The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-12
MISS BREwsTER'S GREEN SILK.
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their mutual backyard fence. Said Mrs.
Deacon Lewis:
"Seein' is belevin' or else / should say,
Jest as you do, that it conldn't be true; but
Jest stepped into Miss Badgers to see what
she'd charge to fix over my black alpaca
1 want in any hurry for the alpaca, but L
kind of got an idea that there was somethin'
in the wind and thought mebbe 1 could
find out what it was there-and there saw
it with my owl two eyes, all over pleatin's
and ruffiin's that it seemed a burnin' shame
to cut up good thick silk into, and fixed up
in the back soft / couldn have the heart to
set down on it. And Miss Badger, for all
she's so close mouthed, she up and told me
who it belonged to, and says i, You don't
say sol and says she, Yes do and then
she pursed her lips up kind of provokin', as
if she could tell great deal more if she was
q mind to. But I've got wit enough to put
two and two together, if folks is close.
mouthed, and says L, right out-fOr there
amt nothin' sly about me-ssys /, Then
Cordilly Brewster is a-goin' 70 get married.
And Miss Badger she never denied It."
"Well, it does beat all, - said Mrs. Davis.
This has been.a sing lar year, what with
the comet and the terrible Happenings all
found, and now Cordilly Brewster settin' up
to have green silk dress when she hasn't
wern anything else but bombazine and al
paca and her one old black silk for nigh upon
twenty years. It's enough to upset any
body's ideas altogether, and make 'em think
the worlds comm to an end. Though l
can't say that such extravaganza looks much
like the millennium"
Mrs. Deacon Lewis shook her head in
solemn censure.
ga good black silk would have been much
more suitable and becomin' to a woman
most forty years old, to say nothin' of the
wear and the maxim over, and for minis
ter's wife,
"You don't say that she's goin' to marry
the minister" exclaimed Mrs. Davis.
"Why, l suppose so, of course. Who can
It be, if it isn't the minister"
II never saw any sign of their keepin'
company. Parson Greeley is too SPIRITUAL
to marry woman that crimps her front
} hair with hot slate pencils; and she never
put more than three eggs into those Gus
tards that she carried to the donation party.
1 should think more likely twas somebody
that she picked up when she was down to
Haverhill visitin', or John Parmenter that
used to keep company with her when they
was young, and has kind o been doin' it,
off and on, ever sence."
"Oh, she wouldn't have John Parmenter,
even if he had spunk enough to ask her,
which he haint. He is good fellow, John
is, but he'll never set the world afre, and
he's been runnin' down hill terribly lately;
has had to mortgage his farm, they dc
say"
'Cordilly's money would cone in just
r right, then; but, as you say, l don't sup
| pose she would have him. It's likely that's
: what's made John turn out so poorly, hel
r not havin' him. But can't really believe
it's the minister. There's Sammy; let's ask
him."
Sammy Greeley, the minister's youngest
hopeful, VINO was engaged in 'shinning up
a nelghboring telegraph pole with the am.
bilious design of attaching his kite to the
wire, descended somewhat reluctantly to
the earth, and obeyed Mrs. Daviss beckop.
ing finger. Sammy was a freckle-faced ur.
chin, with a turned-up nose. the expression
OF which was contradicted by pair of pre-
ternaturally solemn and innocent-lOcking
blue eyes. Ia spite of his eyes. Sammy was
generally regarded as climb" and he and
: mis- three brothers. Moses, Hosea, and 10
J seph, caused the old proverb concerning
i ministers sons to be often repeated with
: solemn head-shakings by the people
5 Sammy, is your father goin' to be mar
ried7" asked Mrs. Davis, with her hand af
fectionately placed on Sammy's shoulder.
: "The old CENT? He couldn't remember to
1 Nobody would have him either He's as balC
E as door-knOb, and he asks blessin' any
r where along between the meat and the pud
din nd .IOa arA rno xunnld hor
] how"
t Wouldn't you like to have him marry
nice, kind lady like Miss Cordilly Brewster
She would teach you how to behave"
"Know how good enough now, and II
wiring her old parrots neckl don't believ
: it, anyhow, but I'm goin' to find out"
: And off went Sammy, regardless Of hi
}. kite, and burst, breathless, into his father
It study.
i "You amt goin' to marry Miss Brewste
and her old green parrot that swears, an
q have her always clearin' up and dustin an
!. losin' your papers, are yer?' demande
|, Sammy.
y The minister turned from his sermon
a writing, md regarded Sammy with mil
d amazement. Gradually mis- expressio
G changed to one of perplexity. He remove
e his specialization his eyes to the top of hi
head, and then he tapped his forehead wit
z the tips of his fingers, as if to summon fort
some straying recollection.
"That must be the very thing that ws
=, trying to remember Wait a moment.
\ must have set it down somewhere"
IS And Parson Greeley drew from one
re the pigeon-holes of his desk some loo:
n sheets of foolscap paper which had evide I'll
d been used as diary. Several pages wei
devoted to memoranda; these the ministe
read aloud:
=, "'Mem.-To confute the infdel pe1dler
argument by st. Paul. and
i "'Mem.--TO tell Deborah, mildly bu
l. firmly, that so much saleratus is not col
q ducive to health.
:, "Mem.-To punish Joseph and Samu
4: for unseemly conduct at prayer-time.
g "'Mem.-To admonish Brother Bat
ii gently that he is becoming unsound j
sc doctrine.
e "'Mem.-To endeavor so far as lies in m
e ! to restore peace to the singing seats
a "'Mem.-To endeavor TO exercise such
n measure of wholesome restraint over Mos,
DR. and Samuel that they may not become
ii cause of scandal to the neighborhood.
y "Mem.-To devote greater measul
of attention to worldly matters, such as 81