The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-08-20

dUouJ nls nOV keepln geese. BuJ IL men
and wimmin think they are marryin' an
giles they'll find they'll have to settle down,
and keep house with human kritters. 1
never see year yet that didn't have more
or less winter in it, but what does 1t say
for better, for worse, and if it turns out
more worse than better why that don't
part us, for what else does it say--'Til
death does us part, and what is your little
slip of paper that you call bill to that is
that DEATH" sez l.
He sot quailin' silently, and proceed
ed on.
81 wouldn't give a cent for your bills,
had jest as leves walk up and marry any
married man, as to marry a man with abill.
| had jest as leves," sez warmin' with my
subject "I had jest as leves join Nor
men at once. How should l feel to know
there was another women loose in the world
liable to walk in here any minute and look
at Josiah, and to know that all that sepa-
rated EN- was little slip of paper about an
inch wide P'
My voice was loud and excited, for l felt
deeply what said, and sez he in soothin'
tones,
81 persume that you and your husband
are congenial spirits, but what do you
think of soarin' soles, that find out when it
was too late, that they are welded to mere
Jumps of clay?'
I hadn't yet fully recovered from my ex-
cited state of mind, and 1 replied warmly,
81 never see man yet, that wasn't more
or less clay, and to tell you the truth 1
think jest as much of these clay men, as l
do of these soarers, never had any opin-
ion of soarers at all?
He sunk back in his chair and sighed, for
l had touched him in n tender place-but
still clingin' to his free love doctorine, he
murmured family,
Some women are knocked down by
some men, and dragged out"
His meek tones touched my feelins, and
l continued in more reasonable accents.
"Mebby if was married to man that
knocked me down, and dragged me out
frequently, / would leave him a spell, but
not one cent would / ever invest in another
man, not a cent. l would live alone till he
came to his senses if he ever did, and if he
didn't, why when the great roll is called
over above, would answer to his name
took when / loved him, and married him,
hopin' his old come back again there, and
we would have all eternity to keep house
in"
He looked so depressted, as he sat lean in
back in his chair, that / thought like as not
| had convinced him and he was sick of his
business, and asked him in helpful way,
"Haint there no other busines you can
get into, besides preaching up free love
Hain't there no better busines? Haint
there no cornfields where you could hire out
for scarecrow, haint there no sheep you
could steal, can't you get to be United
States Senator? Haint there no other mean
job not quite so mean as this you could get
into ?"
He didn't seem to take it friendly in me,
you know friendly advice makes some
folks mad. He spoke out kinder surly and
sez he,
81 haint done no hurt, l only want
everybody to find their affinity"
That riled up the old Smith blood in me,
and sez with spirit,
"Say that word to me again, if you
dare.' Says l, "of all the mean words a
married woman ever listened to that is the
meanest." Sez i, "if you affinity here
in my house, again, young man, will hol-
Ter to Josiah"
He see was in earnest, and deeply in
dignant, and he ketched up his hat and
cane, and started of, and glad enough was
| to see him go.