The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-11-06

had wings like dove that she might
soar into the milk-room, and restore
order out of the chaos.
"Here's go!" said George. "There
isn't hot water"
''Oh, George, you've forgotten to
put the kettle on!'
$50 l did" said her husband. "And
the sticks, hang 'em, are all burnt
out"
"You know I wanted you to get d
ton of COAL" said Lefty, "but you
said as long as wood cost nothing but
the chopping and hauling, wood it
would be.'
"Have 1 got to wait for that con-
founded water to heat?" groaned
George.
81 don't know anything else for you
to do" remarked Lefty, drily"
"Humph!" observed that lord and
master.
"What's for the breakfast"
"Ham and eggs, suppose"
"Well, I'm up TO that part of the
program, at least" said he, cheerfully.
"Oh, the dickens! What is the use of
keeping your knives so sharp? I've
nearly cut my thumb Off Where do
you keep the oGt meal? I can be at
tending to your old milk pans while
the breakfast is cooking, | suppose.
There is nothing like economy in
work."
But it was a mortal hour before the
milk was strained and the pigs fed,
and by that time the house was blue
with a sort of smudgy smoke.
"Hullo!" shouted George, coming in.
"What's all this-is the house on
fire."
NO" said Lefty calmly, "only the
breakfast has burned up"
George uttered a long sigh.
''Who'd have thought the fire was so
hot?" said he. "What am I to do
now?"
"Cook another, I suppose" said
"And what next?" demanded George,
fercely.
"Why set the table, and then clear
it away and wash the Dishes"
"With this cut fnger?" complained
the husband.
81 was obliged to do it all the weeks
1 had felon on my little finger" re-
marked Lefty. s"fhe young geese and
turkeys ought to have been let out
and fed long before this; and the three
calves in the barnyard to be attended
to. And then there are the kitchen
and sitting-room to be swept and
busted and the beds to make, and the
string beans to be picked, and the
bread to bake and the huckleberry
pies to make, and your white vest to
be ironed, and the potatoes to be
pealed, and the preserves to be scald-
ed over, and the cheese to be turned,
and the table to be cleared and the
dishes to be washed"
"Hold on!' cried George, ''you've
said that once"
every likely, but it has to be done
three times a day-and the chickens
to be looked after, and the linen pill
low-cases to be put to bleaching, and
the windows to be washed and your
trousers to be patched, and the stock
ings to be darned, and the fire to be
made up again, and tea to be prepared
you know you always want some
thing hot for supper. And there's the
nights milk to be brought in and
strained, and the pans scalded and,
and the geese and turkeys to be fed
and put into their coops; and, oh,
dear! 1 forgot the churning! That will
take an hour at least. But, dear George,
am getting hungry!-and I don't see
the least signs of breakfast George!
Where are you going? I-want-my-
breakfast"
For George had disappeared in the
midst of her exordium.
In twenty minutes or so, hereturned
and by his side trudged Mary Ann
PuIt, the nearest neighbor's twenty
year old daughter.
''I take it all back" said Mr.. White.
GLOVER my colors, Lefty. Your work
is harder than mine. I'll be everlast-
ingly blest if it amt. Why, Icouldn't
take care of the milk and cream for the
wages a girl would ask. 1 never real
lied before how much awoman hadto
do"
care you quite sure that you realize
it now?" asked Lefty, mischlevously.
"Well, I've got a pretty fair idea on
the subject" nodded George.
"But you should be here on washing
day." said Lefty, cor on ironing day, or
on the day when we chop sausage-meat
or make soft soap, or"
"Stop, stop!" shouted George. eff
you sayanother word I'll go for Mahala
B1nKS, TOO. Haven Z L SAID UnaG III
take it all back? What more would you
have?"
oval, squire" said Mary Ann, who
by this time had removed her hat and
shawl, "what'll lido first?"
"Do!" echoed Mr.. White. 'rDo every
thing and let meget off to the bayfield,
as fast as / can."
"Jes' as your orders isl said Mary
Ann.
"And I say, Lettyr" he added.
eyes! George"
"Write to your Cousin Dora. Tell her
We'll be glad to board her, if she will
assist you about the house"
"But you've hired Mary Ann!'
"There's work for 'em both,'' said
Mr.. White.
And he sat down and took refuge in
last weeks paper, while Mary Ann
wrestled with the charred remains of
the breakfast and cut fresh slices of
home-cured ham.
In this world there are bloodless
battles and victories won without a
clash of steel; and in this category
NAV he claSsed Mrs Whites victory