Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-12-21

the we'll curb-thcIe amt no pig pen
built says She"
"Lory massy!" says the Parson,
''then I've thrown the pig into the
we'll -
oval, Huldy, she worked and work
ed and finally she fished piggy out in
the bucket, but he was dead as a door
nail, and she got him out of the way
quickly, and didn't say much, and the
paason he took to a great Hebrew
book in the study and says he, Hui
dy,sI didn't learn much in temporais,' -
says he. Hubby says she kind a felt
her heart go out to him. and lie was
so sort of meek, and helpless. and
learned, and says, 'Wal, Parson Car
ryl, dou't trouble your head no more
about it; III see to things and sure
| enough, week after there was nice
pen, all ship shape, and two little white
pigs that Huldy bought with the mon
ey for the butter she sold at the
store.
"Wal, Hubby" says the parson, you
are most amazing child-you don't
say nothing but you do more than
most folks
carter that the parson set sich store
by Hubby that he come to her about
everything, and it was amazing low
everything she put her hand to pros
pered. Hubby planted marigolds and
larkspurs, pinks, carnations all up and
down the path to the front door, and
trained up morning glories and scarlet
runners round the windows, and she
was always getting root here and a
sprig there, and a seed from somebody
else, for Huldy was one of them that
has gift, so that eff you jist give 'em
the leastest sprig of anything they
make a great bush oct of it right away,
so that in six months Hubby had roses,
and geraniums, and lilies, sich as it
would take Il gardener to raise. The
parson, he took no notice at fust, but
when the yard was all ablaze with flow
ers he used to come and stand in
amaze at the front door, and say
beautiful, beautiful; why, Huldy, /
never saw anything like it And then
when her work was done afternoons,
Hubby would sit with her sewing in the
porch and sing and triIl away till she d
draw the medow larks and the bobo-
links and the orioles to answer her, and
the great big elm tree overhead would
get perfectly rackety with the birds,
and the parson, setting there in his
study, would git to kind of dreaming
bout angels and golden harps, and the
new Jerusalem-but he wouldn't speak
a word, cause Huldy, was jist like them
woodthrushes, she never could sing So
well when she thought folks was hear
ing. Folks noticed, about this time,
that the parsons got to be like Aaron S
rod, that budded an blossomed-thero
was things in them about flowers and
birds, and more special about the mu
sic of heaven. And Hubby she noticed
that ef there was hymn run in heI
head while she was round working, the
minister was sure to give it out next
Sunday. You see, Hubby was jist like
a bee, she always sung when she was
working and you could hear her trill
ing now down to the corn patch, while
she was picking the corn; and now in
the buttery, while she was working the
butter; and now she'd 90 sinoino
down cellar, and then she'd be singing
up overhead, SO that she seemed to
fill house chock full of music
'Huldy was SO sort of clipper ant
fair spoken, that she got the hired mer
all under her thumb. They come tc
her and took her orders jist as meek
as so many calves, and traded at the
store, and kept the accounts, and sht
he'd her eyes everywhere, and tieC
up all the ends so tight there want nc
getting round her. She wouldn't le
nobody put nothing off on Parsor
Carryl, cause he was a minister. Hubby
!, was alters up to anybody that wanted
to make hard bargain, and afore sht
knew jist what she was about, she'C
got the best end of it, and everybody
said that Hubby was the most capable
gal they had ever traded with.
''Wal, come to the meeting of tht
association, Mis- Deakin Blodget and
: Mis- Pipperidge come calling on the
+ parsons all in a stew, and offering
their services to get the house ready
but the Doctor, he jist thanked then
} quite quiet, and turned them over tc
] Hubby, and Huldy she told tnem tha
] she'd got everything ready, and show
t ed them her pantries and her cakes ant
her pies, and her pud Ings, and too
= them all over the house, and they wen
: peaking and poking. opening cupboar
doors and looking into drawers, an
: they couldn't find so much as a threa
y out of the way; from garret to cellar
: and so they went off quite discontent
d ed Arter that the women set
:, new trouble brewing. Then the
q begun to talk that it was year no
since Mis- Carryl died, and it rail
e wasn't proper for such young gal
e be staying there, who everybody coul
IT see was spttiuS hUr UrsI1 for tho minis
it ter.
mis- Pepperidge, said SO long
% she looked on Hu!dy as the hired gi
a she hadn't thought much about it, bt
+ Hubby was rally taking on airs as G
% equal, and appearing as mistress of IL
1T house in q way that would make ia
IL if it went on. And Mis- Pjpperidg
she driv round up to Deakin Abn'
m Shows and down to Mis- Lijah Pc
~ rvs and asked them if they WASH
lie afraid the way the parson and Huld
was going on might make talk, al
ne they hadn't thought ont before, b
ut now come to think ont they was su
s, it would, and they all went and talkt
he with somebody else, and asked them
10 they didn't think it would make tai
y So come Sunday, between meetinl
he there warn't nothing else talked abo
he and Hubby saw folks nodding al
so wirking and looking arter her, and s.
ill began to feel dreffel sort of disagree
ne BILE. Finally Mis- Saving said to he
MY dear, didn't you never think fol
he would talk about you and the emini
tn ter?''
or, I.NO vhI- shOuId thev Pn saws Hnld