Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-11-27

or not. Oh, deari ! have not had such a
lark since we were all at the Winthrop TO-
gether.n sl iD III
The Winthrop, dear Matilda, was not hotel,
but school, where these three girls had
studied arithmetic, side by side, under Mise
Barry's eye, when they were all fourteen years
old
And genuine lark they had of f. Neatly
and deftly these two girls prepared and baked
the turkey, boiled the squash, baked the pota-
toes, thickened the gravy, swettencu the tran-
berries TO Hepsy's taste, and, In short, made
all things ready for the dinner. They asked
her for her orders sometimes but when she
herself undertook to do anything one or other
of them pushed her back into the easy chair.
Ruth gave her q smelling-bOttle, which she
raked out from a deep pocket, and folded
newspaper into great fan, and made her hold
the fan In one hand and salts In the other.
Hepsy entered into the joke as much as they
did and took airs admirably we'll
BY the time Mrs. Brown had come home tho
dinner was cooked, the table was neatly set,
and everything was ready HAs
"Hepsy," said the old lady, "coihe here"
And she whispered TO her daughter
Hepsy laughed, and said opeuly to the girls
that her mother was so much pleased with the
fcstivity that she wanted to bring out her sill
yer spoons. And, sure enough, the six tea
spoons and the six tablespoons were produced
from the old lady's trunk-the one wreck
from old prosperity.
81 do not choose to use them every day.
said Hepsy, laughing; I'VE have such queer
people round us. But to-day nanny feels
| grand.n -
And then the two girls went away, only
| feeling little dashed, as pretty Ruth FaNon
confessed to me, that they left the two all
| alone.
The minute they were gone, before dinner
began, Hepsy dashed into the back entry and
| seized turkey No. 6, which Fanny had left all
| 4a1 1,~ L.,
pan, and slid it into the stove. I" I'm not go.
ing to waste this good fire." said she. "And
| | like a cold turkey about as welllas | do q
warm one. This will do for Sundays dinner
The old lady said that, of the two, she was
not sure but sometimes she liked cold tur'
key better than a warm one. just now she
was glad they had hot one. The opinion,
you see, was rather difficult one to form
and to express. But Mrs. Brown had long
experience in contentcdness. Turkey No.
G being well slid into the oven, dinner began
But scarcely had Hepzibah begun her cary.
Ing when steps were heard on the stairs, which
indicated party
az guess Miss Meldrum has company
said she.
No. 1t was not Miss Meldrum.
Knock mt the door--double knock
"Well, Inever!" said the old lady. "'Noth
er turkey, Hcpsyy" - ...
For Mrs. Brown was up to joking mari
now. HCpsy opened the door.
"Well, now" How do you dop "An6
how W, do y22s do,g ".,WeIli What luck ,
but who is itY' Swem, now!r "Weil
nowm Scatter these calculations as yot
please and you get the interview. They wer'
cousins Of lIepzibahs, whom She had not seel
for fifteen years. They were on their wa!
} from New York to Cape Elizabeth, to dine n
/ lIepsy's uncle, Boat was delayed, and the!
had missed their train. Thought they would
! hunt up Hepsy and take their Thanksgiyin.
dinner with her, and so go on In the nigh
; boat to Portland.
Not unprospcrOus cousins, you see. Cous
ins who had no idea that Hepsy and he
mother were uncomfortably near the wall
Cousins for whom Hepsy had certain re
spcct, end she would have hated to have then
G know her scrapings and worries.
4 "And here they come in, Mr.. Hale, as mic
< and neat as pins and tho lsayit, who shoul
5 not Mr.. Hale, we was just MS nice as the
b was. Mother, she did look real nice, Nj
= Hale; real handsome she looked, with he
: cap on. And the table was so prctty-wit
i Miss Grangers flowers, and the silver, and al
: | did not care who they were; my dinner wa
o as good as theirs any day. So they washe
!. themselves and fixed their hair, and satdowr
:. all three Of them, they did And we had
nice time, | tell YOU
V Hcpsy did not tell me one little incident
/ the dinner; but Mrs. Meldrum did.
|
= drinking their tea and looling with their nut
IS and raisins, little Katy Meldrum came in.
:, "Please, Miss llepsy, mother says will yo
lend her little tca!"
Hearts grace, Katy. OF course | vii
Why, Katy, you look cold"
y Katy whispered that they had nothing bI
Il little kindling.
e "No coal? Poor child! Cousin Hanna
excuse me-
And Hepsy went into the entry and carrie
e up hod Of coal to the stricken widow NJ
d stairs.
"Do you Think she said, as she can
c, down, "they was all sitting round freezn
+ and Miss Meldrum just lighting some latl
ID the boys had brought in from the new schoo
house? Aud they've nothing for their dim
~ but some bread and cheese that look as If
ii was cut last Sunday. Here, Tom, you com
es Come in, Katy
id And she opened her oven-door, and wi
d, the tongs pulled out No. q, and placed Il
ly pan on a stout paper in her clothes-baske
Tom, you take one end. Katy, you tal
le one. Tell your mother I've been cOokiI
Il, her dinner for her only was a little /
lated by company. Katy, come down agdi
Here's plenty of squash pie and two
er three pertatcrs left To think" said Heps
Of as she sat down, little lustered-" to thin
IN of plenty and hunger being so close to ea
rz other. | thought Mr.. Fosdick had taken 4
Meldrums some dinner
And then the feast went on with the thr
d., cousins as if this were all an everyday {
he currence. They went to their graves with
sy idea that Hcpsy was living on the fat Of t
land. And, If any one thing delighted Hep
a. more than another in that days thanks giyir
I'd it was that her cousins thought so.
to Among them they brought Miss Mari
turkey near his end; but Hepsy told me IL
e. he made very good dinner on Friday.
rs It may add to the interest with which Il
he little story is read for to say that it is 81
sy stantialy true in all its details
he The II,dependent asked me, near year az
ed to furnish a story Of true life from my min
We tcrial experience. On such stories there
DIS apt to be n seal Of confidence But | do I
he see that any of the parties whom, under tiC
to tious names, have mentioned here, has r.
d. son to be ashamed of his part in the day,
&C. ways excepting Mike Flanagan,
Id. have lost the run of him; but trust Il
ne he has taken Father Mathews medal and
lg reformed.-Edwdrd h. Hdie, in " Y In
an pendent.
re, Naming Children.
ss 1T is a fearful responsibility to
ld delegated to name a child which is I
ns your own. So far as my children {
tb concerned am never bothered; / j.
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