Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-07-20
4 Rural Nui~alce.

1 Rural NHi>aRee.
Im going to move, said Mr..
Il '-rw,ck: II can stand those
Thom,'Sons next door To me ans
longer. They're the awfrlest peo-
p'eto borrow Things that ! ever saw
Coffee and butter and sugar and
-four ! don't mind SO much, al
though, when woman borrows
high priced sugar and Java coffee,
and sends black sand and chickory.
a man naturally feels bilious and
mean. But they've borrowed pref
ty near everything in the house.
First it's one thing and then it's
another, from morning till night
right straight along.
Now there's the poker. A poker
is a piece of machinery that you
would think anybody might go
around and buy, or, if they couldn't
afford it, they might use a fence
paling to shake up the fire. But
Mrs. Thompson seemed to banker
after our poker; she borrows it fif-
teen or twenty times day, and last
Saturday she sent for it thirty-four
times. She pays boy two dollars
o week to run over and borrow that
poker; and she's used it so much
THAI it's all bent up like corkscrew.
Now take chairs, for instance.
She asks us to lend our chairs three
times day at every meal, and she
borrows the rocking-chair whenever
she wants to put the baby to sleep.
ga couple of times she sent ovel
for our sofa, and when the boy came
back with it he said Mrs. Thompson
was mad as thunder, and kept growl
| ing around the house oil day, be
cause there was no castors on it
Last Monday she borrowed oul
wash boiler, and we had to put of
our washing till Tuesday. She die
preserving in it, and the consequence
was all our clothes were full of pre-
served peaches. I've got on an un
dcrskirt now that I'm mighty doubt
full if I'll get it off, it's stuck to M
so tight.
Every now and then she ha
company, and she borrows our hiret
girl and all the parlor furniture; he
cause I would not carry the plan,
over for her and take down the chan
delier, she told our girl that Their
were rumors about town that I wa
a reformed pirate.
Perfectly scandalous! The,
think nothing of sending over afte,
a couple of bedsteads or the entr,
carpet; and the other day Thomp
son says to me:
Butterwick, does your pump
log pull up easy?'"
"And when I said / thought i
did. he said:'
Well, I would like to borrow i
for few days till I can get one, fol
mine is oil rotted away"
"The only wonder to me is tina,
he didn't try to borrow the vel
along with it."
And then on Tuesday Mrs
Thompson sent that boy over t.
know if Mrs. Butterwick wouldn'
lend him our front door. He saii
theirs was away being painted and
he Was afraid the baby would catcl
cold. When ! asked him what h
supposed We were going to d.
TO keep comfortable without an,
front door, be said Mrs Thompsoi
said she reckoned ne might tack NJ
. hed-qnilf or something. Ap<
when i refused, the hoy said Mrs
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