New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-12-30
JUST LIKE a MAN.
BY ROSE TERRY COOKE.

Christian Union.
'9They do beat all" sighed Mrs
Peck, as she wiped her face earnestly
with a spotted cotton handkerchief,
and set her spectacles aloft on the top
OF her cap border. II summered and
wintered one on EN- nigh on to fifty
years, and there was things he done I
don't see into up to this day. Besides
had sons, and darters' husbands as
well, and they're all Of a piece; tarred
with the same stick, as Lias used to
say
"Well, spoke up Miss Patty Brink
~, a vivacious maiden lady. stopping
to thread her needle, with both elbows
on the quiitframe, and her thread and
needle stabbing at each other nearly
half a yard away from her strainlng
eyes. "I hadn't never had no such
experiences, thanks be to praise. Pa
used to say ii / had ha' married any
body pdshave killed 'em or run away
from 'em, and don't know but what
Ishould."
1They had something to be thank
full for, then, as we'll as thee, Patty"
dryly remarked Aunt Marcia Bhnn,
the only lady ofthe "Friends" persua-
sion, as she called it, of whom Oakley
boasted9s
t.Well, they're queer anyhow" re-
sumed the Widow Peek. There's no
'countin' for 'em; they'll up and do
things you would no more expect Of
'em than anything; and as for bein'
protectors for women-folks and all
that, which folks tell about in books,
my land! Lias Peek would ha' died
more'nforty times ef hadn't ha'had
dry things for1to put into him when
he came in soakin' wet out of the
crick, or after apourin rain. AS twas
he died TO- rheumatiz't he took along
o. hoatin' saw-logs down to the mill
in spring freshet and never comm
home to dinner, but workin' all day
in them damp clothes. I give
him pokeberry rum, an a hemlock
sweat, and two hull bottles of G,anlp-
tions Ginger Bitters, besides a rubin
Of him powerful with campfire, before
j sent fpr the doctor; but it struck to
his stolnic and he went off like q snuff.
But thht ant here nor there; as was
sayin for nigh onto fifty year I'd put
his f1ahnel shirts into the front left
hand corner Of the bottom drawer in
the M hog'ny bureau in the bedroom,
and very Sunday mornin' reg'lar.
when s4le. was cleanin' up for meetin'
sd hOller out 'Laurancyl where's
them flannel shirts o. smine?' Now
that's sol" concluded the widow, .wip-
ing her eyes and dding in stage aside,
holler that again..
Ard they amt got no memory, !"
put III Miss Patty. who had at last
coaxed needle and thread to an ami
able understanding, and was quitting
away with zeal and discretion, as every
good quilter knows how. ~ never
see the time when they wouldn't for
sget things. I've tailored round quite
number O. years, and I've had an
I eve on them as you say: There was
4 ssilas Buck. ! used to tailor for his
SIolk s consider BILE; the was him and
Z Igihfeesb boys and the hired man. Well,
lve got out O. linen thread, say, and
You can t no more make overhauls
VII, SEWN cotton than you can with
ss r., IWebs, and Mis- Buck she'd say,
o ,'i says she, Miss Patty's all out
g nhsn thead. When ye 60 down to
\ 1he ssIIipre after them rake tails I wish t
you Ifetch up hank o. black and a
S;t7sa y n brown. Now don't you foget
-. ] I'D Silas he'd laugh, he was just
g fever as a basket o. chips,
ana sll, 81 hif'd say, 'tIM fetch it, moth
.S 81 Ifnt he wouldn't! an ! set, an
se1 Y yEaltln' for it and fin'ly put on
Illy y D0.snnit and walk q mile down to
9, =, CgHrners for to fetch it myself; then
n ILL., Try, Cousin Patty YOU see we
e ST., cousins because his IA theirs sec
9o ,lel ne was sister to my Aunt So
plll :'1,l III husband, - Cousin Patty,
nam la''.llI syou got them overhauls done
YETI Vn "a sorter buster up nd say,
' es Al Silas, I amt more able to
make Bricks without straw than the
]! elltIEes was for Pharo' an you didn't
ie sil Nae no thread yesterday and
then led haw, haw, right out; he was
real rec eyer, but land! SO shiftless.
.l lll Just q case in pint SO to speak.
re knelw just one time, You can tell
.oys slF' Hle what great deal means,
ann IS Mis- Peck says; they're all
I llss doesn't think women-folks
are an l1erfect, does thee, Patty"
querlea Aunt Marcia, in her calm
Vel, n donno as they be; I donno
!. as J, q sald they be, but you can gen lily
cell y y, Wh e most Of 'em II fetch up, and
y !. Is. So nder 81 and prepared for what
C l Wlii do, and specially for what
6 I & w ~ 81 do. Sometimes they'll
1lssp poln 7 az your calculations, but
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