Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1877-09-20

found lection cake, as well as grea'
batch of molasses cookies;
I was glad enough Id sent pount
cake aud crulers but somehow
when the table was ready, there was
more biscuits on it than anything
else though we did the best We could
Mr. johnson sent tea and coffee
from his store, besides sugar and
crackers; and Amos Hull he brought
a bag of nuts and some apples for the
young folks after supper he said.
There was 50 many there that we
had to divide EN- into three lots, the
dinin room bein small and it was
most seven o'clock when they got
through eatin'.
Aunt Betsy staid with me to clear
up some and thought l should
never get all the biscuits away, for
most filled the pantry.
For all there had been so many
eaten, yet there was piles left, and, as
Aunt Bessy said, they wouldn't need
to bake for a month to come.
1T happened so that didn't go out
much the week after the donation
party, but, the second Sunday after, |
started off good and early for church,
and as | turned the corner by the
parsonage, I say something that
most took my breath away. Every
one of them sharp. pointed pickets
round the house and garden had a
good biscuit stuck right atop Of it
Yes, Miss Harwool Jest as sure as
vou live, there was Aunt Betsy's nice
raised buscuit-I could tell hern by
the shape-ani Mis- Hnll's rusks,
and Miss Stiles soda biscuit, and ev-
cry one of 'em wasted in the same
shameful way.
We'll, | stood and look ed hadn t
the strength TO move-and pretty
soon some of the ladies came along
and lined me and there we all stood
till the last bell began to ring, talllin'
the matter over and feelin pretty
mad, | can tell you.
Mr.. Ormsby had q good sermon
that day, but I could hardly hear a
word, my mind was so full Of the
biscuits.
Miss Ormsby warn't there, and as
soon as the last hymn was sung, he
cot up and SAID that he had had d
call from the far West, and that he
had made up his 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 20 much
as telling us that he was sorry to
leave us, or otferin to wait until we
could get some one else, he gave the
benodicticn and dismissed US.
1 can tell you there was talk
enough when we got ont that morn
in,' and some of the folks thought We
ought to p int committee to ask Miss
/ Ormsbv about it, but brother RAJ ph
said, No; if they was goin' let'em &C
peaceable so they all agreed to say
nothin' at ali.
we heard afterward from little
Johnny Hall, who was playin' neal
the parsonage late on Saturday after
noon, that Mr.. Ormsby he brougl
the biscuits out in big basket, and
then Miss Ormsby she helped him to
stick them on the pickets, and she
laughed all the time as if it was a
good joke.
1 don't want 10 Judge anybody
but | never did think that woman
was fit for minister's wife, and ]
don't think so now.
We'll, they moved off, bag and bag
gage, on Wednesday OF last week, and
and we've never heard from Mr..
Ormsby since, and l don't know as
we want to, seein' he hurt our feelin S
so, thought we've never found as good
preacher as he was, and never will.
And this was Melissas story.
-Harpcr's Magazine.
She kicked up her dress with her
right foot and showed the stripes on
her left ankle, and little rascal was
it that yelled
Say, Gully, there goes another wo-
man what's string-haltered. Watch
her hist her foot like hoss.
And they watched her until she
kicked again, when they both yelled :
Whoa, Nance, and rolled off the
curbst5 5ne into tue gutter.