Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-26
Two Sides TO a Bureau.
BY HARRIET PRESCOTT sroFFoRD.
ONE SIDE

ONE SIDE.
When ! turned round and she was
coming in the door, I'm sure | thought
1 was dreaming. If it had been the
Queen a-coming in, | shouldn't have
been more surprised; and the three
children with their three faces like
little pigs. "EIere. yOu." whispered
TO Benjamin Franklin, ''you just go
long aud stick your face in some water.
quick metre! And give Johnny's a
scrubbing, too." And wet the corner
of my apron between my lips in a hurry
and rubbed Sues mouth; and then
made believe hadn't seen her before,
and busted the other chair for her; and
she sat down. and | sat down, and we
looked at one another. Lordi she was
that fine. Her flounces were silk, and
they were scalloped like so many roses,
and lace showing under the edges of
them, and she had such boots, setting
like gloves-just enough to make your
ewes water. But the flowers in her hat
YOU should have seen them-I declare.
Won could have smelled them, Well.
she seemed to fill up the little room, and
if ever L was glad of anything, L was
glad that | had scrubbed the floor that
very day, 80 that ii was clean enough TO
eat off Of-glad, TOO. that I'd taken Jim's
old hat out of the broken window and
put in the smooth bottom of a box with
good espectable-loOking tack. Jim
might have mended that window, tor
he's a perfect Jack-at-all-trades; but
he'd rather play the fiddle than eat, and
he was a-playjng il out in the tie-up
that moment, with all the wind there
was blowing. However, L couldn't
complain, for he'd just mended the
chair, so that il was almost As good as
new, and had put me up as tidy a shelf
as YOU please, over the stove for the
brush and comb and hair-oIl bottle. If
I'd been a little slicked up myself, with
My new print and my pink apron. or if
I'D only had my bang on. | wouldn't
a minded. But when Benjamin Frank
lin came back with just the top dirt
rinsed off, aud the rest all smears, L did
feel so vexed that gave him As good a
shaking as nut-tree gets in harvest.
"Bless nv heart," says she, "what
are you doing that for?"
because he's so aggrayating'' says
/. There, you 90 long" and gave
him a shove.
"whv," says she, "don't you remem-
Der how it used to feel TO be shaken
yourself?"
81 don't know as | do" says '.
''As if you were flying TO atoms? And
your body WAS as powerless "a if it had
been in the hands of a giant, and your
heart as full of hate:'
"Why, look n here says /. "Be
you missionary"
"a missionary says she. laughing
NO; Im Mr. Mulgrave's wife. And
came up to see how the new house
was getting on; but the house is SO full
of plaster dust inside, aud the whirl-
wind is blowing the things off the roof
so outside, that thought 1 would ven-
ture in here till the cloud passed"
"Oh," says 1.
81 knocked, but you didn't hear me" :"
am real glad to see you," says l..
s'Ir's dreadful lonesome place, and
hardly anybody ever comes. Only I'm
sorry everything's so at skies and
sevens. You see, where there's a family
of children, and the wind blowing so,
says 1, with a lucky thonght--it's al
ways good to have the wood or the
weather to lay things to, because no
bOdy's responsible for the elements
"things will get to looking like ride
out.
"Children do make confusion," says
she: 'sbut confusion is pleasanrer with
them than pimlico order without them."
"well, that's so,'' answered; ''for
remember when Johnny had the measles,
last year, 1 thought if he only got well
I'd let him white the door all to pieces
Hero
Benny" SAYS /, for began 10 feel bad
TO think that I'd treated him so-''take
that TO little sister" and L gave them
something to keep them quiet. al sup
pose you wouldn't care for any water:"
says to her. then. Not if put some
molasses in it: 1 didn't know but the
wind would have made you dry. Yes,
chil,lren do make trouble One of Jim 5
songs says,
Marriage does bring trouble;
A ing e life is Jest;
They siI'.u q never doubie
Who would-b be a rest.
But there, wouldn't be without them
for all the fine clothes l used TO have
when | was single and worked in the
shop. / worked down at Burrage's-1
suppose you never buy any shoes there:"
''What makes you suppose sO:' says
she, smiling.
"Well, because your boots don't look
like our work; they look like-like
Cinderella's slippers. Yes, 1 worked at
Burrage's, off and on, a good many
years-on most of the time. i had six
dollars a week. Folks used to wonder
how | got so many clothes with il, after
I'd paid my board. But 1 always had
that six dollars laid out long before pay
day-in my mind, you knOw-so that 1
spent ii TO the best advantage. There's
Il great deal of pleasure in that"
"A great deal,'' says she.
''That's what say to Jim; and then
ne says his is all spent before payday
tOo-but with a difference, you know.
| Isuppose you've got real good steady
husband?''
"Oh yes, indeed" says she, laughing
some more.
''You must, TO have such nice house
as that is going TO be. But there!
shouldn't know what to do with it, and
i don't envy you a Bit"
"Oh, you needn't, says she, a-twitch-
ing her shoulder: 81 expect to have