The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1881-06-23
HUMOROUS.
They Carried II Too Far.

"In g1ing 10 m)vo. | cant stand
those rhompsons next door to me any
longer. They're the awfule-t people
o. borrow lhinls that ever saw.
@ Nee, an butter, sni sugar. and
-four, ! don't mind sn much, although
when wnmau borrows bigh-priced
sugar aud Java coffee AMI send, back
ssnd aud caicknry, "A nan iatnrally
feels mad. But they've borrowed
nearly everything IN the house.
Frs it is "ne thing uni then it is
nuoihrr, from moruing till uight
right straight aioUg. Wow there's
the poker A puker's p, CO ol ma.
cbncry that you'd thluk anybody
would go around nn buy, or. If they
couldn't afford it, might use a fence
railing to shake up the FIRE. Bat
Mrs. Thompson seems 10 banker ale
ter our poker. So b ,rrows it fl
teen or twenty times day, and, aud
last Saturday she seut for it thirty
four times. She rays boy two
dollars week TO run over aLd bor-
row that poker, aud shg'r used it SO
much that its beDt like a corkscrew.
"Now take chairs, for instance.
She asks US to lend her our chairs
three times day, at every meal, and
sbe borrows the rock ing -chair every
timc rhe wants to put the baby to
sleep. a couple times she sent over
for sofa, aud when the boy came
back WI h 1t he said Mrs. Thompson
was mad as tbunicr aud Kept grDwl.
ing aroIni the house all day becaus o
there is no castOrs On IT,. Last M11-
day shc blryIwei oar wasb-boilsr.
aud wc had to put off washing till
Tuesday. She did her preserving in
1t, and the consequence was our
clothes were iul of preserved peach
es. I've got on an undcr-sbirt now
that I'm mighty doubtful it III ever
get IL of, it's stuck 30 tight. Every
now aud then she has company ani
sEe borrows our hired girl and al
the parlor isrntnrs. Oa,e, beca use
wouldn't carry the piano over for
her aud take down the chandelier.
she told our girl thit there were ru.
mors around town that | was 70.
formed pirate.
"Periec'ly scaudalous ! They
think nothing OF sending over for D
couple OF bedsteads or the entry car.
pet ani the other day Thompson
says to me
"Bu'terwick, does your pump los
pull up easy 7"
"And when said I thought may
be It did, he said
swell, / would like to borrow il
for few days ill can get one, for
mines oil rotted away"
"The only wonder to me il tha, h.
d'dnt try to borrow tho well along
with H."
"And then on Thursday Ms.
Thompson sent the boy over to know
II Mrs. Butterwck would lend her
OR front door. She said theirs was
away getting painted, anil said she
was afraid the baby would catch cold.
When asked him what he supposed
We were going TO do to keep comfor-
table withon, any front door, he said
Mrs. Thompson said she reckoned we
might luck up bed quilt or some
thing. Aud when | refused, the boy
said Mrs. Thmopson told him to ask
1t, woul lat send over the front door.
to ask Irs. Butterw,ck to lenl her
pair of striped slOckiu.s and horse
hair hustle, aud to borrow the coul
seut,le Till Monday. What iu the
name OF Hoses is she going 10 do
with hustle and a coal scuttle
conceive. Bat lhey re most ex-
ira 'rdinary people. Last Fourth Of
July was it Yes--lust Fourth of
July tho hoy camo over aud told
Mrs Butterwlck that Mrs. Thomp-
son "olli be much Obliged il she'd
lend her the twins for tcw minutes.
Said Mrs Thompson waited 'cm to
suck on IL new bottle-top, because il
made her baby sick to taste fresh in
dia rubber. Cheeky wasn't it p
But that's her way. She don't mind
IL any more. Why, I've known her
to take Oft our Johnny's pants whom
he's been playing ovor there with the
children, ani send him hons bare
logged to tell his mother that she
borrowed them fora pattern. And
on Thompsons birthday she said her
house was too small for party, that
II we'd lend her onr's we might come