The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-01-26
TT NEVER WILL DO.
One Well Is Not Large Enough to Furnish
Water for More Than One Family.

One Wen is Not Large Enough to Furnish
Water for More Than One Family.
One well never was large enough to
furnish water for two or three families.
rent my palatial dwelling-place from
man who owns two houses-one on
either side of that in which live.
In my back yard there is well, and
in each of the other back yards els
tern is located, and when we three
families moved into our respective
places of abode, it was clearly under
stood and so nominated in the bond
that all should have access to and
water from the well, and that the CEN
trail figure in the group (meaning my
self should be permitted to draw upon
the boarded treasures of either cistern
at his own sweet will.
On Monday of the second week after
we began to utilize our building, my
wife intimated to me that she would
appreciate having few pals of wash
ing water from one of the cisterns.
When my wife intimates anything to
me, | always feel the promptings of
love in my heart and promptly accede
to her wishes. did so on this occa-
sion, and went to the cstern to west
ward Of us. pumped up one pail of
water and took it to my waiting
spouse, but when l attempted to
draw another, the woman who
seemed to be running that
cistern came out and asked
me if | did not think it would be more
polite-she bore down on polite"
pretty hard-to get some water from
the other cistern. l told her that l
was q plain, blunt fellow, who did
not stand on etiquette very much,
and if it made no difference to her
I'd get the water where ny wife
dun pleased. She replied that her
cistern was very low, but l told her
was not a bit stuck up or particular
about the rank in society of cisterns
with which | might have to associ-
ate, and she said something about
my not being able to take more
hints in a minute than she could give
me in an hour, and proceeded to trans
fer the water from the cistern TO the
Wash-tub.
When returned for a third pailful,
the crank of the chain-pump was gone,
so l visited the cistern of my other
neighbor, who smiled as if to wei
come me, as l entered her gate, and
remarked that the weather was quite
dry. | agreed with her, and was en-
gagged in wetting a pailful of weather,
when she proceeded to say that cistarn
water would be an object one of
those days. 1 said l supposed so, and
having emptied my pail came for more
Don't you hate a hog?' she in
quired. / admitted that was notvery
deeply in love with that animal, when
she said something about two-Ieggcd
hogs that | could not help regarding lis
personal. l filled my pail and grace
fully strolled to the back door of tie
kitchen, where my wife stood, and i'll
formed her of the crisis that lowered
over us. Sooner than can tell it, the
round end of discarded table leg was
thrust into the spout of the pump at
the well, and | was invited to saw it
off, which | did. When | returned at
noon from my Office, found my family
thirsty. and then | saw for the first |
time that had revenge upon all parties
concerned, including myself. 1t cost |
me dollar to get the table leg bored |
out of the spout, and my wife has to
have some bangs and back hair, and |
the other women have had to purchase
new dresses, and court-plaster and ar
MICA have to be bought for the children
every day, and each of my neighbors
has a paddock on the wheel OF his |
c;stern pump, while l pay a negro two |
dollars a day to guard the well with |
double-barrelled shotgun, and don't |
speak to the people that live on either
side of us. Oh, no! one well for three
families is very amusing, but it is ex-
pensive, too.-F. E. Hatddlc, in N. Y.
Mercary