The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-06-20

The quilt was made Of different kinds
Of calico; all the Wimmen round had
pieced a block or two, and we took up a
collection to set the batten and Iinin',
and the cloth to set it together with,
which was turkey red, and come to
quilt it it looked well; we quilted it
herrin- bone, and a runnin' vine round
the border. After the path-master was
demOrelized, the schOol-mistFess tore to
pieces, the party to Ripleys scandeliZed,
Miss Browns baby voted unquestion-
able idiot, and the rest Of the uRrepre-
sented neighborhOOd dealt with, Lu-
cinder Dobbs spoke up, and sez she:-
''I hope the minister will like the
bed-quilt." (Lucinder is the one that
studies mathematics to discipline her
mind, and has the Roman nose).
1t amt noways likely he WILL" sez
her sister Ophelia (she is one that has
her hair frizzled on top, and wears spec
tacles). ut amt noways likely he viii
-he is a cold man, a stone statute"
Now, you see, set my eyes by the
minister, he is always doin' good to
somebody, besides lreachin' more like
a angel than a human bein'. And I
wasn't gOin' to set stin and hear him
run down; you see it riled up the old
Smith blood, and when that is riled,
Josiah says he always takes his hat and
leayes till it settles. And I spoke up,
and sez I;
Lucky for him he was made Of stone
before he was merried, for common
flesh and blood, sez I, would have gin
out hundred times, chaste round by
the girls as he waS' (you see it was the
towns talk how Ophelia Dobbs acted
before he was merried, and she almost
went into a decline, and took heaps of
mother-wort and fettyl.
"I don't know what you mean, Miss
Allen, :" seq she, turning red as brick.
Il never heard Of his bein' chaste; l
know 1 never could bear the sight Of
him."
1.-The distant sight" Bez Mary Ann
Jones.
Ophelia looked so mad at that, that !
don't know but she would have pricked
her with her quiltin' needle, if old Miss
Graves hadn't spoke up. She is fat
old lady with double chin. ''mild and
loyely' as Mount VernOn's sister.
As I said, she looked mildly up over
her spectacles and nodded her purple
cap ribbons two or three times, and
said, "Yes," ''Jest So" to both Of US;
and then she was SO afraid that we
wouldn't think she was jinein' with
both of US, sez she, "YeS, Miss Allen, y
'Jest so, Ophelia." And then to
change the subject, sez she, ''IIas the
minister's wife got bone YETI"
81 think not, ," said Maggie Snow, 81
was to the village day before yester,
day, and she had not come then"
81 suppose her mother is well on, 2
sez the Widder Tubl-,, land as long a
she stays there she saves the minister
i've dollarsa week. 1 Ishould think she
would stay all summer"
The wilder is about as savin' a NO
man as belongs to the meetin'-hOuSe.
''It don't look well for her to be gone
so long," says Lucinder DObbs, 81 an
very much afraid it will make talk"
''Mebby it will save the minister FIVE
dollars a week." sez Ophelia, "sS ex-
travagant as she is in dress-as many al
four silk dresses she has got, and fOlkI
as good as she is in the congregation
hain't got but one, and a certain person
tWH as good as she is, that hains gol
any" (Ophelia's best dress is pOplinl
at won't take her long to run out the
minister's salary" "
"Sbe had her silk dresses before she
was married, and her folks wa
wealthy" said Miss Squire Edwards.
'As much as We have done and arr
still doing for them, it seems migrate
| full in her, " sez Lucinder, ito wear sucf
a bonnet as she wore all last summer
a plain white straw with little bit o.
white ribbon on it; it looked so scrimp
ed and stingy. ] have thought sh'
wore it on purpose to mOrtify US befOru
the Baptists, jest as if we couldn't at
ford to dress our minister's wife as gOo'
as thev did theirs"
Maggie Shows cheeks was gettin' reC
as fire. and her eyes begun to Shin
Jest as they did that day we found som
boys stonin' her cat. You see she an,
the minister's wife are the creates
friends that ever was. And see sh
couldn't hold in much longer; she wa
lest openin' her mouth to speak, whel
the door opened, and in walked Bets
Babbet.
"Why, it seems to me you are late
Betsy" said Miss Jones, ''but walk rit
into the spare bedroom and take Of
your things"
"Thingsl" said Betsy, "whO cares 70
thingsP' And she dropped into til
nearest rockin'-chair and commence
rOckin' violently.
Betsy Babbet was a humbly crittel
? But we hadn't no time to mediate o.
her, for as Miss Jones asked her agin
take of her things, she broke OUT
"Wold that had died when 1 was a
infant babel"
"Amenl" whispered Mary Ann JOnC
to Maggie Snow.
, ''Do tell us what is the matter, Be-
sy, " said Miss Jones.
, "Yes, do" said Miss Deacon Graves
} Matter enuTl" sez she; mo wOndt
there is earthquakes and jarsl 1 hear
, the news jest before 1 started, and
J made me weak as cat; IhSd to stop I
every house on the way down to res
and not a soul had heard Of it till tOl