Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-08-22
The Larrnpurs and Their Bonanza.

| Ouu JOBS turned up. lie naQ always llN6G
near the caves in a tenement house of the
poorest description, and couldn't remem-
Der the time when he had worn a new
coat. 1t will be judged that the Larri-
purs were not in Oyulent ease. The sur
mise is correct. Two months ago they
were piteously poor, but to-day they have
wealth enough to roll in, if so inclined.
Larripur came down from his dingy rook-
cry one morning, to find himself saluted
as ''Mr. Larripur'' by all the neighbors,
with something of bow thrown in along
with the wish that his honor was well.
Certainly it sounded odd and brought
loud roars from him, but when Mrs. Hag-
erty-the GLACIERS mother-in-law at the
mouth of the alIey-showed him the
morning paper and pointed out the head
lines that declared his ability to draw
good-sized checks that would receive at
tentiOn, he threw out his chest and drank
in the morning zephyrs all the same as
| though he was somebody.
1t was windfall he had long expected
but scarcely hoped to realize; disappoint-
ments had been so frequent. But this
time there was no drawback, as he soon
found to his joy, and the Larripurs came
suddenly into wealth sufficient to crafty
every ambition. 1t is needless to state
exactly how the fortune was acquired,
or by what unaccOuntable process it es-
capped without being entirely gObbled up
by the lawyers. 1t is more interesting to
note the effects of prosperity upon the
previously impoverished family.
''There's one thing certain,'' said Mrs.
Larripur, as soon as it was settled beyond
all question that she wouldn't be obliged
to skirmish all over the neighbOrhood try
ing to borrow something for dinner, cam
that's jist this, ole man-for you might as
well know it one time as another-the fust
thing shill do when 1 git my claws on
some of that money will be to climb inter
one o. them ere kilter skirts, with a blue
sash-yOu jist mind that, Jerome. I've
had my mind sot on one for this long
while, but [ knowed it wasn't no use as
! long as you was out o. work the best end
O. the time.''
| ''YOu shill have it, Hanner-yes, two
on 'em, if you want 'em. We've got the
rocks now, an [ dom t reckon it's nObody's
| business if we spread on little STYLE
We're rich an we must let folks know it.
l want you wimmin folks to brighten up
an look as though you'd always had
peaches an cream the year round. We've
got plenty o. money an L don't see nothin
to hender our bein' happy. It'll go
mighty awk'ard, though, for spell, l
| s'pOse, to go to bed with full stomck, or
pass watermelon stand without tryin' to
study out how we kin prig one;~ but l
| reckon We'll kinder come round to-it by
| degrees. About the fust thing we've got
to do, though, is to git out of this old bar
racks. [ wouldn't have anybody to know
| we'd ever lived in the stinkin' ole gar
bage-bOx for thousan' dollars. We must
pull right out and git into a rancho
| Of our own. I'm goIn7 out to buy the
cabin now, Hammer, an you an Mandy
had better post off at once an pick out
| the furnitur', soft thetraps kin be got in
| to the shebang afore sundown>''
Whatever you do, father, don't forgit
to yank onto crib with a bay winder.
It's the boss place to git wherever an
organ-grinder is anywhere's about" said
the daughter of the household, with
rOmping grin of eager expectancy.
"Never you fret-I'n tend to that,
Mandy. I've got iist that sort of shanty
in my mind now, in a tolerable tony sort
of neighborhood, too, an there's four
lightnin' rods on the cOncern-what DIVE
think O. that? You wimmin is so nervous
when it thunders.''
''That's Jist old pizen-that is?' ex-
| o1aiDon1 10 u1a,
dad''
'I s'pose there amt no doubt but we're
rich enough to ford to have a ported
carpet on the front room floor ?'' said Mrs.
Larripur. ''Folks that purtends to be
anybody allus has 'em, so Mrs. Kidwell
says, an she has washed for families that
had pie on the table every meaI.''
"Well, eff it's the style, that's all you
want to know-git 'em. L tell you we're
heeled to last, an I don't intend to let no
common people climb around u.s. The
man at the bank said we he'd a hull bar'I
o. money, an all the carpet you kim find
room fur won't make dent in it. You'd
or't seen the man bow an palaver aroun'
me. He didn't seem to remember thet l
was the same chap he kicked off the steps
for settin' down to rest last week. I tell
you, ole woman, money fetches 'em all
around"
cit does that, Jerry. It wasn't more'n
two hours after the news got around, afore
mother Padkins come runnin' in with
that bakin' o. meal she'd borrfed las:
spring.
"Yes," affirmed the daughter, s<au
that witfet of Jim Blickers that went
back on me after the day was as good as
sot, to take up,,with that red-haired hussv
Nance Ruckins, on accounts of her comm
out with a new linen suit, an mine bein
in soak SOS [ couldn't go with him to see
the b'lOon h'isted, what does he do but
come around this mornin', as tumble as
saltrisn' biscuit, an want to make it al
up by givin' me cameo ring an fire
gilt breas'-pin. But 1 iist tossed up my
tOp-knOt an laughed in'the ROSTERS face
an tOle him he could meander, I was al
F ready spoke for bya clerk in store will
Il grin like a new tin-cup. You iist orr
to been around, father, an seen how i
! wilted him. If l ever marry now YOU kin
bet I'll git man that wears clean shirts
if money'H fetch him; won't 1, pap?'
''That's what you kin. Mandy, an ]
want you to larn to step high, hold uT
your head, keep your ears back, an DOM
p you never let me hear of your darin' t,
, speak to man who amt got perfumer.
on his hankchuff, an bear grease on hi
hair. Qight smart of the standin' of thi
family is bound to hang OH you, sis; yo1
q must mind that, and you'll have to b
mighty keerful, gal, or the fust thing W
know you'll be dead-gone on some nC
count buggy-washer that'd be livin
disgrace to the hull tribe of us Keep you
,,noJoJ for a cl,o,> I'm