The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-08-28
BETTY AND THE COWS.
BY MIIITsNI MHITMoRTH.


He had a jovfaI florid face of decided
English type, and his speech was strongly
marked by the same nationality Seated
on the opposite side OF a more than com
monty CHEEKY open fireplace, surrounded
by a great display of bright tinware hang
ing to the walls, and corner cupboard filed
with pretty baue deli. glass, and China, sat
a woman Of equally striking English as
pect, clean and neat as a PIN with
smooth. piHk-tinted cheeks, mild blue
eyes, and brown hair just turniup gray.
There was a twinkling CLEAN of humoC
dancing at the corners of his eyes as he
held his shert pipe aloft and said to me,
\" Do yoo Anaw, l used to have t'same
ding'd fool idea aboot twOmen. Nobody
couldn't tell me a woman had any head
for business. It's tEngIish idea, yo
Rnaw, that t'women like cats should stick
to theer 0uwn firesides. was browt up
t'that notion, and nobody. couldn't max
me believe as t'women weer fit for owt but
tendin' tchildren and maxim things
comfortable for Husband
But, dang my buttons yo knaw, t'oud
missus theer-ah she's gotten a head on
her oud shoulders !-t'oud missus theer
let me krraw a blamed sight better nor
that. Listen, and I'll tell yo how it COON.
We'd gotten nobbut wee mite of a
grandchild t'th house. She were a bonny
little lass as iver 70 setten eyes on And
t'missus says to me one day:
g. David, lad, I donna like thee to be do
in ibery bit o tn work and me dotn'
nowt Let me get some work o some
kind and help thee.
- up and toud t'oud dame 3 this'n,
Thee tend to tn housework and leave me
to do tn. airning out O. doors Thee's got
ten no head for business. That's mems
work But she kept on worriting, so at
last took $50 I'd gotten saved oOp i tn
savings bank and bought a coupled cows.
Ma lass. says I, thee can potter thee
time away wi them'-makkin' sure she'd
be sick enoof O. her job in a little while
1 thou't ia best do that to get tlP maggot
oot't her foolish head. 1 toud her I'd do
tn milking for her, but she toud me she
could manage hersen if I'd tend to tn
work I were doin.'
Il must tell yo as I'D gotten that $50
saved to'ards little house and lot we'd
been wanting to get Iver since we'd been
+ th' country but, so far, that was all I'd
iver been able to scrape oop. And noe 1
made sure enoof t was all as good as gone
to Gherico.
But, do 20 knaw, mister, t'oud dame
tackled them cows so weeI that before
t'eend O. six months she had t. first cost
saved up aboon their keep, and in a year
t'whole price O tn house rent, clean and
slick as whistles T'say was as4onished
wean't begin to tell 'ow I felt aboot it
Dang my buttons, 20 knaw, it was turning
t'oud ideas topsy-turvey. 1 ooodn't see
into it upon onny ether basis 'cept t. idear
as at least one q tn women folks had
gotten head on b her shoulders
." But this was knawthin' Before
t'eend Of another year she had tower more
COWS boughten, and had me rent bigger
place; and when / wanted to help to tax
some 9th trouble ofn' her hands, she toud
me to stick to my mans wark, and let
her manage hersen A head upo' h er
buOhItleES DIiG AltAitiA5HC I slCn q way as
pretty nigh bewildered me- When 1
counted ten cows-all clean paid for, and
see that little dame selling the milk and
butter and keeping the accounts as far
rantly as store clark, had TO acknowl-
edge / was beaten-flat beatenI
Z" But she surprised me worse nor that.
One day she said;
go David, my Lad, tn work is getten a.
most too much for me- / can manage
weel enough. but want help i tn wark
part I think thee had better let thy
wark go and stay at home and put in a.
thy time wiz me-
And, dang my buttons. mister Betty
actooalIy hired me to work for her, while
she did tn managing Bless my soul,
how the bare idea stunned me It
Knocked all t'oud English ideas aboot t.
women folks having no head for business
clean oot
Dash my wig what head that lit
tie dame let me see she had upoo her
shoulders To tell the clean truth was
nowheer At first, to say it plain, was
nightly miffed i the bottom. T'oud