Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-11-12
THAT MORTGAGE.
BY SUSAN TEALL PERRY.

1t was the time for spring cleaning.
Mrs. Brewster has gone into the best
room to look about and see what
wanted doing. AS she threw open
the blinds. she heard g. robin in the
maple-tree. It was good sign, her
grandmother used to say, to have q
robin come and build her nest before
ones door. It had been a long win
tor, one OF the most severe that the
New England inhabitants has seen
for years, and the bright sunshine
was we'll appreciated. fit had not
been for that mortgage, how happy
Mrs. Brewster would have been that
morning. But as she looked out OF
the window upon the resurrectine
earth, she exclaimed:
20, dear, there is always something
to hinder the full enjoyment of any.
thing in this world; at least some folks
are always weighed down with bur
dens they cannot lift OFF,
After making thorough survey OF
the room, she passed into the large
farm-kitchen.
l brought you q letter, Mis- Brew
ster. Thought as how I was d wn to
tho village, I might as we'll bring up
yourn and Mr.. Hulps folks mail.
It's such hurrying times now that
farmers have all they can do to
home"
20, it's you, Mr.. Hawkins!' Mrs.
Brewster exclaimed, as she looked up
and saw the gray-haired farmer stand
ing in the door, with the spring sun
shine falling all about him. "A pleas
ant day. isn't it? Thank you for
bringing the letter."
eyes, Mis- Brewster, it's as warm
as summer. Our wimmen folks want
ed I should put some garden seed in
to-day, but I told 'em that 'one swal.
low doesn't make asummer,' Springs
a deceitful critter, q coquettish sort OF
q gal. When you think you've got her,
she hain't there
Mr.. Hawkins passed out of the door
laughing heartily at his own wit. Mrs.
Brewster tore open the envelope. otis
from Mariette," she said. She sat
down in the first chair she could find
and read the letter.
'"There's plenty of good times in the
world, but like Glory McQuirk, I'm
never in EN- Mari5tte and her folks
are going to the sea-shore for the sum-
mer. That's the reason she hasn't
written before. She's had dress
maker in the house for a whole month,
making dresses for her and the girls.
I declare, Marietta does have good
time.'
She was talking to her husband,
who sat by the kitchen stove mending
a harness. He was one of those men
who never make repairs until just as
they are absolutely needed.
" suppose, then, they are we'll at
Mariette's," he remarked, by way of
rejoinder.
"You know Marietta never thinks
she enjoys very good health" his wife
spoke up in quick, energetic tone OF
voice. '1t's fortunate for her that
she doesn't have to work as do; if
she did, she would have been in her
grave long ago. Father wasn't over
and above pleased with the match, but
you never can tell how men are going
to turn out. Some Of them are sue
roccoc h,,f r,,oro ~ +ho,,o o,.o g. :1,,... ,,
After she had finished speaking she
climbed up on q chair in the buttery
and began her house-cleaning in the
descending scale, reaching up to clean
off the topmost shelf. The door was
partly open, and from her eyrie in the
buttery her husband heard her voice
above the clatter OF dishes and pans.
~ declare, I'm perfectly discouraged.
It's terrible strain on g. woman to
be the wheel-horse and do more than
her share OF the hauling and pulling.
What are wegoing to do about the
mortgage, if don't take those city
boarders again this summer"
Her husband kept on mending the
broken strap, making no reply; but
when his wife got down to the middle
shelf, she stepped from the chair, and
standing beside her husband, said.
Human Brewster, what are we 90.
ing to do about that mortgage? You
know it will be foreclos ed this fall ii
we don't pay it up" <s....
tThere's time enough, Mary Ann;
don't worry so; seven months yet, and
by that time something will surely
turn up" ,1l:....E 1:5:
'That is what you always say, Luz
man, but I should think by this time
you would find out that things don't
turn up, unless we 60 to work and
make Them 8%S zss.. 4. 4. 81
The unfinished harness fell in sec
lions ON the kitchen floor, as Mr.
Brewster arose from his chair, after
he had finished speaking. But he
gathered the pieces together, and went.
out to the barn. Mary Ann was In.
what he mentally design mated. "ons Of
her tantruns. He always took
refuge ia the barn when the subject 81
that mortgage was agitated.
As Mrs. Brewster went back TO the
soap and sand and the pantry shelves,
she said aloud: .s=.: :s,s
s'Nell, like Mrs. Poyser, in Adam
B41e, I've had my say. Alter all, per-
haps I'd better not have said It. It
doesn't do any good, and I lear I an
falling into habit Of tpagaine, I
which Z dsspise in any woman. But
when folks, feelings are working bot
lied up 6 nn1s havs BEEN % lona
sometimsa they will burst opsn =