1t made me tired just to see his
hands go, and leaned back against
the wall Just to look at them. He look
ed at me, and said:
Lets hurry and get them done, and
then we will have some sport.
1 hurried as fast as / could, but, O,
dear mel / was so tired The fact is 1
believe L am constltulionally tired; for
ever since can recollect, it has tired
me dreadiully to work.
After we got the apples done we had
plays and fOrfeits, and some way or an
other MIR. Montgomery was the one to
Kiss me every time. To tell you the
truth. do not know whether he kissed
ne or MOTT was done so quickly. i
felt moustache brush my cheek each
time, so I guess he did.
After these were over and l had my
bonnet and shawl on, he asked me If
he might see me home, and OF course
I said YES. for he was the best looking
fellow in the house.
While we were going home he asked
me to have him. My goOdnessl 1 was
so astonished. It WIS SO sudden; be-
sides that, it was the first offer 1 ever
mad. He was in great hurry for his
answer, so sent him TO my father.
Father and mother said yes, and IN
three weeks we were married. He
could not wait any longer, he said, his
business was such that he should be
obliged to hurry and get settled.
did not want to work so hard to get
ready, but was obliged to, to please
him. was hot quite ready,-the lin
ing was not all sewed on to my dress;
but mother pinned the rest and made
il do.
The morning that we were married,
Mr.. Montgomery, SAYS he to me:
''The minister win be here directly,
Betsy Jane; you must hurry up"
l.,ks = - hot ha has Il
ever since, hurrying me up. / suppose
l am rather slow, but father and mother
were both slow, and they got along well
enough To be sure. the boys used to
steal my fathers fruit bccaGse he lay
sbed so long in the morning, and the
COWS used to get into the wheat-field,
because the fence was out of repair;
out it was not because father was lazy,
i he did lie abed mornings; it was be-
cause one hours sleep then done him
more than all his nights rest besides.
Ihave heard him say so time and agaiT !;
and if the fence was broken down, 1T
was not because he was negligent-it
was because ne always had SO much to
do.
Some of the neighbors were mean
enough 70 fling it at mother that we
never had a whole dress on. But it
vas not her fault; the calico was rotten;
mother said so; and mother never found
any fault with father and 1 do not think
any one else need to.
did not mean to tell Won anything
about my father and mother, and /
should not have done so, only wanted
to show You that 1 had good bringing
up.
I almost wOrshiped my husband when
married him, and thought whatever
ne said was Just right; so when he told
me to ''hurry up, for the minister would
be there directly" Just Thought that
It vas because he loved me so that he
was In hurry to be married.
thought for a couple OF months 1t
was only because he loved me SO. Then
after a while I tried to excuse it my
self and say it was his way; but after a
couple of years I came to the conclusion
That it was his way. 1t was pesky
Fem one.
could not sit down to eat my break
last, but there he stood, wiping his
mouth, and saying between guips, as
be tried to swallow the last mouthful;
"cone, come, hurry up, if you want
me to kiss you before go. Really,
Mrs. Montgomery, have been done
eating this half hour"
When declare it was not five min
utes since he first sat dow to the table.
Sometimes used to be afraid he
would choke on the last mouthfnl, for I
knew he must be swallowing It whole,
and would hesitate a little, Just to give
him q chance to get it settled, you
know, when, as sure as yOu live, he
would start off mad, with a g.
every well, Mrs. Montgomery, if
you cannot hurry a little. L cannot
wait" ~
lie calls me Mrs. Montgomery when
ever he is put ont about anything.)
He would slam the door SO spitefully
after him, declare it used nearly to
break my heart to use me so when i
tired TO do right all the time.
He would come home at night. and
the first thing he would say would be,
Come, Betsy Jane, hurry up that
supper, must go down town tonight
to the club"
Indeed, I think it was too bad, when
had been huTrying for the last half
hour, and the fire would not burnt
was reading that beautiful book
called amanda Fitzhugh Ludlow; or
the Mysteries of Ludlow Manor; and I
forgot that it was time to build the fire.
Insure it was no such great matter if 1
did not have supper for him at six