The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-07-29

"Or go yourself, and see how it feels to
be eaten | won't stop you. You've got
my permission, you understand. But [ !
pity the miserable pagan that stuffs him>
self with you. You won't agree with him.
You never did with me, my love-"
''Mr. Wilkins, you are a brute"
"3ut for my part l think you had bet |,
ter stay at home and attend TO your chill |
dren, instead of fooliug down there at that /
society with lot of ta5bies, who sIander
their neighbors, and make more mischief
than they do underclothes for the naked
Hottentots."
"Air. Wilkins, that's not 60"
"Iou'd better stay at home and sew for
your family, that's what you'd better do.
There's William Henry been going round
for six weeks or more with only one gal
lus on his pants, and looking like he was
deformed cripple. with one shoulder foot
higher than the other, while his stockings
have no feet, and the upper part of them
keep working up his leg until the boy
nearly goes mad"
"What an awful story, wilkins"
"And Bucephalus AIexanders best
Sunday jacket has burst out all over in
spots, and Breckenridge Augustus, having
run out of haudkerchiefs, has lately been
practising wiping his nose on his sleeve in
church, until l was so mortified that had
to take him out last Sunday and have him
stood in the coal hole and spanked like the
nation by the sexton. Unaffected sim
plicity is all we'll enough in its way, but
that's carrying it little too far
''Mr. Wilkins, you know that's not
true
"And, as for Mary Jane, she is Just
going straight to destruction. She's got
to initiating your example, and now size
thinks it amt worth while to live if you
can't do something for the heather. So
what does she do yesterday but go and
give my best high hat to the boy who
swept the chimney, and If came nearly
down to his waist, and she asked him if
he had ever read DR.. McPherson's treatise
on "The Whole Duty of Man, and he
observed that he F'didn't know muffin
about dat dar, he reckon" and while she
went up stairs to get it for him he embez-
zled two chunks of corned beef and cold
potato, and the first thing you know he
will be in the pcnitentiary, and all along of
your blame foolishness."
Il declare, MIR. Wilkins, you are a
scandalous story>teller."
"And there's the boys, it was only last
Saturday that they took their crowd up
stairs, and played that the garnet was At
rica, and half of them represented heath
en-, and ran around without a stitch of
clothes on them, and Bucephalus Alex
ander he distributed my clean shirts
among them, and they upset all the bar
rels, fired away all my old books in a
! skirmish with the savages, and one of
/ them, who was cannibai, like to enawcd
/ the whole thumb off of VIM Henry, try
ing to swallow him, because he said he
was missionary, and it amt we'll yet"
''Pshaw, AIr. wilkins, you talk like
a.
''And, then, what must Mary Jane do,
! but try to represent a hcashcn mother
wholly unenlightened by Christianity,
trying to drown her infant in the sacred
river, which she represented by dousing
! the cat in the bath-tub, but that animal
wouldn't play fair, and liked to scratch
the whole bide off of her, while she let
| the water run until the room was full, and
Ii poured perfect cascade out Of the win
! dow, which she said was to represent the
overfowing of the Nile, ike she read about
in her Sunday school lesson. say it's
! perfectly outrageous TO bring up your
children in that kind of style. If you love
the heather, why 60 among them, but
don't go to poisoning the minds of your
| innocent offspring"
GAS long as you have made such a fuss
! about the sewing circle, Mr.. wilkins, I'll
tell you what I've been making there"
You needn't mind, l don't want to
hear it. I'm tired of hearing you talk.
! just give me a chance to speak a word
now, will you -
| ''But-''
go don't 'but' me I won't listen to
you"
81 wasn't sewing for the heather. l
didn't stick stitch for the heather at the
sewing~circle."
''Well, what in the mischief were you
fooling your time away down there for,
then 90
"Why-I-was-making-you-a-
-shirts-while--y
-abusing-me-yOu'll break my heart
yes, you will"
''There, now, don't cry, my darling.
Don't cry, was only in fun | was only
joking, you understand. / didn't mean
it. There now, don't cry, | say, Sally,
Well, below then, below You may cry
until you are tired. 1 never did see such
woman as you"
And Mr.. Wilkins took pull at the
covers, turned over, and went to sleep.
But he seemed to be reconciled to her next
day, for he called her several hard names
because she left the baby covered up on
the sofa, so that he inadvertently sat down
| on it.