The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-11-16

g There, Huldy,' he says, quite re,
D in the face, we've got him now ant
D he travelled of to the barn with him a.
< lively as a cricket.
"Huldy came behind, jist chokin
! with laugh and afraid the minister
{ would look around and see her.
{ Now, Hubby, we'l crook his leg
!. and set him down. says the parsOr
s when he got him to the nest, you see
r he is getting quiet, and he'll set there
{ all right
"And the parson he sOt him down,
) old Tom he sOt there solemn enough,
ahd held his tail down all droopini
, and loOkin' like rail pious old cock as
} long as the parsOn sOt by him.
There, you see how still he sets,
! says the parsOn to Huldy.
"Huldy was most dyini for fear she
I should laugh. Pm afraid he'll get
J up says she, when you do
, Oh, no he WON'T saws theparson,
quite confdenti there says he, lay
in his hands on him as il he was pro-
nounein' blessin'. But when the
parson riz up, old Tom he riz up too,
and began to march over the eggs
" Stop, nown said the parson; T'll
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 then they
both stood and waited.
Thatll do the thing, HuIdy,' said
the Parson,
" I don't know about it, says HUI
dy.
stand, , says he.
"Just as he spoke the basket riz
right up and stood, and they could see
old Toms long legs.
'rll make him stay down, con-
found him. says the parsOn, for ye
see parsons is men, like the rest on
US, and the doctor had got his spunk
up.
:" You jist hold him a minute, and
pll get something that will make him
stay, guess and out he went to the
fence and brought in a long, thin,
fiat stone and laid it on old Toms
back.
"Old Tom, he wilted down consid-
erably under this, and looked rally as
il he was gOin' to give in. He staid
still there a good long spell, and the
minister and Huldy left him there and
come up to the house, but they hadn't
more than got in the door before they
see old Tom hoppin' along, as high
steppin' as ever, saying talk talk!
and quitter! quitter p and struttin'
and gObblin' as if he'd come through
the Red sea and got the victory.
"'Oh, my eggs says Huld, I'm
afraid he's smashed 'emp
"And sure enough, there they was,
smashed fiat enough under the stone
"'Pn have him killed. said the
parson-'we won't have such a critter
round
'tBut the parson, he slept ont, and
then didn't do 1.-THE only come out
next Sunday with a tip-top sermon
on the 'riginal Cuss,' that was pro-
nounced on things in general, when
Adam fell, and showed how every
thing was allowed to go contrary ever
| since. There was a pig-weed, and
pusley, and Canady thistles, cut worms
and bug worms, and canker worms,
to say nothin' of rattlesnakes-the
doctor made it very impressive and
sort of improviD', but Hubby, she told
IRE, 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, Hubby, she jist
borrowed the minister's horse and side
saddle, and rode over to the South
Parish to her Aunt Bascomes, widder
BaseOmes, you know, that lives there
/ by the trout-brook, and got a lot o.
turkey eggs o. her, and come back
and set hen on 'em and said nothin',
and in good time there was as nice a
lot o. turkey chicks as ever yni We -
uHuIdv nevar sos1 a WORD 10 the
1htS So IlN..u his experiment, aud
ne ne Never said word to her, but he
sort o. KEEP more to his books and
didn't take it on him to advise so
much.
"But not long after he took it into
his head that Hubby ought to have a
pig to be a fattin' with the butter
milk. Miss Pepperidge set him up to
| it, and list then old Tom Bigelow, out
to Juniper Hill, told him if he'd call
over he'd give him little pig.
$50 he sent for a man to build pig
pen right out by the well, and have it
all ready when he come home with
bis pig.
'Huldy she said she wished she
/ might put a curb round the well out
there, because in the dark, sometimes
q body might stumble into it. and the
parson told him he might do that.
oval, old Aiken, the carpenter, he
didn't come till most the middle of
the afternoon, and then he sort of
idled so that he didn't get up the we'll
curb till sundoWn, and then he went
off and said he'd come and do the pig
pen next day.
oval, after dark, Parson Carryl, he
driv into the yard, full chizel, with
his pig. He'd tied up his mouth to
keep him from squeelin' and he see
what he thought was the pig pen-he
was rather near-sighted-and so he
ran and threw piggy over and down
he dropped into the water, and the
minister put out his horse and pranc-
ed off into the house quite delighted.
" There, Hubby, rve got you nice
little Pig
"'Dear me- says Huldy, where
have you put him p
In the pig-pen,' says the parsOn.
"Oh dear mep says Huldy, that's
the well-curb-there amt no pig-pen
built says she.
'Lordy massyu says the parsOn,
then pve thrown the pig in the
: well =
oval, Hubby, she worked and work
} ed, and finally she fished piggy out in
the bucket, but he was dead as n dOOl
J nail, and she got him out o. the way
} quietly, and didn't say much, and the
parson he took to great Hebrew book
in his study, and says he, 'Huldy,
/ amt much in the tempOrals, says he
: Hubby says she kind felt her hear
} go out to him, and he was so sort o.
meek and helpless, and learned, anC
! says she, wal, ParsOn Carryl, DOM
| trouble your head no more about it
I'll see to things and sure enough, 6
/ week after there was a nice pen, al
ship-shape, and two little white pig
t that Hubby bought with the money
3 for the butter she sold at the store.
oval, Huldy,' says the parson, 'yoJ
, are a most amaZin' child-you dom
/ say nothin', but you do more thar
] most folks
'After that the parson set sich store
by -Huldy that he come to her anC
; asked her about everything, and i
was amaZin' how everything she pu
hand to prospered. Huldy planted
marigolds and larkspurs, pink5 anC
! carnations all up and down the patti
: to the front door, and trained VI
mOrning-glories and scarlet-runner
! round the windows, and she was al
! ways a gettin' a root here, and spril
: there, and a seed from somebody else
7 for Hubby was one Of them that ha
], the gift, so that ifyou jist give EN- tn
!. leRstest sprig Of anything they max
! a great bush out of it right away, 81
that in six months Hubby had roses
!. geraniums, and lilies, sich as il wOuh
= a took a gardener to raise. The par
son, he took no notice at fust, bu
!, when the yard was all ablaze witt
Il flowers he used to come and stand in
}, kind o. maze at the front door and sa,
beautiful, beautiful (; why, Hubby,
q never see anything like it, And the
a when her work was done afternoons
= Huldy would sit with her sewing il
g the porch, and sing and trill away I'll
T she'd draw the meadow larks and tn
bobolinks and the orioles to answe
e her, and the great, big elm tree over
head would getperfectly rackety wit
I" the birds, and the parson, settin' ther
3 in his study, would git to kind {
dreaming about angels and gOlde
q harps, and the new Jerusalem-but h