The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-08-29
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Al the gnoi people Of Pogunnac
wouif have told YOU tasf Uncse joel
| Potter zas oae OF the best men that
ever lived but even those who hsed
| him the Fn0~s were forced 70 admit
sha. he was ssf little ss0s-
Bot 10 his vile he was tar beyond
the 1.-THE A. she emphaticalls ex-
pressed il. be WAS slow IS naolas>es
/ Ia January.
| Ii must have been one CT natzre's
strange law OF attraction OF oPPosiies
which aroagA; this coupe togethers
| for while nese joel Was SLOW. pod
ding. dreamy. Aunt Hannah was
qaick. energetic. ansbiTi0us-2 ssotss'4s
/ house keeper WHO could do the work
u two women. while others were plan
| ming what to do: whose waShing Eas
! On the line on Monday morning, look
ing ike drifts OF snoE. iong before
most of her neighbors had finished
breakfast.
To her energetic nature her hus-
hands slow movements and lack Of
ambition were thorns in the flesh. not
unworthy, perhaps, 20 be compared
with those OF the Apostle Paul
| The fifteen years more of lie Uncle
Joel hal Seea and crippled limb
/ the result OF an accident in boyhood-
may have hal lot % do with his lack
of energy: but more OF il was nature,
an inheritance from his mother, an
| intensely religious woman, who, the
neighbors said, could work all night
| in 4 half bushel, an never git out
OF"
And Uncle Joelis highest dream OF
happiness Vas 10 sit in bis arm chair
bv the south window in the spaeioas
old Kitchen and read aloud 10 himself
by the hoar from the big Bible lying
/ in his lap. his low, droning monotone
driving Aunt Hannah TO the verge OF
| distraction.
Here, Joel, / want q pail o. water =
/ she called one morning when he vas
thus reading. and she was eibow-deep
| in the foury mysteries OF the bread
bowl. sand don't be all day about IT,
I'm in hurry"
sYis. Wis. Hannah Uncle Joel re-
marked, reading along softly, his fin
/ ger following his eyes over the page.
= And they that wait on the Lord shall
renew their strength, they
AN they that wait on their wives
shall renew their youth, | reckon,
| Aunt Hannah interrupted sharply.
l"Fm certain sure you'd have TO be
born agin afoFe you did II. Come, glt
that water: I'm in hurry. ! tell We. ;"
"Yis, Hannah. I'm coming.
An sos Christmas, an itn get
here first, | reckon. | wonder ii there
ever was such another slow mortal in
this world.
And rubbing her hands free from
the dough she caught up the pail and
had drawn the water and returned be-
fore Uncle Joel had finished his all
important chapter, and rising slowly
from the chair limped across the
kitchen.
why. the pals full Hannah, he
| said.
Full. OF course it's full" Aunt
Hannah snapped. "Did YOU s'pose
was goin' t'wait all day. rather
gness they'd be lot o'work done in
thi. house ii body was to wait for
you.
"But We shouldn't be in such a
hurry, Hannah" Uncle Joel inter
posed mildly, "the Lord took six days
| t'make the heavens and the earth an :
faint best to try and do everything in
a minute"
| II shoald think ne took six days to
| make you, an then didn't finish you
| off till SATURDAY. afternoon just at
night You've been behindhand ever
since We was born.
well, WE'LL Hannah. we won't
quarrel about it; ey'ybody can't be so
| spTy as yon be, and the race isn't
alus to the swift"
"But veil find the battle is too
| strong-and right here in this kitchen,
4 20 .4ansf - - HksAIV y
dBut what shall | do, Hannah ~
and Uncle Joel looked around in help
less bewilderment.
'Do2 Why, just go an set the old
speckled hen. I've told We to more'n
a dozen times. She'd had time to set
an hatch whilst We was gettin' ready
| to do it,
| And Aunt Hannah, catching up the
first thing which came handy, which
proved to lie Uncle Joel's soft-felt hat
proceeded 70 I'LL it with eggs.
Here they be and don't be all day
about IT," she called, coming out OF the
pantry holding the hat with both
hands and depositing it in the soft,
fluffy depths of the feather cushion in
the big rocking chair.
Hurrying back into the pantry she
returned 10 her baking, while Uncle
Joel hunted around for his hat and
cane. which were always missing
when wanted.
Good moFnin'. Miss Potter" came
TO Aunt Hannah's ears the next
moment, as her next door neighbor
walked into the kitchen without
knocking and came u the pantry
door. "huSv rs ever What master
hand yog be t'wors. | wonder II Won
ever stop long enoug to eat and sleep.
"Well, somebody's got 1 work where
there's eight mouths TO feed an eight
backs { keep clos on" Aunt Hannah
answered, without stopping a moment
ia her measuring OF sugar and sitting
OF flour for her cake.
"Did We hear what a muss they had
over to Nose Potter last night"
No: what's mp now7 They're al
! ways having a time there. | wonder
how that wonan can be sieh a fool a
= live With such a man.
$50 DO /. But thi time t'wuz II any
o. their quarrels. Didn't ye know
bout the fellows from uodd's factory
3-comin' up 70 tar an feather Mosef'
NY goodness gracious. Miss Brown,
We don't mean iti'
| And Aunt Hannah stopped in her
work OF breaking eggs TO raise her
hand In astsni hment
DO AXE a cheer. and set down, and
take of your hunnit, leading the way
into the si.chen and setting chair for
her visitor.
"po tell Us all about it.
| Aunt Hannah deposited her 30
pounds rather heavily ON the soft
leather cushion OF the huge rocking
chair. and commenced beating her
eggs in n mulberry crock bowl-she
could not stop her work even long
enough TO crafty her curiosity nj
the two-tined steel fork with which