Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-04-03

Your brother warn't with him, OF
tew hum nuther, t'other Sunday,
the day afore yes'day that
he spent here, an didn't he walk tew
church with you, a-carryin' your Sabbath
School books, an didn't he fin the
hymns: I'd jes like to ak if these things
| don't mean sOmethin'"
Yes. Miss Perkins, they mean just
this" Carrie answered for me; 81 was
unable to attend church, being confined to
the house with severe headache.
Would you have had father and mother
| drive Fanny before them, while Mr.. New.
berry followed on behind?'
''Waa'l, meow, faint you he's arter, is
| it? / heerd that Frances writ to him."
What could say now? It was fact.
Ned requested that we write, asking Mr..
Newberry to spend the Sabbath with US.
Father was away from home, and the task
devolved upon me. Being busy, l wrote
hastily, and calling in neighbor's boy,
dispatched him to the post Office with the
letter, rewarding him with an orange.
said to myself. "How I wish it had been
lemon or a lime. If ever he's sick /
hope they will call me in; | will make
him drink hot pepper tea."
replied quite meekly, "Why Miss
L
! obliged to write to write to him on bust
ness once; father was away from home,
| and as is frequently the case, am dele
gated to write business letters. Inever
have received line from him.
"Law sakes! Waa1, folks dew talk
about most nothin'; l tell 'em its one
great proof o. total depravity, the way
women now -a-days dew gossip and SLAM
der. | warn't brought up SO, | kin tell
you. went in to see the minister yes
day, and told him purity plain that l
wished he'd preach one sarmin on Re-
| deemin' the time That young folks was
spendin' SO much o. their life in folly.
The parson said that he he'd partially pre-
pared discourse On that very text for
mex Sunday. I told him that l was
mighty thankful ont, and then I men,
toned two or three p'ints thought he'd
orter tech on. He thanked me dreadful
civil. I axed him once afore to preach
agin' idolatry, an he said he would; but
some way or ruther, his sarmin WASH jes'
what meant it should be. You see, l
he'd Miss Sarey Bates upon my mind she's
SO mighty gram o what she calls her lit
cry 'tainments. s'pose by that, as near
as l kin find about, she means them
aeoutlandish furrin talk she's SO glib
at. Then tew, l thought O. Squire
Buffers wife, who jes' idolizes her chill
dren, and makes little monkeys on 'em,
with their bows and manners But
though told Parson White abeout it, he
didn' hit 'em at all, as l see, though he
did take the second commandment fur
his text. Waa1 meow, in a week or tew
I'm agoing to ask him to gin it to 'em
good on slander and gossip and sich like.
There's that tex abeout 'Busybody's.' l
guess that'll be purity good one. But
law! there's Liddy Thayer a-going by,
and l want to see her. I've heerd that
they talk O sending off her sister to
boardin' school, an want tew find eout
if she's rally goin'. If they do mean to
send her, I'm jes' a-goin' to tell 'em my
mind abeout it, for the gals SO stuck up
meow, there's no talkin' to her, and she'll
be higher'n kite if she does 60"
And the old lady sheathed her knitting
needles, and donning shawl and hood, de-
parted, screaming out, "Liddy, Liddy, l
want tew see you a minnit. - Woods
Household Magazine.