Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1876-02-24

| THKY CARRIED IT Too FAS.SMr.
Butterwick called in to see me the other
day, aud in the course Of the couverss.
tion. he said:
| Tm going to move. I can't stand
those Thompsons, next door TO me anv
longer. They're the awfullest people
TO borrow things that I ever saw. Cof.
fee. and butter, and sugar. and Aour,
| don't mind so much. although when
a woman borrows high-priced sagsr
and Java coffeee. and sends back sand
and chickory, . man naturally feels
bilious and mad. But they've borrow.
ed pretty near everything in the house.
First it's one thing and then tie an.
other. from morning till night. right
straight along.
Nov there's the poker. A roker's
piece of machinery that You'd think
any body might go around and buy. or;
if they couldn't afford it. they might
nse fence paling to shake up the fire.
But Mrs Thompson seems to banker
after orr poker. She bo-rows i. fifteen
or twenty times day, and last Satur-
day she sent for i. thiriy-four times.
She paws bcv two dollars week T.,
run over and borrow that poker; and
she's used j. so much that it's all bent
up like corkscrew.
':Now. take chairs for instance She
asks us To lend her our chairs thres
times day at every meal. and she
borrows the rocking chair whenever
she wants to put the baby to sleer.
a couple of times she sent over for
a sofa, and when the bov came back
with it be said Mrs. Thompson was
mad as thunder. and kept growling
arouud the house all day. because there
were no casters on it. Last Monday
she borrowed our wash-hoilcr. and wo
had to put off our washing till Thurs
DAY. She did her preserving in it, and
the consequence was all our clothes were
full Of preserved peaches. I've got on
tn indershirt now that I'm mighty
doubtful if I'll ever get off, it's stuck
to me So tight.
Every now and then she has CON-
panv. aud then she torrovs our hired
gi,l and all the parlcr furniture; once,
teca"se wouldn't carry the piano
over for her aud take down the char-
delier, she told our girl that there were
rumors about town that / WAS a re-
formed pirate.
Perfectly scandalous They think
nothing Of sending over after couple
Of bedstcads or the entry carpet; and
the other day Thompson says I" me:
.Butterwick, does your pump-log
pull mp easy!'
"And when said thought maybe
it did. he said:
..Well. | would like to borrow it for
few days till | can get one, for mines
all rotteI away
"The only wonder to me is that le
didn't try to borrow the we'll along with
it.
And then on Thursday, Mrs. Thomp-
son sent that boy over to know IL Mrs.
Butterwick wouldn't lend her our front
door. She said theirs was away being
painted aud she was afraid the baby
would catch cold. When I asked him
what he supposed we were going to do
to keep comfortable without any front
door, h. said Mrs. Thompson said she
reckoned ~e might tack UP a bed quilt
o: something And when I refused.
the boy said Mrs, Thompson told him
if | wouldn't send over the front door
to ask Mrs Bu,.erwick To lead her
pair of striped stockings and a horse
hair hustle and to borrow the coal scu,-
tie TIL Monday What in the name 81
Moses she is going To- do with hustle
L. 7 ~n,'t
"But they're the most extraordinary
people! Last Fourth Of July, was i, (!
Y.s-last Fourth Of July the boy camo
over and told Mrs. Butterwick that
Nrs. Thompson would be much obliged
if she'd lend her the twins for a few
minutes. Said Mrs. Thompson wanted
'em to suck off new bot,le-tor, because
it made her baby sick to taste fresh in:
dia rubber! Cheeky. *asn't it. But
that's her way. She don't mind it any
more!
"Whv I've known her TO take off our
Jobnnv's pants when he's been playing
over there with the children, and send
him home bare-legged 60 tell his moth:
er that she borrowed them for pat
te.n. And on Thompson's birthday
she said her house was so small for -
party that if we'd lend her Ours We
might come II, la.c in the evening and
dance with the company if We wouldn's
let on that she didn't live there!
"Yes sir; I'm going to move. I'd
rather live next door to a lunatic asv-
lum and have the maniacs pouring red
hot shot over the fence every hour OF
the dav. Indeed I would" ."-Aax Ad-
ele-, in Nesc York Weekly.