Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1886-07-21

III ner slitlng OF sugar anu measuring
Of -four for her cakes.
did 20 hear what muss they had
over q Nose Potter's, last nightp'
mo; what's up nowp They're allus
havin' time there. wonder how that
woman can be SIGH fool as tive with
SIGH man."
80 do I. But this time twas wus' II
any o. their quarrels. Didn't ye know
bout the fellers from Dobbs' factory
a-comin' up t'tar an feather Mosep"
my goodness gracious, Miss Brown,
20 don't mean itP"
And Aunt Hannah stopped in her
work of breaking eggs to raise her
hands in establishment,
"Do take a cheer an set down, and
take of your bunnit," leading the way
into the kitchen, and setting n chair
for her visitor. "Do tell us all about
It."
Aunt Hannah deposited her two hum
feather cushion on the huge rocking
chair, and commenced beating her
eggs in mulberry crock-bowl-she
could not stop work even long enough
TO crafty her curiosity-and the two
tined steel fork with which she was
| doing the work had not the efficiency
of the modern cgg-bcater
"Wcll, yc see,' Mrs. Brown began,
pushing the huge framework of paste
board and Bingham back from her
face, "Mose's vito took her tailor-work
home yesterday an got her money for
it. Ye know Nose use Z carry it, and
he wouldn't let her hev the money for
t; Jest spent jest's he'd minter an
she an the children had { go hungry
half o the time-for Nose nevcr'd
| bring nothin' in to speak on.
II know it; an I've told her time'n
ag'in she was fool t'work so an let
that crazy lummox git hold o. her
money!" said Aunt Hannah, beating
her eggs more briskly in her indigna-
dation. He'd set behind the stove all
last winter an sing The Lord Pervide,
an wouldn't lift his finger t pervide
for his younguns himself. The hyper
crtr'
"Well, We see," Mrs. Brown resumed,
"she le'rnt better'nt Z let him carry
homo any work; so Yesterday she an
Jane took big bundle out to the city,
an when sho got back, Nose told her
to give him the money, N she wouldn' {
do It. He was mighty high over it, an
threatened what he'd do if she didn't
let him have it. But she'd got her back
up, n We know Sally's pretty kinder
sot when she sets out q be, m Nose
couldn't scare her with cent. She
jest told him the money were her'n;
she earn't 1t, m he shouldn't tech one
penny ont. Then she SEE he Jest grab
bed her by the arm an throat, an tried
to git it, N she kicked an pulled till
she got away from him; but her baird
come down in the tussle, an he grab
bed her by that, an afore she could
git away he'd pulled out lock rs big
as my thumb. Her head look just aw-
full when she came over to our house
an, told ont, an her arm an throat
was black an blue where he'd pinchcd
'er. / told her I'd 90 straight Squire
Pcasc n make complaint against him.
An she started; but afore she got there
she met Dave Tuttle,".n' yc know what q
high-hyer Dave is; N as soon as she
told him bout Nose, Dave seq, seq he:
Mrs. Potter, ye jest 60 right straight
back'n get the youngun n yer clos,
an If Nose says any thing, jest tell him
you've made complaint against him,
an he dasscnt tech ye, an I'll get my
team N meet ye hero in half an hour,
an fetch We to my house, an yc can
stay till yc can make shift some way
$50 she got the young'uns an things
an mighty few things there was, too
an Dave fetched them home with
him."
"What did Nose have t say for him.
self when Sally came backp"
Never said nothin', only asked 'er
where she was goin', an she told him
twas where she'd be better off than
She d ever been with him. She says
he kinder hauled In his horns, as II he
was little afeared, an he let 'cr 60
without sayin' nothin' more"
"Thc mean scampi Lucky for him !
wasn't his wife!' said Aunt Hannah.
fiercely, I'D a-lcarnt him what's what
afore this time"
"Well, ye see, Dave went an told
them factory fellows how mean Nose
had used his wife, an they'd allus had
kind of a grudge against him, an
him half to death; so they just rugged
up in old clos, an turned their coats
wrong side out, m BACKED their faces.
SOS he couldn't tell none on 'em. Then
they got a big bag O. feathers an .
kittle o. tar, an came up there an
tried to git Nose out. But he smelt q
rat, an they couldn't raise him. They
pounded on the doors an told him
they'd break 'cm down if they didn't
let EN- in, but he never let on he heard
'cm. Bimeby some of en- got the hog
trough an threw il through the win
der
Good for en- said Aunt Hannah,
chucklng with delight That's the
most sensible thing they ever done. a
hogs trough is the best thing they could
find for sich a hog"
"They staid round there purity nigh
half an hour, and one or two on EN-
got in through the broken winder an
looked high an low, but they couldn' {
md hide or hair of Nose. After they'd
been gone spell. Lish went over am
hollcred { Nose N told him thcy's all
cleared out, and nobody shouldn't
tech him if he'd come out But he
never showed himself; an Lish lit Il
candle an went all over the house,
from garrit { suller, but he couldn't
find nothin' o. Nose nowbcre; but
jest as was a-goin { give it up, he
heard Nose call in a kind of Il scarf
whisper:
"'Lish, is it you? BE they all
gomez
can rs true rs We live, ilsrc was
Nose down on all fours -a-crywlin' out
of hogshcad way in under the suller
stairs. He was all covered with ashes
am dirt, an he shook jest tkc q pop
pie leaf. lie was scarf all but TO death,
ar hung 6 Lish so, not TO- leave him
| alone. that he had TO fetch him home
with him. lie put him in the bed up
garrit, n | never knew nothin' about
it till morning, or thcrc'd a-becn
music, yc better b'lcvc. Jest made
Lish take that bed out inter the, yard,
an it's there now; nobody'd never