Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-02-14

row will go and comfort him."
81 guess you will find him, first, sale
Betsy Babbet. ''And guess if he wai
found, there is a certain person he woul,
be as glad to see as he would another
certain person."
There is some mistake said Mag
gle Snow. Jake Coleman is alway,
joking"
at was a male, said Lucinder Dobbs,
"else why did she call him Hugh? Yor
have all heard the minister say his wifi,
hadn't relative on earth except hel
mother and maiden aunt"
81 have thought something was OF
the minister's mind all the spring,
said the Widder Tubbs, Il have spoker
to sister Ann about it a number o.
times" Then she kinder rolled up hel
eyes, jest as she does in class-meetin'
and sez she, 1T is an awful dispense
tion, but / hope he'll turn it into I
means'sf grace; hope his speritooi
strength will be renewed. But" Sc,
she, Il have borryed a good deal oI
trouble about his bein' so handsome;
have noticed that handsome ministers
don't turn out well, they most always
have somethin' happent to 'em sooner OF
later; out / hope he'll be led"
"Well, 1 never thought that Mis-:
Linden was any too good" said Betsy
.Babbet.
Neither did l, said Lucinder Dobbs.
"She has turned out jest as 1 always
thought she would" said Ophelia, land
| have jest as good an opinion of her as
have for them that stand up for her.
Maggie Snow spoke up then; jest as
clear as bell her voice sounded; she
amt afraid of anybody, for she is Law
yer Shows only child, and has been to
Boston to school. Sez she, Aunt AL
len" (she is little related to me on her
side), "Aunt Allen. why is it
that, as general rule, the very worst
folks are the first ones to suspect other
folks of being badY"
Sez l, Maggie, they draw their pic
lures from memory" And sez 1,
They want to pull down other folkses
regulations, for they feel as if their
own goodness is in a totterin' condi-
ton, and if they fall, they want some
thing to fall on, so as to come down
easier like"
Maggie Snow laughed. and so did Miss
Edwards, and the Joneses, but Betsy
Babbet and the Dobbs' girls looked
black as Erobius. And, sez Betsy Bab-
bet to me, sez she: II shouldn't think,
Josiah Aliens wife, that you would
countenance such conduct"
II will first know there is wrong con-
duct" seZ |. Sez /, Miss Linden's
face is jest as innoce as baby's, and
/ amt a -goin' to mistrust anv evil out
Of them pretty brown eyes till / am
obleeged to-"
Jest at this minute the hired girl
came in and said supper was ready, and
we all went out to eat it. Miss Jones
said there wasn't anything on the table
fit to eat. and she was afraid we couldn't
make out, but we did have. splendid
supper, good enough for Inc Zero of
Rushy.
We hadn't more'n got up from the
supper table and got back into the par
or, when we heard knock onto the
front door. Miss Jones went and open
ed it, and who, of all the live world,
should walk in but the minister! The
faces of the wimmen as he entered
would have been study for Michael
or any of the cid painters.
Miss Jones was so frustrated that she
asked him the first thing to take his
bonnet off, then she bethought herself,
and sez she, "How's your Eother?" be-
lore she had s0t him chair or any
hing. But he looked jest as pleasant
and composed as ever, though his eyes
kinder laughed. And he thanked her
md told her he left his mother, the day
before, good deal better; and then ne
turned to Maggie Snow, and sez he:
II have come after you, Miss Mag
yie.n seq he. "My wife come home
night before last, and wanted to see
you so bad, that / told her as had bus
mess past your house 1 would call for
,ou as 1 went home, and your mother
old me you was here. think KNOW"
,ez he, "wby she wants to see you so
very much now, she is so proud of our
BOY she can't wait till"-
"Your boyI" gasped nine wimmen to
,nce.
"Yes," sez he. smilin' more pleasant
han / ever see him. II know you will
III wish me Joy. We have a nice little
10Y, little Hugh, for my wife has named
linn already for her father. He is a
inc, healthy little fellow-almost two
months DID,"
''It wouldn't have done any good for
Michael Angelica to have been there
hen, nor Mr.. Ruben, nor none of the
'est of them we read of, for if they had
heir paletes and easelses all ready they
never could have done any justice to
he faces of Betsy Babbet and the Dobbs
girls, and, as for Miss Deacon Graves,
ler spectacles fell off unnoticed, and
The opened her mouth so wide that 1t
vas very doubtful to me if she could
'ver shet it agin. And, as fer me, !
vas truly happy enuff to sing.the TIE
Deus.
Maggie Snow few out of the room to
,ut on her bonnet, with her face shinin'
ike cherubin, and, as 1 lived half a
nile on the road they was goin' and the
Iuilt was most off, and he had two
lorses, and insisted, / rode with 'em,
md haint seen none of the quilters
ense.
Some of the prayers Of eccentric men
rave been worth repeating. Adam