Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-06-03

81 tell you Isaac, l won't use that
pump water. nor any that has lain in the
pipe, over night" returned Susan, with a
very decided declination Of the chin, 81
know tisn't healthy. and won't use it.
Didn't DR.. Jones say twas what allied
Jermina Perkins, when she had those
dreadful spasms? She used lead pipe
water for years and the doctor in Low.
el! told Jim Hoyt if he didn't stop drink
ing it he'd never see another we'll doy.
An then there was Sally Schryon, her
joints all swelled up so she couldn't hardly
use her hands, and DR.. Hughes told her
twas nothing under the sun but drinking
water that had LAIN in a lead pipe"
"The doctors don't know nothing bout
it," said Isaac. "Jcrmina Perkins had a
cancer, aud if DR.. Jones had let it alone
she might 'abecn living row, for anything
l know. It's nothing but an old woman's
whim
"Well, won, use it, any way. |
don't want my joints all swelling up SO |
cant do my work.
BY this time various infoads had been
made into the eatables on the farmers ia.
BILE. Isaac, thus far, had kept his TEN.
per. Susan, however, was inclined to
continue the controversy, when Isaac in.
tcrrupted her by the inquiry
"Going to let me lave piece of that
pie on the stove.hearth ?"
Susan was always glad to see Isaac cal
heartily, SO she gave him large piece Of
the pie.
Had steam propeller been fastened tc
his jaws he could scarcely have swallowed
it with greater velocity, after which, he
rose and prepared to leave the house
without stopping to answer his witc's
pleadings, "Now you will clear the pump
tomorrow morning, won't you ?"
Just then the door banged, and Susan
her breakfast unfinished, was left alone.
IL do think Isaac is too bad," she said
to herself. But then, | won't use the
water, if | have to break my back clean
ing the pump" and Susan rose with a
jerk, and began to clear away the break
fast, and TO make the kitchen nice and
comfortable, and to think about dinner
for herself and Isaac.
Mrs. Houghton was model house
keeper. She had that tact so often found
among New Finland women, and perform
ed the heavy work Of a farmers wife with
her own hands. The amount she would
accomplish between the hours of 5 and Il
was wonderful. Churning baking, iron
ing, and interviewing labors, would ap'
pear and disappear in as regular order as
l 60 and Desdemona upon the American
stage.
She had been married twenty years be.
fore there appeared any symptoms Of lead
pipe on the brain, as Isaac called it. Dur.
ing this time, two curly-haired boys had
sat at their table and frightened their
home. But. possessing much Of theil
mothers enterprise, they looked beyond
the little town of M-and the rlodding
on the home farm, aud, somewhat to
lsaac's disappointment, took their inheri.
tance of vigorous goa-head.a-tiveness,
and left for neighboring city, where they
we're soon we'll established in business.
Now it is probable that Isaac and Susan
had as much real love for each other as
Eloise and Abelard. but it was manifest
IN very different way. Isaac was peace
full man, and yet--although he himself
sometimes called his wife "an old fuss,
in rather angry tones--lf any other man
had called her so, he would have knocked
him down in an instant.
Isaac knew Susan was a valuable &c.
QUESTION to the farm, and that she had
done quite as much as he to establish
their present thrifty condition in life. He
would not be very likely to say this un
less pressed by Susan herself; but ther
he knew it was SO. Moreover, Susan was
pretty whes young, and in lsaac's eye;
her beauty had never departed She was
quick and witty, and no joke ever brought
SO ready laugh from Isaac as her re-
partee; and, beyond all this, her love fol
him was SO manifest. Nothing was tot
much for her to undertake if it was nee
essary to Isaac's comfort. She wouc
milk the cows, churn, unload hay, weed
the carrots-do anything rather than thai
Isaac should work beyond his strength
In fact, she was more saving Of hi'
strength than of her own. 'I'd rather
die than to be left without Isaac," she Of
ten said.
Notwithstanding this devotion and thu
years of quiet happiness they had enjoyed
together, there were occasional dIscords
which usually resulted in Isaac's inward
conviction that he had right to have hi
/, amn uau and unnld not he ruled hu hi