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

prove he'd jest go through tue Bible
and drive all the texts ahead of him
like flock of fsheep-and then if there
was a text agin him-why he'd come
out with his Greek and Hebrew, and
kind of chase it round a spell, jest
as ye see a feller chase a contrary
bell wether, and make him jump the
fence after the rest-I 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 election
sermon in Boston, and he made sech
figger that the Brattle Street Church
sent committee right down to see
if they couldn't get him to Boston
and the Sherburne folks, they up and
raised his salary-ye see there amt
anything that wakes folks up like
somebody else's Wantin what you've
got. Wal, that fall they made him a
doctor of divinity at Cambridge Col
lege, and so they sot more by him
than ever. Wal, you see the doctor,
of course, he felt kind of lonesome
and afflicted when Mis- Carryl was
gone, but really and truly, Hubby was
so up to everything about the house
that the doctor didn't miss nothin in
a temporal way. His shirt bosoms
were pleted finer than they ever was,
and them ruff1es round his wrists was
KEEP like the driven snow, and there
wusn't break in his silk stockings,
and his shoe buckles was KEEP polished
and Lis coats brushed, and then here
wusn't no bread and biscuit like HUI
dy's, and her butter was like solid
Jumps of gold, and there warn't no
pies to equal hers, and so the doctor
never felt the loss of MIS- Carryl at
the table. Then there was Huldy
alters opposite to him, with her blue
eyes and her cheeks like two fresh
peaches, she was kind of pleasant to
look at, and the more the doctor
looked at her the better he liked her,
and so things seemed to be goin on
quiet and comfortable eff it hadn't
been that Mis- Pipperidge and Mis-
Deacon Bloodgett. and Mis- Sawin got
their heads together a talkin about
things.
" Poor man, says Mis- Pipperldge,
what can that child that he's got there
do toward taking the care of all that
place ? 1t takes a mature woman
she says, to tread in Mis- CarryTs
shoes
"'That it does said Mis- Bloodgett
and when things once gets to runnin
down hill, there amt no stoppin EN-,
says she.
Then Mis- Sawin, she took it up
(Ye see Mis- Sawin used to go out to
dress maxim, and was sort of jealous
because folks sot more by Hubby than
they did by her) Well says she
Hubby Peters is well enough at her
trade; never-denied that, though ]
do say never did believe in her way
of maxim button holes, and must saw,
if it was the dearest friend had, thai
thought Huldy, tryin to fit Mis- Kit
ridges plum colored silk was cleal
piece of presumption-the silk was
| Jest spilled, so it warn't fit to come in.
to the meetin house. l must say tina
Huld's a gal that's always too venture
some about takin responsibilities shC
don't know nothin about.
:" 'Of course she DON'T said Mi
Deacon BIoodgett, what does sh,
know about all the lookin and seeil
to, that there ought to be in guidin thu
ministers house. Hubby is well mean
n, and she is good at her work, ant
good in the singers seat, but Lord,
massy, she amt got no experience
Parson Carryl ought to have an ex
perienced woman to keep house 70
him. There is the spring house clean
in, and the fall house cIeanin to b
seen to, and the things to be put ava
from the moths, and then the getti
ready for the association, and all tn
z ministers meetins, and the maxim tn
soap and the candles, settin the hen
and turkies, watchin the calves an
seein after the hired men and the gal
5 demand there that are blessed ma
list sets there at home as serene, an
4 has nobody round but that are ga
4 and dom t even know how things mu!
! be runnin to waste!
4 "Wal, the upshot of it was the
i fuzzed and fuzzled and wuzzled tt
D they had drinked up all the tea in tt
/, tea pot, and then they went down an
called on the parson and wuzzled Iii
e up talkih about this and that, th
r wanted lookin to, and that it was n
e use to leave everything to a child liE
5 Hubby, and that he ought to be look
e out for an experienced woman. II
d parson~he treated them kindly, al
e he believer their motives were goo
If but he didn't go no fartner-4e- -didn
g ask Mis- Pepperidge to come and st;
if there and help him, nor nOthin of tn
1T KIND, but he said he'd attend to ms
- ters himself-the fact was the parse
n had got such likin for havin Hull
1f round, that he couldn't think of su
rs ow Pipperidge.
s But be thought to himself: HI
ee dy's a good girl, and oughtn't to
Of leavin everything to her-it's too ha
y on her ought to be instructin a
Is guidin and helpin her, because il ali
n everybody could be expected to knc
p, and do what Mis- Carryl did, and
or at it he went, and Lord massy, did
hit Hubby have q time of it when the m
i'd lister began to come out of his stu
I'D and want to tend round and see
i'd things? Huldy thought all the wo
ID, of the minister, and she was M
40 AFRAID TO laugh, DuG She GoId me
yst couldn't, for the life of her help
u when his back was turned, for he W
lat zled things up in most singular WI
s. but Hubby, she'd jest say, yes s
'ut and get him off into his study and
or on her own way.
his 'Hulday,' says the minister, {
raj day, you amt experienced out doc
a and when you want to know anythi
you must come to me-
'k Yes sir says Hubby.
OF 8 oh, DOCTOR says Hubby all il
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