Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-10-31

] mliu' and ouidin OF EN-, ana II minister's
wife dies, there's folks that alters hes their eyes
open on proyidence-loohih out WHO'S 10 DC the
"Now there was Mis- Amaziah Pipperidge, n
wilder with Snappn' black eyes, and hook
nose--knd o like hawk-and she was one o
| them up and down commander sort O. women,
that feel that they have a call TO be seein' to
! everything that goes on in the parish, and
! specially to the minister.
Folks did say that Mis- Pipperidge sort o. sot
| her eve on the parSon for hersel-wal-now
that might have been, or it might not Some
folks thought II was 4 very suitable connection
you see she had good property of her own
right nigh to the minister's lot, and was alters
kind o active and busy-so, takn one thing
with another, shouldn't wonder it Mis- PippC-
ridge should a thought that providence pointed
that way. At any rate she went up to Deakin
Blodgelts wife, and they two sort O put their
heads together mornin' and condoliu' about
the way things was likely to 80 on at the min
isterS now Mis- CArrvl was dead. You see the
parsons wife. she was one of them women who
| he'd their eyes everywhere and on everything.
| She was a little shin woman, but tough MS
| lnier rubber, and smart as a steel trap, and
! there wan't hen laid an egg or cackled, but
| Mis- CaTryl was right there 10 see about it, and
| she had the garden made in the spring, and the
medders moved in the summer, and the cider
| made, and the corn huSked, and the apples cot
in the fall and the doctor had nothing TO do but
| Jest sit stock still a meditatiu' on Jerusalem and
| Jericho and them things that ministers think
| about-hut Lorlv maSSy! he didn't know
nothin' about where ANYTHING he eat or drank,
| or wore came from or went to-his wife jest led
! him found in temporal things and took care on
him like baby.
oval, to be sure Mis- Carryl looked up to him
in spirituals, and thought all the world on him
for there warn't smarter minister nowhere
round. Why, when he preached on DEGREES and
election they used to come clear over from
South Parish, and West Sherburne and Old
Town to hear him, and there was SIGH a row o
Wagons tied along by the meetin' house, that
the stables was all full and all the htchn' posts
was full, clean up to the tavern, so that folks
said the doctor made the town look like Il GIN
eral training day, a Sunday.
"He was great on texts, the doctor was When
he he'd pint to prove he'd Jest 70 thio the
| Bible and drive ali the texts ahead o him like
| flock O Sheppard then if there was Il text that
| seemed agin him-why, he'd come out with his
| Greek and Hebrew, and kind o chase il round
| a spell, Jest as We see a Teller chase contrary
| bell wethcr, and make him Jump the fence arler
| the rest-l tell You there want no text in the
| Bible that could stand agin the doctor when his
| blood was up. The year after the doctor was
appointed to preach the lection sermon in Bos
| ton, he made such a hgger that the Brattle
| street church sent a committee right down TO
| see if they couldn't GET him TO BOSton-and then
the Sherburne folks, they up and raised his sal
ary-ye see there amt anything wakes folks up
like somebody else's wantn' what You've got
| Wal that fall they made him doctor o divin-
| ity mt Cambridge college, aud so they sot more
| by him than ever. Wal, you see the DOCTOR of
| course he felt kind o lonesome and afflicted
| when Mis- Carryl was gone, but rally and truly,
| Hubby was so up to everything about house that
| the doctor did't miss nothin' in temporal
| way His shirt bosoms was pleated finer than
| they ever was, and them RIFLES round his
| wrists was KEEP like the driven snow, and there
warn't brack in his silk stockings, and his
| shoe buckles was KEEP polished up, and his
| coats brushed, and then there warn't no bread
| and biscuit like Huldy's, and her butter was
like solid Jumps O gold, aud there warcnt no
| pies 10 equal hers, and so the doctor never felt
| the loss Of Mis- Carryl at table. Then there was
Hubby alters oppisite TO him, with her blue
ewes and her checks like two fresh peaches, she
was kind O pleasant 10 look at, and the more
the doctor looked at her the better he liked her,
and so things seemed to be gOin' on quite quiet
and comfortable ct it hadn't been thar Mis- Pip
peridge and Mis- Deakrn Blodgett, aud Mis-
Sawin got their heads together talkin' about
| things.
g Poor man. says Mis- Pipperidge, what can
that child that he's got there do toward taking
the care of all that placer It takes Il mature
woman, she saws, TO tread in Mis- CdrryPs shoes.
