New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-12-30

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land sect they was made to be the
Isweaker sect; though if faint really
lawful to say SO, I own u always did
have q poor opinion Of Adam as ever
was; to be q tellin' how twas Eve
| made him eat the apple, when he done
it the first time aslSin'; but twas lust
like man! They keep dom Of it
to this day; it's forever an always
the woman that tempted me. 3"
T Thee remember doesn't thee?--
the Scripter says, the woman being
deceived, was In trangression, Itshath
always seemed to me kindly IN limo
/ thy so to speak OF her as to lay the
blame on the Enemy"
THAT ain It neither here nor there"
answered the logical and undaunted
Patty. q amt tryin' to make light
OF Ewes disobeyin', but lido say Adam
was real mean to get behind her; he
was able to say he wouldn t, guess,
jest as well as she was, but he didn't
no more'n she did. I was readin'
somewhere t'other day, about an old
French Teller, a Judge or somethin',
Judge OF a p'lice court | expect by the
tell, and whensomever they fetched a
man before him that had been took
up for a misdeed, no matter what
twas, he always asked, Who is she?'
lettin on as though woman was to
the bottom of every wrong dom.
Clear Adam! An that's what I fault
'em for.''
"Well, they be queer Mrs. Peek
again took up the fruitful theme.
"Sary, what was that you was tellin'
about Thomas an them letters t'other
night?"
ooh, NAL" said Sarah Beers. depre-
catingiy, but with a laugh that lit her
pale face and sad eyes; for Sarah was
q typical New England woman; care.
full, troubled about every thing; afraid
OF her very shadow, but doing the
bravest things, with her heart sinking
and her joints trembling all the time,
because duty or affection called her
to such service. She married Tom
Beers, a bright, strong young fellow,
full Of fun and reckless daring, and de-
voted to Sarah. but entirely ignorant
of her daily anxieties and terrors; for
she was as reticent as she was timid,
if she thought she could save any one
much more any one she loved-by
ruch reticence.
ooh, tell ont sary, tain no harm;
we all know Tom set by We all his life.
He wouldn't do nothin' to plague We,
| if he knowed it, no morn he'd cut his
| head off; but that letter business was
so exactly like men-folks."
A chorus of voices echoed the re.
quest; there were only about ten peo-
| pie at the quilting it was the regular
seWing-circle meeting OF Oakley-so
| Sarah consented.
'tWell faint much 10 tell, but if ma
wants me to. You know, TOMS horse
is real young and kind of skitish, and
1 if there is one thing above another L m
| afeared of it's horse"
"Bless your soul and body!" put
III her mother, 81 never see the thing
yet you want afeared OF, Sary, horse
or not"
s"Oh, I know it, ma, but Pm awfully
afeared of skittish horse; Tom, he
don't really sense it, and he says Jen-
ny amt ugly, she's just full of play;
and s'pose she is; she's knowing as
dog, and I give her a bite OF something
every time lie fetches her round, and
she knows me real well, but she will
jump and dash out and shy sometimes,
and it makes me just as weak as wa
4 ter, so'tI don't never drive her ef
can help it.
You don't mean to say that you
ever do drive cretur when you feel
that kind o. way toward it," queried
Miss Patty, sharply.
Why, | hev sometimes, We know
there's ofttimes day Tom can't leave
| the haydn, or harvestin', or plantin'
or something, and there has to be
things fetched from the store, and no
way to get 'em, SO Tom he just tack
les up and / go for 'em; he don t really
nlistrust that I'm scared. and never
tell him that I be; what's the use?'
| We'll, !" said Miss Patty, with q
sniff no type can express, and Sarah
went on.
So week before last Aunt Simons
writ and said she was comm out to
stay a day or two before she went
back South, and she was goin' to fetch
Joe, that's her Oldest, along with her
sho,wanted for to have us meet her
at the station, but sheshouldn' come
if it rained; she's got dreadful weak
lungs; but She d telegraph ifshe wa'a't
coming Well, Wednesday morning,
the day she sot to come, it did rain
,sure enough; and seeing there was a
donation party to be got up, / sided
my work away early and walked over
to the Center, for knew I should see
all the folks I'd got to see to home
I'd just got ready to start for home
about noontime, and l bethought
myself to step into the post
office, for ] knew there'd be the
mail for the creamery, so l got dou,
BILE handful OF let tiers and papers and
set my face toward home, when who
should come up but Tom in the buggy
Get in!' says he. I'm going to The
station