Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-04-03
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petooally, and wich kin no more be
stopped than kin fermentashen in cider.
The Corners will hev TO rise in its mite,
and kin them two impious wretchea in
selEdefense.
The fact that Mrs. Bascom, G.. WIS
wife, hez bin gittin large assortment Of
new cloze in louisville, and that she's the
only woman in the Corners who hez
second dress--and IL wood be almost safe
to say the ftlst one--hez bin taken adj
vantage Nv by these feends 10 perdoose an
insurreckshen In our otherwise quiet
households.
Issaker Gavitt's wife, Lucindy, and
Deekin Pogrsm's wife, and his dawter,
Mirandy, happened to be in Pollock's
store buyin some pork TO bile, when, ez
ill-luck wood hev II, Mrs. Bascom passed
down the street. She he'd on fur sack
and a moo bonnet, and he'd gloves on, and
a muff, and gold chain, al d she held
her head well up, and he'd ostridge
feather. She wuz gorgeous site for the
Corners
"See Mrs. Bascom, Mirandy," sed Joe
Bigler, calm the attenshun Nv the wimen
TO her, ez she went sailin down the street.
They all looked at her, and rage filled
their chaste buzzums. -..l
l never he'd a buzzum pin," sed MI
randy, Indignantly.
why, amt got no shoes-to say
nuthin Nv fur overshoes," shreeked Lu-
cindy Gavitt.
"Why don't Issaker git 700 shoes?"
asked that villanous disturber, Pollock.
HE never hez no money" answered
Lucindy.
"Wat did he do with the money paid
him for his corn, two weeks ago~ wuz
the innocent question Nv Pollock.
1t wuz spark NV fire in magazine.
"Hez he sold his corn?" she asked, her
voice quiverin with emoshen.
He did sell it to me two weeks ago."
sed Pollock.
1.-THE ornery cussl Why, he promised
me pare Nv shoes and the baby some
cloze when he sold that corn"
But, my deer Mrs. Gavitt," sed this
hypercritikle sneak, "you know"
Jest then Mrs. Bascom was returnin-
"But you know" he continyood, "he
he'd to pay Bascom, becoz-by the way,
ther goes Mrs. Bascom agin, and amt she
stunnerf-becoz CIV. he'd to go to Loois-
vile to git his wife's winter outfit, and he
he'd to hev what Issaker owed him."
"And the munney for the corn, wich
planted, and hoed, and cut, and shucked,
he'd to 90 to put cloze on Liz Bascom, did
it? Liz Bascom heZ cloZe, hez she2"
And this enraged woman howled with
emoshun, as did Mirandy Pogram and
her mother.
And Pollock kept addin fooel to the
flame he he'd kindled.
Here" sed he to Lucindy, " is love-
ly piece Nv velvet wich wood make VOC
an elegant sack, and, Lord bless 700, how
this French flannel wood make up into a
dress and cloak for yoor baby. 1t does
seem to me as though Issaker and the
Deekin mite let 700 wimmin hev enuf
money to git yoo sum things. 1t seems
pity that Mrs. Bascom shOod hev every
thingl"
If there is anything which'll make
lion out ov a woman its the desire for dry
goods. Pollock knowd this and he played
It onto EN-. He showd EN- dry goods till
they became raving maniacs.
These three misguided wimmen left
that store croosaders-they wuz so many
Jone ov Arks. Thro the mud they went to
Mrs. McPelter's, to Mrs. Elder Penni-
hackers and TO the wife of every regler
resident Nv the Corners, and they deter
mined to make move onto Bascom, and
stop his biznis anyway, so that the money
spent st his bar could be yoosed in gittin
cloze for them and their children. They
appinted ToOsday last ez the day on
wich they wuz to make the raid. They
percession, with banners onto
wich they wuz to write: LESS rum
more cloZe," and they wuZ to visit Bas-
com and set down in his grocery and
compel their husbands not to drink no
more, and Bascom not to sell em anything
any more.
There wuz wild forebodins of woe in
Bascom's. G.. W. hisself, and Issaker
Gavitt and Deekin Pogram and myself all
SGT with pale faces, dreading this inva-
sion. l am a man Nv resource. / ad-
wise d that barl be rolled out into his
barn and a bar be extemporized there,
where we could get our nips till this cy-
clone shood pass over. This G.. w. con-
sented to do, and thus fortified we sot down
and awaited the attack.
Wat military conkerer wuz it that wuz
saved from annihilsshen by the weather
gettin so warm and the yeeldin ground so
soft that the enemy coodent move their
artillery? 1t wuz a similar interposishen
that saved US. Toosday mornin broke ez
warm end ez pleasant ez May-day. The
sum- come out smilin, and it wuz warm
enuffto go barefoot, and the Corners wuz
happyA The perceshen wuz to march at
elevenA
"Weiare lost" said Bascom, gloomily.
"Oh, that shood live to see this day %
sighed Deekin Pogram.
"Let US comport ourselves like men,"
sed 1. This is Cyclone. 1t will only
last few days. Cannot we submit to dep
rivation forfhat timeY'
Ten o'clock arrived. The wind set in
from the moth. Isaaker rushed out and
looked at the sky, and came back with
hope on his couptenance. 200
Eff this wind holds we are saved Hal
it grows colderl There's fakes Nv snow
in the air! The pefeeshen can't move.
The Derceshen amt goo no shoes"
1t did git colder TIE wind came raw
and in icy blasts. Weconsulted the only
we hev iR.the Corners, wich
is little niger boy on "a wet plank,
barefoot. We detelMine the degree NV
cold by assertainin how long he kin stand
out doors in that wT' tits primitive but
akkerit.
Half past tent II wuz BLOWN a gale,
and wuz ez cold ez< bloc blazesl 1t wuz
impossible for any woman, without shoes
or underclOthes, to stand it in the open
air.
Deekin Pogram came in, his frosty
nose CLOWN with ioy, and he fell ON
Bascom's neck, Sackilatin, "Saved J
Savedl" ..-. ..
Hoorayl" sh1hted Issaker Gavitt,
" without shoes and shawls not cussed
one Nv EN- kin gitout NV doors to-day"
Bascom wept teers Nv joy as he asked
us to take suthin.
"Yoo see, sed Deekin Pogram, show
Providenee keers for US. Ef we he'd
wasted our mummy en- cloze and sich, the
wimmn wood he'd US. Mummy put in
wimmin's cloze is wuss than wasted. Ef
they he'd cloze they'd bin here this mint
a tormentin NV u.s."
We wuz saved this time--will we be the
nextp We await fair day with dread.
Pollock and Bigler will hev them wim-
min out whether OF no, just as soon ez IL
gifts warm enuff. r'
PETROLEUM " NAsBY,
(Which wuE PostmAster)
IT is one of the sweetest and most con-
soling reteetions of the opening season
of hu0a and Afi0Wers when The brooks