Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1877-03-15

Mr.. Butterwick called in to see us
the other day, and in the course of
the conversation he said
I'm going. to move. I can't
stand those ThompSons next door
to me any longer. They're the aw-
fullest people to borrow things ever
saw. CJffee and butter and sugar
and Sour d0n't mind so much, al
though when woman borrows high
priced sugar and Java coffee and
sends back sand chickory, man
naturally feels mad. But they've
borrowed pretty near everything in
the house. First its one thing. then
It's another, from morning till night,
right straight along.
"Now, there's the poker. A pok-
er is piece OF machinery that you
would think anybody might 60
around and buy, or, if they couldn't
afford it, they might use fence
paling ID shake up the fire. But
Mrs Thompson seems to banker
after our poker. She borrows it
fifteen or twenty times a day, aud
last Saturday she sent for it thirty
four times. She pays boy two dol
la,s week to run over and borrow
that poker, and she's used it so
much that it's all bent up like a
cork screw.
"Now, take chairs for instance.
She asks us to lend her our chairs
three times day, at every meal,
anu she borrows the rocking chair
whenever she wants to put the baby
TO sleep.
"a couple OF times she sent over
for q sofa, and when the boy came
back with it he said Mrs. Thompson
was very mad, and kept growing
round the house all day because
there was no castors on it. Last
Monday she borrowed our wash
boiler, and we had to put off our
washing till Tuesday. Size did her
preserving i'll it, and the consequence
was all our clothes were full OF pre-
served peaches. I've got on an un-
dershirt now that I'm mighty doubt
full if I'll ever get off. it's stuck to
me 50 tight.,.'
Every now aud then she has
company, and then she borrews our
hired girl and all the parlor furni-
ture oCce, because i would not
carry the piano over for her, and
take down the chandelier, she told
the girl that there were rumors
about town that I was a reformed
pirate"
Perfectly scandalous They
think nothing of sending over after
couple of bedsteads or the entry
carpet, and the other day Thompson
says to me
"Butterwick, does your pump log
pull up easy ?''
'And when said I thought it
did," he said /:
"Well 1 would like to borrow it
for few days till 1 can get one, for
mine's all rotred away"
1.-THE only wonder to me in that
he didn't try to borrow the well
with it,"
And then on Tuesday Mrs.
Thompson 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 L asked him what he
supposed we were going to do to
keep comfortable without any front
door, he said Mrs. Thompson said
she reckoned we might tack up
Ded-quilt or something. And when
L refused, the boy said Mrs. Thomp
son told him if [ wouldn't send @ .er
the front door, to ask Mrs. PAtter-
wick to lend her pair of striped
stockings and a horse-b.dr hustle,
and to borrow the coz. scuttle till
Monday
"What she is gc ing to do with
hustle and a crAl scuttle l can't
conceive.
''But the re most extraordinary
people last fourth of July the boy
came Ier and told Mrs. Butterwick
that Mrs. Thompson would be much