Delaware tribune, and the Delaware state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1877-18??, 1877-10-11
WHY VENTED TO MOVE.

Mr.. Eltterv ick - Troubles WIN AL"
Mex, Door NcichaOr-A borrowing
Family.
Max Ads'er.
Mr.. Butterwicl, called in to see me the
other day, and in the course OF the CONVEX
sation he said i
"I'm going TO move. I can't stand
those Thompsons next door TO me any
longer. They're the awfules people to
borrow things that I ever saw. Coffee,
and butter aud sugar. aud flour, don't
mind so much, although when woman
borrows igh-priced sugar and Java coffee
and sends buck sand mud chickory, man
naturally feels mad. But they've borrowed
pretty near everything in the house.
First il is one thing and then it is another,
from morning till night, right straight
along.
Now, there's the poker. A pokers o
piece of machinery that you'd think any
body would go around and buy, OF, if they
couldn't afford it, they might use fence
| paling to shake up the fire. But Mrs.
| Thompson seems 10 banker after our
poker. She borrows it fifteen or twenty
times day, and last Saturday she sent
for it thirty -four times. She pays boy
50 week to run over and borrow that
poker; and she used it SO much that it's
bent like a corkscrew.
"Now take chairs, for instance. She
asks us to lend her our chairs three times
a day at every meal, and she borrows the
rocking chair every time she wants to put
the baby to sleep.
"a couple Of times she sent over for
sofa, and when the boy came back With it,
he said Mrs. Thompson was mad as
thunder and kept growing around the
house all day because there is no casters
on it. Last Monday she borrowed our
wash boiler, and we had to put off wash
ing till Tuesday. She did her preserving
in it, and the consequence was our clothes
were full of preserved peaches. I've got
on an undershirt now that I'm mighty
doubtful if III ever get of, it's stuck so
tight.
EVERY now and then she has company
and then she borrows our hired girl and
all the parlor furniture. Once, because l
wouldn't carry the piano over for her and
take down the chandelier, she told our girl
that there were rumors about town that I
was reformed pirate.
'Perfectly scandalous They think
nothing of sending over for couple of
bedsteads or the entry carpet, aud the
other day Thompson says to me:
" 'Butterwick does your pump log pull
up easy?'
"And when said l thought maybe it
did, he said:
+" We'll, would like to borrow it for a
few days till I can get one, for mines all
rotted away
"l'he only wonder to me is nc didn't try
to borrow the well along with it.
And then on Thursday Mrs. Thomp-
son sent the boy over to know if Mrs
Buttcrwirlt would lend her our front door.
she said theirs was away being painted,
aud she said she was afraid the baby
would ceteh cold. When | asked him
whnt he supposed we wero going to do to
keep comfortable without any front door
he said Mrs. Thompson said she reelened
We might tack UP a bed sullt or some
thing. And when refused, the boy said
AIRS. ThoGrsen told him to ask if I
"olIIilV send over the front door, to ask
Mrs. Butterwich to lond her n pair of
striped stockings and horse-haif hustle,
and borrow the coal souttlo ill Mondnv.
What in the name Of Moses she is going
to do vita hustle and coal scuttle i
uan'i conceive.
But they're most extraordinary people.
Last Fourth OF July was its Yes-last
Fourth of July the boy came over and
toll Mis- Buttsrwick that Mrs. THOMPSON
would be much obliged ii she'd lend her
Ll!e twins for a few inmates, Said Mrs.
Thompson wanted EN- 10 suck of a naS,
bottIe-top, because ii made her baby sick
70 taste fresh India rubber. Cheeky wasn't
~ H'J that's her way. She don't mind
1t any more.
why I've known her to take of our
Johnnys pants when he's been playing
over there with The children, and send him
home bare-legged to tell his mother that
she borrowed them for pattern. Aud on
Thompson's birthday Gho said her house
was SO small ror party, that il we'd lend
her ours we might come in the evening
md dance with the ca,apaay if we
wouldn't let on that she didn't live there.
.''9es, sir; I'm going to move I'd
rather live next door 10 lunatic asylum
and have tho nnniacs pouring red h,i
shot over the fence every hour Of lie day.
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