The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1878-08-15
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shall leli the tale The pesky critters 8
reg1ar driver. Bot the pride q biz heari
was 5 magnificent piece of meadow land
averaging three tens Of grass 10 the acre.
/ lie regretted that be could not take Il
with him to ths, bourne from which no
traveller returns, aud soreiy begrudged Il
to the peskY erilter into whose hands Il
would surely fall, there being no one else
+ to whom be could leave il.
Bat there was 10 help for IL; 50 one
day, after few weeks Of sickness, be
dreamily watched The dies buzzing about
the room for an hour or two, aud then
stopped dreaming, his wife meaawhilo
doing up the front room lace curtains,
which were the pride Of her heart, that
they might be spio-span clean fur the lu-
neral, seein' they'd hey terbe one When
she went into the bedroom, to see II be
wanted anything, aud found him dead,
she started little, mutterng, Well, /
snamb tort, ef he amt gone! Then she
went to the pantry, aud took two large
old.fashoned coppers from the tea-cup
kept for emptins pennies, aud remarking
to herself that she'd ben sayin' on em
for week back purpose, she carried
them 10 the bed and placed them on her
husbands eyelids. When that was ac-
compIished to her liking, she Strengthened
the limbs, smoothed the bed clothes, look
ed carefully under the bed and the
bewrer TO see that the cat was not there,
shut the doors quietly, and went for
some of the neighbors 10 help lay out the
corpse.
After the funeral was over, Widder
Pin, as she began to be called, lived
TRANQUILITY for time undisturbed except
by the calls of the village gossips. She
vigorously superintended the harvesting
OF the customary grass crop, and was
much pleased to see that il was even lar
ger than usual. Her garden sass thrived
under her treatment, and the potato crop
was by far the best OF any ones in the
neighborhood.
Good reason fort, too, sneered her next
door neighbor. P'tater bugs kinder
ssour on hers You might say. Won't
stay nigh her.
Widder Pin wasn't vixen, If she did
have the credit of it. She had a dredful
facility fur drivin', as her husband had
been wont 10 say. lie was weak, shift
less sort OF man, and shiftlessness was
objectionable in her eyes. From the first
she bad taken the managingof things into
her own hands, aud had tossed him-at
least so it seemed 10 his eventually added
brain, from pillar TO post, till he died
from sheer inability to keep up with her
Yankee quickstep. 1t did not make
much difference TO her after six weeks or
SO. Indeed, she seemed to feel it relief
that she had not thet weak critter to yank
round N time ter git the farm work done
same time other folks done thei'n. But
she still drove from force of habit, and il
was well that she did, for there was a
good deal of land to look after; and she
not only kept 1t going, but perceptibly
improved il in two years time. Then
people began TO forget their pity for her
depressed looking husband, and Widder
Pins facility, and Widder Pins gret
medder, were the frequent topics of con.
versation for miles around.
Let us not omit one item. Widder
Pin, and all her neighbors, were fish
eating community. They lived near
river which supplied them with shed, the
year round. In the fishing season, scores
of barrels of sated shad were stored in
the cellars OF the villagers, aud came
again into daylight, nothing but bones
| 1t was rumored that the curious accent OF
the people was caused by talking while
eating fish. II was customary 10 put the
piece Of fish ia at the right side Of the
mouth, while from the left side issued a
a stream OF well cleaned bones. Certain
I ii is, that unless Que closes the right cor
ner OF the mouth when talking, he eau
not successfully initiate their peculiar
pronunciation
The country store for men, aud the vii
| lage dressmaker's for women, have equal
attractions. AT the store the men smoke
aud drool political opinions; and at the
dressmaker's, the women ascertain who
1 is having new dresses, aud why they
have them, and give their opinion as to
whether Mrs. So.Aud-so has any business
TO get bran new alpacky when she has
two ealicos year beside the bumbazeen
I her moiher.in-law left.
| Wilder Pin and the village dressmak-
er were bosom cronies. Whatever hap
pened in town was known there, til
finally the men folks began 10 drop 10
now and llnn for talk, especially those
OF the villagers who had an eye for the
widow, who frequently ran in to chat.
Mornin', Lois, said the widow one day,
az she walked unceremonIously into the
dressmsker's sitting-room.
Mornin', Widdcr. Set down.
Thought ia run In few minutes.
Jes' give me 8 thread an needle an III
basle while talk. That's right. Wen!
Sent Hosy Noble kiln las night.
/ Miss Lois laughed You be The beaiin-
est Why d.du't you take up with himf
Hes good . any on en-.
4 10 re fe Huf | didn't want ter hey tar
be Agee-hawiu' on him frever, gitiin'
on him ter DO anything. kin DO well
enough alone. | Kin hoe my row with
any man.
So I've beered ye say. Bat you'll git
tool mo with one O, ihase aaAs. mo., Ike.