Sharp County record., 1880-08-26

! Dan own up. They said they only did
it for fun. | guess the pig didn' t see
where the the fun came in, though. He
went grunting round the pen for day
or two. squealing every once in while
Just as though he was mad about some
thing. And no wonder
Thenext Sunday morning after this
happened, Mrs Gregory got the twins
ready for church and they looked real
nice, with their little light suits Just ex-
actlv alike. You couldn't tell 'tother
from which, rs the boys say.
Don't 90 away from the yard, boys"
I heard Mrs Gregory say, as she let
EN- out. But she'd better have told
EN- to go-they'd have been twice as
likely to have staid round the house,
Seems as though bod and Dan Gregory
was possessed to do Just what they hadn't
ought to, ltwasnt five minutes from the
time Mrs. Gregory shut the door, before
they were down to the wharf and Dan
tumbled overheard the very first thing
clothes and all. bod tried to reach
him and over he went, too
Luckily for them it was low tide and
only couple of inches of water on the
flats. But such a sight as those young
ones were when they got out! They
came roaring up the hill hold of hands,
plastered with mud from head to toe.
Dan had lost his hat and bod his shoe.
The way Mrs. Gregory walked emin-
to the house wasn't slow, l tell you.
She put EN- both into the big bath-tub
and at once turned on the water. After
they were scrubbed they began to squab-
BILE, first thing. bod hit Dan with the
hair brush, and Dan kicked bod in the
stomach. Then they both caught it
good. The bathroom windows were
open, and we got all the benefit of the
noise.
| told Nell she might send over her
compliments and say that if the twins
would ease up a little on their frivolous
music so she could collect her thoughts
for the Sunday-school lesson, that she'd
be much obliged. But she only shook
her head at me, and when the bell rang
started off for church.
Mother wasn't very well that morn
ing, and | staid home. l watched Nell
off and couldn't help thinking how
pretty she looked in her walking suit
everything to match, and she made it
all her own self, too. Best of it is,
Nells as good as she is pretty.
Well, after Mr.. Gregory went out
there was lull. Good reason for it.
bod was tied to one bed post and Dan
to the other. Mrs. Gregory said that
one day in the week she liked to read
her chapter in peace, and if the boys
were right under her eye, tied, she
knew that they couldn't do anything
worse than make up faces. But when
my boys are good" she told mother
once, "they're as well behaved as any
ones" I'd like to see 'em that way
just once, they must look funny.
After a while, they begged so hard,
that Mrs Gregory united 'em, but told
\ 'em that they mustn't set their foot out
.side the front door. Well, they didn't.
But the minute che woub up stairs again
they slipped out the back way. | saw
their little striped legs going it down
hill like fun. "The twins are on the
rampage again, mother" ;" | called out,
laughing, but l was reading "Tom's'|
Heathen" on the piazza and forgot all
about them in a little while. Along
toward noon it began to cloud up and
look black in the west. started for
the church with Nelps waterproof and
rubbers, but hadn't got half way there
before | saw Nell herself come out of
the vestry door walking quick and be-
fore could call to her she ran down to
the shore, jumped into Murray Peters |
boat and began to pull away like mad
for the mouth of the harbor.
"What on earth, u began, when all
at once l saw dory tossing up and
down quite ways off and it flashed in
to my mind that the twins had gone
adrift, and so they had, in old Mr..
Thompson's dory, with the wind and
tide setting it right out to sea!
Before | got to the house thunder
squall came out of the west ard, all
screeching, wind and rain, thunder and
lightning 1t was black as ink and the
air was full of pieces of branches and
dust.
Father started for the shore bare
headed and in his shirt sleeves, but he
couldn't get man to put a boat OFT for
love or money. "The squall will blow
over in a little while, Square" old Har-
rv Morgan said, "but a man 'ud be
crazy to put off while it's screechin'
like this" All the same though, they
said that Bates had to be held by main
force from launching dory, though he
didn't know the first thing about hand
ling one.
I staid with mother. She isn't one
of the kind that makes fuss. She
went right into her bedroom and shut
the door. She always does when she's
in trouble. Pretty soon she came out
white as chalk, but quiet and calm.
Only when she walked to the windows
and looked out into the storm, | saw
her clench her hands together. All she
said though, was half to herself, "Call
upon me in the time of trouble and |
will deliver thee, saith the Lord" And
that's just what she'd been doing.
Then in comes Mrs. Gregory wiring
ing her hands and going on terribly.
Mr.. Gregory followed right after her,
and tell you the starch was taken out
of him tremendous
E0ur children he hepan hI1t broke