Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-12-16
The Minister'S Housekeeper.
EY MRS. HARRIET BEEcHER STOWE.


IscKSE 1.-rAe ssady site Of a bra.1erry pas-
fsrs-Ne# La'rso" cith tie boys picking biWeb:r-
Tiss.-Scrs log-I
oval. YOU see. bOys-'twas Just here-Parson
Carryl's wife. she died along in the fore part of
Earch-ny cousin Hu.dy, she undertook 10 keen
house ior him. The way ont was that Huldy.
she went to take care o Mis- CarIyl in the fust
0nt-when she fust took sick. Huldy was a
tHlOTeSs by trade, but then, she was one o. these
ere facultise persons that has a gift for most
anything, and that was how ais Carryl come 10
set sech store 10y her, that when she was sick
nOtbin' would dO for her but she must have
tudy round all the time and the minister, he
sand he 81 make II good to her all the same, an
che shouldn't lose nOthin' by 10, and so Huldy
she staid with Ms Carryl full three months
before she died. and got to seein' 10 eyerytbin y
pretty much round the place. WAL arter NJ :
CarTyl died, PsrsOn CarryI, he'd got so kind o.
used 10 heyin' her round taking care o. things
that be wanted her TO stay a long spell-and 50
Huioy. she staid along spell and poured o Il
his tea, and menhed his close, and made nj !,
and cakes, and cooked, and washed, and irone A.
Sep everything a neat as a pin-Huldy was a
drehul clipper sort o gal, and work sort o.
rolled OF like water OF ducks back. There
warnt no gal in ShelbuTne that could put such
sight o work through a. Huldy. and vet Sun
day inornin', she always come outin the singers
seat like one o. those June roses IoOkin so fresh
and smiiIn,' and her voice was jest a. clear and
sweet a. a meadow laTk's-LOTdy massy-I mem
her how she used 10 sing some o them are places
where the treble and counter used to 90 to-
gether, her voice kindO' trembled little, and it
II m
right where he lived"
Here Sam leaned contemplaiivelv back with
his head in a clump OF sweet fern, and re-
freshed himself with chew of young winter
green. This ere young wintergreen boys IA
lest like feilers thoughts o. things that hap
Iened when he was young-it comes up Jest 80
fresh anu tender every year the longest time you
beV 20 live, and you can't help chaWin' ON
thro' tits sort o. stingiDg-I don't never get over
Hkin' Young winteTgreen.r
But about Huldlh, Sam"
cob, yCs-ahOut Huldy-LOrly massy when
Teller is Indianing round these ere pleasant
summer days, feller's thoughts gifts like flock
o young Patridgcs-they's up and down and
everywhere, cause one place is Jest about rs
good ss another. when they : all ~ kind o. COM
Portable and nice. Wal, about HuIjy-as I was
"a sayin'-she was jest n handsome a gal to look
at as felier could have, and think NICE
well-behaved young gal in the singers seat OF "A
Sunday II means o grace, it's sort o. DRAWN
TO the unregenerate. You know. Why, boys, in
them DAYS, I've walked ten miles over to Sher-
burne OF a Sunday mornin' Jest TO play the bass
yiol IN the same singers seat with Hubby. She
was very much respected, Hubby was, and when
she went out To tailorin' she was alters bespoke
six months ahead, and sent for in wagons up
and down for ten miles round, for the young
feilers was alters main anxious TO be sent after
Hubby. and WAS quite free to offer to go for her
Wal, after Mis- Carryl died, Hubby got to be sort
o housekeePer at the minister's, and saw TO
everything 50 that there warn't pin out o. the
But you know how it's in parishes, there alters
u women that thinks the minister's affairs be-
and guidn' of EN-, and ii a minister's wife dies
there's folks that alters hes their eyes open ON
PTovidences-l OOkin out who's to DC the next
one.
Now there was Mis- Amaziah Pipperid,e a
widder with snapPin' black eyes, and q hook
no-c-kind o like a hawk-aHd she was one o.
that feel that they have call to be SEEM to
everything that goes on in the parish, and
specially t. the minister.
Folks did say that Mis- Pipperidge sot o. SGT
her eve on the parson herself m-wal-now. I'll at
might haze been, or IL might not. Some folks
thought 10 was very suitable connection,-you
see she had a good property of her own, right
nigh "a the minister's lot, aud was alters kind ~
active and busy 50, takin- one thing with an
other. ! shouldn't wonder If Mis- Pipperidge
should = thought that Providence Pointed that
way. At ssy rate she went up to Deakin Blod-
gets wife, and they two sort o. put their heads
together mournin, and condoln' about the
WAY things was likely u 90 on at the ministers
now Mis- CsIryl was dead We see the parsons
wife, she was one of them women " no he'd their
eyes everywhere and ON everything She was a
and smart a. a steel trap, and there warn't q
hen laid an egg CT caekled, but Mis- Csrryi was
right there TO see about il, and she had the gar
den made IN the spring. and the medders moved
IN summer, and the cider made. and the corn
husked. and the apples got in the fall. and the
meditatin' on Jerusalem and Jericho and them
things that ministers think about-but Lordy
massy. he didn't know nothin' about where any
thing lac eat, or drunk or wore, come from or
things and took care of him like baby.
Wal, 10 be sure NH Carryl looked up to
him In spirituals, and thought all the world on
hlm-for there warn't smarter minister no.
where round Why, when he preached on De-
crees and Election, they used 10 come cler over
from South Parish, and West Sherburne and
Old Town 20 hear him. and there was SIGH a
row o. wagons tied along by the meetin' house.
that the stables was all full, and all the hitch M
posts was fun, clean mp to the tavern, 80 that
folks said the doctor made the town look uke a
gineral training day Sunday.
" He was great on texts, the doctor was
When he had . pint 10 prove he'd Jest 90 thro'
the Bible and drive all the texts ahead o. him
like a flock o. Sheppard then IL there was a
text seemed agin him, why, he'd come out with
his Greek and Hebrew. and kind o. chase IL
round a spell, Jest as you see . feller chase
contrary bell-wether, and make him Jump the
fence arter the rest. I tell you there warn't no
text In the Bible that could stand agin the doe
tor when his blood was up. The year after the
doctor was appointed 70 preach the lection ser
mon In Boston, he made such a fager that the
Brattle-street church sent a committee right
down to see II they couldn't get him to Boston.
and then the Sherburne folks, they up and raised
his salary. You see there amt ANYTHING wakes
folks up like somebody else's wantin' what
you've got. Wal, that fall they made him doe
tor of divinity at Cambridge, and so thew sot
more by him than ever. Wal, you see the doc
tor, Of course. he felt kind o. lonesome and AZ
fiicted when Mis- Carryl was gone, but rally and
truly, Hubby was up 20 everything about
the house that the doctor didn't miss nothin, in
o temporal way. His shirt bosoms was pleat-
ed finer than they ever was, and them
TuHies round his wrists was KEEP like the
driven snow, and there warnt . brack in