The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1883-09-29

| FlSnt III tne H1nk on tue DINER Sluc ifOm
where the deacon was. Well, you'd a
died to see the COW jump up and blat.
All four of her feet were off the ground
at time, and guess most of them hit
the deacon on his Sunday vest, and the
rest hit the milk pail, and the COW
backed against the fence and bellcred,
and the deacon was all covered with
milk and COW hair, and he got up and
throwcd the three legged stool at the
COW and hit her on the horn and it
glanced off and hit me on the pants
just as ] went over the fence to feed the
pigs. i didn't know deacon could
talk so sassy at a COW, and come so
near swearing without actually saying
cuss words. Well, | logged swill until
| was homesick to my stomach, and
then ! had to clean off horses, and go
to the neighbors about a mile away to
borrow lot Of rakes to use the next
day. was so tired I almost cried,
and then ! had to draw two barrels of
water with well bucket, to cleanse for
washing the next day, and by that
time | wanted to die. II was most
nine O'Clock, and began to think
about supper, when the deacon said all
they had was bread and milk for sup.
per Sunday night, and rasseled with
basin Of skim milk, and some old back
number bread, and wanted 10 go to
bed, but the deacon wanted to know il
| was heather enough TO want to go to
bed without evening prayers. There
/ nI
than evening prayers about that minute,
but had to take a prayer half an hour
long on top of that skim milk, and
guess it curdlcd the milk, for | hadn't
been in bed more than half an hour be-
fore had the worst collie boy ever
had, and thought | should die all
alone up in that garnet, on the floor,
with nothing to make my last hours
pleasant but some rats playing with
ears OF seed corn on the floor, and mice
running through some dry pea pods.-
But, o, how different the deacon talk
cd in the evening devotions from what
he did when the COW was galloping on
him in the barn yard. Well, got
through the collie and was just getting
to sleep when the deacon yelled for me
to get up and hustle down stairs. l
thought may be the house was on fire,
cause smclled smoke, and | got into
my trousers and came down stairs on a
jump yelling fire. when the deacon
grabbed me and told me to get down
on my knees, and before / knew il he
was into the morning devotions, and
then he said "amen" and jumped up
and said for us to fire breakfast into us
quick and get to work doing the chores.
l looked 1t the clock and it was just
three O'Clock in the morning, just the
time pa comes home and goes to bed
in town, when he is running a political
campaign. Well, sir, / had to jump
from one thing to another from three
O'Clock in the morning till nine at
night, pitching hay, driving.a reaper,
raking and binding, shocking wheat,
hoeing corn, and everything, and |
never got kind word. spoiled my
clothes, and think another week would
make pirate of me. But during i; all
| had the advantage OF pious example.
tell you, you think more OF such 4
man as the deacon If you don't work
for him, but only see him when he
comes to town, and you hear him sing
Heaven is my Home, through his nose.
He even is farther from his home than
any place ever heard of. He would
be good mate on Mississippi river
steamboat if he could swear, and
guess he could soon learn. Now, you
take these cabbagcs and give me ninety
cents, and will go home and borrow
ten cents to make up the dollar, and
send my chum back with the horse and
wagon and my resignation. was not
cut out for farmer. Talk about fish
ing, the only fish saw was salt white
fish we had for breakfast one morning,
which was sailed by Noah, in the ark"
and while the grocery man was unload
ing the cabbagcs the boy went Otto look
for his chum, and later the two boys
were seen driving off towards the farm
with two fish poles sticking out Of the
hind end of the wagon.
WHOM TO CHOOSE FOR A HUSBAND.
Choose a man who has plenty TO &C.
cupy his mind. Not necessarily n great
deal Of money or real estate, but one
whose mind is active, and who will be
likelyto find plenty to look after outside
OF the house and home. That woman
is wise who chooses for her partner in
life man who desires to find his home
a place of rest. II is the man with
many interests, with engrossing occupa-
tions, with plenty Of people 10 fight,
with 4 struggle to maintain against the
world, who is the really domestic man
in the wife's sense; who enjoys home,
who is tempted TO make 4 friend of his
wife, who relishcs prattle, who feels in
the home circle, where nobody is above
him and nobody unsympathetic with
him, as il he were in heaven OF ease
and relaxation. The drawback of
home life, its containing possibilities
of insipidity, sameness and consequent
WEAKNESS, is never present TO such n
man. He no more tires of his wife
and children than Of his own happier
moods. He is no more bored with
home than with sleeep. All the monot-
ony and WEAKNESS Of life he encounters
outside. Il is the pleasure-loving man,
the merry companion, who requires
constant excitement, that finds home
life uncomfortable. He soon grows weary
OF il, and considers everything so tame
that il is impossible for him to be hap
by or not to feel that he is less unhappy
there than elsewhere.
We do not mean that the true domes-
tic man will be always at home. The
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