The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1876-12-13

she jest hurried out as if she didn't
want any one to speak to her.
"Well, Friday came, and by three
o clock we was mostly all at the par
sonage. Mr.. Ormsby looked dreadful
sober, more as if it Was a funeral than
a merry-making, / must say; but his
wife was awful. She was Jest as hufy
and short as she could be with every
one, and she went and locked the study
door and put the key in her pocket
right before us all, as if she was afraid
we'd touch some of Mr.. Ormsby's pa
pers or books.
".Bimeby we began to think about
settin' the table; so Aunt Betsey,
Mandy Jones and mo went out into
the kitchen to unpack the cOrtribu-
tions. There we're some pertaters and
turnips Chem we put in the suller)
piece of corned beef, two or three billed
hams, pot of butter, some apple sass,
and such lot Of biscuits it would
have taken all night to count 'em.
81 begun to be scarf when we took
out painful after painful Of biscuit, and
nocake to speak of. At last we come
to Miss Jones bascuit and there we
found lection cake, as we'll as great
batch Of molssses. .cookieN
II was glad eh06gh I'd sent pound
cake and .crullers; but somehow when
the table was ready, there was more
biscuit on it than anything else,
though we did the best We could.
"Mr. johnson sent tea and coffee
from his store, besides sugar and crack
ers, and Amos Hull brought bag Of
nuts and some apples for the young
folks after supper, he said.
"There were so many there we had
to deyide 'em into three lots, the din
in room bein' small; and u was
most Z o'clock when they got through
eatn'.
Aunt Betsey stayed with me to
clear up some; and l thought never
should get all the biscuits put away,
for they most filled the pantry.
"For all there had been so many
eaten, yet there was piles and piles
left, and, as aunt Betsey said, they
wouldn't need to bake for months to
como.
ut happened SO that [ didn't go
out much the week after the donation
party, but the second Sunday after, I
started off good and early for church,
and as / turned the corner by the par
sonage, | saw something that most
took my breath awaysEsery one OF
them sharp pickets f6dnd the house
had good biscuit stuck right atop OF
it Yes, Miss Harwood, jest as sure as
you live, there was Aunt Betsey's nice
raised biscuit could tell hern by
the shape-and Miss Hull's rusks, and
Miss Stiles soda biscuit, and every one
of 'em wasted in that shameful way.
"Well, l stood and looked I hadn't
the strength to move-and soon some
of thSAHkes came along apd jlnS1 me;
aud thefeN we afftstood till the last
bell began to ring, talkin' the matter
over and feelin' pretty mad, / can tell
you.
"Mr. Ormsby had a good sermon
that day, but could hardly hear Q
word, my mind was 50 full of sths. bis,
cults.
"Miss Ormsby warn't there, and as
soon as the last hymn was sung, he
got up and said that he had a cal
from a church in the far west, and thai
he had made up bis mind that it was
his duty to accept it. He went on tC
say that he would like to go that same
week, and then, without 80 much al
tellin' US he was sorry to leave us, Of
o6erin' to wait until we got some on,
else, he gave the benediction and dis
missed US.
H-"I can tell you there was talk enough
when we got out that morniu' anC
some Of the folks thought to pint I
committee to ask Mrs Ormsby abou
it, but brother Ralph said: No; i
they was goin' let 'em go peaceable
50 they all agreed to say nothin' a
all.
eve heard afterward, from littl
Johnny Hall, who was playin' nea
the parsonage late on Saturday after
noon, that Mr.. Ormsby he brought th
biscuits out in big basket, and the
Miss Ormsby she helped him to site
them on the piekets, and she laughe
all the time as ifit was a good joke.
81 don't want 10 judge anybody
but never did think that woman wa
fit for a minister's wife, aud l don
think 80 now.
swell, they moved off, bag and bal
gage, on Wednesday of that weel
and we've never heard of Mr.. Ormsb
since, and / don't know as we want
seein' he hurt our feelin's so, thoug