The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1879-10-30
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Tobias Jones Matchm akinq.
by s. A. NJ. Moss.

II say" said Tobias Jones, bring
ing down is fist on the dinner table
with an emphasis that caused the
bottles in Mrs. Tobias new caster
to rattle together omin ously, II say,
wife, ! have it now.
"Havo what 2" asked Mrs. Tobias
"Why, an idea, a splendid idea =
that is to say, plan. Yoi will
surely get an invitation to q we'd
ding, Belinda, before the winter i.
enled, Or my name is not Tobias
Jones"
what who ? where y asked
Mrs. Jones' II am thankful some
thing is going to happen I've stay
cd at home until | am tired, aud my
clothes are getting out of fashion,
"lf wearing good clothes keeps
them in fashion, you might wear
them hore ut home,' suggested her
husband.
That's just the way with you
men, said Mrs. Jones "you ex
pect US to wear our hest clothes, ut
all tiues and in all places. and yet
always have them 10 TX new aui
fashionable But who is going to
DO married o.
well, you SEQ it amt settled
fact yet, but it might us well be, for
if squire Chase aad Widov Hooker
shonld happen to meet, it s my
opinion they would make u match OF
it ; aud. he added, as he noticed
his wife's Heightened face, think
you hal better send for them both
tocom1 here to tea tomorrow night
We have no children, You know, an |
you ought to have things in apple
pie order all tie tim. :"
"Cnildrsn - exclaimed Mrs. To
bias. ~ ~ talk as il folks who hav.
en't children don't have anything to
do. For my part, l think | work
full as hard and have fill as much
trouble as any of nv neishbors who
have children. However, don't
care how many you invite to tea /;
Ill bave enough for them to eat /;
but don't think yju'l make match
for Squire Chase, for know you
won't"
"Well,' sail Tobias, "you take
Dobbin aud drive over aud get the
widow, and Ill take care that the
Squire is here all right; aud, mind
you, Belinda, if they are not married
before the winter is over, will give
you new dress and if they are,
you shall buy me a pound Of to"
bacco."
Agreed" said Mrs. Jones, "pro-
vided you bring about the match"
Just at sunset Squire Chase was
reaping in the field near the road,
when, happening to look up, he saw
his friend Jones leaning over the
fence.
Good evening, JONES'"
Good evening, Squire. just
called to say that wife my is going
TO have company to tea Tomorrow
night, and she wants you to come
over aud mako ono of u.s.
Much obliged, neishbor, but l
don't know about it. l have got to
reap all this field morrow. II
get done in season, perhaps III
come, but don't look for me. Who
are you going to have-any stren
gers 2"
"Woll, yes. Widow Hooker ia u
stranger to you, suppose, though
my wife has known her for years,
aud sets a sight by her. She lives
over to the north part of the town
presume You have heard OF her Of
ten enough"
Yes, | have heard OF her, sure
SAID the Squire. ~ suppose she
the woman who owns the big mea-
dow farm called the Ox-bow, aud
manages it all by herself" "
Right said Jones, and, thinking
20 make matters better, he added,
Il know you would like her, Squire,
Tor most everybody does."
IL don't much admire women
t ,oiks who try TO take the plaoos thai
SSelong by right to men," said the
squire positively.
Here, Silas." no called to his
Youngest son, who had just returned
to@ ,, the pasture with the COWS
n ala you 500 the brindled ox'to'
No, father hunted aud hunted
'0r him, but he 10 gone, sure
"hang the luck That's Just the
way with that brindle hs never
,aul anless the feed begias +, get
spoi aud then hes oil Tor halter
Snm,ers. ! calculated to turn him
'''o i'll feed to IN, row."
when Mr. Iones arrived homo he
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