Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-06-22
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THE NEW DEPARTURE.
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New departures are getting to bt
quite common nowadays, and to be ir
: the fashion and keep up with the times
, we took, one and don't want any more
, If yallandigham gets as sick of his as
we have of ours, we will sincerely
pity the poor fellow. Surely there is
nothing that is calculated to demoral.
ize a man more thoroughly than to gel
up a new departure and have it sou1
! on him j. the creation of his own brain
turn spectre and haunt him; his well
selected words caught up by jeering
mob and and hurled back upon him;
the prize almost under his thumb, van
ish as ifby magic. and he left alone,
gazing into empty space. a-azsl- -.
HJasper, think you could keep house
a few days if we were to go on our long
contemplated visit ?'' -..,z et
'tKeep house! Yes I reckon I could.
You needn't stop minute on that ac-
count. You bet Lean keep houser
swell, if you think you can get along
We'll bake some bread and then you
can manage the rest" '''i'9n- e. 10. i'.'5s
'sYeifneedn't mind baking any bread
for If Pm to keep house am going to
do it." - 7-'''' '''' ~ ''';'. =.
'.What will you do when the bread
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Fllbakeslap.jacks; that's what PIl
do.iD,We used to bake 'em in the army,
and they were the coolest things y (.
''Maybe we'd better bake one loaf
anyway, somebody might come, and
you would be pretty looking sight,
baking slap:jacks for their dinner. "e
] ''Maybe you won't do any such thing
now. II you don't qet Jme have my
3own way of keeping house, I WON'T
keepit at all. You women think you
know everything about cooking, but +
guess Icino9 a thing or two.n ST
"Yod needn't get snappish about it,
you may have things just as you like
| them" $50, s.s'l .i.. l5s1.
! Maybe we We're q little snappish,
but we won't be that way any more.
Indeed we won't. But it did drive us
back onto our dignity, and make us
feel deeply injured to have people init
mating that we couldn't take care of
lourselt, couldn't Keep house,, and we
big enough to go with the girls. "a Twas
too bad, but hereafter we'll grin and
bear it without q whi1nper. Il .si'i
All things were soon made ready.
Our folks tooktheir departure, and we
took our neaO departure. s''-''' -
''Now mind, and don't, forget the
little chickens. = They'll starve if you
don't feed 'em."s =
Eyes, we'll mind" 8
H.SMustn't forget the little pigs"
'tNo, no, we won't forget nothing"
'Don't let the pup suck all the eggs.'
"All right, we won,t,n1 ,1.Fr I
HBye bye. BE good boy.n .7ooq
""Bye bye! Wen be good,' ;. ..a,,1-i =.
Of they went to the station, and we
turned tothe kitchen, our field, where
on we We're destined to win immortal
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The first thing was to put things to
rights. q We were going to have a place
for everything, and have everything
in its place. Presently the dog barked
and we looked out to see who was COM
ing. Just on top of the hill almost out
of sight, I saw Atnt Katy waving her
cotton handkerchief, and could hear
her yelling, but wasn't able to distin-
guish one word from another. From
the amount of face make, we supposed
she had forgotten her knitting or some
thing else equally important. So with
a;great big pot in one hand and a dish
ragin the other we started towards the
top of the hill to learn what the trouble
was. She had yelled so long that she
was about give out, and we had to go
within arod of her before we could un-
derstaDd word she said. = q = s.si,..'... -. =
HiYou must be as deaf as a loonix, for
I've most screamed myself to death."1
ltasW hat the peskin is the matter, any
way, 9Auntie ?''slH11 10 'ainsl1i-sai 10 sss,
aWhy,=I want you to be careful and
not set the house afire, and be sure and
look under the bed afore. you get init
at night; there might bea man. under
it. You know always look"
eyes, Yes, Auntie, I'll not set the
house afire."
"Well, now see that you don't, that's
good boy.n II 81 81 S. 81 s.
We had left the cupboard doors open
and on going back found all the cats
and the pup helping themselves, while
couple Of old hens and their broods OF
chickens were helping themselves to
a sponge-cake. IN
WelllttR never liked sponge-eske
very well no how, so we let the, hens
take 1t, and began making out bill Oh
4 fare for dinner, and succeeded in get
tinga very fair bill. Ham and eggs
were the leading features. The first
thing was to cut the ham. We don't
like fat meal, SO we cut the fat off and
gave it to the pup. When the skillet
was good and hot we laid the nice lean
pieces in, thinking how delightfully."-
that was going to be, nota bitof fat on
it. Having another skillet in readiness
we got a couple of eggs. We like fried