Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1885-08-07

'iod W t&Jflcate herself,
'uO each successive attempt proved
only a failure
nnat en- airth's a body going to do
IN this fix? Martial Martha Ann
W'S>qn that gal be about that She
doii come when | call her? Hang
Ing on the fnce, / warrant, a-talking
70 that Tom Ryder will Tom RYDER
'ne nun lot if | eyer>git out of here!
Just at this moment Msrtha came
through the hatchway.
Where are you, mother?"
Where be |? should think YOU'D
ask TO ask Tom Ryd9rl Mebbe hen
tel you-that's all you think on-and
leave me to git along alone"
where are you, motherP I didn't
hear you call l was washing the
green's"
'liere be, l tell you, in the soap
barrel. Where do you s'pose?"
IN The soap barrel?" queried Mar
tha
One glance was sufficient. Convuls-
cd with laughter, she seated herself
on q stone jar to recover sufficiently to
render the needed assistance.
Martha Ann Stutsonl What do
you mean? Haven't / learnt YOU
never to laugh at other folks calami-
uest And here you be a-laughing
rlghtin your mothers face"
but, mother, l never saw you in a
soan barrel before.
Traint noways likely you ever will
agjn il | git out of this one. Go out
in the lot and call your father and
i 80 sa'ass iis =, ,'s';ss s;s A.,s..AA
happened; they'll ind that o"s
quick enough when they get here"
Martha. once out of her mothers
sight enjoyed another hearty laugh
and mn for the men, who, dropping
theirrakes, hastened toward the house.
Martha waited at the top of the stairs,
trying to compose her countenance
before entering the presence of her
mother; at least she led the way for
Jabe, saying:
Mother has met with an accident
down here"
Peering through the darkness, hon
est Jabe exclaimed, on bebOlding her
mothers situation:
1iow did you get in there?'
ITS none of your business how
came here. I'm here, and have got to
be got out some way or uther. Where's
your manners, Jabes IIoyey, that
youh stand there and laugh at me in
this perdickerment?"
'perdickerment! l should say it
was soap barrel, if was any Judge"
What if It's? Do you think Up
SO plg fool that l don't know nat
I've got into? Martha, wher 8 your
father? Why don't he CO, along?"
"lie is coming"
"Ycs. SOS n.tiistmas. | s'pose if
the house vas a0re he wouldn't hurry
4 a mite qu' ,ker"
~'v VIZ! = Judy" said Mr.. stutson on
entering the cellar, "where on arth be
ye, any way?"
Where be |? Can't you see moth
ing? Better put on your specks and
look in the soap barrel. Wal, l de
clare for it! Ef hain't got to stand
here and wait for another to haw- haw
and gigglel For my part. l don't see
nothing to laugh at. What are you
thinking on, Giles Stutson, a-standing
there laughing like that at me? What
kind Of use is it for me to learn Mar
tha Ann to be respectful when you,
her father, don't show no respect"
"Come, come, mother, don't scold
if You could see yourself as we can
you'd Laugh yourself; you couldn't
help it"
'bat how came you to get in there
! Judyf Guess you must got foul o
that cider barrel"
Giles, what do you mean a-talkin,
so when You know l was one of tn,
Leading wimmin in the Temperance
cause and the idee! accusing me righ
alore ny own child of doing sich
J., thing
= ""al, Miss stutson, how are yor
gong to get out p asked Jabe.
d That's what ia like to know, Jabe
: 70" get that wash bench around her
SO 'nat can have it to step on to; an
a you Take hold Of this side, and Gile.
: heIe' you take t'other, and when yo
6 TWO INST me up, Martha Ann ca
} scfape oil the soap. Here, Giles, 70
! anu ! good for nothingl Ye neve
u was Knee high to a toad. If l eve
n gN another man, I'll git one tha
+ won have to stand on a sheet {
/ paper soreach soap barrel p
u A'er numerous attempts, Mr.
o'"'Son was partially outside the ba
rel with one knee resting on the to
l. whea splash she went back aeaiI