That it does said Mis- Blodgett, and when
things once gets to runnin down hilfthere amt
no stoppin' on EN- says She.
'Then Mis- Sdwin, she took it mp, (Ie see
Mis- SlYin used TO 20 out dress maxim, and was
than they did by herr Well says she, 'Huldy
Peters is well enough at her trade; never denied
that, though do say never did believe In her
way O. maxim button holes, and must say, il
twas the dearest friend | had, that | thought
Hubby tryin' to fit Mis- kIttTidge'S plumb-cOlOr-
ed silk was q clear piece o presumption-thc
silk was list spilled, so tWarn't ut to come into
the meetin' house. | must say that lluldy's Il
gal that's always too Yentersome about takin
'sponsbties She don't know nothin' about
, | 1IRa 1,raft coil lt.I
gctt what does she know about all the lOokin'
and seein' to that there ought to be In guiding
the minister's house? Huldy'S well meanin'
and she's good at her work, and good IN the
singers seat, but Lordy massy, she haint got
e | no experience. Parsnn CarTyl ought to have an
: experienced woman to keep house for him
| There's the spring house-cleanin', and the fall
house-cleanin to be seen to, and the things TO be
put away from the moths, and then the gettin
ready for the association and all the minister;
meetin's and tue maxim the soap and the can
dies and settin' the hens and turllleS, watchin
the calves and seeiu' after the hired men anC
the gardeu-and there that are blessed man iis
sets there at home as serene, and has nobody
round but that gal, and don't even know how
things must be a runniu to WastcP
oval, the upshOt ont was they fused and
fn2zed and wuzzled till they'd drinked up all tho
tea in the teapot, and then they went down and
, called 90 the parsOn and WuAzled him all W
talkin' about tins, that ard r9ther that wanted
lOOklu 10, ana tllat IL was 10 way 10 leave every
thing to Il Young chit like Huldy, and that he
ought to be lookin' about for an experienced
woman. The parSon, he thanked EN- kindly, and
said he believed their motives was good but he
didn't 90 no further lie didn't ask Miss Piper
idge TO come and stay there and help him, MOI
nothin' o. that kind, but he said he'd attend tO
matters himscll.-the fact was the palSon had
rot such likiu' for havin' Hubby round that
he couldn't think O such a thing as sWappin
her off for the wilder Pipperidgc
"But he thought to himself Hubby is a good
} girl and Oughtn't to be lCaYn' everything Ia
her-t's TOO hard on her ought to beinstruct-
in and guidin' and helpin' of her, cause faint
everybody could be expected to know and do
what Miss Oarryl did, and so at it he went, and
Lordy massy, didn't Huldy hey lime ont when
the minister began to come out Of his study and
want to tend round and see TO things? Hubby
You see thought all the world Of the minister
and she was most afraid to laugh, but she told
me she couldn't for the life Of her, help it when
his back was turned, for he wuZzed things up in
the most singular way, but Hubby, she'd Just
say, Yves, sir, and get HIM OIL into his study and
90 on her own way.
"'Huldy,' says the minister, one day, 'you
aint experienced outdoors, and when you want
to know anything you must come TO me-
"'Yes, SIR says Hubby.
"'Now, Hubby, says the parsOn, you must be
sure to save the turkey eggs 50 that we can have
a lot of turkeys for thanksgiving
, "'Yes, SIR says Hubby, and she opened tht
l | pantry door and showed him a nice diShlu
, she'd been savin' up. Wal, the very next day
! the parsons hen turkey was found killed, I'D Il
old jim Scroggs's baru-folks said Scroggs kin,
ed it, though Scroggs he stood to it he didn't
at any rate the Scroggses they made meal ONT
and Hubby she felt bad about it, cause she'd Sc
5 her heart on raisin' the turkeys--and says she
! oh, dear, don't know what shall do, ! wa
; Just ready 10 set her..
/ "Do, Hubby? says the parson, why there,
the other turkey out there by the door, and