Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1882-05-19
THEIR FIRST AND LAST QUARREL

And they had been just six weeks
married, these two.
Pretty Sally Masters and VIII Gray
were poor people; he was farmer, and
she had worked in factory in Lynn.
1t was like new life to her to get
out into the sweet country, but she
knew nothing at all about farm work
and cared less; it was all new to her,
and al. first was very hard.
Then she had quick temper and q
quick tongue, and VIII was the only
sonrof widow and had always had his
own way. ua R
His. mother was dead when he mar
ried Sally, or he could not have brought
wife home to the lonely farm, for it
would not support three people as yet,
though Will worked hard to make, it
pay; and the year before he had received
five hundred dollars from railroad
company for the right to run their road
straight through his front yard.
This seemed fortune to Will, and he
thought very little of the road being
only a few rods from his door, in COM
parison with the money which enabled
him to buy wood-lot bordering on his
farm and piece of meadow ON the 9TH
er side.
But when Sally came there she COM
planned good deal of the noise the en-
gines made, and scolded to think tho
wagon never could come up to the door;
for she was afraid to cross the track in
it, and the barn lay on the other side of
both road and railway.
However, a thing that can't be cured
must be endured, SO she set herself to
the endurance.
But butter-making and cooking were
worse troubles to her, and to-day Will
had grumbled at the specks in the but
ter, and pushed his plate away at break
fast because the buckwheat cakes were
so sour. Sally mad been afraid they
would freeze in the pantry, so she set
them on the shelf above the stove, and
they were spoiled.
How she wished that she had had a
home and mother to teach her home
duties, instead of being an orphan ever
since she could remember and working
SO many years in q factory.
but viii never thought of that; he
fancied a woman knew housework if
she did not know anything else. and he
had TO take long drive to-day and
should miss the good breakfast he real
ly needed, AID he felt very cross.
He pushed his chair back and said:
"Ican't eat those thingsp
"Well, you no need tor' snapped
Sally, who was just ready to cry, but
would not show it for the world.
"1had ought TO have some breakfast
to go thirty miles ON, and Pm goin'
over to Mystic to-day"
81 hope n trust you'll get somethin'
you can eat over there. l s'pose
'Phrony knows how to make good
things"
II bet she doesr' said Win, EN-.
phatically.
Now Phrony was a pretty, bright,
capable girl, Wills own cousin, and he
had never thought of marrying her.
She'was just like his sister. for till very
lately Uncle Dan had lived ON the next
farm, and the children had always
played together.
But Sally had met Sophronia before
and after her own marriage, and in her
foolish heart had grown Jealous of her
beauty and capacity to do all kinds OF
home work.
This morning the mention of Mystic,
evillage where Uncle Dan lived now,
was the drop too much.
Sally's face famed and her eyes grew
dark.
'"Perhaps you'd better stay to Mystic
when you get there, seein' things ain'i
to your lilsin' herep' she said, with bit
ter emphasis.
isMabbe / had, if you can't learn how
toHeook yittles halfway decent" was
Wits. .spiteful response.
"pm sure i don't carev' she an
"well, I dono as I do" he replied
and walked across to the barn.
Sally was SO angry that she tiewrount
the kitchen as if she stepped on air; sh'
wassin one of those RACES that exalr tn,
body with the passion of the mind, ant
make any action easy while the inne
tempest lasts.
1t seemed to her as il she heard in he
own ears the boiling of her rage; sh'
certainly did not hear outdoor sounds
at all; it was accidental that in steppin,
past the window, she saw Will drive oil
down the hard road without so much u
looking back to his home. She had no
heard the sleigh-bells at all.
If some one else had been there TO
her to talk to, probably she would hav
cooled down sooner; speech is a safety
valve many times to an over-burdene,
heart.
But she was all alone in the house
and the nearest neighbor lived round
hill out Of sight
And as she flew round putting tn
dishes away and setting back the tabl
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