The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-11-16
Sam Larson.
THE MINISTER'S HOUSE-KREPER-
A CAPITAL SKETCH.
EY MRS. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE.

Scene-The shady side Of q blue
berry pasture-Sam Lawson with
the boys picking blueberries-Sam
loo.
HWal, you see, boys" twas just
here: Parson Carryl's wife she died
along in the fOrepart of March; my
cousin Hubby, she undertook to keep
house for him. The way ont was,
that Hubby she went to take care o.
Miss Carryl in the fust ont when
she fust took sick Hubby was -
tailoress by trade, but then, she was
one o. these ere faculties persons, that
has a gift for most anything, and
that was how Miss Carryl come to set
seeh store by her, that when she was
sick nothin' would do for her but she
must have Hubby round all the time,
and the minister, he said he'd make it
good to her all the same, and she
shouldn't lose nothin' by il, and so
Hubby she staid with Miss CarTyl full
three months afOre she died, and got
to seein' to everything pretty much
round the place. Wal, arter Miss
Carryl died, Parson Carryl he'd got so
kind o. used to hevin' her round,
taking care o. things, that he wanted
her to stay along spell-and so HUI
dy she staid along a spell and poured
out his tea, and mended his close, and
made pies and cakes, and cooked,
and washed, and irOned, and KEEP
everything as neat as a pin-Huldy
was a drefful chipper sort o. gal, and
work sort o. rolled off from her like
water off a ducks back. There warn't
no gel in Sherburne that could put
sich q sight o. work througha as Hubby,
and yet, on Sunday mornin', she al
ways come out IN the singers seat like
one o. these ere June roses, lOOkini so
fresh and smilin', and her voice was
lest as clear and sweet as q meadow
lark's-Lordy massy, I member how
she used to sing some o. them are
places where the treble and counter
used to go together, her voice kind o.
trembled little, and it sort o. went
thro' and thro' a felleT-tuck him
right where he lived"
Here sam leaned cOntemplatively
back with his head in a clump of
sweet fern, and refreshed himself with
chew of young Wintergreen.
''This ere young wintergreen, boys.
is Jest like a feller's thoughts o. things
that happened when he was young
it comes up jest so fresh and tender
every year the longest time you hev
TO live, and you can't help chawin'
ont tho tits sort o. stinging-I don't
never get over likin' young winter
green"
'sBut about Huldah, Sam ?p
40 yes-about Huldah-Lordy mas.
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these ere pleasant summer days, a fel.
ler's thoughts give like a flock o
young partridges-they's up and down
and everywhere, cause one place is
Jest about as good as another, when
they's all so kind o. comfortable anC
nice. Wal, about Huldy-as I wa:
sayin'-. She was jest as handsome
a gal to look at as feller could have
and I think a nice, well-behaveC
young gal in the singers seat of {
Sunday is a means of grace, it's sort o
drawin' to the unregenerate, yoI
know. Why, boys, in them days, pvt
/ walked ten miles over to Sherburne o
q Sunday mornin' jest to play the basl
viOl in the same singers seat witt
Hubby. She was very much respected
Hubby was, and when she went out tC
/ tailorin' she was alters bespoke si1
months ahead, and sent for in wag
| gins un and down for ten miles rounC
| for the young fellers was alters 'maziI
anxious to be sent after Hubby, an:
was quite free to offer to go for her
Wal, after Mis- Carryl died, Huld.
got to be sort o. housekeeper at tn
minister's, and saw to everything ant
did everything so that there warn't
pin out o. the way.
fIBut YOU know how tits in parish
es, there alters is women that think
the minister's affairs belongs to them
and they ought to have the rulin' an
guidin' Of em, and if a minister's wifi
dies, there's folks that alters hes thei
eyes open on providence-lookin' Ou
who's to be the next one.
'fNow there was Miss Amazial
Pipperidge, a widder with snappin
black eyes, and a hook nose-kind {
like haWk-and she was oneo' ther
! up and down cOmmandin' sort o. wO
men, that feel that they have q call {
be seein' to everything that goes o
in the parish, and specially the min
lister.
tFoIks did say that Miss PHI
peridge sort o. sot her eye on the pal
son herself-wal-now that migt
have been, or it might not. Som
folks thought it was a very suitabl
connectiOn-you see she had goo
property Of her own, right nigh [
the minister's lot, and was alters kin
o. active and busy-so takin' one thin
with another, I shouldn't wonder
Miss Pipperidge should thought thu
Providence pointed that way. At an
rate she went up TO Deakin Blodgett
3 wife, and they two sort Of put the
heads together a mournin' and col
doIin' about the way things was lik
3 Iy TO 90 on at the minister's now NJ
lCarrvl was dead. Yousee the parson
wife. she was one of them women WI
he'd their eyes everywhere and {
everything. She was q little tn
woman, but tough as lnier ru60e
and smart as a steel trap, ana tne
warn't a hen laid an egg, or cackle
but Mis- Carryl was right there 20 s.
about it, and she had the garden ma
in the spring, and ihe meddeTs mo-
ed IN the summer, and the cider mao
In and the corn husked, and the appl
K got in the fall, and the doctor h
nOthin' to do but to sit stock still n
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