Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-10-30
A CALL on MRS. PARTINGToN.

A CALL ON MRS. PARTINGToN.
We saw Mrs. Partington the other day.
She has just built her a new house out
in the country. She says she is going
to set out some serubbery in the front
yard. same as they do in the rhubarbs
of Boston. There are only some tempo
rary steps up at the front door as yet,
composed principally of irregular stones
and loose blocks Of wood. She said she
liked to have upset her quilabub trying
to get in there the day before. She in-
tended to keep fowls this season. She
has heard the Brahmans highly spoken
of. and meant to try one; but had con-
cluded she would get Hamburgs mostly
because she had been told that when
they were sitting they would lay still.
| told her | read in paper that Mr..
Barnum had introduced kind that he
said would lay still after they had been
killed, but that this was generally be-
lieved to be one of his Humbugs.
There, said she, al was afraid |
had got that name wrong. 1t was Hum
bugs meant
She said. though, she did not believe
much in them; she had heard Of that
Barnum before; Ike had read a good
deal to her last winter out of his Awful
biology, and she did not think it a fit
book to be in the common school. She
said she wanted fowls that would be fit
to eat whether they laid an egg or not,
and that was the reason she wouldn't
have LeghOrns, for if their legs we're
that way. what sort of meat could the
rest of 'em be?'
She has had fine cupola built over
the middle Of the roof, and says she en-
joys it as much as any part Of the house.
She sits with her knitting an hour or
two every day out under the apple tree
where she can get full view Of it. She
says she does take some credit to herself
for unsel6shness in that, for her neigh
bors all over the village can see it as
we'll as she can. She had thought some
Of having an opening made to it from
the inside Of the house; but children
might get up there, and it would be dan
gerous.
She is having some Of her rooms pa
pered Just now. She remarked that she
got green for her bedroom but, after
she heard that they put larceny into it,
she had carried it back, and got blue in
stead. Her carpets we're down in all
the rooms below. except in the parlor.
She had not decided what 10 get for that.
Widow Barfoot was in day before
yesterday" she went on 10 say, "and
the widow thought that Brussels would
be the proper thing TO have. told her
that material might do for some things,
but would not have EN- in carpet II
/ never had any. Mrs. Jacobs, next
neighbor to the widow. over the brook,
advised me by all means 70 get some
thing dyed in the wool, because il would
be cheapest in the end, but ! told The
company that wouldn't buy anything
that had died in that way if | could gel
it for half prlce. Finally. after cOusid
erable dispute. Jane Brightman spoke
! out. and said. administer. that's just
the thing"
well" says /. Il have no objection
70 ask him bat then. you know, I'm nO
going 70 pin my faith to bis apron-string'
If be Is minister. ] have my own idea
about this and that. spite of anybody.
have about concluded 70 let that room
; 60 now till spring. and hope By tha
time ny mind will be settled"
When / came away, che said she bop
: ed that she should like the neighboF
. hood. and abe guessed they were prettl
I clever people. though sbs did not lik
the physic bominy of their faces. an'
she didB't think some Of them wen
bright enough 70 sse through a-notbe
; milestone any quicker than she could
q --Cottags Hsayh