Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1875-03-18
JONESBOROUGH. TENN. tt
Things Ar ,und the House.
By N. QUAD.

over the faot that have just driven the
ax.handle firmly into the ak and wedged
it there, 80 that 1t cannot under any cir.
cumstances c,me out. 1t may read like
a small matter to you, but do yon know
tha, hcve had been loose for nearly
FIVE year? Yes, for FIVE years thst ax
has flung itself across the yard whenever
struck heavy blow, leaving the helvs
in my hand, and suppose | have decided
more than thousand times To 90 in and
get ham ner aud chlsel aud fasten the
helve in. | was thrown down aud had
my arm broken by the AK aying of, two
hired girls had their noses broken, We
spoiled the stove.boilers, nearly killed
three boys, aud set didu't get around
TO fix rhe AK until to-day.
Foster was telling IN, the other day
that he had finally gu'd that knob on
to the bureau drawer, aud he seemed
greatly relieved. remember when
that knob was knocked off-.lmost seven
! years ago. | was helping him move the
bureau when the accident occurred, and
| never was in the house afterwards with
out hea,iag Ms. Foster say:
"Come, Henry, haven't you got time
to fix that knob ou this EVENING""
Yes. Martha" he wolld reply. and il
was seven years before he got to It.
Seen or eight years ago my neighbor
| Mr.. Goodwin, found COW among bi,
cabbages ore day. and iu driving her oul
she Jumped over the gate aud broke one
of the hinges. He went IN and got ham
mer screw>iriver aud screws to repair
dlmages. but his wife c,lIed him int,
breakfast just then. After breakfast he
hadn't time, and 50 it raI along until the
other day. He passed through 'h,
gate al average OF Eve times per day fo
about seven years, or thirteen Thousand
times in all. aud he had to lit it ny, carr,
1t around and be bothered for half min
ute each time. Thirteen thousand Inc,
he said 10 himself that he would fix thai
contounded gate, aud yet he didn'. d. i
until the other dsv,
Some twelve OF thirteen years ago
Was taking dinner With Turner, over o.
4 iams Avenue. and his wife called al
tention To the fact she had that day broker
the handle Of her big seven pound fatirol
and that she must get another. Th'
athcr day | met her OF the street. aD'
she told me she had replaced that fat
iron at last. For thirteen year, fifty-tw
times per year, she had used that broken
handle l-iron to smooth down her waslin
aud every time she had said to bersel
that she woald 90 up town next day an
order new one.
Bris' ow died last week. We we're warn
friends, and was with him TO the last
After he had called the family up one b.
one and shaken hands and said good>byc
saw that there was yet something o
his m nd. I admonished him to trust m
it he had dy'ns request, and he graspe
my hand and replied:
i've been trJi & to 6ud time for IT,
last seventeen years to take the butche
: knife down to the shop and have it grounl
and if 1t wouldn't be asking too much {
you, wish you'd see to i T.
| promised him, but it may be twent
years before | get The knife t, the shoE
and ten years more before call for it,
can remember when old MS. Bag e
died. She had china teapot IN he
house which had belonged to her gran'
mother. but she had always kept il in ii
drawer because the handle was Lrnken an
wanted cemfutiag. She gave the teap'
t,a neighbor, who waited five years fc
u bottle Of cement, thea four years mol
to fni time, and finally knocked Il
spout of VIII lc trying to mend the handl
don't suppose any Of us would forg
the day uate was due but it the KIN
should drop Of a chamber d"or. | expe'
that George Francis Traiu might be ele,
ted Pleideut before we would fad tim
to replace 1t.
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