The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-04-23
81 Always Speak my Mind.


there's Elmina Forbes-proud, stuck.
up thing you ought to have heard
me talk to her the other day She
was at church Sunday, all rugged mp
to kill, and Monday she was here to
see my Marion. She and Marion
are great friends, and she is good
girl too, but so vain! I thought I'd
take her down peg. So says I to
Nina. I suppose you thought
you cut swell yesterday with your
new rig? She blushed like poppy
and says I-.You needn't blush so
Ed. Parkman never looked at you
once. He was too much taken up
with Marilla Woolcott to see any
body else You see she is dead in
love with Ed. Parkman, and I knew
it would make her jealous. Nina,
said /, you are q very common
looking girl, and poor mans
daughter, and you needn't expect to
hold a candle to such girl as Ma
rilla Woolcott! Your pink muslin
dress was very pretty, but it could
not compare with her rich, pink silk.
And your bonnet, too-he sure it
was good enough for the rest of your
clothes-but then, hers was made in
the city, and cost six times as much
as yoursr She began to cry, but /
couldn't help it if she did. 1 saw
she was holding her head too high.
and setting her cap for a fellow
above her, and / was bound to tell
her so. I always speak my mind"
''But you know, Mrs. Hardwicl." ;"
said Mrs. Pulsipher, as soon as she
could get in a word, "that the old
adage says, the truth should not be
spoken at all times
''I don't care fig for old adages.
I'm not going to plaster things over
to suit anybody. If folks ask my
opinion of matters and things, they
will be pretty sure to get it. 1 was
out to Mrs. Wheeler's the other day
and-you know she has deformed
child-got big head; and she said
to me,-'Don't you think, Mrs.
Hardwick. that Willie will outgrow
it? l knew she wanted me to say I
thought he would; but wasn't 60
ing to say any such thing. | didn't
believe he was ever going to be any
better, and / told her so. / told her
1 didn't think he would live long,
and, if he did, he would be an idiot.
She felt awfully. Of course; BUT L
thought she might as well know the
truth at once. 1 never mjnce mat
ters. I always speak my mind"
"Well,' said Mrs. Pulsipher, ''how
would you like to have folks speak
their mind to you. Mrs Hardwicl1 ?"
4 sheuId be glad to have them do
it,
well, 1 can tell you what Miss
Gopher thinks Of you. You remem-
Der she kept school in this district
one Summer p
Yes, I remember her very well.
She had red hair. and an awful tenn
per. She used to whip my Leander
shameful"
'She did? Well. she said he was
the worst boy in school,-an impu-
dent and saucy little scamp, she
said. and twas no wonder he was.
for his mother was great. coarse,
scolding. brawling woman, always
Dragging about speaking her mind.
And she said if you ever gave her a
piece of your mind, that you'd get
piece of hers, and large piece. too.
She said she'd see how you liked to
have other folks speak their mind
too!''
'.She did? The hussy I'd like to
have her here now. I'd tell her how
her father was a thief and liar. and
her mother a lazy, dirty, novel-read-
ing thing What did you say to her,
Mrs. Pulsipher, when she went on
SO about me? 2
Il said / hoped she would see
you. and give you a regular blowing
up. for if ever a woman deserved it,
you did
Mrs Pulsipherl Imust say you
are a very plain spoken woman. And
mast say. too, that if you are
going to talk like that to my face,
I'd like to know what you'd say be-
hind my back" Western Rural.
The simple bill of fare Maine
man set before his family of seven