The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-02
TRAINING A HUSBAND.


hev Caleb, when knew Jest how he used
Nancy, his first wife. Wall, I'll tell you
all about it.
You know Dan'l left me pretty poorly.
had two little children, and what ter
dew I didn't know. The mortgage was
ter run out in about a year and half
after he died. I'd sent the children
down to brother Johns to get ter scheol.
Brother John wanted me ter give them
ter him an he'd do we'll by 'em, an wus
meditating on it, orful 10th to dew it.
But what else could l dew with 'em
when the old farm was took away from
me?
One day when the time was near eout,
was hoein' the beans one side of the
fence jinin' Caleb's cornfeld. tell yer,
Hannah, never felt bluer in all my days.
I'd alters lived an worked farm, an
couldn't do no other kind of work; so
what was to come of me didn't know.
| "Purty good hoen' for green hand, :"
SEE somebody over the fence.
"Yes," sez !. '1've done enough of it
since l was left alone. Practice makes
perfect" we used to write in our copy
book when We were children, an l
0o.iun '.Wian i n1,p neartn s'sn',
""ii' Ln!li'e,i'he' says he, your
seem to be in the same fix. You need
a man to do your hoeing an l need
woman ter see ter my house, an if your
5s"hla Ie %enna Se !, ni''n no.seS ,e % anu woIh IN
aouo.I ao' .I..,m ' ISs d can az lnu nU I nlreu
nonP ,n"s !, Wv aS !N"ncy o''' hinks
:,I uy1oii: sn YOU s ie nescL nnu aho'ler tha1
VII, ;,;an ') oo' "A"' " ye Say, LII
ueIiines ,.
faps ulon I thlnk o noth'n 1or the
heA' le" h,'hui's 1t all iIasheu over me
VI SIcoho' mliat an uhieelin man ne a
nie's pen. r"or nancy had Ter dew all
sne nouse"olh' an d eoou ueal Delong-
ny 'ci mn 'er oe"' all he was sllngier
Niah ah oia mlser' te".
hhe" nc was STUART man TO WORK,
was ioienahueo an was aple TO i've IN
soou ueai pet'er shape than ne dld, an
you hhom' l'ahh'I, 'hat poor Dan was
lust '.le oPPosite. ne was noriui clever
man' was Ian T. put hlno shlitless an
easy, ah ~ allcrs worried me ter nave
thlhgS gong SO slack. sez to myself,
pooy can nave cvcrythlnS; there's
slers some douts, an poor mans bet.
tel n none. 30 l speaks right up an
'ez:
caleb we've been nabors for many a
year. know your 1alllns an spose you
kno" inlnc; an So. II you say SO, all
rSnt; plaps we botn might do wuss."
wan, ter make a long story short, we
agreed to the business right off. Caleb
salo .hae IL was stylish to go on wed
ulh tower nowadays, ana as he wanted
'eI Ro ueo"n Ter bangor to see about
selih8 MS wool, an as Sarah Jane Cur:
us ("I.o used TO work 1or him) lived
ABOUT half way, an we could stop there
both ways and no. cost us anything, he
thought we'd better go. His niece
kebecca Gilman, yer know, lives there
and we could make her visit at the
same time. Brother John lives there
tew, you know, an I'd madcnp my mint
MAT Ia bring home the children.
An SO | did; but Caleb he was orful
sot agln 1t, but sed, 'of course they can
come and make visit" an | lei him
think so, cause wasn't quite ready tc
have words with him yet.
| ''' +" WON "h Sot hoii'
along IN the afternoon all right. Th'
next morning woke purity early, an
sez to myself: "Cou age, Emmerlne,
now or never" l Kept still, for Calel
was still snorln', but bime by hi
fetched up an unairthly snore that wax
himself up, an when he sees as it wa
gettin, daylight he nudged me, an SCI
be:
;. wake up. Emmerine, Emmerline
lts Droad daylight; come, come, get up
we shant have any breakfast ter day."
was orful hard ter wake, but after
"niie managed ter, an while | was
RUBIN my eyes sez, "Got fire, ain
ye, 1aieDI
fire? sez he, mo, l never build
any hres. Nancy allies built the fires.
'DlQ SheE SeZ /, cool as a cucum bpr