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

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: he eat or drank, or wore, came from
N or went tO-his wife jest led hin
: round in temporal things and tool
care on him like baby.
wal, TO be sure Mis- Carryl looked
up TO him in spirituals, and though
R all the world on him-fOr there warn
= a smarter minister no where round
Why, when he preached on decrea
and election, they used to come cle2
over from South Parish, and Wes
Sherburne and Old Town to hear him
and there was sich q row o. waggini
, tied along by the meetin' house, 1hai
the stables was all full and all the
hitchin' posts was full, clean up tC
) the tavern, so that folks said the
doctor made the town look like 8
gineral training day, Sunday.
HE was great on texts, the doctor
was. When he he'd a PINT to prove
he'd jest go thro' the Bible and drive
all the texts ahead o. him like flock
, o. Sheppard then if there was text
that seemed agin him-why, he
would come out with his Greek and
Hebrew, and kind o. chase it round g
spell, jest as ye see feller chase a con-
trary bell wether, and make him jump
the fence arter the rest-I tell you
there warn't 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 Boston, he made
such figger that the Brattle street
church sent committee right down
to see if they couldn't get him to BOs-
ton-and then the Sherburne folks,
they up and raised his salary-ye see
there amt anything wakes folks up
like somebody slse's wantin' what
you've got. Wal, that fall they made
him doctor o. divinity at Cambridge
college, and so they sot more by him
than ever. Wal, you see the doctor,
Of course, he felt kind oflonesome and
afflicted when Mis- Carryl was gone,
but rally and truly, Hubby was so up
to everything about house that the
doctor didn't miss nothin' in q tempo
al way. Hisshirt bOsoms was pleated
finer than they ever was, and them
ruffies round his wrists was KEEP like
the driven snow, and there warn't a
break in his silk stockings, and his
shoe buckles was KEEP polished up,
and his cost brushed, and then there
warn't no bread and biscuit like Hull
dy's, and her butter was like solid
Jumps o. gold, and there wsrn't no
pies to equal hers, and so the doctor
never felt the loss Of Mis- Carryl at
table. Then there was Hubby alters
opposite to him, with her blue eyes
and her cheeks like two fresh peaches,
she was kind o. pleasant TO look at,
and the more the doctor looked at her
the better he liked her, and so things
seemed to be gOini on quite quiet and
comfortable eff it hadn't been that Mis-
Pipperidge, and Mis- Deakin Blodgett,
and Mis- Sawin got their heads togeth-
er talkin' about things.
"POor man." said Mis- Pipperidge,
"what can that child that he's got
there do toward taking the care of all
that place? It takes a mature wo-
man she says, to tread in Mis- Carryrs
Shoes"
'That it does," said Mis- Blodgett,
"and when things once gets to run
MIN down hill there amt no stOppini
on 'em,' says shO.
| "Then Mis- SaWin she took it up
| (Ye see Mis- Sawin used to go out to
dress maxim, and was sort o. jealous
cause folks sot more by Hubby than
they did by her.) Well says she,
'Huldy Peters is well enough at her
trade, I never denied that, though 1
do say I never did believe in her way
o. maxim button holes; and / must
say, if twas the dearest friend / had,
that 1 thought that Hubby trying to
fit Mis- Kittridge's plumb colOTed silk
was a clear piece Of presumption
the silk was. jist spilled, so 'twarn't
i Sc 10 into fhn rSannffvghnrNon
I must say that Hubby is gal that's
too ventursOme about takin' 'sponsi-
bilities that she don't know nOthin'
about
n.o1Sia SDSlSsett. GOIr Ss A What does she
know about all the loOkin' and seein'
to that there ought to be in guidin'
the minister's house? Huldy's we'll
meanin' and she's good at her work,
and good in the singers seat, but
| Lordy massy, she hain't got no exper-
ience. Parson Carryl 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's meetin's, and the
maxim the soap and the candles, and
settin' the hens and and turkies
Watehin' the calves and seein' after
the hired men and the garden-and
there that are blessed man jist sets
there at home as serene, and has no
body round but that gal and don'teven
know how things must bea runnin' to
waste 'n
"Wal, the upshot ont was they fus-
sed and fuzzled and wuzZled till they
drinked up all the tea in the teapot,
and then they went down and called
on the parsOn and wuZzled him all up
talkin' about this, that and t'other
that wanted lookin' to, and that II
was no way to leave everything to a
young chit like Hubby, and that he
ought to be lookin' about for an eX-
perienced woman. The parsOn, he
thanked them kindly, and said that
he believed their motives were good,
but he didn't go no further. He didn't
ask Mis- Pipperidge to come and stay
there and help him, nor nOthin' o.
that kind, but he said he'd attend to
matters himself-the fact was the par
son had got sich a likin' for havin'
Huldy round that he couldn't think
o. such thing as swappin her off fol
widder Pipperidge.
"But he thought to himself, Hubby
is good girl, and Oughtened to be q
leavin' everything to her-it's toe
hard on her. fought to be instructini
and guidin' and helpin' of her, 'caust
'taint everybody could be expected tC
know and do what Mis- Carryl die, ,anC
so at it he went, and, Lordy massy,
didn't Hubby have time ont wheI
the minister came out of his study
: and want to stand around and see t.
things? Hubby, you see, thought al
, the world of the minister, and she
was most afraid to laugh, but she tOlC
me she could not for the life OF her
/ help it when his back was turned, fol
, he wuzzled things up in the mos
} singular style, but Hubby, she'd jes
say yes, SIR and get him off into hi
study and go on her own way.
"Huldy," says the minister one day
} "you amt experienced out doors, anC
, when you want to know anything vol
; must come to me-"
+ ayes sir" says Hubby.
: 'fNow Huldy," says the the parsOn
! 'tyoH must be sure to save the turkey
i eggs so that we can have lot of tur
! keys for Thanksgiving"
I "Yes sir" says Hubby, and sh'
opened the pantry door and showed
I him a painful she'd been sayin' up
! Wal, the next day the parsons heI
! turkey was found killed, up to oil
;, Jim Scrogg's barn-folks said Serogg
= killed it, though Scroggs he stood 4
q it he didn't-st any rate the ScrOgge
1 they made a meal ont, and Huld,
4 she felt bad about it, cause she'd Sc
her heart on raisln' the turkeys-an,
: says she, "Oh, dear, I don't know
s what shall do, was just ready to Sc
|. her."
d "Do, Huldy?n says the parson
e "why there's the other turkey ou
r there by the door; and fine bird, toe
It he is"
Sure enough, there was the old Ton
b turkey a struttin' and slidin' and
= quitterin' and fiOuntini his tail feath
y ers in the sun, like q lively youn
n widower, already to begin life owe
= again.
o "But," says Huldy, "you know Ii
n can't set on eggs"
l. HE can't? I'd like to know why,
says the parson, 'he shall set on egg
, and hatch 'em, too"
= "Oh, DOCTOR" says Hubby, all in