West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1877-12-01

almost 10 desperation, he would rush
out To get a little peace and fresh air,
fall IN with old Binnakcr and get his
stomach so full of stale beer that it
seemed like the furnace of gas works.
and kept him awake all night.
lie was soon convinced that he would
have 10 move or die, 80 he told Mrs.
SarSaper one morning TO hunt up house
and get the moving job over rs soon as
possible.
The next week found them comforta-
bly, settled in n real biiou of house on
Clinton street-nice little yard i'm front,
iron fence, inside blinds, water i'm the
Kitchen, gas in every room, and every
convenience, as Mrs. Sarsaper said. that
could be desired, and the rent so reason
bile, too-in all which she was strongly
seconded 10y her mother. who had come
over To help them settle down. Mr..
Sarsaper looked the house over from ton
To bottom, and had to admit that they
had bcttered themselves by the move.
and he hoped that this time the women
would be able To get along with the
neighbors i'm peace.
Oh, three wouldn't be any trouble
about that" Mrs. Sarsaper thought.
She had been careful to make some i'm
quiries before taking the house, and had
been gratilicd to learn that nearly all
the neighbors were the wives of well-to-
do mechanics, or dry goods clerks. There
wasn't a man in business for himself
living nearer than seven houses, had not
a solitary woman in the block and no
green silk or an opera cloak. Old Mrs.
Cashigot, the bankers mother, at the
| corner, had the most costly dresses of
any woman on the square, hut she was
an elderly lady, sensible in her ways, and
didn't try TO put ON style. There was
nothing gilt-cdged about her, and when
she went along in her carriage she never
! turned her head TO see whether ANYBODY
was looking at her or not. This. Mrs.
Sarsaper had seen with her own ewes.
and was satisfied that Amelia and her
could hold their own i'm that neighbor-
hood. The only young lady in the
block who had beau of any consc-
quence, was lumber mans daughter.
who was to marry wholesale liquor
dealers son the next week, and 90 To
housekeeping on Scventh-strect.
"No, pa; there wouldn't be the least
bit OF trouble. They would surely he
| happy there, and could step as high as
they pleased. There wasn'tany parrot in
that part of town, and nothing that
wore feathers, except two or three harm
less mocking birds and possibly few
canaries. Billy and Minnie wouldn't
/ have To walk 50 far To school, and the
air was purer and more healthful. There
had only been two potato hawkers along
that day, and the scrap-iron man had
lost his voice. The yell of the ragman
| didn't sound so much like buzz-saw at
dinner; only one book agent had got
into the house, and he was dctmHy M.
tte, and didn't have no breastpin or any
tobacco stains on his shirt Nobody
had been after cold vittlcs, neither had
any one with iluters or clothes wrincers
on weekly payments struck the house
Billy had had scarcely any trouble i'm
getting acquainted with neigbborine
boys, as he had only come in once with
the blood pouring out of his nose and
his shirt torn of, and there had been
no complaint from Minnie of the little
girls in the next yard making faces at
her through the cracks, or calling her
cross-eyed sorrel top. The family on
one side of them was away from home,
but they were said TO be very pious, so
there was nothing to bc feared from
them. You can't help but like il here
pa. OF course you will"
Give him plenty of quiet, Mr.. Sarsa-
per said, and he would getalong if every
man on the street wore red silk panta-
looms with gold buttons and satin-lined
dOckets