Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-04-28
they Carried IL too Far.

They Carried IL too Far.
Mr.. Butt rworth called in to see me tn
other day, and Ii, the course OF the cor
versation he said:
'I'm going to move. | can't stan
those Thompsons next door !. me oil
longer. They're the awfullest PEI ne
borrow things that ever saw. Coffee an
butter, and sugar and flour don It mind 81
much, although when woman borrcw
high priced sugar and Java coffee. ant
sends back sand and chickory, fellow
naturally feels billions and mad. But they've
borrowed pretty nearly everything in The
house. First it's one, then it's another
from morning till night, right straight
along.
"Now there's the poker. A poker is q
piece of machinery that you would think
| anybody might go around and buy, or, il
they couldn't afford it, they might use a
fence paling to shake up the fire. But Mrs
Thompson seems to banker after our po
ker. She borrows it fifteen or twenty times
a day, and last Saturday she sent for it 81
times. She pays boy So a week to run
over and borrow that poker, and she's used
it so much that it's all bent up like a cork.
screw.
"Now, take chairs for instance. She
asks us to lend her our chairs three times
day at every meal, and she borrows the
rocking chair whenever she wants to put
the baby to sleep.
ga couple of times she sent over for a
sofa, when the boy came back with it he
said Mrs. Thompson was mad as thunder
and kept growing around the house all
day because there were no castors on it..
Last Monday she borrowed our wash boil
er and we had to put off our washing till
Tuesday. She did her preserving in it, and
the consequence was all our clothes were
full of preserved peaches I've got on an
under-shirt now that I'm mighty doubtful
if I'll ever get it off, it's stuck to me so
tight.
Every now and then she has company,
and then she borrows our hired girl and
all the parlor furniture; once, because I
would not carry the piano for her and take
down the chandelier she told our girl that
there were rumorS around town that was
a reformed pirate.
Perfectly scandalous! They think no.
thing of sending over for a couple of bed
steads and the entry carpet, and the other
day Thompson said to me.
'Butterworth, does your pump log pull
up easily?'
"And when I said thought it did, he
said:
&C would like to borrow it for few days
till I can get one, for mines all rotted
away
"The only wonder to me is that he didn' It
try to borrow the we'll along with it.
''And then on Tuesday Mrs. Thompson
sent that boy over to know if Mrs. Butter
worth wouldn't lend her our front door,
She said theirs was away being painted,
and she was afraid the baby would catch
cold. When asked him what he supposed
we were going to do to keep comfortable
without any front door, he said Mrs.
Thompson said she reckoned we might
tack up bed-quilt or something. And
when refused, the boy said Mrs. Thomp-
son told him If 1 wouldn't send over the
front door to ask Mrs. Butterworth to lend
her pair of striped stockings and a horse
hair hustle, and to borrow the coal scuttle
till Monday.
"What in the name of Moses she is going
to do with a hustle and coal scuttle I
can't conceive.
'But they're the most extraordinary
people Last Fourth of Jnly the boy came
came over and told Mrs. Butterworth that
Mrs. Thompson would be much obliged if
she'd lend her the twins for few minutes.
Said Mrs. Thompson wanted them to suck
off new bottle top, because it made her
baby sick to taste new india-rubber!
Cheeky, wasn't it? But that's her way.
She don't mind it any more.
'Why, I've known her to take off our
Johnny's pants when he's been playing
over there with her children, and send him
home bare-legged to tell his mother that
Thompson's birthday she said her house
was too small for party, that if we'd lend
her ours we might come late in the even
ing and dance with the company, if we
wouldn't let on that we lived there.
Eyes. sir; Pm going to move. I rather
live next door to a lunatic asylum and have
the maniacs pouring red-hot shot over the
fence every hour of the day. Indeed I
would"
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