Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1869-04-29
A FAMILY JAR AND WHAT
,B3sa CAME OF 1T. q Il

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/ remember it as though it had
happened yesterday 1t was the
biggest row we ever had in our fam.
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1t was one cold rainy evening in
the early part Of December We all
sat down to the supper table as usu-
al, but not, apparently, in our usual
good humor. u. II.
BY "all,p I mean our family,
which consisted Of father, mother,
my two sisters Clara and Lizzie
Bob and myself. III U8s-eI r
Bob Carder was one of our fam
lily, as he said, "by brevet.n 4 His
mother and my mother had been
friends in girlhood, and had never
outgrown their intimacy. Ever
since Bob had lived in the city he
had boarded at our house, and he
seemed like oneof us.
He was jolly good fellow, and
appeared to think a good deal ofus
all, especially Clara, who, by the
way, did not seem to care particu-
larly for him, though Of course she
liked him "well enough" as we all
did. tr o
The relations between these two
had caused me some painful consid-
Grafton, | liked Bob very much,
and would have been glad to have
him in the family more fully than
by "breyet" Besides this, my re-
gard for him made me feel a warm
sympathy for his unreciprocated
affection for Clara / was in love
myself, and thought that if Maggie
Cranston showed as much indifer-
ence to me as Clara did sometimes
toward Bob, that I should have
been inexpressibly miserable
Besides this, Clara seemed to take
a good deal of pleasure in the com
pany of that stupid Jim Bayne,
whose chief delight seemed to con
sist in talking about religion, poll
tics and other subjects, which bored
me intolcrably, Twas nineteen and
poetical. .a'i @sis
1t always seemed to me that Liz
zie would have suited Bob better
than Clara anyhow They were
both fond Of music, and oftenplay-
ed and sang together; but they
never got along smoothly together
They did not appear to agree
about anything but music, and they
qqarreled about that. Yet they
would still practice together Their
voices harmonized well, and sup
pose they tolerated each other for
the sake Of the music.
/ could not understand Lizzie's
conduct toward Bob, 1t was alb.
surd. Some OF his ideas that she
argued against with all her might
when he stated them, she as warmly
defended in conversation with the
rest of us. l believe she delighted
in being contrary, 7g8~.u
Mother sometimes rebuked her
for her petuIance to Bob, but father
said it made no, difference--it was
l7-7-'Tf y. HHAA I'H l| IttF
customary for musical people to
quarrel. He was quick tempered
himself, and Lib was more like
him than any Of the rest of US
were. 3fI "a sa sy8 9II59ta
But to return to that December
evening. As have said, the wealth
er was bad. For that reason, 4
suppose, the boy had failed to leave
the evening paper. ~ -
When father came in, he asked
for the paper, and said, "Confopnd
::he boy"
When Bob came in, he asked for
the paper, and went uPr stairs to
change his boots, grumbling some
thing about hangingthe boy to the
neafest lamp post. 9fi I'D
The girls we're in q bad humor,
because they had been unable to
get out that afternoon on holiday