Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-06-15
PAMELA'S FACULTY.

= They talked over Deacon Semple's
death in the sewing circle. 1t was very
sad that he should have died. So sud-
denly, too, of pneumonia, poor man.
But Mrs. Calkins, at whose house the
society met that week, couldn't help
thinking that it would have been very
dull meeting if he had not; for since
everybody had found out just why Luke
Judkins had been obliged to mortgage
his farm, and DIR. Saunders's marriage
with his housekeeper had become an
old story, there was absolutely nothing
to talk about. 1t was also providential
that he should die just after planting
was over, and before haying had begun.
He was growing very deaf, too, and was
always shiftlesS. Being deacon, of
course he was prepared, and there was
really not much to mourn for, except
that now Pamely would have to take
care of herself, and Pamely had no fac
ulty. Ruthy Ann could 60 on keeping
school, as she had done for years, and
the twins, luckily, were married. Pane
ly was the only one that was left unpro-
vided for-the kind that had no faculty.
The farm was all run out; and if it
were not, Pamely wouldn't know any
better than to expect to raise pumpkins
on a pea vine If she was a farmers
daughter she didn't know but what pota-
toes came up of their own accord, and
weeded and dug themselves. Mrs.
Ichabod Badger Generally known as
Mis- Ichabod) thought it probable that
she even supposed that they wash
ed themselves and jumped into the
dinner pot. And it was evident that
she set a sight more by posies than she
did by garden sass. She was always
ittering up the house with weeds and
stuff out of the woods, and she drew
pictures when she'd better have been
drawing candles or making soap. She
took after the Spencers-her mothers
folks. One of them wasn't half witted
and wrote verses, and another painted
pictures, and never amounted to any
thing. And Pamely was headstrong;
che never seemed to pay any attention
20 good advice. She was always as
pleasant and amiable about it as could be,
but she would 60 right on in her own
way That was like her father: when
they tried to dismiss the Rev. Mr.. Cald-
well for unsoundneSs of doctrine, Dea-
con Semple he wouldn't agree to it. He
didn't get excited and call hard names,
IS the others did, but though they
argued and argued, he wouldn't be con-
WINGED. -
Mis- Ichsbod was of the opinion that
. committee Of ladies oug bit to call upon
Pamely, and advise her to go and keep
house for old Hiram Hutchinson. He
had large farm and two invalid daugh-
tiers, one afflicted with spinal disease
and the other with epilepsy; so twas a
hard place, and of course she would
keen everything at skies and sevens, not
having any faculty but old Hiram was
willing TO take her, because she was
very close, and she wouldn't expect
much. And Mis- Hosea Blodgett added
that as Hiram was q widower, nobody
kne what might happen. He was over
fifty, and hard to get along with, but
then Pamely couldn't be far from TWEEN
ty-five, and ought to be willing to make
o sacrifice for the sake of a home. Ben
Seaverns, who used to keep company
with her, had gone off to sea FIVE years
before, and had probably got drowned,
to say nothing of being shiftless good
Snr-nothing, and surely there was no man