Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-03-29

saucy youth. Then she asks me If
take eggs, and say we do, and ",
pay % cents, and she says they're pay
ing 80 cents at the other store; and of
she goes, and put up the prints, ant
am down at the farther end of tn,
room turning fragments out of {
cracker barrel, when back she come:
and wants samples.
We keep a pOst.ofice, and by thu
time get back to my cracker barrel
in comes a man who wants to know II
he hasn't a letter. He never had ;
letter in his life, and he knows it, ant
know it; but it is one of those fact
that both parties ignore, and g
and look, and give him the cOnsOlin!
assurance that he hasn't any, and III
departs in peace of mind.
Then there is a lady who wants t.
match COMPOUNDED bit of silk braid
drab bordering on the lilac. 1t take!
me five minutes to find one box Of silk
braids, and FIVE more to find we haven
drab bordering on the lilac. Their
she wants sewing silk the same shade
and I hunt through all the sewing
silks, and there's drab bordering OF
everything else except lilac; but
know by the way her tlounces sweep
out that mercantile house not keep
ing drab bordering on the lilac stand!
very low.
get down to the farther end of thu
store again, and there comes a man t.
the front door, and yells out loui
enough for every customer to heal
that he's brought back that barrel Of
-four says the bread was black and
all dough in the middle. Now that
man understood, when he had that
flour, that it was inferior quality, not
recommended, and he had it cheap,
and took it because it was cheap.
help him roll the flour in, and l can
see that he thinks he had circumyented
villain.
That's the way it goes day after day,
week after week, and l hate tea, detest
saleratus, abhor Goldfish, and wish
calico, cotton cloth, drilling, hooks
and eyes, and all the rest of the
wretched necessities Of an artificial
civilization were at the bottom of the
Indian Ocean. long to be a savage
more than do to be an angel, and
shall be, one of these days, though
do wear cloth suits, and have a shay
ing.mug at the barber's marked in
gilt letters, S. O. Haynes. I wonder
that all self.respect and sentiment OF
humanity hasn't long ago persisted
from out my bosom.
Such were my reflections one fine
morning just after train time, while
was weighing out half pound of black
tea, when my fellow-sufferer in the
dry.goods and grocery infection called
out.
"Here's lady inQuiring for you,
Sam.
In distinct outline before the door
stood little woman, her skirts spread
out by triangular hoop like the skirts
of the female figures we used to draw
on our states at school. came up tC
make my bow. and she had deposited
a brown willow basket on the show.
case and dropped a black glazed bag
at her side. She wore stringy kind
of shawl, with fearfully long fringe,
and seemed to be afflicted with numt
palsy.
"Are you my nephew Sam'wel e.
asked she.
MY =, name is Samuel Hayne.
ma'am."
- I'm your fathers aunt, Loueezer
Haynes"
I'm glad to see you, Aunt Louisa. ~
She looked at me sharply, as if was
making fun of her. l suppose it is
hocouoo tho corDaro ~ INV 49,,
up, people are always suspecting nee OF
making fun of them. I wish those
corners would sink, and wonder they
don't.
"l'm your only living female rel
alive on the fathers side," said she.
My business experience with females
had been SO imbittering, was glad ia
learn she was the only one on the faith
er's side.
Gas you've no mother, feel it my
duty to help make home for you.''
1nsta! tly remembered that Aunt
Louisa was worth seventy five thous.
and. I think l learned that fact in
early years at the paternal knee, along
with who made me, and what State
lived in. I know it always stood to
my infantile consciousness in the re-
lation of a primary truth. My father
all his life, courted poverty through
the medium of dry goods and grocer
les, and went through bankruptcy as
often as the law would allow. During
the periodic seasons, before calling the
creditors and making All assignment
he used to clasp his hands to his heaG
and calculate, ''Louisa might help mi
if she only would!''
But Louisa wouldn't, or at leas
didn't, and whatever may be thought
of her filial affection, mature observa
tions on the oscillations in the mo
lasses and ginger bread market hav,
convinced lne of the souudness of he]
judgment.
I'm delighted to see you, Aunt
Louisa. III 60 right down to m,
booading.place with you,''
Hence, with brown willow basket
in one hand q shiny leather bag in thu
other, and my great-aunt trotting be
hind-why under heaven she didn't
walk by my side 1 couldn't see I'VE
meandeIed down the street.
We met Evelina ANGELA Plimpton
Twas engaged to Evelina ANGELA.
had enjoyed that honor ever since one
July evening when there came up 9
sudden thunder.shower, and She
clasped my arm and CALCULATED she was
80 tim.id." An engagement was an
annual episode with Evelina. When ]
solemnly asked Pa Plimpton's consent
he didn't remove his pipe from hi
mouth, but just nodded and pursued
his previous train of thought. Evelins
smiled patronizingly upon me. Defer
ence to the aged l knew she consid
cred beautiful.
My aunt didn't like my boarding
place. and wasn't pleased with my
boarding.mistress. She thought we'd
better keep house, land spent the nexl
fortnight house.hunting with her. The
great desideratum seemed to be the
right kind Of q cutlery" one would
have supposed butter was to be the
staf Of life with US. We at last found
"buttery" on tho northwest corner,