Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1876-05-16
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SI0h. DO i f1h w UNI II Calleu IN 10 SEQ
SSsss me the other day, and in the course of
theIeonversation he eaid !:
"I'm going to move. can't stand those
ThOmpsons next door to me any longer
They're the awiullest people to borrow things
that ever saw. Coffee and butter, aud sugar
and -four l don't mind so much, although
when a woman bOrrows high priced sugar and
IVA coffee, and sends back sand and chickory,
u fellow naturally feels bilious and mad
But they've borrowed pretty nearly every
thing in the house. First it's one, then it's
another, from morning till might, right straight
along.
''Now there's the poker A poker is n
piece OF machinery that you would think any-
body might go around and buy, or, if they
couldn't afford it, they might use fence
paling to shake up the FIRE. But Mrs. Thomp.
son seems 10 banker after our poker. She
borrows il fifteen or twenty times day, and
last Saturday she cent for it thirty y-four times.
She pays boy 50 week to run over and
borrow that poker, and she's used il so much
that it's all bent up like cork screw.
"Now, take chairsifor instance. She asks
us to lend her our chairs three times dSyAt
every meal, and she borrows the rocking chair
whenever she wants to put the baby to sleep.
"a couple of times she sent over for q
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 eastors on it. Last Monday
she borrowed our wash boiler aud we had to
put off our washing till Tuesday. Sho 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 l would
not carry the piano for her aud take down tho
chandelier she told our girl that there were
rumors around town that was reformed
pirate
Perfectly scandalous They think nothing
of sending over for couple Of bedsteads aud
the entry carpet. and tho other day Thomp-
son said to me:
"ButterwOrth, does your pump log pull M
easily?"
"And when I said I thought it did, bO
said:
"'I would like to borrow it for few days
till I can get ono, for mines all rottod away
''The only wonder to me is that he didn't
try 10 borrow the well along with it,
"Aud then on Tuesday Mrs. Thompson
sent that boy over to know il Mrs. Butter
worth wouldn't lend her our front door. Sho
said theirs was away being painted, aud sho
was afraid the baby would catch cold. When
asked him what he supposed VIC were going
TO do TO keep comfortable without any front
door, he said Mrs. Thompson ssid she reeks
Oned we might Tack up a bcdNqniIt OF some-
thing And when / refused, the boy said
Mrs. Thompson told him if | wonldn't send
over the front door to ask Mrs. Butterworth
to lend her pair of striped stockings and
horse-hnir hustle, and to borrow the coal scut-
tie till Monday.
'What in the namo Of Moses she is going
to do with a hustle and coal scuttle Iscan't
conceive.
"But they're the most exIraordinnry pco-
pie Last Fourth of July the boy came over
and told Mrs. Butterworth that Mrs. TbOmp>
son would be much obliged ii she'd lend her
the twins for a few minutes. Said Mrs.
Thompson wanted them to suck of new bot
tie top, because it made her baby sick 20 tnstc
new india>rubber Cheeky, wasn'tit? But
that's her way, She don't mind II any more.
"Why, I've known her to take off our
JOhnny's pants when he's been pInying over
there with her children, and send him home
baro-legged to tell his mother that sho bor-
rowed them for pattern. And on Thomp-
sons birthday: she said her house was too
small for party, That if we'd lend her ours
We might come late in tho evening and dance
with the company, If We Wouldn I, let on tEsf
wc lived there.
"Yes, sir; I'm going to move. I'd rather
live next door to lunatic asylum and havo
the msniacs pouring Ied>hot shot over tho
fence every hour of tho day. Indeed
would"