The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-12

every mOrnin' and every evenin', and
hot milk TO carry to it, which it a. most
sucked the end Of my finger off, larnin'
to feed. and wet my feet, and slipped
down into puddles, and got rained on
tremendous, and had the rheumati
dreadful, me feelin' afraid all the time
I shouldn't make nothin' of her, but
determined to try, and after some
months of such work she took a start,
"And the way that calf crowd when
she set about it beat all you ever see,
besides maxim me into a Woman's
Rights woman, which l have believed
in ever sence, and shall as long as am
in this world and the next, too, if the
men have all the say there as they do
here, which l don't believe; and my
calf, l named her Parquisite,' and
shortened her into 'Parkie,' and she
crowd into handsome heifer and be-
gun to knob out on the forehead, and
me tellin' her how good lookin' she
was gettin', and she q lookin' at me
kind O. GURUS like as if she was
thlnkln on it over, and runnin' arter
me whenever / came where she was,
and rubbin' her nose on my shoulder,
and me tellin' her how much butter
she would be givin' me bimeby. and
what stiddy hincome she would be
for the missionaries, and one day man
rode up to the door and jumped down
from his horse.
"Wall, my husband he took him all
over the ranch, and he looked at the
wheat and the vineyard and the fruit
and the stock, and they looked at
Parkie long time and seemed to be
talkin' her over, and l was awful proud
(great foolD, cause 1 thought they
was admirin' her. Then the man he
staid outside and my husband he came
in and went through the kitchen where
l was, and says he, careless-like, Pm
thinkin' of selling the young heifer.'
What young heifer?' says l, never
thinkin' of nothin', and says he, kind
o. sharp-like, The calf and SAYS l,
jumpin' up, What, my calf?' and says
he, mighty scornful, Your calf! it's
my calf I'd have you to know! and
then he went out to the man again.
IL sot right down and burst out cry
in. My husband is awful sot when he
is sot, and knew it wasn't no use to
say nothin', and just cried like great
baby, and with tears all runnin' down
l watched the man drive away my
Parkie, and she hangin' back and he
a whippin' her, and she never was
struck before in her life; and just then
my husband came in, and says he, as if
he was maxim up for all, You can
have ten dollars of the money, if you
want it, and that made me mad. /
didn't say nothin', but just looked at
him, and he didn't have no call to stay
in that kitchen the rest of that day, 1
tell you; and took on two or three
days all by myself, and got mad every
time he spoke or came near. And one
day as sot by the kitchen table, with
my work done up and a clean apron
on, he walked in and threw ten-dollar
piece into my lap, and says he, There
is the money l promised you,' which 1
caught and threw right back at him
just as hard as l could, and it hit him
and fell on the floor, and he laughed
and went out milkin'.
by that time l had got to be awful
wicked, and sot thinkin' to myself
about Saint Paul, and how he says
Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him
Lord, and amt had no patience with
Saint Paul ever since. We get the other
side of that story in the Old Testa-
ment. which it is pretty easy seen how
Abraham had to give up to Sarah and
let her have her own way, and what
would she have said if he had gone and
sold her pet camel l should like to
know?
"Wall, the money laid on the floor
three days and me a sweepin' around
it, and it seemed as if 1 couldn't tech
1t, which at last made myself 60 and
pick it up and put it with the rest of
my parquisite money, and me blub-
bcrin' while l did it; and maybe it
won't do no good to the missionaries
on account of so behavin', which did
ask the Lords pardon for gettin' mad
over it, and hope to be forgiven. But
all along of that calf l shall always be-
lieve in woman's rights, leastways in
woman's wrongs, and all the old
bachelors may preach till they are
black and blue. And Saint Paul never
was married woman, and never had
no idea what they have to put up with,
and never brought up calf neither,
not as l ever heard of-did you?' and
smile spread over the worn, rugged
face.
"No, cannot say that ever did, "
I replied, smiling back.
'And here is the money!" she said,
suddenly producing her purse, 80 aud 1
hope YOU won't refuse cause l acted
50. And if you have mind to make
me a life member with it there will be
some to spare" ana she placed in my
hand thirty dollars in three shining
gold pieces, the fruit of how mach toll,
self-denial and pain! "And," said she,
sinking her voice, and swiftly lifting up
and uncovering her basket, 81 want to
know whether missionaries like hard
billed eggs? l have brought some
down, and if you think them three lady
missionaries would like 'em, want
you to send 'em 20 'em. They'll keep,
for billed 'em myself fifteen minutes
by the clock, and it would please Jap
and Turkey most partikelar if they
could understand, and shall tell 'em,
and they're all I've got now to talk to,
butter not bein' alive-like, and Parkie
being took away. And if should tell
'em that their own eggs which they've
cackled over is hard billed and sent to
the lady missionaries, it would encour-
age 'em like maybe, which, if you can't
send 'em to heather lands, p'r'aps the
Board would like 'em, leastways the
yelks, as many does who won't eat the
whites"
As she spoke she rapidly emptied her
basket on the table near, and hurried
away. leaving me gazing in a half
dazed condition at the pile of hard
boiled eggs, while l held the shining
eagles, her generous donation, clasped
stupidity in my hand.-Sa's francisco
Pacific.
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