The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-10-22
HusbaRd In the Kitchen.
A MORSE LEGEND.

Once on time there was a man so
surly and cross, he never thought his wife
did anything right in the house. So, one
evening, in hay>making time, he came
home scolding and swearing, and showing
his teeth and making a dust.
"Dear love, don't be so angry, there's
a good man." said his goody s.to-mor-
row let's change our work. I'll GO out
with the mowers and NOV, and you shall
mind the house at home"
Yes the husband thought that would
do very well, He was quite willing, he
said.
80, early the next morning, his goody
! took scythe over her shoulder and went
out into the hay field with the mowers and
began to NOW but the man was to mind
! the house and do the work at home.
First of all he wanted to churn the but
ter; but when he had churned a while he
got thirsty, and went down to the cellar
to tap barrel of ale So, Just when he
had knocked in the bung. and was putting
the tap into the cask, he heard the pig
come into the kitchen over head Then
on he ran up the cellar steps, with the tap
lu MS hand, to look after the pig, lest il
should upset the churn but when he got
up and saw the pig had already knocked
the churn over, and stood there roofing
and grunting amongst the cream which
was running all over the floor, he got SO
wild with rage that he quite forgot The ale
barrel, and ran at the pig as hard as he
could. he caught it, too, just as it ran
out OF doors, and gave it such a kick that
piggy lay for dead on the spot Then all
at once he remembered he had the tap in
his hand and when he got down to the
cellar every drop of ale had run out of the
cask.
Then he went into the dairy and found
enough cream left TO fill the churn again.
and 50 ne began to cburn, for butter they
must have at dinner. When he had
churned bit he remembered that their
milking COW was still shut up in the byre,
and hadn't had bite TO eat or a drop to
drink all the morning, though the sun was
high. Then all at once he thought twas
too lar 10 take her down TO the meadow,
50 he'd just get her up on the house top
Tor the house, you must know, was
thatched with sods, and a fine crop of
grass was growing there. Now their
| mouse lay close up against a steep down,
and he thought if he laid plank across
to the thatch at the back, he'd easily get
| the cow up.
But still lie couldn't leave the chura,
for there was his little babe crawling about
on the floor, and ''if | leave It's he
thought, '''he child is sure to upset it,
SO he took the churn on his back, and
went out with it but then he thought he'd
| better first water the cow before he turned
her out on the thatch so he took up a
| bucket to draw water out of the well but.
as he so ped down at the wells brink ali
the cream ran out OF the churn over his
| shoulders, and so down into tue we'll.
! Now 1t was near dinner-time, and he
/ hadn't even got the butter yet; so he
! thought he'd best boil the porridge, and
! filled the pot with water and hung it over
the fire. When he had done that, he
thought the cow might perhaps fall off the
thatch and break her legs or her neck
So be got upon the house~top 10 tie her
up One end of the rope he made fast to
the cows neck, and the other he slipped
down the chimney, and tied round his
own thigh end he had to make haste,
for the water now began TO boil in the pot,
and he had still 10 grind the oat meal
So he began to grind away, and while
he was hard at it, down fell the COW from
the house top after all, and as she fell she
dragged the man up the chimney by the
rope. There he stuck fast; and, as for
the COW, she hung half way down the wall,
swinging between heaven and earth, for
she could neither get down or up.
And now the gcody had waited seven
/ lengths and seven breadlbs for her husband
to come and call them home to dinner
but never call they had. At last she
thought she had waited long enough, and
went home. But, when she got there ard
saw the cow hanging in such an ugly
place, she ran up and cut the rope in two
with her scythe. But, as she did this,
down came her husband out of the Chin
| ney; and so when his old dame came
inside the kitchen, there she found him
standing on his head in the porridge pot
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