The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1869-04-01

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~ g Let me seeAhere are nine, and
three are twelve, and three are fifteen,
and three more make just" 10 nj
Never count your chickens until
they are hatched, child, - interrupted
Grandmother Brown, the lady'sl after
noon visitor. ~ tt7 ..1,s..;J %
But 1 am not counting the chick
ems, Mrs. Brown, am only making a
calculation of how many eggs ] can
spare to put under the old speekled
hen. As was sVsasing, three more
make eighteen, and here are two
which are cracked, which will make it
up to twenty SlsEHs EAagazS
I 90 hope you don't intend to put her
TO setting on cracked eggs, Mrs. Les
ter ?'.sssaid Grandna'a Brown, in
quiringly, ~, b.. ao 100
"Why, Grandma'am Brown-whatis
the odds? h4Ain't they just as good ?"
Well, / don't know anything about
your smart Boston hens mebby they
can hatch cracked eggs; but our old
fashioned, country biddies never
would. raise O. chicken from a cracked
egg, if they sot on it till doomsday.'
- Well, I'm sure didn't suppose it
made any difference" returned Mrs,
Lester, slightly disconnected.
Mrs. Lester was a native of the
place so scornfully alluded q to by
I i'Grandma'am Brown. Not that the
good lady had anything against Bos-
ton in particular, but she regarded
with inefable disdain all cities In gen.
eral, and all city-bred people.
| az" A proud, lazy, shiftless set" she
would say, "who get theirliving out
of the. hard-working country people
Never raise SO much as cabbage or 6
pound of pork, or make a pound o.
butter. But if had my way, PG
starve, ,'em to it." .-...
i Grandma'am Brown did not con
slider that the city fathers never would
! have consented to cattle and hogs be
ing ,pastured, in 1.-THE city;i otherwis
she never would have said so; for
Notwithstanding her oddities, she wa
:. one of the kindesti hearted old ladie
in the world. And as for vegetables
there was noqlaek of cabbage heads
while other (than garden) sauce wa
liberally furnished by newsboys an
ID cab-drivcrs. .,.
! Mrs. Lester, although city-borl
and city-bred, had become a great ia
yonte with the old lady, since shelei
I her city home, and came to preside a
the old homestead as Harry, Lester
wife. lata fiiFttz 55@a7s3h ri. 5'':i.
And model farmers wife she bi
fair to be, in spite of all the ill-nature
representations of the ne;ghborhoo
gossips, who prophesied that no goo
4 would ever come of handsome Harr
s, Lester bringing home a dainty, iii!
\ handed city dame to be mistress of IL
old Lester homestead. -
4 But, La child,'7 continued the ol
lady, as she remarked that Mrs. Lest'
looked rather annoyed at the betray
of her ignorance in regard to the fe
sibility of raising poultry from cracl
ed eggs. " I'm sure I don't wond
~ that you didn't know the odds bu
y goodness me! you needn't go fur
feeling a bit worked up about it, fur
presume tu say, sthat,if / had lived
g a corpulent city as long as you hev,
! should hev been just about as big
fool. 4.tr3gj JsTst: .f<
= "Well, "replied Mrs. Lester, SIN
! ing, Gas L shall be obliged to u
Z, =, some of them about cooking, L c.
as take these; SO it will make no part
y ular difference. They'll raise cake,
J they will not raise chickens, suppo'
Grandma'am, Brown?" ,s
Sartenly, sartenly, child, and sa
the trouble of breaking them"
nat Well, then, four for some custa
pies, and four more / must have
' some cake, for there actually isn't
> crumb in the house, making eigf
ne one and eight from twenty leaves twely
N yes, can spare twelve just as we'll
IN not, and if they turn out well, it W
be be as many chickens as care to ra
this spring" 80 s. ..