Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1872-02-08

| crumbs were all Strewed about. = Is that
a little bird." she exclaimed, eagerly.
Where is he's Is he in this room.'
The new friend smiled, and told her that
was the music box, and after awhile she
opened it and explained what made the
sounds. Then she took out pile oil
books from one of the baskets of goods,
and told Peggy she might look at the PIC
lures till she called her.
The little girl stepped forward eagerly
to take them, and then drew back, as If
afraid. "What is the matters. asked
Mrs. Fairweather; II am very willing to
trust YOU with the books. | keep them
on purpose TO amuse children" Peggy
looked down with her finger on her lips,
and answered, in constrained voice,
AUNT Turnpenny won't like il if play"
Don't trouble yourself about that; ! will
make it all right with Aunt Hetty," re-
piled the friendly one. Thus assured, she
gave herself up to the full enjoyment of
the pcture-books; and when she was
summoned TO her work, she obeyed with
a cheerful alacrity, that would have aston
ished her stern relative. When the labors
of the day were concluded, Mrs. Fair
weather accompanied her home, paid all
| the hours she had been absent, and warm
| w praised her docility and diligence.
! at is lucky for her that she behaved so
we'll" replied Aunt Hetty; 'if had heard
any complaint should have given her
whipping, and sent her to bed without
her supper.
Poor little Peggy went to sleep that
night with lighter heart than she had
| ever felt since she had been an orphan
Her first thought in the morning was
| whether the new neighbor would want
her service during the day. Her desire
that il should be so soon became obvious
to Aunt Hetty, and excited an underlined
| jealousy and dislike of person who SO
easily made herself beloved. Without ex-
actIy acknowledging to herself what were
her own motives, she ordered Peggy to
gather all the sweepings Of the kitchen
and court into small pile, and leave it
on the frontier of her neighbours premi-
SEES. Peggy ventured to ask timidly
whether the wind would not blow it
about. and she received box on the ear
for her impertinence.
1t Glanced that Mrs. Fairweather quite
Internationally heard the words and the
blow She gave Aunt Hetty's anger time
enough to cool, then stepping out into the
court, and after arranging divers little
matters, she called aloud to her domestic,
DHily, HOW tdIit you W lcdsC thio piiC
of dirt hereg Didn't / tell you Miss
Turnpenny was very neat Pray, make
haste and sweep it up. ] wouldn't have
her see it on any account. told her l
would try to keep every thing nice about
the premises She is so particular her
self, and it is comfort to have tidy
ncighsors.
The girl, who had been previously in
oil InI Ohn NJ x,yit
brush and dustpan, and swept quietly
away the. pile that was intended as
declaration ofsfrontier war
But another source OF annoyance pre-
scented itself, which could not be so easily
disposed of. Aunt Hetty had cat, a
lean, scraggv animal, that looked as if
she were often licked and seldom fed
Mrs Fairweather also had fat, frisky
little dog, always ready for caper. He
took distastc to poor, poverty-stricken
Tab the first time he saw her, and no
coaxing could induce him to alter his
opinion His name was Pink, but he was
anything but pink of behavior to his
neighbOrly relations. Poor Tab could
never Sc: foot out of the door without
being salutcd with "A grOwl and Il sharp
bark that frightened her out of her senses,
and made her run m the house, with her
fur all on end. If she even ventured to
doZe little on her own doorstep, the
enemy was on the watch, and the moment
her eyes closed he would wake her with
bark and box on the ear, and on he
| would run
Aunt Hetty vowed she would scald him.
II was burning shame, she said, for folks
to keep dogs to worry their neighbors'
cats. Mrs. Fairweather invited Tabby to
dine, and made much of her, and patiently
endeavored to teach her dog to eat from
the same plate. But Pink steadily re-
solved that he would be scalded first that
he would He could not have been more
| firm in his opposition If he and Tab had
belonged to different sects i'm Christianity.
| While his mistress was patttng Tab on the
head, and reasoning the point with him,
| he would at times manifest degree of in
difference, amounting to liberation; but
the moment he was left to his own free
will he would give the invited guest a
hearty cuff with his paw, and send her
home splitting like small steam engine.
Aunt Hetty considered 1t her own peculiar
privilege ~ cuff the poor animal, and it
was too much for her patience to sec Pink
undertake to assist in making Tab unhap-
py On one of these occasions she rushed
into her neighbours apartments, and faced
Mrs. Fairweather. with one hand resting
on her hip, and the forefnger Of the other
making very. wrathful gesticulations.
II tell you what, madam, won't put
up with such treatment much longer"
said she; "Ill poison that dog; youth see
If don't; and shan't wait long, either,
i tell you. What do you keep such an
| impudcnt little beast for, / don't know,
without you do it on purpose to plague
your neighbOrs."
81 am really sorry he behaves So" re-
piled Mrs. Fairweather, mildly. poor
| Tabw
"Poor Tabi' screamed Miss Turn
penny. "What do you mean by calling
her poor DO you mean to fling it up
to me that my cat don't have enough to
cat ?"
81 did not think of such a thing" re-
piled Mrs. Fairweather. 81 called her
poor Tab because Pink plaques her SO
that she has no peace for her life. agree
with you, neighbor Turnpenny; it is not
right to keep q dog that disturbs the
neighbOrhOOd / am attached to poor
Pink because he belongs to my son, who
has gone to sea. was in hopes he would
leave off quarrcling with the cat but if