The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1873-02-27

nave tue washing c5 the teaspoons
/ and without delay hrs. Hiukle sent s
[ juvenile Trip 10 remove those and
other personal Tsluabies, choosing the
/ dinner hour for the errGnd, that the
SCENE elect might be greater. When
I AIr. Elnzzle was forced to stir his tea
{ with a fork, perhaps he would be
I IN more haste TO cOnciiiate his wife
The plan was well laid. but il failed in
/ the execution though the tardiness OF
I little Joe, who, having = woOdchucS
7 to attend 10 on the way. did not reach
his Uncle's till the remains Of the
dinner lay cold on the pantry shelf,
and Alr. Hinkle was half a mile away
at MS afternoon plOTing.
Miss Phebe sent the spoons Obedi-
entity, inwaTdIy resolved that RauOeh
should not know Of this proof OF
"Laviny's ugliness,' p for she was well
aware that only her own repeated as
/ surances that LaviRy would soften to-
ward him if left TO herself had kept
him passive thus far.
7 ''Seems's il wasn't doing the hand
some thing not to go nigh her." he
often said. Il wonder whether or no
she amt counting on ny fetcning
| herT
"If she comes of her free will she'll
/ be likely to stay" Miss Phebe
would answer shut try to drive her,
and you know what Laviny is.D
{ Mr.. Hinkle did know, unfortunate
ly, and, knowing, schooIed himself TO
patient waiting.
Thus the days wore on, and he plOd-
ded through the spring work, eheered
a little in spite of himself by Miss
Z Phebe's earnest efforts at making him
comfortable, while Laviny, mortified
and then alarmed by his nOn-appear-
ance, worried herself into course of
exasperating sick headaches, and in
every sense shut out the sunlight from
the house OF the Trips. In the midst
of paint-scrubbing Mrs. Tripp found
no leisure to devote to her complain
ing sister, but left one of her children
abused. When had Reuben been too
busy to bathe her aching temples
Little Joe made her nervous as a
witch, and one day she told him so,
and moment after had the satisfac-
ton of hearing him say to his moth
er in the kitcnen that he, couldn't get
along with aunt Laviny nOhOw."
Why, that was just what Reuben
had said-Reuben, who had never
spoken hastily to her in his life Was
she an uncomfortable person TO live
with ?
''Tain't in the power ofmortal man
to get along with you, Lav:ny" The
words came back to her with the
startling force of q prOOf-teXt, and
haunted her afterWard continually.
1t must have been in rhubarb time,
for dandeliOn greens had gore by,
when one morning little Joe rushed I
in with the terrible tidlngs that |
"Uncle Reuben had fallen ker chunk
from n beam in the barn"
Mrs. Hinkle tore the bandages from /
her head and started up.
"Where's my bonnet, Susan I'm /
going home"
"MayDe he isn't BADLY injured Wait 1
till We hear further" urged Mrs. I
Tripp.
81 tell you Pm going home, Susan
Tripp! Where's my bonnet - and 1
it by the string, Mrs. Hink-
le sprang into the wagon just vacated
by her nephew, and drove away at q
DOCTORS pace.
Little Joe turned a series OF somer-
saults and then lay wTithiGg on the
grass in a fit of giggling.
Didn't Aunt Laviny streak it -
shouted he. "And Uncle Reuben
wasn't hurt q mite-but she wouldn't
let me tell her Tee-hee-hee ~
Yet, though no bones were broken
by the fall, it is a fact that Mr.. Hinkle
found his two hundred avoirdupois
considerably shaken, and he was
actually, according to his wife's pre-
liction, camping down on the lunge
in his boots" when opening his eyes,
they rested on her frightened face in
ne doorway.
"Why, bless your heart come right
ia Laviny," said he. And she went
in, and shut the door.
Five minutes afterwards, as Miss
Phebe lifted the latch, she, heard her
say,
81 know I've hectOred you awfully, /
Reuben, but 1 DO mean to live peace
able nov, and put up with your
'olks."
- oa'i61n answered, hUFTiedly /
Il haven't blamed yOJI q 'DIu, l.. /. i.s.-.
knOwed twas Miss Niddlin's work. /
But after we'd lived together so long,
'he might have let US be till God di-
rOrced US"