The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-05-29
AUNT JERUsHA ABROAD.
BY CONSTANCE CARLETON

w ak IN, Ecalfy Ann, ana take q cheer.
Lay your shawl and bunnet on the table,
and come higher to the fire Powerful
cold for the first of May, amt it? never
did see more deceivin' weather in my life,
and I've lived on this submonary spear
nigh about sixty-fve year:
There comes a purity day, and your
mind runs on garding-seeds and posies.
You imagine yourself eatin' green pease
and Strawberries. The next day knocks
all sich idys out of your head, and you
draw your cheer up clus to the fire and
grOwl about the weather. 1t bein as cold
as 'India's coral strands" with mebbv a
whiff of snow.
It's mighty tryin' on the narves, l tell
you. I've knowed old men, class-leaders
IN the church, to get out of fix about the
weather this year, that never did afore
And so you want to hear about my trip
to Cincinnati and Louisville? Well, I've
no objections to tellin' you now, though
l soas riled about the trip I took three
year ago, to New York You recollect I
told you all about it the first time 1 saw
you after l come home, and thought that
would be the end ont. What was my
astonishment to see the whole account
on t jist as I'd told it to you, in the Jack
son Standard
How Mr.. Mackley managed to hear
about it, l couldn't imagine I know
that editors beat all to find out whats s
goin' on, but how he, liYin' so many
miles away, could hear what I, under my
own vine and fg-tree, said to you, was a
complete puzzler to me.
One day last summer Joshua said he
had some business in jackson, and was
goin' there the next day.
Thinks me, ''now's my time" so I says
"I b'lieve I'll go with you"
He opened his eyes at this, and says,
"Why, mother, you're crazy; what dc
you want to go there for?'
Because" says 1, ''it's a place I've
long wanted to see, and besides, the ride
will be good for my health"
Health indeed" says he "Sich a long
ride on horseback good for your health p
"You can go in the wagon" says 1.
"Well won't that be worse? l never
heard that half days riding in an old
wagon was conductive to good health.
(Joshua's been keepin' school lately, and
it's his duty to use big words.) I saw
through has plan at once. There was a
girl visited Rushville from Jackson a few
weeks afore that, and Joshua was most
on his head about her. and it was her he
was goin to see. He thought he'd go hoss-
back and make big show, so it's no
wonder he objected to takin' me in the
wagon. l was bound to Co. howsever,
for in my mind there's more important
things in this world than courtship,
though p'r'aps young folks don't think
so. So says I, I'm agoin' there to
straighten up mystery that's been puz-
zlin' me for two year, and 1 reckon if you
don't want to take me I can find some
body that ,oiU," says I, with a great deal
of dignitude.
"Of course I'll take you, mother, if you
are determined to go, says Joshua, and
the next mornin' we sot out.
When we got there I asked for Mr.
Mackley, and as luck would have it, he
was jist then comm up the street, and
was p'inted out to me. Walkin up to
him 1 says,
"Mr. Mackley, b'lieve?'
He nodded his head.
~ reckon you don't recollect me,
though you've heard my name. Tm Je-
rusha Spriggins," and I dropped him
a curchy.
"Ah, Mrs. Spriggins," says he, shakin'
hands, II remember your name quite
we'll 1t was an account of one of your
visits that published in my paper two
years ago, was it not p
Eyes" says l "and it's about that very
visit that l want to speak to you. Can
you spare me few minutes of your
time ?"
Certainly" says he, come up stairs to
my office"
After givin him an interduce to
Joshua, we follered him up stairs
Never havin' been in printin' office
afore, couldn't help lookin around me
Mr. Mackley was amazin perlite, and
explained everything to me. They had
some of the type sot up, and l couldn't
make head nor tail ont, though put or
my specs and looked good.
don't know whether they turn they
letters wrong side up, or wrong side out
but they do somethin' to 'em so't nobody
can understand 'em but themselves.
| After we'd made the tower of the Office