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

see about it, and she had the garden
made in the spring, and the modders
| moved in summer, and the cider made,
| and the ccrn husked, and the apples got
in the fall, and the doctor had nothin' 30
do but jest sit stock still meditatin' on
Jerusalem and Jericho and them things
that ministers think about-but Lordy
massy he didn't know nothin' about
where anything he eat or drank, Or wore,
| came from or went to-his wife jest led
him round in temporal things and took
care on him ike baby.
'tWal, to be sure Miss Carryl looked
up to him in spirituals, and thought all
the world on him-for there warn't
smarter minister no where round. Why
when he preached on DEGREES and election
they used to come clear over from South
Parish, and West Sherburk, and Old
Town to hear him, and there was sich a
| row O wagons tied along by the meetin
house, that the stables was all full and
all the hitchin' posts was full, clean up
| to the tavern, so that folks said the doc
| tor made the town look Ike gineral
training day Sunday.
He was great on taxes, the doctor
was. When he had p int to prove he d
jest go thro' the Bible and drive all the
texts ahead @ him like flock of sheep,
and if there was text agin him-why,
he'd come out with his Hebrew and
Greek, and kind O. chase it around
spell, jest as ye see a teller chase con-
trary bell whether, and make hi al jump
the fence arter the rest-I tell you there
wasn't no text in the Bible that could
up. The year after the doctor was APP
pointed to preach the lection sermon In
Boston, he made such figger that the
Brattle street church sent a committee
right dowE to see if they couldn't get
him to Boston-and then the Sherburne
folks, they up and raised his salary-ye
see there ain t an thing wakes people up
like somebody else 5 wantin what you We
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 o lonesome and afflicted, when
Miss Carryl was gone, but really. Hubby
was so up to everything about house that
the doctor didn't miss nothin' in tenn
poral way. His shirt bosoms was pleated
finer than they ever was, and them ruf1es
round his wrists was kept like the driven
snow, and there warn't a break in his
silk stockings, and his shoe buckles was
KEEP polished up, and his coats brushed,
and then there warn DO bread and bis
cult like Hubby and her butter was like
solid Jumps Of gold, and there warn't no
pies to equal hers, and so the doctor ney-
er felt the loss of Miss CarryI at table.
Then there was Hubby allurs 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 goin' on
quite quiet and comfortable eff it hadn't
been for Miss Pipperidge, and Miss Dea-
KIN Biodgett, and Miss Sawin got their
heads together talkin' about things.
Poor man., says Miss Pipperidge,
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 Miss Carryl's shoes.
That it does, said Miss Blodgett, and
when things once gets to runnin' down
hill there amt no stoppin on EN- says
she.
Then Miss Sawin, she took it up, 'Ye
see Miss Sawin used 20 go out to dress
maxim, and was sort O jealous, cause
folks sot more By Hubby than they did
by her. Well. says she, Hubby Peters
Is well enough at her trade; | never de-
MED that, though l do say 1 never did
believe in her way O. maxim button holes
and l must say, if it was the dearest
friend / had, that thought Hubby, try
ing to fit Miss Kittridge's plum olored
silk was clear piece of Presumption
the silk was list spl'ed, so it warn't fit to
come into the meetin' house. I must
say that Hubby gal that is always too
ventersome about takin' 'sponsibilities
she don't know nothing about.
Of course she don't, said Mrs Deakin
Blodget. What does she know about
all the lookin' and seein' to that there
ought to be in guiding the minister's
house? Huldy's we'll meanin' and she's
good at her work, and good at the sing
ers seat, but Lordy massy she hain't got
no experience. Parson Carryl ought to
have an experienced woman to keep
house for him There's the spring house
cleaning and the fall house cleaning to be
seen to, and the things to be put away
from the moths, and then the settin'
ready for the association and other min
listers meetings and the maxim the SOAP
and candles, and settin' the hens and
turkeys, watehin' the calves and SEEM
after the hired man and the garden, and
there that are blessed man jist sets there
at home as serene, and has nobody round
but that gal, and don't even know how
things must be runnin' to waste.
Wal, the upshot ont was they fused
and fuzzled aud muzzle6 till they d drink
ed up all the tea in the tea pot, and tken
they went down and called on the parson
and wuzzled him all up talking about
this, that, and t'other that wanted look
IN to, and that it was no way to leave
everything to young chit like Huldy.
and tbat ba o,,b,