The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1876-04-20
They Carried it too Far.

those Smiths, next door to me,
any longer. They're the awfullest
people to borrow things that | ever
saw. Coffee and sugar and butter
and -four 1 don't mind 80 much, al
though when a woman borrows high
priced sugar and Java coffee, and
sends back sand, and chickory, man
naturally feels bilious and mad. But
they have borrowed pretty near
everything in the house. First it's
one thing and then it's another, from
morning till night, right straight
along. Now there's the poker. A
pokcr's piece Of machinery that
you'd think anybody might go around
and buy, or if they couldn't afford it
they might use fence paling to
shake mp the fire. But Mrs. Smith
seems to banker after our poker
She borrows it fifteen or twenty times
q day, and last Saturday she sent for
it thirty-tour times. She pays
boy two dollars q week to run over
and borrow that poker; and she's
used it 80 much that it's all bent up
like a corkscrew.
SHOW take chairs, for instance
She asks us to lend her our chairs
three times day at every II cal, and
che borrows the rocking chair when
over she wants to put tie baby to
sleep. A couple of times she sent over
for sofa, and when the boy came
back with it he said Mrs. Smith
was mad as thunder and kept growl-
ing around the house all day because
there were no castors on it. Last
Monday she borrowed our wash
boiler, and we had to pat off our
washing until Tuesday. She did Ler
preserving in it, and the consequence
was all our clothes we're full of pre-
served peaches: I've got on an un-
dershirt now that Pm mighty doubt
full, I'll ever get it off, it stuck to me
80 tight. Every now and then she
has company, and then she borrows
our hired girl and all the parlor fur
niture; once because l wouldn't carry
the piano over for her girl she said
that there were rumors about town
that | was reformed pirate.
"Perfectly scandaous! They think
nothing of sending over alter couple
Of bedsteads or the entry carpet; and
She other day Smith say to me-
'Buttorwick, does your pumplong
pull up easy,' he said: If 50, I'd like
to borrow it for few days till | can
get one, for mines all rotten away!
The only wonder to mo is that he
didn't try to borrow the we'll along
with it.
"And then, on Thursday, Mrs.
Smith sent that boy over to know
if Mrs. Butterwick wouldn't lend her
our front door. She said theirs was
away being painted and she was
afraid the baby would catch cold
When / asked him what he supposed
we were going to do to keep cons
Portable without any front door he
said Mrs. Smith said she reckoned
we might tack up bed quilt or
something. And when | refused, the
boy said Mrs. Smith told him if
wouldn't send over the front door to
ask Mrs. Butterwck to lend her
pair striped stockings and a horse
hair hustle and to borrow the coal
ecuttle till Monday. What in Ihe
name of Moses she is going to do
with hustle and coal scutle
can't conceive.
"But they're the most extraorJin-
ary people! Last Fourth of July, was
it9 Yes-last Fourth of July the boy
came over and told Mrs. Butterwick,
that Mrs. Smith would be much
obliged if she'd lend her twins Tor
few minutes. Said Mrs. Smith want
ed 'em 10 suck off new bottle top,
because it made her baby sick to