Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-06-19
OUR SUFFRENs WITH AGENTS.
BY JOSIAH ALIENS WIFE.

We done pretty well this year, the crops
came in frst-rate, and then Josiah had four
OF five head of cattle to turn off, and he
proposed I should have SEWN machine.
Though we dont't coo at each other SO
much as some do, my pardner, Josiah, is
attached to me with a firm and almost cast
iron devotedness.
But says / to him,
Josiah, had rather Tirzah Ann would
have organ, because if she is ever goin'
to learn to play, now is the time. And |
have got a couple of sewin' machines, that
have run pretty well for upwards of -
Well, it haint no matter how many years,
but quite number, anyway
But Josiah hung on to that machine,
and Tirzah Ann seemed set onto her or
gan, and, finally, Josiah ups, and says he,
Il will get both on 'em.' And Tirzah and
me thought we would let him have his
head in the matter.
So it got out that we was goin' to buy a
SEWN machine and a organ. Wall, we
made up our minds on Friday, pretty late
in the afternoon, and on Monday forenoon
1 was washin', when | heard a knock at
the front door, and Wrung my hands out
of the water, and went and opened it.
A slick looking fellow stood there, and
I invited him in, and set him chair.
I hear you are talkin' of buyin' a mu-
steal instrument for your daughter says
he.
NO. says 1, we are goin' to buy Or
gam
WALL says he, I want to advise you,
not that 1 have any interest in 1t at all
onlo l don't want to see you imposed upon.
It fairly makes me mad to see Methodist
imposed upon. lean towards that per-
swasion myself. Organs are liable to fall
to pieces any minute. There haint no
dependence on 'em at all the insides
of 'em are liable to break out at
any minute. If you have any regard
for your own welfare and safety, you
will buy piano. Not that 1 have
any interest in advising you, only my stern
devotion to the cause of right. Pianos
never wear out.
where should we go to get one,' says I,
for I didn't want Josiah to throw away
his property.
wall, says he, sas it happens, guess
1 have got one here in my wagon. l be-
lieve threw one into the bottom of the
wagon this 1hornin', as 1 was comm down
by here on business. am glad now that
did, for it always makes me feel ugly to see
Methodist imposed upon
Josiah came into the house in afew min
utes, and told him about it and, says I,
How lucky it is, Josiah, that we found
out about organs, before it was too late.
But Josiah asked the price, and said he
WASH 'ttgoin' to pay out 400 dollars, for he
! wuzznf able. But the man asked if we
was willin' to have it brought into the
house for a spell-we could do as we was a
mind to about buyin' it; and, of course,
we couldn't refuse, so Josiah almost broke
his back liftin' it in. And they sot it up
| in the parlor, and after dinner the man
went away.
1 had just got back to my washin' agin
| Il had had to put it away to get dinner,
when [ heard knockin' again to the front
door, and went and opened it, and there
stood tall slim Teller, and the kitchen be-
in all cluttered up, opened the parlol
door, and asked him in thsre. And the
minute he ketched sight of that piano, ne
just lifted up both hands, and says he,
You haint got'one Of them here!' ~
He looked so Mortified that it skairt me,
and says I, in almost tremblin' tones,
what is the matter with Temp and
added, in cheerful tone, I'VE haint
bought it, sef.sNi #-oH sa4
He looked more cheerful too as sale
it, and, says he, you may be thankisq9
,kenough that you haint. There halnt NJ