Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-09-30
Agricultural
Bread Baking and GhOStly Warn
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1t was 10 the days Of our grandmother
whea there were brick ovens in the laud
that Mr.. Hubbard bought his house. -th
haunted house of R, very mucl
against his wife's will. 1t was lonel
house. 1t was nextto graveyard, which
though long unused, was not very cheer
ful, aud it had the reputation of a ghost
However, Mr.. Hubbard did not believe ii
ghosts, was too cheerful to be depressed
by warnings, and never intended to b,
lonely. aIU..
another Hubbard, " he said, when hi.
wife shook her head over the purchase,
81 got the house cheap, and it's good
one. You'll like it when you get there
If you don't, WHY, then talk"
So the house was bought, aud into it
the Hubbard family moved. There was
scarcely chance for a ghost to show lis
face In such household OF boys and girls.
The rosy-faced master Of the house aud
his little wife had ten of them. 1t was in
view of the eterna! cry of another, that
the jolly husband had dubbed his Martha
Jane mother Hubbard using it in jest
at first, and at last because of an old hab-
it. Hearing it, the rest of R fell in
to the way of calling the notherly soul
Mother Hubbard, so that it was more her
name, by far. than her baptismal Martha
Jane
Having once expostulated and "spoken
out her mind" Mother Hubbard gave up
the point. She scrubbed and secured,
tackled down carpets and put up curtains,
and owned that the place waspretty; and,
as not ghost appeared for week, made
up her mind that there was no such in
habitant, and even began not to mind the
ton bstones. So the house was got to right
at last, and baking day came about. In
the press Of business they had had great !
deal of bakers bread, and we're tired Of it.
Mrs Hubbard had never enjoyed setting
a batch of bread to rise as she did that
which was to be eaten for the first time IN
tho new house. "For / can't get up an
appetite for stuff that nobody knows who
has had the making Of" said Mother Hub
bard; sand all puffy and alumy besides"
So into the oven went the bread, and out
it came at the proper time, even and brown
lDd beauti al as oaveS could be.
Mother Hubbard turned the loaves up {
N their sides as she drew them forth. aud l
hey stood IL the long bread tray, glorious :
'roois Of her skill and Of the excellence of t
he oven, when Tommy Hubbard bounded !
D. Tommy was four, and at that age one b
prone to believe that anything will bear /
is weight Tommy, therefore, anxious "
inspect the new made bread swung him e
'lf of his feet by catching the edge of G
ne bread tray, and over it came, loaves a
nd Tommy and all. All were busted j.
nd put in the tray again but one. That Ell
y bottom upwards under the table. v
ga botheriug child, to give me SO much Ie
ouble," she said, as she craw!ed under bc
@ table. b,
"Ah oh oh! dear, dear, dear, dear di
!, my" And there on the floor sat Moth. pa
Hubbard, screaming, wringiug her Sc
Inds and shaking her head. .... bl
The children screamed also in earnest. O.
r. Hubbard rushed in from the garde en-, he
here no was at work. r'' 7" yC
"What is the matter, mother 2" he it
sped. -.5. 49,. -,f..a ~u,t. err
Mrs. Hubbard pointed to the bottom Of st
G loaf lying inner lap. look there, to
I'd ask me J" she said. ut warning. lie
.ll!lam, I'm going to be taken from 'en,
Il a.a.. ~ dc
And as Mr.. Hubbard looked, he saw on to
e loaf "death's head and cross. bones" til
plainly ensraven as they possibly could di
"lt's accident" said Mr.. Hubbard be
Such queer cracks do come, you know, DIR
ont fret gj&{ fu
But Mrs. Hubbard was in troubled pr
tie of mind. THE stories about the -
united house were true, she said !; nand 4
e spirits have marked the loaf. I'm I
aid It is warning" Andthe loaf was
t aside, for even Mr.. Hubbard did not
re to eat any oft. Z NA bu
MrsrHubbard got over her fright at Co
It, but the new Of the awful marked no
if spread through b., and people u
me to Hubbard's all the week to look at SSSS
1t was death'sshead and cross-boues y "
rtalnly every Que saw that at a glance ~ y.
as to the meaning, people differed. IN Rs
me believed that it was warning of No No
proachiug death; some that spirits =
'anted to frigbtcn the Hubbard's away" ~
is latter supposition inspired Mrs. Hub. n