The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-06-18


of flour for her cakes.
did We hear what muss they had
over t Nose Potter's, last nightP''
"No; what's up now? They're allIs
hayin' time there. Iwonder how that
woman can be SIGH fool as tive with
SIGH a man.
80 do I. But this time twas wus' n
any o. their quarrels. Didn't We know
bout the feIlers from Dobbs' factory
a-comin' up t'tar an feather Mose?n
my goodness gracious, Miss Brown,
ye don't mean itP''
And Aunt Hannah stopped in her
work of breaking eggs to raise her
hands in astonishment
''Do take cheer an set down, and
take off your bunnit, leading the way
into the kitchen, and setting a chair
for her visitor. do tell us all about
it,
Aunt Hannah deposited her two hum
dred pounds rather heavily on the soft
feather cushion on the huge rocking
chair, and commenced beating her
eggs in a mulberry crock-bowl- she
could not stop work even long enough
to crafty her curiosity land the two
tined steel fork with which she was
doing the work had not the efficiency
OF the modern egg-beater.
"Well, We see," Mrs. Brown began,
pushing the huge framework of paste
board and gingham back from her
face, "Moses wife took her tailor-work
home yesterday an got her money for
1T. Ye know Nose use t. carry it, and
he wouldn't let her hev the money for
t; jest spent iest's he'd mlnter, an
she an thu children had t. 90 hungry
half O. the time-for Nose never d
bring nothin' in to speak on.
81 know it; an I've told her time'n
agSin she was a fool t'work so an. let
chat 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. perYide
for his younguns himself. The hyper
critr'
"Well, yesee," Mrs. Brown resumed,
''she le'rnt better'nt t let him carry
home any work; so Yesterday she an
Jane took big bundle out to the city,
an when she got back, Nose told her
to give him the money, n she wouldn't
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, m We know Sally's pretty kinder
sot when she sets out t. be, N Nose
couldn't scare her with q cent. She
jest told him the money were her'n;
she earn it, N 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, m she kicked an pulled till
she got away from him; but her hair d
come down in the tussle, an he grab
bed her by that, an afore she could
git away he'd pulled out lock as 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 pinched
'er. | told her I'd go straight Squire
Pease n make complaint against him.
An she started; but afore she got there
she met Dave Tuttle, m We know what a
high-hyer Dave is; m as soon as she
told him bout Nose, Dave seq, seq he:
"'Mrs. Potter, yejest go right straight
back'n get the young'uns m yer clos,
an if Nose says any thing, jest tell him
you've made complaint against him,
an he dassent tech ye, an I'll get my
team m meet We here in half an hour,
an fetch ye to my house, an We can
stay till We 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 e say for him.
self when Sally came back?n
"Neyer 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 if he
was little afeared, an he let 'er 60
without sayin' nothin' more
THE mean scamp! Lucky for him 1
wasn't his wife!' said Aunt Hannah,
tiercely, I'D a-learnt him what's what
afore this time. !"
"Well, We 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
didn't want no better fun N t scare
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 big bag O. feathers an a
kittle O tar, an came up there an
tried to git Nose out. But he smelt a
rat, an they couldn't raise him. They
pounded on the doors an told him
they'd break 'em down if they didn't
let EN- in, but he never let on he. heard
'em. Bimeby some of EN- got the hog
trough an threw it through the win
der
"Good for 'em!" said Aunt Hannah,
chuckling with delight. That's the
most sensible thing they ever done. A
hogs trough is the best thing they could
find for SIGH 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't
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been gone a spell, Lish went over an
hollered t Nose n told him they's all
cleared out, and nobody shouldn't
tech him if he'd come out. But he
never showed himself; an Lish lit a
candle an went all over the house,
from garrit t suller, but he couldn't
find nothin' O. Nose nowhere; but
jest as was a-goin' t give it up, he
heard Nose call in a kind of Scarf
whisper:
"Lish, is it your Be they all
gomez
"An' as true rs We live, there was
Nose down on all tours a-crawlin' out
of a hogshead way in under the suller
stairs. He was all covered with ashes
an dirt an he shook jest like pop
pie leaf. He was scarf all but to death,
ar hung t LiSh so, not to leave him
alone, that he had to fetch him home
with him. He put him in the bed up
garrit. N Inever knew nothin' about
| it till morning, or there'd a-been
music, We better b'leve. I jest made
Lish take that bed out inter the yard.
an it's there now; nobody'd never