, 1876-04-29
THEY CARRIED 1T TOO FAR.

day, and in the course of the conversation .6e
said -
"Im going to move. I can't stand those
ThompsoOs next door to me any longer.
They're the awfullest people to borrow
things that I. ever saw. Coffee and but.
ter, and sugar and -four I don't mind so much,
although when a woman bor.ows high priced
sugar and Java coffee and sends back sand
and chickory, a man naturally feels billions
and mad. But they've borrowed pretty
near everything in the house. First IFS
one thing and then it's another, from morning
till night, right straight along.
"Now there's the poker. A poker 10 a piece
Of machinery that you would think anybody
might go around and buy, or If they couldn't
afford it, they might use q fence paling TO
shake up the fire. But Mrs. Thompson seems
to banker after our poker. She borrows 1t
fifteen or twenty times a day, and last S1r6r-'
day she sent for it thirty four times. She
pays a boy SO a week to run over and borrow
that poker; and she's used 1t so much that it's
all bent up ike a oorkscrew.
"Now, take chairs for instance. She asks
US to lend her our ohairG three times a. day
at 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 a sofa,
and when the boy came back with 1t be said
Mrs. Thompson was mad as thunder, and
kept growing round the house all day because
there were no oastOrs on 1t. Last Monday abe
borrowed our wash boiler and We had to pue
off our washing till Tuesday. She did her
preserving in 1t, and the consequence was all
our clothes were full ef preserved peaches.
I've got on an undershirt now that I'm mighty
doubtful If I'll ever get of, it's stuck to me
SO tight.
Every now and then she has compa ny
and then she borrows our hired girl and all
the parlor furniture once, because | would
not carry the piano over for her and take down
the chandelier she told our girl that there
were rumours about town that l was a reform
ed pirate.
Perfectly soandalous They think nothing
of sending over after q couple of bedsteads
or the entry carpet, and the other day Thomp-
soma says to me -
"Butterwick does your p~umP-lOg pull up
easy ~
land when I said I thought it did, be
said =
"Well 1 would like to borrow it for a few
days till | can get one, for mino's all rotted
away"
1.-The only wonder to me is that he didn't
try 10 borrow the well along with 1t.
"And then on Tuesday Mrs. Thompson
sent that boy over to know If Mrs. Butter
wick wouldn't lend her our front door. She
said theirs was away being painted and she
was afraid also that baby would catch cold.
When | asked him what he supposed we were
going to do to keep comfort able without any
front door, he said Mrs. Thompson said she
reckoned We might tack up q bedQuilt or some
thing. And when | refused, the boy said Mrs.
Thompson told him if l wouldn't send over
the front door to ask Mrs. Butterwick to lend
her a pair OF strip ed stockings and a hOrse4air
hustle and to borro W the coal scuttle till Mon
day.
-" What IN the name OF Moyes she is going
to do with d hustle and a coal scuttle l can't
conceive.
But they're the most extraordinary people
Last Fourth of July the boy came over and
told Mrs. Butterwick that Mrs. Thompson
would be NJ uch Obliged if she'd lend her the
twins for a few m~isutes. Said Mrs. Thompson
wanted 'em to suck off a new bottle top, be
cause it made her baby sick to taste fresh
indiarubber Cheeky wasn't it But that's her
way. She don't mind it any more"
"Why I've known her to take off hsr
Johnny's pants he's been playing over there with
the children, and send him home bare legged
to tell his mother that she borrowed them for
a pattern. And on Thompsou's birthday she
said her house was so small for a party that If
we'd lend her ours we might come late In the
evening and dance with the company, If We
wouldn't let out that We didn't live there.
HYaa unr. 7 am 0oinO tn move. I'd rather