The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-08-18

One side.
1Iuper's Bazar.l
When l turned round and she was
scoming in the door, Pm sure | thought
WAS dreaming If it had been the Queen
a.comng in, | shouldn't have been more
Surprised and the three children with
their three faces like little pigs "Here,
you, whispered | to to Benjamin Frank
iiu, ''you Just go long and stick your
face in some water, quick meter And
give Johnny's a scrubbing too" And |
wet the corners of my apron between my
lips in a hurry, and rubbed Sues mouth
and then | made believe / hadn't seen
her before, and busted the other chair for
her; aad she sat down and | sat down,
AMI we looked at one another. Lord
she was that fine Her flOunces were
silk, and they were scalloped like so many
ROSES, and lace showing under the edges
Of them; and she had such boots, set
ting like gloves ust enough to make
Ayour eyes water. But the flowers in her
hat--you should have seen them-I de-
Glare you should have smelled them
We'll, she seemed to fill up the little
room and if ever | was glad of anything,
j was glad that I'd scrubbed the floor
that very day, SO that it was clean enough
b eat off of-glad, too, that I'd taken
Jim's old hat out of the broken window
and put in the smooth bottom of box
with good respectable looking tack.
Dim might have mended that window,
for he's perfect Jack-at-all- trades but
he'd rather play the fiddle than eat, and
be was a-playing it out in the tie-up that
moment, with all the wind there was
blowing However, l couldn't complain,
for he'd just mended the chair, so that it
was almost as good as new, and had put
me up tidy shelf as you please over
the stove for the brush and comb and
The hair oil bottle If | had been little
slicked up myself, with my new print
and my pink apon, or if I'd only had my
bhang on, | wouldn't a minded. But
Nwhen Benjamin Franklin came back with
JUS the top dirt rinsed off, and the rest
all smears, | did feel so vexed that |
gave him as good shaking as a nut-tree
gets in harvest.
BLESS, my heart :" says she, "what
are you doing that for ?"
Because he's so aggravating," says |.
There, you 60 long" and l gave
him shove.
Why says she, ''don't yod remem-
Der how it used to feel to be shaken
yourself"
81 don't know as do, says l.
AS if you were flying to atoms? And
your body was as powerless as if it had
been in the hands of a giant, and your
heart as full of hate ?"
why, look a-here, says |. "Be you
a Missionary"
"A missionary" says she, laughing:
No; I'm Mr.. Mulgraves wife. And |
Acame up to see how the new house was
getting ON; but the house is so full of
plaster dust inside, and the whirlwind is
blowing the things off the roof so outside,
thai | thought | would venture in here
tilI the cloud passed"
ooh, says l.
l knocked, but you didn't hear me-"
I'm real glad to see you" says |.
Its dreadful lonesome place, and hard
\ ~ any body ever comes. Only I'm sorry
everything's so at skies and sevens. You
see, where there's family of children,
and the wind blowing So" says l, with
lucky thought-it's always good to have
the wind or the weather to lay things to,
because nobody's responsible for the ele-
ments-'' things will get to looking like
ride-out."
Children do make confusion" says
she; but confusion is pleasanter with
them than pimlico order without them.
Well, that So" | answered ''for |
remember when Johnny had the measles
last year | thought if he only got we'll
a let him white the door all to pieces
n he ever wanted to again. Here, Ben
ny, says |, for | began to feel bad that
treated him so-if he'd mortified me,
twas no reason why / should mortify
nm and right before folks so-''take that
70 little sister" and l gave them some
lhlng to keep them quiet. 81 suppose
you wouldn't care for any water ?" says
| to her then. Not if l put some mo-
lssses IN it? | didn't know but the wind
would have made you dry. Yes, child
Zen do make trouble. One of Jim's
songs says,
Marriage does bring trouble;
single life is est;
They should never double
az hpuAu bt at rest.
But there Wouldn't be without them
Tor all the fine close l used to wear when
was single and worked in the shop. l
worked down at Burrage's-I suppose
you never buy shoes any there ?"
What makes you suppose so? ?" says
she, smiling.
Well, because your boots don't look
IKE our work; they look ike-Cinder-
eilas slippers. Yes, 1 worked at Bur
RACES, off and on, good many years
on most of the time. ! had six dollars a
week. Folks used to wonder how got
20 many clothes with it, after / paid my
BOARD. But / always had that six dol.
lars laid out long before pay-day-in my
mind, you know-so that l spent it to the
PES advantage. There's a great deal Of
pleasure in that"
9 great DEAL" she says.
That's what say to Jim and ther
pc says his is all spent before payday toe
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