The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-07-13

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81 people to borrow thing that I eVeF saw.
Cofee and butter and sugar and 1our
don't mind 30 much, although. when o wo.
man borrows high-priced sugar and JAN
|scoHee, and sends back sand and chickory, :
mnn naturally feels bilious and mean. But
they've borrowed pretty 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 4
piece of machinery that You would tfiink
.-anybody might go around and buy, or IL
they couldn't afford it, they might use a
fence paIing 10 shake up the fire. But Mr.
Thompson seems to banker after our poker
she borrows it fifteen or twenty times \
day, and last Saturday she sent for it thirty
-four times. She pays n boy two dollars :
week to run oyer and borrow that poker
ard she's used u SO mach that it's all ben
up like a corkscrew.
Now tnkr chairs. for instance. She ask.
us. TO lend our chairs three times a day nj
every meal, and she borrows the rocking
chair whenever she wants to put the bah.
TO sleep.
"A couple OF times she sent over for or
sofa, and when the boy came back with IL
he said Mrs. Thompson was mad as thunder.
and kept growing around the house all day
because there WINS no castors on 1t. Lasr
Monday she borrowed our wash boiler, and
we had to put off our washing till Tuesday
She did her preserving In it, and the con
sequence was all our clothes were full a.
preserved peaches. I've got on an under
shirt now that I'm mighty doubtful IL IL
get it off, it's stuck to me so tight.
LIVERY now and then she has company,
and she borrowA our hired girl and NIL the
parior furniture once, because | would
,xnt ,.rrx< thn t.to-A .vo for har ond fut.
down the chandelier, she told our girl that
there were rumors about town that l was n
reformed pirate. a.
Perfectly s~candalousi They think no.
thing Of sending over after a couple Of bed.
stoads or the entry carpet and the othot
day Thompson says to m
Butterwick, does your pump-log pull
M ensy y
And when l said I thought it did, he
said
".Well, I would | Ike to borrow it for q
few days till | can get one, for mine is all
rotted away
1.-THE only wonder To me is that he didn't
try to borrow the well along with it.
q And then ON Tuesday Mr.. Thompson
sent that boy over to know IL Mrs. Butter
wick wouldn't lend him our front door. He
said theirs was a~. z painted and he
wns afraid the baby would catch cold.
When ] asked him what he supposed we
were going 10 do to keep comfortable with
out any front door, he said Mrs. Thompson
said she reckoned we might tack M = bed
quilt or something. And when I refused,
the boy said Mrs. Thompson told him il /
wouldn't send over the front door, to ask
Mrs. Butterwick to lend her n pair Of strip
ed stockings and a horsehair hustle. and to
borrow tho coal scuttle till Monday.
''What in the name of Moses sho IN goin.
TODD with a hustle and a coal. scuttlc I can:
perceive.
But they're the most extraordinary POI
p1ci Inst Fourth of July the boy caI. :
over and told Mrs. Buttcraick tins Nj.
Thompson would be much ollige.l il shs'e
lend her the twins for o few ni.tt.e
Said Mrs. Thompson wanted 'ein to <.t.s
of n new bottlc-top becausc Il r,a.,n LIE
baby sick to taste fresh India-iubb.f
Cheeky. wasn't it2 But that's her wcy
She don't mind it any more
"Why. I've know her to take of Johnny !,
pants when he's been playing over ther-
with the children, and send him home bal,
legged to tell his mother that she borrowc,.
them for a pattern. And on THOMPSON.
birthday she said her house was no s,nal.
for n party that II we'd lend her ours VIC
might come late in the evening and dane.
with the company, If wo wouldn't let oil
that we live there.
"Yes, sir, I'm going to moro. I'll rathai
live next to n lunatic asylum aud have thu
~iunatics pouring red-hotJ shot ac,css tho
fence every hour of the day. Indeed |
would. n--1fas Adder. sih
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