The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1871-12-06

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since. There was pig-weed, and pusley,
and Canady thist!es, cut worms and bug
worms, and canker worms, to say nOthin' OF
rattlesnakes, the doctor made it very I'm
p~ressive and sort O. improvin' but Hubby,
she told me, goin' home. that she hardly
could keep from laughing two or three
times in the sermon when she thought of
old Tom a standin' up with the corn basket
on his back.
Wal, next week. HUI dy, she jist borrow
cd the minister's horse and saddle, and
rode over to South Parish to her Aunt Bas-
comes, wilder BascOmes, you know, that
lives there by the trout brook, and got a lot
o turkey eggs o. her and come back and
set a hen on 'em and said nothin' and In
good time there was as nice a lot o. turkey
chicks as ever ye see.
"Arter that the parsOn set SIGH store by
Hubby that he come to her and asked her
about everything, and it was amszin' how
everything she put Ter hand to p~rosperCd.
Hubby planted mariSolds and a kspurs,
pinks and carnations all up and dow the
path TO the front door. and trained up morn
ing @lOries and scarlet runners round the
windows, and she was always a gettin' a
root here and a sprg there, end a seed from
somebody else, for Hubby was ne O. them
that has the gift, so YOU jlst give EN- the
l~eastest sprig of anything they make a great
bush out of it right away, so that in six
months Hubby bad roses sn1 geIaneums.
and lilies. SIGH as it would tool a gardner to
raise. The ra's0n he took no notice at fust,
but when the yard WAS all a1!aze with flow
crs he used To ONE and stand in a kind o.
maze at the front door, and soy beautiful,
beautiful: why, Hubby, | never see anything
like it, AMI then when her work. vas done
afternoons, Hubby would sit with her sew
ing in the porch, and sing and tIill away till
she'd draw the meadow lirks and b)bOlinks
and the orioles to answer her, and the gre at
big elm tree overhead would get perfectly
rackety with the birds, and the parson, sit
tim there in his study, would git to kind O.
dreamin' about angels, and the golden
harps, and he new Jerusalem, but he
wouldn't speak a word, cause Hubby, she
was Just like them wOOd-thrushes, she never
could sing so well when she thought folks
was lcarin'. Folks noticed, about this
time, that the parsons sermons got to be
like Aron's rod, that badded and blossom
cd-;here was things in 'em about flowers
and birds. and more special about the music
Of heaven. And Hubby, she noticed that If
there was a hymn run in her head while she
was round a workin,' the minister was sure
to give it out mex Sunday. You see, Hubby
was jis5 like a bee, she always sung when
she was a workin,' and you could hear her
trillin' now, down in the cOrn-patch, while
she was pickin' the corn and now in the
buttery, while she was wOrkin' the butter ;
and she'd be sinein' up overhead, so that
She seemed to ill a house chock-full o.
music.
"Wal. come to the mcetin' of the associa-
ten, Mis- Deacon Blodgett and Mis- Piper
idge come calm up to the parsons all in a
stew, and offerin' their services to get the
house ready. but the Doctor. he jist thanked
en- quite quiet, and turned EN- over to HUI
~, and Hubby, she told EN- that she'd got
everything ready, and showed 'em her pan
tries and her cakes NJ her pies, and her
rHdlin's, and took 'em all over the house.
and they went peakin' and pokin, 'openin'
cuhaarI doors and lOokin' into drawers, and
thcy couldn't find so much as a thread out o.
thh way, ft"m garnet To cellar. and SO they
went Of quite Disconnected. AFTER that the
Womcn set a new trouble a brewin.' Then
they began to talk tina. il was a year Tow
since Mis- Carryl died, and it rally wasn't
proper for such a young gal to be stayin
there. who everybody could see was settin'
her cap for the minister.
Mis- Pippcridgc said tiIat SO long rs she
looked on Hubby as the hired gal she hadn't
thought much about il, but Hubby wasrailly
tsbin' on AIRS as an equal AMI appcarin' as
mistress o The house III q way that it would
nghc talk lift went on. And Mis- Pipperidge,
! she driv' round us To D,akin Abncr SHOWS,
: .ti.i UNIV IL ~ MIS- 1slltl 1 fIN - .ilIl dSh'u
them il they want afraid that the way the
rarson and IIuldy was goin' on might make
t.!k. and they hadn't Thought ont before,
hut now. 10 come and think on il, they was
sure il would, and they all went and talked
with somchoi " else. and asked them | th'y
didn't think it would make talk. So come
Sunday, between mretin's there warn'i rnt'-
! in else talked about, and Hubby saw f,lksa
upldiu' and 4 winkin' and a lopkin' arter
ta- ard III. haulp IN tp.l Dir. fTnl Snrr ~
dislgrceablc.-FIn&Ily Mis- Sawin, she SAYS
TO her, NV dear, dIdn't you never think
folks would talk about You and The minis
lcr?'
"'No; why should they says Ilnlly.
quite innocent.
".Wcll dear says she. | Think is a
shame, hut they say you're iryin' to catch
him. and that its SD bold. and improper for
YOU To- be courtin' Of him right in his own
house. You know folks will talk, | thought
Id I Ii you 'calSc | think SO much of yOu,'
says She.
"Ilulir WAS a gal of spirit, and Sue de-
Spiscd the talk, but il made her dreflul I'M
comfortable. and when she got home at
night, She sat down in the InOrningglory
porch quite quiet, and didn't sing a word.
The minister. he heard the same thing
he saw Iluldy so kind o. silent he says to her,
my ''i wa -bS my ~
"iIc had Il pleasant sort o way with him,
the minister had, and Hubby had got to lik-
in to be with him, and it all come over her
that perhaps she ought to go away, and her
throat kind a filed up so she couldn't
hardly speak, says she, Il can't sing to-
night
Says he. 'yOu don't know how much
good your singin' has lone me in all ways,
IIuldy. | wish | knew low to show my
gratitude.
"'Oh. SIR, says Hubby, lis it improper
: for me TO be here?'
"'No, dear said the minister, gently,
but ili-naturcd folks will talk, but there is
ore way we can stop it, lIuldy, if you will
marry me. You'll make me very happy,
. and I'll DO all | can to make you happy
!, viii yOu?'
wal. Hubby never told me jist what she
said to the minister, gals never does give you
; the particulars of them are things just q.
!, yOu'dlike 'em, only | know the upshOt, ant
! the hull ont was that Hubby, she did a con
sid'aJle lot % clear starchin' and ironin' thu
rcxt two days, and the Friday o. next weel
the minister aud she rode over together Il
IL. Lathr0p's IL Old Town, and the doctor
he list made 'cm man and wife spite of envy
, Of the Jews as the hymn says. Wal, you't
: better believe there was astarin' and Il won
derin' nextSunday mornin' when the secOnt
bel was a tOllin', and the minister walked
up the broad isle with Huldy, all in white
armin arm with him. and he opened the min
i.tcr's new aud handed her in a3 If she wa
Il princess. for you see ParsOn Carryl come Q
q good family, and was a born gentleman
, en-! had Il sort q grand way o. bein' polite +
u,nr,nu folks Wa | PlpSS there was a rus