Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1876-02-25
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They Carried it too Far.

the other day, and in the course Of the
conversation, he said /:
Pm going to move. can't stand
those lThonipsons next door to me any
longer They're the awfnllest people
to borrow things that ! ever saw. Cof-
fee, and butter, and sugar. and -four,
/ don't mind so much, although when a
woman borrows high-priced sugar and
Java coffee, and sends back sand and
chickory. man naturally feels bilious
and mad. But they've borrowed pretty
near everything in the house First it's
one thing and then its the other from
morning till night, right straight along
''Now there's the poker. A poker's a
piece of machinery that you'd think any
body might 60 around and buy, or, if
they couldn't afford it, they might use a
fence paling to shake up the fire. But
Mrs. Thompson seems to banker after
our poker She borrows it fifteen or
twenty times day, and at least Satur-
day she sent for it thirty-four times
She pays boy two dollars week to
run over and borrow that poker and
she's used it so much that it's all bent up
like corkscrcw
Nov, take chairs for instance. She
asks us to lend her our chairs three
times day at every meal, and she Dor
rows the rocking-char whenever she
wants to put the baby to sleep.
"A couple of times she sent over for
sofa, aud when the boy came back
with it, he said Mrs Thompson was mad
as thunder and kept growing around
tile house all day because there were no
castors on it. Last Monday she b.r
rowed our wash-boilcr, and we had to
put of our washing till Tuesday. She
did her preserving ia it, and the eonse-
quence was all our clothes were full Of
preserved peaches. I've got on an I'M
dersbirt now that I'm mighty doubtful
if Ill ever get off, 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 aud take down the chandelier,
she told our girl that there were rumors
about town that | was reformed pirate.
Perfectly scandalous, They think
nothing of sending over for couple of
bedstends or the entry carpet and the
other day Thompson says TO me:
Butterwiek, docs your pump7log
pull up easy z"
"And when | said thought maybe it
did, be said:
'Well,~I would like. to borrow it for
a few days till can get one, for mines
all rotted away
"Thc only wonder to me is that he
didn't try 10 borrow the well along
withit
"And then on Thursday, Mrs Tbomp-
son sent that boy over to know if Mrs
Buttterwick wouldn't lend her our front
door. She said theirs was away being
painted and she was afrnid the baby
would catch cold. When | asked him
what he supposed we were going to do
to keep comfortable without any front
door, he said Mrs Thompson said she
reckonea we might tack up a bed quilt Or
something And when | refused, the
boy said Mrs Thompson told him if /
wouldn't send over the front to ask Mrs.
Butterwck to lend her Il pair of striped
stockings and horse hair hustle and TO
borrow the coal scutle till Monday
What in the name of Moses shells going
to do with asbnstle and coal scuttle
can't conceive
But they re the most extraordinary
people! Last Fourth of July. was it
Yes-last Fnurtbsof July the boy cane
ever and told Mrs Batierwick that Mrs
Thompson would be much obliged if
she'd lend her the twins for few minutes.
Said Mrs Thompson wanted en- to suck
off anew bottle-top, because it made her
baby sick to taste fresh india rubber!
Cheeky wasn't it? But that's her way
She.don't mind it any more
why I've known her to take off our
Johnny pants when he's been playing
over there with the children, and send
him home bare-legeed to tell his mother
that she borrowed them for a pattern
And 90 Thompson birthday she said
her house was 50 small for party that
If we'd lend her ours we might come in
the evening and dance with the COM
pany if we wouldn't let on that she
didn't live there
"Yes. sir; Fm going to move. I'd
rather live next door to lunatc ASYLUM
and have the maniacs pouring red-hot
shot over the fence every hour of the
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