The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-06-27
THAT AruTTLEPLACEO OF BROWNS

The place was mine, and we lived as
cozily there, my vie and little daughter
and ] as birds in Rest, until the Blacks,
some old friends of ours from the city,
came to live in our neighborheed.
We were st supper one night when my
wife told me.
"They're going to take the French
rooted house around the corner" said
Sally, with the big extension and the
conservatory, and as 1 happened to be
walking out just as the trucks came down
couldn't help seeing that the parlor
furniture is of crimson satin damask and
ebOny-I thinks it's ebony, but l won't
be sure" continued my vie; "but at
any rate it's inlaid.
''Well, that's comfort, any way"
said 1. "If you're positive it's inlaid,
Sally, you can, perhaps, go on with your
ayes" she said, so preoccupied with
her theme that she hadn't eaten q NOR
sci, "and there's the handsomest bed
room set for Jane that 1 most ever laid
my eyes on; it's one of these dressing
bureaus, JUe, with a magnificent plate
glass that reaches down to the floor
''That's good, said l. "You can run
around there, when you have your next
gown fitted. and see the hang of it."
"I don't expect to run around there, :"
said Sally, craning her neck up stiff y,
turning up the end of her nose ard draws
ing her lips down.
Why, what's the matter? ?" said !.
Wasn't Jane friendly? I've done many
a good turn for Black in my day, and
hope they're not going to turn the cold
shoulder now"
Oh, she was friendly enough" said
Sally; =" but we can't expect, Joe, that
people living in that kind of style can be
upon terms of intimacy with people that
live as we do. There are certain restric-
tions IN society"
Restrictions be hanged ~ / cried.
"a I'm as good man as Black any day in
the week"
You're as good as the president, for
that matter" said Sally; " but it's all
like pair of scales, Joe, when one goes
up, another goes down, and, from the
way things look, it II take q pretty
heavy weight on the Blacks side to
bring them Down to our position"
must own this kind of logic vexed
me a little. knew pretty well bow
| Black stood commercially, and told
Sally there wssu't feathers weight on
his side, so far as the favors OF fortune
were concerned. "a If he has a mind to
| live above his n1eans,'' said 1, "a he can
do it, and take the consequence"
He has just as good right to live
above his means," said Sally, as you
have to live beneath yours"
This was her PaTthian arrow as / went
out the door, ard it ranked a little all
the way down in the train, the more that
| found Black the center of an admiring
l. \ j. 1,
posing makeup and glib tongue, which
he used in inveighing against our system
| paving. He complained of the condition
of a good many things in our young
township, and seemed to gain popularity
with every fault that ne found. Atlasr
he spled me, and WIS exceedingly loud
and effusive in his saluJstion
"Hallo. Brown - he said, shaking my
band again and again, and declaring Il
the people about him was an old friend
whom he wss glad to unearth. I've
run you down, you sly fox. That's {
very snug little place around the corner
very snug indeed J"
I wouldn't have believed it possible
| could have been such an ass as 10 fee
fattered By this familiarity of Biack's
but found myself smirkiDg and nod
ding with great complaceBcy. Her,
were at least half dozen of the gentry
abeut me who lived in big houses in m!
neighborhood, that had been going N
and down to the city with FOR years, ye
scarcely knew them well enough for Al
exchange Of civilities, snd hers wa
Black already hand in glove with tn
finest of them 1t makes me sick nov
when I remember that turnei
my back on poor old White, and wen
toadying on with this aristocracy
! White lived In even q smaller hous
! than mine, and had haTd wor
enough TO pay for that. He ha'