The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-08-21

Tue DTdlIl. Auu tlleS ldlu me lOTty uoZell
of eggs, did Japan and Turkey, last year,
and [ got two bits a dozen for EN- all
round-which was pretty good parqisit
ing for two hens-and the money put
away with the fust-do you ste?" And
she came to the usual sudden stop, and
waited for us TO speak
Certainly. What wonderful hens
you must have p
"Yes, that was pretty good. And
then there was my calf, which my hus-
band bein' SO keen for money, of course
we doesn't eat our own calves, bat sells
EN-. And one of our cows she dropped
a calf that was poor puny little crea-
tur,' and the butcher he wouldn't give
nothin' for it, and my husband he said
it would cost more'n it would come to to
raise it and he was for knockin' it on
the head, and selling the pelt, which l
begged him agin it, and said / would
raise it on skim milk, which wasn't good
for nothin' to nobody, if he would let
me have it and he said l might if l
wanted to, and was great fool for my
pains. SO l took it, and the rains came
on, and l went missionaryin' out to the
shed every mornin' and every evenin',
and het milk to carry to it, which it
Almost sucked the end of my finger off
larnin' to feed, and wet my feet, and
slipped down into puddles, and got rained
on tremenjus and had the rheumatic
dreadful, me feelin afraid all the time l
shouldn't make nothin Of her, but detar-
mined to try And after some months
of such work she took start.
And the way that calf growed when
she set about it, beat all you ever see,
besides maxim me into woman's rights
woman, which | have believed in ever
sence, and shall as long as l am in this
world-and in the next, too, If the
men have all the say there as they do
here, which l don't believe. And my
calf, 1 named her Parqisite, and short.
ened her into Parkie; and she growed
into handsome heifer, and begun to
knob out on the forehead, and me tell
in her how good-lookin' she was a get
tin, and she lookin' at me kind O cur
'ous like, as if she was a thinkin ON it
over, and runnin' after me whenever l
come where she was, and rubin her
nose on my shoulder, and me tellin'
her how much butter she would be Civ
in me bimeby, and what a stiddy him
come 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 they looked at the
wheat and the vineyard and the fruit
and the stock, and they looked at Parkie
a long time, and seemed to be talkin her
over. and l was awful proud great
fool, cause l thought they was admirin'
her Then the man he stayed outside,
and my husband he came in, and went
through the kitchen where l was, and
says he, careless-like I'm thinkin' of
selIin' the young heifer. What young
heifer says l, never thinkin' of moth
in; and says he, kind o sharp-like, The
calf : and says |, jumping up, What,
my calf 2 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 agin.
81 sot right down and bust out cryin.
Nv 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,
| watched the man drive away my
Parkie, and she hangin' back, and he
whippin' her-and she never struck be-
fore in her life. And Just then my
husband came in, and says he, as if he
was a 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 l Just looked at him; and
he didn'. have no call to stay in that
kitchen the rest of that day, l tell you.
And took on two or three days all by
myself, and got mad every time he
spoke or came a near. And one day as
| sot by the kitchen table. with my
work all done up and q clean apron on,
he walked in and threw ten-dollar
piece into my lap, and says he, There
is the Il oney | promised YOU; which l
caught it and threw it right back at
him, just as hard as | could, and it him
and fell on the floor; and he laughed, and
went out milkin.'
"By that time l had got to De awful
wicked, aad l sot thinkin' to myself
about st. Paul, and how he says Sarah