Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-12-07

and do what Miss Carryl did, and so q
, it he went, and, Lord massy; didn
} Huldy hev ti1ie ont when the minis
ter began to come out of his study an
: want to tend round and see to things
, Hubby, you see, thought all the worl'
3 of the minister, and she was mos
} afraid to laugh, but she told me sh
couldn't, for the life of her, help i
: when his back was turned, for he wuz
( zled things up in the most singula
. way, but Huldy, she'd jist say yes Sir,
and get him off into his study and g.
t on her own way.
, "'Huldy,' says the minister, on
day, you aint experienced outdoors
and when you want to know anything
, you must come to me-
"' Yes, sir, said Huldy.
, "Now, Huldy,' says the parson
) you must be sure to save the turke,
eggs so that we can have alot OF turkey
? for Thanksgiving
"'Yes, SIR says Huldy, and sh'
opened the pantry door and showed
him nice dishful she'd been savin' up
) Wal, the very next day the parson'
} hen-turkey was found killed, up to ole
} Jim Scroggs's barn-folks said Scrogg
killed it, though Scroggs he stood to i
they made meal ont, and Hllldy sht
felt bad about it, cause she'd set he1
heart on raisin' the turkeys-and says
she, ooh, dear, I don't know what
shall do, 1 was just ready to set her.
"Do, Huldy?" says the parson, why;
there's the other turkey out there by
the door, and fine bird, too, he is.
'Sure enough, there was the old
Tom turkey struttin' and sidlin' and
a quitterin' and f1ountin' his tail feath.
ers in the sun, like lively young wild.
over, all ready to begin like over agin.
But" says Hubby, you know he
can't set on eggs
"'He can't2 I'd like to know why,
says the parson-'h he shall set on eggs,
and hatch 'em, too
"'Oh, Doctor, says Huldy, all in q
tremble, cause you know she didn't
wa to contradict the minister, and
she was afraid she should laugh-'l
never heard that d Tom turkey would
set on eggs
"Why, they ought to, said the par
son, getting quite earnest: what else
be they good for2 You just bring out
the eggs, now, and put 'em in the nest,
and I'll make him set on 'em.'
$50 Hubby thought there wern't no
way to convince him but to let him try;
so she took the eggs out, and fixed 'em
all nice in the nest, and then she came
back and found old Tom a skirmishin'
with the parson pretty lively; 1 tell We.
Ye see, old Tom, he didn't take the
idee at all, and he Topped and gobbled
and tit the parson, and the parsons wig
got round SO that his cue stuck straight
out over his ear, buthe'd got his blood
up. Ye see, the old doctor was used
to carrying his pints o. doctrine, and he
hadn't fit the 4Arminians and Socinians
to be beat by Tom turkey-so finally
ne made dive and ketched him by
the neck in spite of his Topping, and
stroked him down and put Huldy's
apron round him.
"'There H1ldy,' he says, quite red
in the face, we've got him now,' and
he Travelled off to the barn with him as
lively as a cricket.
."Huldy came behind, jist chokin
with laugh, and afraid the minister
would look round and see her.
"Now, Huldy, we'll crook his legs
and set him down. says the parson
when he got him to the nest, you see
he is getting quiet, and he'll set there
all right.
"And the parson he got down, and
old Tom he sot there solemn enough
and held his head down, all dropping,
lookin' like a real pious old cock, as as
long as the parson sot by him. ,
"' There, you see how still he sets,
says the parson to Huldy.
"Hu!dy was most dyin' for fear she
should laugh. I'm afraid he'll get
up says she, when you do
"'Oh, no he WON'T" says the parson,
quite confident: there, there, says he,
layin' his hands on him as If he was
pronouncin' a blessin'. But when the
parson riz up, old Tom he riz up too.
and began to march over the eggs.
"'Stop, now! said the parson; tI'u
make him get down again; hand me-
that corn basket, we'll put that over
him.
$50 he crooked old Toms legs and
got him down again, and they put the
corn basket over him, and then they
DOCl SCOOQ ana waited.
"'That'n do the thing, Huldy,' said
the parson.
"'I don't know about it, says Hull.
dy.
"' Oh yesit will, child-Iu understand, ,
says he.
"Just as he spoke the basket riz
right up and stood, and they could see
old Toms long legs.
"'I'n make him stay down, confound
him, says the parson, for ye see par
sons is men, like the rest on us. and
the doctor had got his spunk up.
"'You jist hold him q minute and
I'll get something thatll make him
stay, I guess and out he went to the
fence and brought in a long, thin, fiat
stone, and laid it on old Toms back.
"sOld Tom, he wilted down consid-
erably under this, and looked rally as
if he was goin' to give in. He staid
still there good long spell, and the
minister and Hubby left him there and
come up to the house, but they hadn't
more than got in the door before thew
see old Tom hippin' along, as high
steppin' as ever, saying talk talk !
and quitter! quitter and struttin' and
goblin as if he'd come through tho
Red sea and got the victory.
Oh, my eggs!' Says Huldy. spm
afraid he's smashed 'em!'
''And sure enough, there they was.
smashed flat enough under the stone.
I'll have him killed, said the par
son-'we won't have such critter
round
g But the parson, he slept ont and
then didn't do it-he only come out
next Sunday with tip top sermon on
the 'riginal Cuss,' that was pronounc-
ed on things in general, when Adam
fell, and showed how everything was
allowed to go contrary ever since.
There was pig-weed, and pusley, and
Canady thistles, cut worms and bug
worms, and canker worms, to say moth
in OF rattlesnakes-the doctor made it
very impressive and sort o'improvin,'
but Huldy, she told me, goin' home,
that she hardly could keep from laugh
ing two or three times in the sermon
when she thought of Old Tom q stand
in up with the corn basket on his
back.
"Wal, next week, Huldy, she jist
borrowed the minister's horse and side
saddle, and rode over to South Parish
to her Aunt Bascome, widder Bas.
comes, you know, that lives there by
the trout brook, and got lot o. tur
key eggs O. her, and come back and set
u hen on 'em and said nothin,' and in
good time there was as nice lot o. tur-
key chicks as ever ye see.