Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-12-16

Clark, sometimes, body might stumble into it,
and the parson he told he might do that.
Wal Old Akin, the carpenter, he didn't come
till most the middle Of the afternoon, and then
he sort o. idled % that he didn't get up the we'll
curb till SHUTDOWN, and then he went of and said
he'd come and do the pg-pen the next day.
the yard full chizel, with his pig. He'd tied up
his mouth 70 keep him from sQuealin', and he
zee what he thought was the pig pen-he was
piggy over, and down he dropped into the water,
and the minister put up his horse and pranced
off into the house, quite delighted.
Dear me, ;" says Huldy, "where have you put
him?'
"why, out there in the pig-pen to be sure"
"Oh. dear mel" says Hubby, chats the we'll
curb. There Amt no pig pen built, says she.
"Lordy nassy!" says the parson, " then I've
thrown the pig in the well ~
Wal, Hubby, she worked and worked, and
finally she fished piggy out in the bucket, but he
was a. dead As door nail, and she got him out
Of the way quietly, and didn't say much, and the
parson he took a great Hebrew book into his
study, and says he, '' Huldy, / amt much in the
temporals," says he. Hubby says she kind o. felt
her heart go out TO him; he was sort o. meek and
helpless, and learned, and says she, Wal, Par
son carryi, don't trouble your head no more
week after there was a nice pen, all ship
shape, and two little white pigs that Huldy
bought with the money for the butter she sold
oval, Hubby" said the parson, "you are a
most amazin' child; you don't say nothin', but
you do more than most folks"
After that the parson set SIGH store by Hu,dy
that he come to her and asked her about every
thing, and il was amazin' how everything she
put her hand to prOspered. Hubby planted
marigOlds and lark-spurs, pinks and carnations
all up and down the path to the front door, and
trained up morning glOres and scarlet runners
round the windows, and she was always gettin'
root here, and sErig there, and a seed from
somebody else, for Hubby was one of them that
has the gift, so that ef you jest give 'ein that
largest sprig of anything they make a great
bush out Of II right away, so that in six months
Hubby had roses, and geraniums, and lilies
SIGH il would a took a gardener to
raise The parson he took no notice at fust
but when the yard was all ablaze with iow-
ers he used to come and stand in a kind o.
maze at the front door, and say, beautiful,
beautiful; why Hubby, 1 never see anything like
II. And then when her work was done after
moons, Hubby would sit with her sewing i'm the
porch, and sing and trill away till shed draw
the meadow larks and the bobolinks, and the
orioles to answer her, and the great big elm tree
overhead would get perfectly racketY with the
birds, and the parson settin' there i'm his study
would git to Hind o. dreamin' about angels, and
golden harps, and the new Jerusalem-but he
wouldn't speak word, cause Hubby, she was
jist like them woOd-thrushes, she never couId
sing so well when she thought folks was hearin'
Folks noticed, about this time, that the parsons
sermons got t. be like Aaron's rod, that budded
and blossomed,there was things in 'em about
flowers and birds, and more special about the
music o heaven. And Hubby, she noticed that
ef there was hymn run in her head while She
was found vorkin,' the minister was sure to
give II out next Sunday. You see, Hubby, was
jist like a bee, she always sung when She was
workin', and you could hear her trillin' now
down in the corn patch, while she was pickin'
the corn; and now i'll the buttery, while She was
workin' the butter; aud now she'd 90 sinyin'
down cellar, 30 that she seemed to Ill a house
chuck full o. music.
Huldv was sort o. chipper and fair spokep
that she got Il { hired men all under her thumb
they come to her and took her orders Jest As meek
a. SO many calves, and she traded at the store
and KEEP the accounts, and she he'd her ewes
everywhere, and tied up all the ends so tight that
there want no gettin' round her. She wouldn't
let nobody put nothin' of on Pars)n CarryI
cause he Was minister. Hubby was aller, IID
t. anybody til At wanted to make hard bargin.
aud aiorc he knew jist what he was about she'd
got the hest end Of it, and everybody said that
Huldy was the most capable gal that they d ever
trad q with.
Wal, come TO the meetin' of the Association
Mis- Deacon Biodgett and Mis- Pipperidge come
calm up TO the parsons, all in "A stew, and Of
FERN their service to get the house ready, but
the Doctor, he jist thanked 'em. quite quiet,
and turned 'em over to Hubby and Huldy, she
told EN- that she'd got everything ready, and
showed EN- her pantrles, and>ler cakes, and her
pies, and her puddin's, and took 'em all over
the house, and they went peekin' and pokin',
openin' cupboard doors, and lookin into draw
ers, and they couldn't find much as a thread
out o the way, from garnet to cellar, and so
they went of quite discontented. AFTER that the
women set a new trouble brewin Then they
Carryl died, and it rally wasn't proper such
young gal to be stayin' there, who everybody
could see was q settin' her cap for the minister.
Mis- Pipperidge said that SO long she looked
on Hubby a. the hired gal, she hadn't thought
much about it, but Hubby was rally takin on
airs As an equal, and appearin' mistress o. the
house in way that would make talk if it went
on. Anu Mis- Plpperidge. she driv round up to
Deakin Abner Shows aud down TO Mis- I.ijah
Perry's, and asked them il they wasn't afraid
that the way parson and Hubby was agoin' on
might make talk, and they said they hadn't
thought on t before, but now. come To think ont
they was sure IL would, and they all went and
talked with somebody else, and asked them il
they didn't think il would make talk. SO come
Sunday between meetin's there warn't nothin'
else talked about, and Hubby saw folks nodfin'
and winkin' and a lOokn' arter her, and she
began to feel drefful sort o. disagreeabe Finally
Mis- Sawin, she says TO her, :" My dear, didn't
the minister ?'
IS Ne; why should they ?'' says Hubby, quite
innocent.
"well, dear" says she. "I think it's a shame,
but they say you're trying TO catch him, and
that it's SO bold and improper for you to be
know folks will talk thought I'd tell you
cause think SO much OF you,o says she.
Hubby was gal Of spirit, and she despised the
when she got home at night she sat down in the
a word.
The minister, he had heard the same thing
from one OF his deacons that day, and when he
saw Hubby 50 kind o. silent, he saws TO her
" Why don't you sing, my child?'
He he'd pleasant sort o. way with him, the
minister had and Hubby had gOt To iikin' to be
with him, and il all come over her that she ought
to 20 away, and her throat KIND filled up so She
could't hardly speak, and says she, IL can't sing
TO night"
Says he, "YOu don't know how much good
your sngin' has done me, nor how much good
you have done me in all ways. Hubby. / wish
knew how TO show my gratitude
oh. sir, says Huldy, q" is it improper for me
to be here?''
.'No, DEAR says the minister, gently, "but
ill-nstured folks will talk, but there is one Way
can stop 1T, Huldy-if you will marry me-
YOu'll make me very happy, and I'll do all / can
to make you happy. Will yOu?'
oval, Hubby never told me jst what she said
to the minister-gas never does give you the
particulars of them things jist you'd like 'em-
only know the upshOt, and the hull ont was
that Hubby she did considerable lot o. clear
stsrchin' and ir0nn' the next two days, and the
Friday o next week the minister and she rode
over together 30 DIR. Lathrop's, I'm Old Town, and
the Doctor he jist made EN- man and wife, spite
OF envy Of the Jews as the hymn says. Wal,
you'd better believe there was starin' and a
wonderin' next Sunday mornin' when the sec
ond bell was a tolln', and the minister walked
up the broad aisle with Hubby, all in white, arm
in with him, and he opened the minis