The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-06-11

Belle, who hasn't been at church for weeks;
a jacket for Tom, who is out now at the
elbowr
What comfort, what hearts ease . was
laid up in that blank subscription list Oh,
if the days were each a year long, and all
the farmers geese laid golden eggs What
pity it was SO many close-handed people
lived in North Grafton There was Mrs.
Adams and Captain jackson, they are both
well to do, but to what wretched extreme
they carry economy ! But now that she
was passing she might as well go in.
"Good morning Captain jackson. I'm
raising subscription for poor dear Mr..
Hasent, and l want your name.'' ,.H. ...
You want my money, you mean?" o,
Certainly yours, and that of good
many other people. How pleasant it is to
have something to give away "
81 should think very likely but haint
got a cent ahead never was so poorly off
in my life."
"Dear me, what a pity - sighed Miss
Poore. "Now we all thought you were
o'OihUhbOu' AioW lLO hClSllDOlo
will be. Did you loose in that fire?"
Loss I hain't lost nothing. What
put that bee in your bonnet2 l hain't
got a cent, tho togive any prating parson-
not IT,
every we'll. Then must go and try
Mrs. Adams. The world has used her well
perhaps she is grateful enough to give
mite"
ga precious little mite you will get there.
Why, my dear woman, she's closer than a
glove to the hand. She wouldn't give
cent to save her soul, provided she has one.
Come, I'll venture to give double what she
gives; it won't stave a hole through my bull
warks, Tll be bound" f'h'
F"Good morning then perhaps you'll see
me again. 'e1 i1H tHi -If' 80 t
And Miss Poore was off to Mrs. Adams.
She found the lady just turning plum
cake out the oven." % 1l.sr i ~ fit'
lI"Done to charm, u said the satisfied
housekeeper. "You know took pre-
MUM on bread last fall. pm 2a y .rn' 'nf
"Pm sure you ought to have one on
cake, If it's as good as it looks. wonder
If Mrs. Hasent tastes such q thing even
once year?" lr't us 81 rle g5. Ea ao9
o."Not oftener, guess" laughed Mrs.
Adams. 'tShe's too slack to beat up the
eggs-catch her, IHi gtaf ~ aiidwu
This didn't look promising, surely. Ios
v She is not well, you know; she's an in
valid. She has been denied the greatest
blessing God can bestow, of which you and
/ seem to have store. Isn't it pity she
should be denied of so much beside ?'1h
"Oh, but there must be screw loose
somewhere; either they are wasteful Or
something ,J.ralGq ~ sg9io9
Bless you, they haven't anything to
waste; they don't know the meaning of the
word. Why, Mrs. Hasent' has worn that
chocolate calico for three years running r.
Well you know, invalids don't wear
out clothes as fast as active bodies Likely
and me, Miss Poore. Now, its my opinion
between us two, that Mrs. Hasent might
sit up and do her house work as well as her
neighbors if she chose, Lor, think Of the
parsQn bothering about and cooking break
fast I'D like to see the morsel of bread /
would eat Of his making - s,;r.r.a,,tl
81 guess if you were starving, you
wouldn't ask who made it, tell you it's
a suffering household" 4.... t.. IL,
81 suppose that all this talk means that
you are begging for them. Lor sakes, it's
as much as widow can do to make both
ends meet. What with ten tons of hay and
new barn swept off by fire, and likely
young calf drowned in the freshet, You see
Lor' this is the world, and the others the
country"
"That's true; and we shant any of US
reach that country il we are not openhearted
toward one another. But Captain Jackson
he warned me that wouldn't get the wild
owls mite here. He was 80 morally certain
: that he offered to double whatever you gave
} thinking, no doubt it wouldn't hurt him Il
, double nothing-quite in his line, to b'
! sure" e t,sit,o ,a.i.,5 ss.i,s., y
{ s"Ha, ha /! did he Well, that's goo'
one | never expected the captain woul'
a be 30 generous. I'd like to twist few cop
!. pers out. Of the rusty old skinfiint. II
make him lose flesh. Now 1 think of II
: I've got ten dollar bill that was going b
: send away, but suppose the Hasents ma,
Q as we'll have it; and then, too, Captain Jack
son will have to fork over twenty l''iealsi
! ~ Thirty dollars is very fair beginning,
r thought Miss Poore. IL didn't seem exact
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