Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-11-17

and the meddcrs moved in summer
and the cider made, and the corr
husked, and the apples got in thu
fall, and the doctor had nothin' tt
do but Jest sit stock still medita
tim on Jerusalem and Jericho anC
them things that ministers thinl
about-but Lordy massy! he didn'
know nothin' about where anything
he eat or drank, or wore, came
from or went to-his wife jest lee
him round in temporal things anc
took care on him like baby.
"Wal, to be sure Mis- Carryl look
ed up to him in spirituals, and
thought all the world on him-fol
there warn't smarter minister nc
where round. Why, when he
preached on DEGREES and election
they used to come clear over from
South Parish, and West Sherburne
and Old Town to hear him, and
there was sich a row Of Wagons
tied along by the mectin' house
that the stables was all full and all
the hitchin' posts was full, clear
up to the tavern, SO that folks said
the doctor made the town look like
a gincral training day, Sunday.
"IIe was great on texts, the
doctor was. When he he'd a pint
to prove he'd jest 60 thro' the Bible
and drive all the texts ahead O. him
like flock O. sheep-and then il
there was a text that seemed agin
him-why, he'd come out with his
Greek and Hebrew, and kind O
chase it round spell, jest as yc see
feller chase a contrary bell wether
and make him jump the fence arter
the rest-I tell you there want nc
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 a committee right down to see
if they couldn't get him to Boston
and then the Sherburne folks,
they up and raised his salary-ye
see there aint anything wakes folks
up like somebody else's wanting
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 O. lonesome and afflicted
when Mis- Carryl was gone, but
rally and truly, Huldy was SO up
to everything about house that the
doctor didn't miss nothin' in tenn
poral way. His shirt bosoms was
p.eated finer than they ever was,
and them ruffies round his wrists
was KEEP like the driven snow, and
there warn't a brack in his silk
stockings, and his shoe buckles
was KEEP polished up, anu his coats
brushed, and then there warn't no
bread and biscuit like Huldy's, and
her butter was like S. lid Jumps of
gold, and there warcn't no pies 70
equal hers, and so the doctor never
felt the loss Of Mis- Carryl at table.
Then there was Huldy alters oppi-
site 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 going on quite
quiet and comfortable eft it hadn't
been that Mis- Pipperidge, and
Mis- Deakin Blodgett, and Mis-
Sawin got their heads together a
talkin' about things.
"'Poor man. say 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, ito tread in Mis-
Carryl's shoes.
THAT it does said Mis- Blodgett,
'and when things once gets to run
ming down hill there aint no stop
PIN on 'em,' says she.
"Thcn 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
Huldy than they did by her. Well
says she, 'Huldy Peters is well
enough at her trade; never denied
that, though l do say l never did
believe in her way of maxim button
holes, and l mus, say, if twas the
dearest friend l had, that thought
Huldy, tryin' to fit Mis- kittridge's
plumb-colored silk was clear piece
of presumptlon-thc silk was jist
spilled, so 'twarn't fit to come into
the mcetin' house. l must say that
Huldy's gal that's always too ven
tersome about takin' 'sponsibilities
she don't know nothin' about
.'Of course she don't, said Mis-
Deakin Blodget. what does she
know about all the lookin' and see
in to that there ought to be in
guiding the minister's house? HUI
dy's well mcanin' and she's good at
her work, and good in the singers
seat, but Lordy massy, she aint got
no experience. Parson Carryl ought
to have an experienced woman to
keep house for him. There's the
spring housc-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 min
istcr's meetin's and the maxim the
soap and candles, and scttin' the
hens and turkeys, watching the
calves and secin' after the hired
men and garden--and there that
blessed man jist sets there at home
ms serene, and has nobody around
bu, that gal, and don't even know
how things must be a runnin' to
waste!
wall, the upshot ont was they
fused and fuzzlcd and wuzzlcd till
they'd drinkcd up all the tea in the
teapot, and then they wen down
and called on the parson and wuz-
zled him all up talkin' about this,
that and t'other that wanted lookin'
to, and that it was no way to leave
everything to a young chit like