The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1879-07-16

; and her ketchin' me unprepared. But
, good Lord! she told me that she new.
er, in her life, see a house in the or
; der mine wus, never, and she had seen
. thousands and thousands of different
houses.
Says L: 81 feel worked up, an al
most mortified, about my settin' room
carpet bein' up"
But she held up both her hands
(they wus white as snow, and all COW
cred with rings.) And says she:
If there is one thing / love to see,
Samantha, more than another, it is TO
see a settin' room carpet up. it gives
such sort of free, noble look TO a
room"
SAYS L: "The curtains are down
in the spare bed room, and l am al
most entirely out of cookin'n
"Says she: "If / had nv way, l
would never have curtain up to a
window. The sky always looks so
pure aud innocent somehow. And
cookin',n says she, with look OF
complete disgust on her face. "Why,
| fairly despise cookin', what's the
use of it?p says she, with sweet
smile
Why says |, reasonably, "it it
wasn't tor cookin' vittles and eatin'
'em, guess we shouldn't stand it a
-. ma
| didn't really like the way she
went on. Never, never, through nv
bull life, wus | praised up by any
body a. | wus by her. durin' the
three days that she stayed with us.
And one mornin'. when she had been
goin' on dreadfully, that way, took
Josiah out one side, and told him,
II couldn't bear TO hear her go on so,
and believed there was suthin' wrong
about ii.
"0h, no." says be. ''She means
every word she says," says he. "She
is one of The Ioyliest creeters this
earth affords She is most an angel.
0hl' says he dreamily, what
sound mind she has got"
Says |, 81 heard her tellin' you
this mornin', that you were one of
the bandsomeGt men she ever laid
eyes on, and didn't lock day over
twenty-one"
"Well,n says be, with the doggy
frmness of his sect. "She thinks so, -
aud says he, in firm axents, II am a
good lookin' fellow, Samantha. A
craekin' good lookin' chap, but never
could make you own up to it"
/ didn't say nothin' but my gray
eye wandered up, and lighted on his
bald head Irested there searchiTly,
and very coldly, for q moment or
two. and then, says /, sternly:
BALD heads and beauty don't 60
together worth a cent. But you wus
always vain, Josiah Allen"
What if | wus She thinks diff
fesent from what you do about my
looks. She has got keen eye in her
head for beauty. She is very smart,
very. And what she says. she
means"
WALL" says |. Il am glad you
are SO happy in your mind. But,
mark my words, you won't always
feel so neat about it, Josiah Allen, as
you do now"
Says he, in a cross, surly way |
81 guess | know, what | do know"
| hain't yaller hair in the hull of
my foretop, but 1 thought TO myself, |
I'd love TO see Josiah Aliens eyes
opened for | knew my name was
Josiah Aliens wife, and that women |
didn't think Josiah was so pretty and |
beautiful.
But | didn't see how | wus goin'
to convince him, for be wouldn't be-
lieve me, when l told him, she was q
maxim of IL; ard | knew she would |
stick to wha, she had said, and 80
there il wus. But | held firm, and |
cooked good vittles, and done well By |
her.
That very afternoon We wus invii-
ed TO tea, that was Sylphina Aliens,
Miss Nathen Spoouer's, US and Alzi-
IA Ann Allen.
Sylphis didn't use to be the righ,
sort of girl, she wus kind of help
less, improvender thing, and threw
herself away on a worthless, drunken
feller, that she married fo- her first
husband, though Nathen Spooner
wus a dyin' for her, even then. But
when her drunken husband died, and
she wus left with that boy of hers,
about six years old. she up and jined
the Methodist church.
| didn't use 10 associate with her
1t all, and Josiah didn't want me 10,
.hough she wus second cousin on
ais fathers side. But folks began to
make much of her. So and Josiah
lid everything for her We could, to
,elp her 10 do well, and be likely
And last fall she wus married to Ma
hen Spooner, who hadn't forgot her
n 81 this time
They make likely couple, and /
houldn'. wonder if they do well.
lsthen Spooner is bashful /; he looks
S If he wanted to sink if any one
peaks to him; bu. Sylphlna is proud
perited. and holds him up.
They hain't got q great deal to do
With. and Sylphina, bein' kind o. :
frsid Of Alzina Ann. sent over and
borrowed her mother-in-lsw's white
Isndled knives, and. unbeknown TO T
ilzina Ann, | carried over some tea 6
poons, aud other things for her COM ]
DIT, for if Sylphins means to do bet 8
er. and try to get along, and be q
want to encourage her all
ean, so | carried her the spoons /
Wall, no sooner hsd we got sested I
ser TO Mrs Spoonerses, than Alzins 1
egun-
How much how much tha, beau.
nl little boy looks like you. Mr.. Spoon
r." she cried. and she would look,
RS, at Nathen, and then at the child, L
With tha, enthusiastic look of hers.
Sylphins's face wus red as blood, :
Or the child looked IS ike her first !
husband as two peas, and she knowed
bat Na,hen slmos. hated the sight of
be boy, snd onlv has him In the {
louse for her sake. Ind truly, IT,
sa.hen Spocner could have sunk
Iown through the floor, into the Gel
er, right into the potaso bin or pork
,arrel. II would have been one Of the !