The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-11-30

cut WORMS and bug worms, and canker
worms. to say nothin'' Of rattlesna kes-
the doctor made it very impressive and
sort o i'm provin. but Huldy.she told me,
goln' home, that ste hardly could keep
from laughin' two or three times in the
sermon when she thought of Old Tom a
standn' up with the corn basket On his
back
oval next week, Hubby, she just Dor
rowed the minister's horse and sides sad
die, and rode over to South Parish to her
| Aunt Bascome, wilder Bascomes, you
know, that lives there by the trout brook,
aud got lot o turkeys eggs cher, and
got back and set hen on EN- and said
nothin' and in good time there was as
nice lot O. turkey chicks as ever We
| see."
''Huldy never said word to the min
lister about his experiment, and he never
said word to her, but he sort O. KEEP
more near to his books AMI didn't take it
on him to advise so much.
but not long after he took it into bis
head that Ifuldy ought to have a pig to
be fattin with the butterulilk. Miss
Pipperidge set him up to it, and just thss.
old Tim Bigelow, out to Juniper sIfifl,
told him if he'd call over he'd give him
a little pig.
So he sent for man and told him to
build PIG pen right out by the well. and
have it all ready when he come home
with his ig.
''Huldy, she said she wished he might
put curb round the we'll out there, be-
cause in the dark, sometimes. a body
might stumble into it, and the parson, he
told him be might do that.
''Wal, old Akin, the carpenter. he
didn't come till most the middle of the
afternoon, and then he sort O. idled so
that he didn't get up the well-curb till
shutdown, and then he went off and
said he'd come and do the pig-pcn next
day.
"Wal, after dark, Parson Carryl he
driv into the yard, full chizel, with his
pig. He'd tied up his mouth to keep
him from squelin." aud he see what-he
thought was the pen-he was rather
near sighted-and SO he ran and threw
piggy over and down he dropped into the
water, ami the minister put cut his horse
and pranced off into the house quite de-
lighted"
There, Hubby, I've got you a nice
little pig
Dear me-" says Hubby, where have
you put him ?''
"Why. out there in the pig-pen, to be
sure"
ooh, dear me!' says Hubby, that's
the well-curb-there amt no pig pen
built" says she.
''Lordy massy!'' says the parson,
then I've 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 a door-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, Hubby, I ain't much in ten :
porals, " says. Hubby says she kind a
felt her heart go out to him, and he was
SO sort o meek and helpless. and learn
ed, and says she, "Wal Parson Carryl
don't trouble your head no more about
1t; III see to things and sure enough, a
week after there was nice pen, all ship
shape, and two little willie pigs thai.
Hubby bought with the money for the
| butter she sold at the store.
wal, Hubby" says the parson, "you
are most amazin' child don't say
nothin' but you do more than most
| folks"
'Arter that the parson set SIGH store
by Hubby that he come to her and asked
her about everything, and it was amazn'
how everything she put her hand to pros.
pered- Hubby planted marigoldss and
larkspurs, pInAs and carnations all up and
down the paths to the front door. and
trained morning glories and scarlet run
ners round the windows. and she was al
ways gettin' a root here, and sprig
there, and seed from somebody else.
for Hubby was enc O. them that has the
gift SO if you just give 'em the leastest
sprig of anything they make great bush
OF 1t right away, SO that in SIX months
iiu'dy had roses, aud geranium ;, and
hes, SIGH as it took a gardner to raiso.
1be parSon, he took no notice at tust, bat
when the yard was all ablaze with flow
ers he used to come and stand in a kind
o maze at the front door. and say, beau
flfu!, beautiful why, Hubby. [ never
see anything like it. And then when her
work was done afternoons, fIuldg would
SIT with her sewing in the porch, and
sing and trill away till she drew the
meadow-larks and the bobolinks and the
orioles to answer her, and the big elm
overhead would get perfectly rackety with
the birds, and the parson, settip' there In
his study, would git to O. lreamin' about
angels, and golden harps, and the new
Jsrusaiem-but he wouldn't sneak
word, cause Hubby, she was Just like
them wood thrushes, she never could
sing SO well when she thought folks was
hearln Folks noticed about this time
shat the parson's sermons got to belize
Aaron S rod, that budded and blossomed
-th re was things in EN- about flowers
and birds, and more special about the
music o heaven. And Hubby she mott
ced that ct there was a hymn run in her
head while she was round a workin'.
the minister was sure to give it out next
Sunda7. You see Hubby was list ike a
bee, she always sung when she war work
IN and you ceuld hear her round. now
down IN the corn patch, while she was
plckIn the corn; and now in the but
terry, while she was. workin' the butter
and now she go singin' down cellar and
then she d be sinsin' I'D OYER b al 80