The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-05-21
THEY CARRIED 1T TOO FAB,

Mr.. Butterwick called in to see me the
other day, and in the course of the CONVEX
sation he said:
II IN going to move. can't stand those
| Ihompsons next door to me any longer.
They're the awfullest people to borro W
things that ever saw. Coffee, sugar, but
ter, and flour 1 don't mind so much, al
though when a woman borrows high
priced sugar and Java coffee, and sends
back sand and chickory, a man naturally
| feels bilious and mad. But they've Dor
rowed nearly everything in the house.
First it's one thing and then another, from
morning till night, right straight along
Now there's the poker. A poker is a
piece of machinery that you'd think any
body might go around and buy, or if they
couldn't afford it they might use fence
paliDg to shake up the fire. But Mrs.
Thompson seems to banker on after our
poker. She borrows it fifteen or twenty
times day, and last Saturday she sent for
it thirty four times. She pays boy two
dollars week to run over and borrow the
poker: and she's used it so much that it's
all bent up like corkscrew.
Now take the 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 baoy to sleep. A couple of times she
sent over for the sofa, and when the boy
son was mad as thunder and kept growl-
ing around the house all day because there
were no casters on it. Last Monday she
borrowed our wash boiler, 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 undersbirt now
that I'm mighty doubtful if I'll ever get
off, it's stuck to me 80 tight. Every now
aud then she has company, and then she
borrows our hired girl and all our parlor
furniture; once because wouldn't carry
she told our girl there were rumors about
town that l was q reformed pirate.
Perfectly scandalous! They think moth
ing of sending over after couple of bed
eteads or the entry carpet; and the other
day Thompson says to me: 'Butterwick,
when said may be it did, he said: well,
I'd like to borrow it for few days till
can get one, for mines all rotted away
The only wonder to me is that he did not
try to borrow the we'll along with it.
And then on Thursday Mrs. Thompson
sent her boy over to know if Mrs. Butter
Wick wouldn't lend her our frontdoor. She
said theirs was being painted, and the baby
might catch cold. When 1 asked what
he supposed we were going to do to keep
comfortable without any frontdoor, he
said Mrs. Thompson said she reckoned
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And when 1 refused, the boy said Mrs.
Thompson told him if l wouldn't send over
the front door to ask Mrs. Butterwick
to lend her pair of stripped stockings
and horse hair hustle and, to borrow the
coal scuttle till Monday. What in the
name of Moses is she going to do with
hustle and a coal scuttle till Monday can't
conceive.
But they're most extraordinary people
Last Fourth of July was it 7-Yes-last
Fourth of July the boy came over and
said Mrs. Thompson would be much OBJ
llged If she'd lend her the twins for a few
minutes. Said Mrs. Thompson wanted 'em |
to suck off new bottle top, because it
made her baby sick to taste fresh India |
rubber Cheeky, wasn't it I 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 the children, and send him home
bare-legged to tell his mother that she Dor
rowed them for pattern. And on Thomp-
sons birthday she said her house was go
small for a party that if we'd lend her
ours we might come in late in the evening
and dance with the company if we wouldn't
let on that she didn't live there Yes, sir
Pm going to move away from there. I'd
rather live next door to a lunatic asylum
and have the maniacs pouring red hot shot
over the fence every hour of the day. In
deed, would.-Mdr Adeler.