Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-03-08
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Mar. Adels, In the New York w,ekly.l
Mr.. Buttcrwick called Ia to sec inc
tho other day, and in tho course of tho
conversation, he said:
I'm going TO move. can't stand
these Thompsons, next door TO me any
longer. They're the awinllest people
to borrow things that | ever saw. COT.
fee, and butter, and sugar, and -four,
don't mind so much, although when
woman borrows high-priced sugar and
Java coffee, and sends back sand and
chickory, man naturally feels bilious
and mad. But they've borrowed prct.
" near everything in tho house. First
it's ono thing and then it's another,
from morning till night, right straight
along.
"Now there's the poker. A poker's
piece of machinery that you'd think
anybody might 60 around and buy, or
If they couldn't afford II, they might
use fence paling TO shake up the fire.
But Mrs Thompson seems to banker
after our poker. She borrows it if
teen or twenty times day, and last
Saturday she sent for it thirty .four
times. She pays boy two dollars a
week TO run over and borrow that 10.
ker aud she's used il 80 much that
its all bent up like q cork.screw.
"Now, take chairs for instance. Sho
asks us 10 lend her our chairs three
times day at every meal, and she
borrows the rockingham whenever
she wants to put the baby to sleep.
"a couple of times she sent over for
sofa, and when the boy came back
with il he said Mrs. Thompson was
mad as thunder and kept growing
around the house all day, because there
were no castors on it. Last Monday
she borrowed our wash-boiler, and we
had to put off our washing ill Tues-
day. She 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 Pm
mighty doubtful if III ever get of, it's
stuck TO me so tight.
"Every now and then she has com
pany- and then she borrows our hired
girl and all the parlor furniture once,
because | wouldn't carry the piano
over for her and take down the chan
deler, she told our hired girl that there
were rumors about town that | was
reformed pirate.
Perfectly scandalousf They think
nothing Of sending over after couple
of bedsteads or the entry carpet and
the other day Thompson says TO me:
"'Butterwick, does your pump-log
pull up easyT
"And when | said | thought it did,
he said.
"'Well, would like to borrow it for
few days till | can get one, for mines
all rotted away
"Ihc only wonder TO ms is that he
iidn't try TO borrow the well along
with it.
"And then on Thursday, Mrs. Thomp-
son sent that boy over to know il Mrs.
Butterwick wouldn't lend her our
ront door She said theirs was away
'cing painted and she was nfraid the
,aby would catch cold. When ask
ID him what he supposed we were 60
ng to do to keep comfortable without
my front door, be said Mrs. Thompson
aid she reckoned we might tack up
'ed-quilt or something And when /
efused, the boy said Mrs. Thompson
old him if wouldn't send over the
ront door to ask Mrs. Butterwick to
end her pair of striped stockings
md q horse-hair hustle and TO borrow
he coal-scuttle till Monday. What in
he name of Moses she is going to do
With hustle and coal-scnttle can't
onceive.
"But they're the most extraordinary
'eoplel Last Fourth of July, was it?
les--last Fourth of July the boy camo
ver and told Mrs. Butterwick that
irs. Thompson would be much oblig-
d if she'd lend her the twins for few
minutes. Said Mrs. Thompson want
Il 'em " suck or new bottle-top,
'ecause it made her baby sick to taste
resh India-rubberl Cheeky, wasn't
!? But that's her way. She don't
mind it any more
"Why I've known her TO take off
ur Johnny's pants when he's been
laying over there with the children,
nd send him home bare-legged to tell
is mother that she borrowed them
,r a pattern. And on Thompson's
irth-day she said her house was SO
mall for party that if we'd lend her
mrs we miUbf cnrn n in lata Il, Tho a,a,