The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1875-04-16

some thing pretty handsome; and 50 Il
was. Why, her wedding-dress, with
her gloves and slippers and little notions,
cost well nigh thirty dollars Matilda
said herself that she thought part Of
the money ought to be given TO the mis-
sionaries, but then it was present from
her uncle, and so there was nothing TO
be said. 1 was going there to help
about some matters and so I happened
to say that there would be great curl
osity among the young people to know
the particulars of the wedding.
Lawfulsakes !" says Mrs. Goodman,
do dear, tell them all they want to
know; and Matilda said the same, for
she wasn't in the least stuck up They
were only waiting forspring to get home
from Ohio. That was a cousin of NATL
dy's who was going to stand up with
her. He was named Aminadab after his
grandfather; but as people that had
known him from baby would keep on
calling him Minny, and the young men
called him Dab, his folks concluded to
call him by his last handspring. 1
said to Mrs Goodman that she would
miss Matilda when she came to go away
for good. Oh, yes, of course; but she
went on to say that she and the Deacon
might go with the young folks to Boston
and that would make it seem not quite
so sudden. Matilda wasvery anxious to
have them go and stay until after
Thanksgiving. The Deacon insisted that
his wise should go, but he said that with
his rheumatism and some chores he had
to do on the efarm he thought he had bet
ter stay at home and see to things. His
wife would hardly agree to this. She
said it would be the first time they had
been separated for thirty years, and, as
the Deacon said, the first time they ever
had n serious disagreement; and he
laughed as if it was an uncommon good
joke.
"Well, as I left the Deacon's with
such budget of news that L was at lib
erty to tell, thinks to myself, 1 shall be
quite a welcome visitor at some houses
1 know of. As it happened was going
to work for the Shutters the very next
day, and sol should have a chance to
make up in a manner for being so close
mouthed, as they called me, by speaking
out for once as free as other folks
81 got there the next morning rather
before they expected me, and as 1 stood
ready to knock at the side door l heard
my name and waited a moment. A win
dow was open, and as one of the girls
was laying the table in the kitchen and
the other out in the back room ironing
they spoke pretty loud to each other and
I could hear every word they said, though
they didn't hear me knock and knock
One of them said: "Don't tell me about
Sail Barker's prudence and her being so
mighty conscientious and all that. 1
warrant you she is as glad to poke that
great long nose of hers into other peo-
ple's business as anybody, and it is only
because she is so contrary that she likes
to keep things to herself. She feels so
important when she has some great Sc
cret that she can keep from everybody
else 1t is the way she takes to poster
folks. And she went nabout old maids
in way that was scandalous. But 1 am
not going to repeat it. You may be sure
that l felt pretty well riled up, and had
half mind to go straight home; but L
had sent my goose and lap-board along,
for [ had jacket to press offfor Reuben
Snuffer, and so concluded to put down
the old Adam and go right in. ought
to explain that what set Lyddy Ann out
so fierce was that her mother had been
taking her to do for letting out some Sc
crets that had made mischief, and she
had held ME up as pattern. Everybody
knows that nothing makes some people
dislike you more than tohave some other
people always praising you. Well, 1
went in and sat down to breakefast, and
they had buttermilk cake that Lyddy
Ann had made and baked on board be-
fore the fire on purpose for ME, because
she knew liked them so much. There
are some folks that always like to have
you eat their vietuals, even if they hate
you. l ate it and praised it, though 1
hadn't SO much appetite as common, for
1 kept thinking about my great long
nose and of being called an old maid.
We sat pretty much without speaking
for a spell, for the girls mistrusted that
I overheard them talk; but before long
Betsy Jane gave little hem to clear her
throat, and observed that they must be
middling busy down at Deacon Good
mans if Matildy was to be married in a
week OF two. 1 said ''she isn't to be
married till Spring comes;" and was
going to tell the rest, but they didn't
give me time to finish.
"Not till springi What on earth could
that meant" Now what possessed me I
couldn't tell 1 don't pretend to say
that did right; butyou must remember