The Van Buren press., 1878-10-08
4 Rural Nuisanec.

sons mex; door to me any longer! The
are the awfuiest people TO borrow thing
shat ever saw. Coffee and butter an
sugar and -four | don't mind SO much
although when woman borrows high
priced sugar and Java coffee, and send
back sand and chickory, man natural.
feels bilious aud moan. But they'v
borrowed pretty near everything in tn
house. First it's one thing. and theI
it's another, from morning till night
straight along
"Now, there's the pokerl A poker il
piece of machinery that you woult
think anybody might go round and buy
or, if they couldn't afford that, they
might use fenoe-paling to shake up the
fire. But Mrs. Thompson seems to han
ker after our poker; she borrows IL fif.
teen or twenty times day, and last Snn-
day she sent for it thirty-four times She
pays boy two dollars week 10 run
over and borrow that poker; and she's
used it so much that it's all bent up like
u cork -screw.
"Now, take chairs, for instance! She
asks us to lend her our chairs three times
day--at every meal; and she borrows
the rocking-ehair, whenever she wants to
put the baby to sleep.
"A couple of times she sont over for
our sofa. and when the boy comes back
with it, he said Mrs. Thompson was mad
as thunder, and kept growing round the
house, all day because there was no cas-
tors on it.
r." Last Monday she borro wed our wash
boiler, and we had to put off our wash
ing till Tuesday. She did her preserv-
ing in it, and the consequence was all of
our clothes were full Of preserved peach
es. I've got on an undershirt, now,
that I'm mighty doubtful whether I'll get
it off, it's stuck to me so tight.
Every now and then she has eompa
ny, and she borrows our parlor furniture
aud our hired girl Once, becausel would
not carry the piano over for her, and
take down the chandelier, she told our
girl that there were rumors about town
that was reformed pirate.
Perfectly scanduous They think
nothing of sending over after a couple
of bedsteads, or the entry carpet, and
the other day Thompson says to me:
"' ButterNiek, does your pump log
pull up easy?' And when said that
thought it did, he says
"'Wcll, l would like to borrow it for
few days, till can get one, for mine is
all rotted away The only wonder to
me is, that he didn't try to borrow the
well along with it.
And then, on Tuesday, Mr., Thomp-
son sent that boy over to know If Mrs
n,ty rfnly 1p't In fra
door. He said theirs was away being
painted, and he was afraid the baby would
catch cold When asked him what he
supposed we were going to do to keep
comfortable without any front door, he
said Mrs. Thompson said she reckoned he
might tack up hed-quilt or something
And when refused, the boy said Mrs.
Thompson told him il I wouldn't send
over the front door, to ask Mrs Butter.
wick TO lend her a pair Of striped stock
ings, and a horse-hair hustle, and to bor-
row the coal.scuttle till Monday
"What in the name Of Moses, is she
going to do with hustle and a scuttle
can't perceive.
"But they're the most extraordinary
-naanla H. Last Eanrth -af -.Ia,lus the i..,'
came over anu lolu mrs. DutleTWlCk tnat
Mrs. Thompson would be much obliged
ii she would lend her the twins for a few
moments said Mrs Thompson wanted
EN- to suck Off new bottle-top, because
it made tho baby sick to taste fresh India
rubber. Cheeky, wasn't it?. But that's
her way. She don't mind it any more.
"Why, I've known her to take off
Johnny's pants, when he has been play
ing over there with the children, and send
him home bare legged, to tell his mother
that she had borrowed 'em for a pat.
tern.
"And, on Thompson's birthday, she
said her house was 50 small for party
and, if we'd lend her ours, We might
come late in the evening, and dance with
the company, if we wouldn't lot on that
VIC lived there.
I" Yes, sir, I'm going to move? I'd
rather live next to a lunatc asylum, and
have the lunatics pouring red-hot shot
across tho fence every hour of tho day.
Indeed | would. - Max Adeler.