The Van Buren press., 1875-08-03

iaSe ., oH aie oH, So9a many years
on most of the time had six dollars a
week. Folks used to wonder how l got
so many clothes with it. after l paid my
board. But | always had that six dollars
laid out long before pay ,day--in my
mind, you know--so that spentit to the
best advantage. Theresa great deal of
pleasure in that
A great DEAL says she,
That's what say to Jim; and then
he says his is all speut before pay day,
teo--hut with a difference, you know, |
suppose you've got real good, steady
husband 2
'Oh, yes, indeed says she, laughing
some more.
You must to have such nice house
as that is going to be But there! l
shouldn't know what to do with it, and l
don't envy you a bit !, I.
'Oh, you needn't says she. twitch
ing her shoulders: i expect to have
trouble enough with il
Not L. says II don't mean that
jim isn't steady He's as steady as a
clock-at that old fiddle of his. But,
sometimes, | do wish he loved his regu
lar trade as well, or else tnat that pas his
trade. But suppose If fdddling was
his trade, he'd want to be wood-carving,
all the time
why don't you speak to him ? says
she, seriouslyY' ?
We'll, you can't says Hes so
sweet and good natured and pleasant that
when I've got my mind allsmade up to
give him sound talking to, he makes
me like him SO. and sets me to laughing,
and plays such a atwirling, twittering tune,
that can't do it to save my life
You see, d got to talking rather free
with her, because she listened so, and
seemed interested, and kept looking at me
in wondering way, and at last took Sue
up on her lap and gave her her rings to
play with. Such rings! My gracious! !!
one of them flashed with stones all
round just like the Milky Way. l should
think they would have shone through
her glove.
But says she, you should tell him
that his children will he growing up pres
entity, an1--'
'Oh, do that says I. And he says,
well, bel do for the bad example they're
to take warning by; and, at any rate, it
no use worrying before the time comes,
and when they do grow up they can take
care of themselves just the way We do
And are you contcnted to leave it so z
says she.
We'll. I'm contented enough That is
Il, ron..al Rut I la ~;sh enrnntirpo
that Jim wonld go down to his work rcgu.
lar, every day, with his tin pail in his
hand, like other men, and come back at
night, aaa A~-a a good round sum of
money in hand at onees ;.-.-.3 nf inst
working long eiough to get some flour
and fish and potatoes and sugar, and then
not so mrch as lifting his finger again,
till that gives out, it's such hand to-
mou,n, way of living, says l. And Of
course we can't get things together, such
as rocking chair, aud a sofa, and good
sized looking glass, and an eight-day
clock Not that care much only when
lady like you happens in I'd like to
give her seat that softer And there's
a bureau Now, you wouldn't believe it
but I've never owned bureau
Indeed says she.
Yes, / don't think, its good man
ners to be always apologising about the
looks of place: and so l don't say any
thing about all the boxes and bundles |
have to keep my things in, that do give
a littery look but Pm always meaning
to have a bureau to put them in. if can
compass it ever You see it's hard get
ting so much money in a pile; and if l
do happen to, why then there's something
| must have, like Jim's boots, or flannel
snd yarn and cloth, or little bed~be-
cause you can't sleep with more than two
children in one bed And so, somehow,
| never get the bureau. But, then, |
don't give up. Oh, suppose you think
my notions are dreadful cxtravagant,'
says |, for she was looking at me per-
fcctly amazed; really, just as if | was a
little monster, and she'd never seen the
like. And perhaps they are. But peo
pie must have something to ambition
them, and it seems to me as though | ev-
er could get bureau, should most feel
as if I'd got a house
well, declare' says she, drawing OF
a long breath.
i did come precious near TO it, last
fall says for | wanted her to see that
it WASH altogether All impossibility, and
| wasn't wasting nay time in vapors-
when Jim was up here, helping lay out
the carden. He was paid by the day,
you know Mr.. Mulgrave paid him; and
he was paid here, and had the handling
of the money; and ssld to myself.
Now, or never, for that bureaun But
dear me, had to turn that money over
so many times to get the things l could
not do without any way at all, that be-
fore l got round to the bureau, it was
every cent gonc'
Yes, she says, its apt to be so. l
know if don't get tie expensive thing,
when have the money in my purse, the
money is filtered away, and have moth
ing to show forlt,'
That's just the way it is with me,
saws |. But somehow / can't seem TO
do without tie shoes and flannel, and all
that. Oh, here's your husband! That's
a powerful lorse of his. But should be
afraid he d break my neck, if was be-
hind him.
Not Shcn my husbands driving,
SAYS she And she bids me good day,
and kisses Sue, and springs into the wag
pon. arl is OF like bird, with her veil
asd ier feathers and her ribbons and