Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-11-04
NO. 262.

He'd tied up his mouth to keep him from
squealin', and he see what he thought was
the pig -pen--he was rather near-sighted--
and SO he ran and threw piggy over and
down he dropped into the water, and the
minister put out his horse and pranced off
into the house quite delighted.
'There, Hubby, l We got you a nice lit
tie pig"
Dear me-" says Hubby, "where have
you put him ?n
"Why, out there in the pig-pen, to be
sure"
"Oh dear me !" says Huldy, "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 WE'LL"
Wal, Hubby, she worked and worked,
and finally she fished piggy out in the
bucket, but he was as 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, "Huldy, aint much in tenn
porals," says he. Huldy says she kind
felt her heart 60 out to him, and he was
so sort O. meek and helpless, and learned,
and says she, ..'Wal Parsan Carryl, don't
trouble your head no more about it; I'll
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after there was nice pen, all ship-shape,
and two little white pigs that Hubby bought
with the money for the butter she sold at
the store.
"Wal, Huldy," says the parson, "you
are most amazin' child-you don't say
nothin', but you do more than most folks"
Arter that the parson set sich store by
Huldy that he come to her and asked her
about everything, and it was amazin' how
everything she put her hand to prospered.
Hubby planted marigolds and larkspurs,
pinks and carnations all up and down the
path to the front door, and trailed up
morning glories and scarlet runners
round the windows, and she was always
a gettin' root here, and sprig there,
and seed from somebody else, for Hubby
was one O them that has the gift, so that
eff you jist gave 'em the leastest sprig of
anything they make great bush out of
it right away, so that in six months Huldy
had roses, and geraniums, and lilies sich
as it would took a gardener to raise.
The parson, he took no notice at fIst, but
when the yard was all ablaze with flowers
he used to come and stand in kind o.
maze at the front door, and say, "beauti-
full, beautiful; why, Huldy, | never see
anything like it."
And then when her work was done ar
ternoons, Huldy would sit with her sew
ing in the porch, and sing and trill away
till she'd draw the meadow larks and the
bobolinks and the orioles to answer her,
and the great big elm tree overhead would
get perfectly rackety with the birds, and
the parson, settin' there in his study, would
git to kind O. dreamin' about angels, and
golden harps, and the new Jerusalem
but he wouldn't speak a word, cause Hull
dy, she was jest like them wood-thrushes,
she never could sing so well when she
thought folks was hearin'. Folks.noticed,
about this time. that the parsons sermons
got to be like Aaron's rod, that budded and
blossomed-there was things in 'em about
flowers and birds, and more special about
the music o. Heaven. And Hubby, she
noticed that eff there was hymn run in
her head while she was round workin',
the minister w"s sure to give it out next
Sunday. You see. Huldy was jest like
bee, she always sung when she was work
in, and you could hear her trillin', now
down in the corn patch while she was
pickin' the corn. and now in the buttery
while she was workin' the butter and now
she'd go singin' down cellar, and then
she'd be singin up over head, so that she
''Iuldy was so sort o. clipper and fair
spoken, that she got the hired men all un-
der her thumb-they come to her and took
her orders Jest as meek as SO many calves,
and she traded at the store, and KEEP the
accounts, and she he'd her eyes every
where, and tied up all the ends so tight.
that there want no gettin' round her. She
wouldn't let nobody put nothin' off on
Parson Carryl, cause he was a minister
Hubby was alters up to anybody that want
ed to make a hard bargain, and afore he
knew jest what he was about, she got the
best end Of it, and everybody said that
Hubby was the most capable gal that they
he'd ever traded with.
"Wal, come to the meetin' of the asso-
citation, Mis- Deacon Budget and Mis- Pip
peridge come callin' up to the parsons, all
in stew, and offerin' their services to get
the house ready but the Doctor, he jest
thanked 'em quite quiet, and turned 'em
over to Huldy, and Hubby, she told 'em
that she'd got everything ready, and
showed 'em her pantries and her cakes
and her pies and her puddin's, and took
'em all over the house, and they went
peakin' and pokin', openin' cupboard
doors and lookin' into drawers, and they
couldn't find so much as thread out o.
the way, from garret to cellar, and SO
they went off quite discontented. Arter
that the women set new trouble brew
in Then they begun to talk that it was
year now sence Mis- Carryl died and it
rally wasn't proper for sich young gal
to be stayin' there. who everybody could
see was settin' her cap for the minister.
"Mis Pipperidge said that SO long as
she looked on Hubby as the hired gal she
hadn't thought much about it, but Hubby
was really takin' on airs as an equal, and
appearin' as mistress o the house in way
that would make talk if it went on. And
Mis- Pipperidge, she drive round up to
deakin Abner Shows, and down to Mis-
Lijah Perry's, and asked them eff they
wasn't afraid that the way the parson and
Hubby was agoin' on might make talk and
they said they hadn't thought ont before,
but now, come to think ont, they was
sure it would, and they all went and talk
ed with somebody else, and asked them If