Litchfield enquirer., 1876-06-01

''You say she died in March" sad Mrs Burdick;~s has he begun to look for an- other wife yet?'
 "Begue :" returned Mrs. .Jubal, her deep voice at it's huskiest from concentrat- emotions, '.'the mans ben married nigh two months !"
 And Mrs Burdick, s'You don't say so Married a'readyl Who on airth d he find to have him p s9
 Nobody round here, you may be sure and sartin,' replied Mrs. Jubal. "Wo- men are great fools, but there ant many so fur gone as to marry Deacon Lish' Manchester with their eyes open He tried hard enough, though, here. He be- gun in May, and there want hardly an old maid or widder in the town, specially if they'd got little proputty, that he didn't write to or go to see. It got so that if a single woman see him a-comin' toward her house she locked the door; and run and hid. But you know what pompous critter he is. and he never seemed to think there was nobody t he couldn't hev.
 "Pooh !' chanted Anti-Strophe, Aunt Nabby, contemptuously, the was only hke all men in that Don't you suppose that Tom Pope. a-drivin' this stage, thinks 1t d be onlyto ask and have. if he want ed to marry Fanny, here? He might say't her folks was pretty grand, but he'd think money made 'em so, and he wouldn't know that eddication, or anything else. made difference, or was hindrance. A mans man, and woman's a woman, and all women are bent on marrYin'-men never git much beyond that"
 'Things happen sometimes so kind O cur'us that theydo most justify some of the men, don't they, Aunt Nabby?" re- turned Strophe, gazing innocently into Anti-Strophe's face
 Don't you be a-stabbln' me, and look in as if butter wouldn't melt in your mouth !" replied Aunt Nabby, eood-na- turedly. II never sot up for any great wisdom, and if body's got hard row to hoe, it don't make it any easier to know it's their own fault. And folks that have made mistake have the best right to speak, though all the speakin' in the world won't vally, neither. We've all got our lesson to larn, and somell git it by only havin' 1t p'inted out, and theren al- ways be some thatll have to have it knocked into 'em r
 Silence for little, and we all look dis creetlY out at the asters and gentians that border our way along reach of springy hillside.
 Presently Mrs. Burdick resumes,-
 "Wal, who did Deacon 'Lisha find at last for wife ?'
 "A Widder Scranton, that lived.to Fall River" answered Mrs. Hawkins. ''Some- body must ha' recommended her to him, for she don't belong anywhere i'll these parts. Mis- Dr. Nuttin' visits in Fall River, and she's heerd her spoken on a good deal She's called s very likely wo- man, smart as steel trap, and with a great notion O pushin' forrard in the world. She was left widder with four money, but she put the eldest ones into that come handy, and got along very we'll. slick, and was very airy and dressy her. self. Mis- Nuttin' said. The widder come up to the deacon's about a month before she married him, to kind O see how the land lay, of course. Beulah Williams has ben keepin house tor the deacon sence Mis- Manchester died, and she he'd to en- certain the widder. She said the woman never ast nothin' about how he got along with his first wife, nor if he was a good Christian man. But she wanted to know jest what he was said to be wuth, and what the money was in, and if he'd made Q will. and how much of the proputty come by the first Mis- Manchester; and then she had Beulah go all over the house with her, and she ast who the beddin' be- longed to, and the different prices O furn- itOor, and then told how she should hev things there: the house all furnished and water brought into t, an hired maid to do the heavy work. She should hev the deacon git new kerrige, too, an robes. She could n't hev clothes all cov- cred with hairs from them old horse blankets that the deacon hes on his horses, and over the veget ables, and then tucked over your lap And then she ast about the meetin' folks; said she'd always took an active part wherever she went to meet in, and that she would want the society to meet often at her house, and she should see t was lively in the evenin' so s to dror the young folks ID; that she liked to hev neighborhood kind O gay and so- ciable: picnics and festivals and mite so- cieties and oyster suppers. Beulah said she wanted to cry, all to oncet, when she heerd the crltter runnin' on so; she couldn't help pityin' on her, and he'd brought up his own family in the barest kind O way, jest clothes enough to cover 'em, and no store groceries but the cheap est four and tea, brown sugar, black mo- lasses, and stacks O codfsh; but law the wdder wouldn't hear nothin' to that She said the deacon he'd told her that his fist wife was shiftless, peev1sh kind O wo- man, not much force, and with no idees about gittin' along, that he reely he'd Tt he'd wife, to call one, for twenty year, and that she split her children so t he never got much good out of 'em, out doors or Tn; but she guessed things would go ruth ar dif'runt now. She'd resk managin' any man t ever sbe see
 ':Almiry was so mad when she heerd what her father'd told the widder, that she says if the widder only aOiU manage him, rule him with rod of iron, she shan't care if the proputty s every cent spent; she shall say t the Lords hand Is in it, avengin' her mother t was murder ed by inchesl'
 ,'I don't see how any woman could stomach to marry him." said Mrs. Bur- lick, 'even if she didn't know what ty- | liitle-souled-and worse-crea- ;ure he was. A disagreeaple, ontidy, stub- ply old man; to look at him s enough, I should think!'
 -"Oh, she says, plain out, that it s the | uUucy S440 bulukS dUOut. 1lm0S Has pen l lwful bad at the factories for more n a | year, and it was hard to git along any way, md she thought here was home and lfv- | n offered her n her children, and an ed- llcation for them, and she must mt refuse t;she marries for proputty, he for conven- ence; and he s Deacon Lish' Manches- ter! Mebbe t will turn out well!' Stro- l ohe, thus.
 ''rhe Lord help herl' fairly groaned | Anti-Strophe, 'I ha'n't no gret opinion ,f woman t s lived long enough. to znow better, marvin an old man within 'ix months of. bis wife's death, and won't ,e told nothin' about him, and comes 'wellin' into the house that t other wo- nan has hardly left, and finds fault with l and boasts of the changes she 1 'hall make. and the way things has got to 90 now, and hints that all the trouble was he first woman's fault; but knoW that what Mis- Manchester had to bear-thlngs | hat can't be spoken on--an't for any wo- nan to bear, and hope, whoever hes the he wust on t now, t won't be the Wid- |