The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-08-04

Sally. Why, it only two o clock. The
shower must have come up very sudden
lyn *.,.,
The roads'll be all mud knee-deep.
Nobody'd come through such mean
mud's we have to look at butter. They d
be fools f they did. It's Jest as / said.
The butter won be sold t all. You'd
know yourself 'twouldn't be, f you want
deaf 5 an adder and blind as bat. -
.sAunt Sally, think this is little too
much. I'm very tired and l want YOU
to 90 right out of my room and leave me
to sleep.
81 shall 90 out o this room jest 5
quick s I'm mind to, N no quicker, m
| the more you talk about it the more
shant 90. Anybody'd think, to hear
YOU talk, that you did all the work in
this house. Who's SKINNED the milk
all summer, I'd like to know? | s'pose
YOU think the butter'd come all the same,
skimmin' or no skimmin'; m now we
shan sell pound, n we shan't have
money enough to keep from starvin' to
| death N buy clothes to cover our naked
ness. But there one thing about it: 1
won't pinch n be economical a bit
longer. I'll spend every dollar I'm
mind to. What f one o. them city
buyers should come in the pouring rain?
We shouldn't know whether to trust i'm
or not | wouldn't let i'm touch the
/ butter unless he paid the money down
| IT'S Jest the meanest thing that ever
/ happened sense the world begun that
we didn't 90 to s. week ago n
time; n f we don't git thirty cents.
Z fIa 81 - tfrl,l trx-.
4 shan't never want TO show my face out
side this house again, N the shan one
o. the family. + can help it.
But Aunt Sally at length ran down,
and Dolly knew that, unless she had a
strong cup of tea or little sleep, she
wouldn't be in running order again for
several hours. and She prepared to enjoy
herself accordingly. BY six o clock She
was busy preparing breakfast, running
I out .'between times to freshen her heart
with a look at the pink and purple morn
inc glories that grew up over the south
/ piazza. She was as bright and pleasant
to her little brother as though her night 5
rest had been untroubled and filed with
sweetest dreams.s The prospect for a
cosy. quiet breakfast was Frightening
1 when half dozen geese. ssmitten with
total depravity, walked hurriedly toward
the house and held. one of their most
spirited conversations directly under
Aunt Sally's chamber window. They
couldn't have been more excited if they
had been discussing the family butter
and its prospects.
Dolly had Just served the coffee and
taken sip or two out of her own cup,
when the sitting-room door opened, and
out walked Aunt Sally. looking quiet but
ominous. She drew a chair TO the fire
and sat black and silent for five minutes.
''Did the geese wake you up, Aunt
Sally?' asked Willie, Dollie's little
brother.
wake me mp Guess they'd awaked
anybody up that wan dead. Ii | was
boy big as you be, I'd keep geese in
their places; but nobody in this family
ever sees to anything or ever Will. -
Wont YOU lave some coffee, while
/ It's fresh and lot, Aunt Sally, asked
Dolly.
mo, / don't want nothin', hot MOI
cold. l feel perfectly sick this mornin'
Jest knew last night Stou' d feel; and
I've rot to have the doctor right straight
of and have something to take. Here.
whole month gone, II hahn had but
two quart bottles of medicine. Ihad t.
lay awake all night aud think about the
butter. ! knew if didn' nobody else
would. It'll take me down sick / fee
this morning jest'S il L was going L
have the typhoid fever. n | shall hav,
it. too. If had anything to do abou
things. | should go right off this morn
in and see bout seiln That butter but
Of course, what | thinks nothin' in thi.
house and neUer was.
The group at the table were silent
only now and then saying a word or two
as they served each other.
Dolly felt the essential vulgarity of al
family contentious, and, in general, sh'
answered nothing 10 Aunt Sally's foolisl
TRADES. which were much more frequen
in Mr.. Browns absence.
George Sterling left the room a:
quickly rs he could, and Dolly followed
him to the piazza, where they talked ;
minute over what had best be done.
George viii drive down to S.
: and see what he can do with the butter,
Dolly said, as she returned to the kitchen
But Aunt Sally deigned no reply. Sh,
rose and walked into the more gentee
part of the house and was notseen agar
for several hours. The occasional slam
! ming of doors and windows testified tC
herexistence.
In the afternoon George returned, anC
; told Dolly that he could contract the but
, ter for but twenty-five cents. The
markets were full for few days; bu
her fathers friends had advised him tC
wait little, as they thought it WOULD b,
up to thirty cents again.
Several days passed and the question
OF butter was sill unsettled. Dolly was
busy with her work, hardly getting +;
} minute to peep into the new Harpe,
; which George had brought from tn,
: post-oflice One day she put two of hel
delicious custard pies into the oven K
, bake, and then went upstairs for a few
minutes TO make beds. Aunt Sally,
meanwhile, walked into the kitchen
which she found .,eold as a barn, >
| built up a hot fire, and sat down by ths
stove When Dolly returned. she smell
/ strong odor of burning pastry, and
opening the oyen-door, found thst he
pies were completely ruined
: Why, Aunt Sally said she, ',didn>
you smell my pies burningg"
smell umn' returned Aunt Sally
No, l didn't, nj shaaat smell nothin
more till the buffers sold.n And SD,
! marched off into the sitting-room a
J, though her dignity had been offended
( . What pity Dickens didn't know
Aunt Sally" thought Dolly, as she wen
. about making sornesmore pies ET :.
5 Mr.. John Sterling, Georges father
e always sent away his butter to certain
/ city firm, whose chief member had, as
] boy, been brought up in the family o
} john Sterling father. The Sterling
, knewthe firm well and knew that it wa
4 trustworthy. George, therefore, suggest
) ed to Dolly that he write to his father
9 friend, Mr.. Furness, and ask his advic
. about the butter they had to SELL.
He wrote. and in short time lette
} came, advising the Browns to send thei
; butter on. It wott1d surely net Their
! twenty-eight cents and perhaps thirty
Mr.. Furness promised to do the best h
: could.
The matter was talked over with Aun
/ Sally, and, after much tribulation all tn
tubs, with their golden weight, were pu
/. into the cars, and sent to hescity. Th