The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-08-29

soon as she told him about Nose,
Dave ssz-sez he
Mrs Poster. We 20 right straight
bzck n get the yo1ngunS an yer cso .
an il Moses seq anything. Just tel
hiTa yu've n1as.e complaint against
hirn and he dissent tech We. an 4 81:
my team an meet We in half an hour
an fetch yer ter nay house. and ye can
stav iii re can make shift some way
$50 she get the yoE1zeuns an things
-an' mighty few things there was too
-an' Dave fetched them home With
him.
What did Moses have & say for
himself when sails went back
Never said noEhin' only asked 'e-
where she'd be better on than she d
ever been with him. She says -Nose
kfa1er hauaed IN his horns, ~ Il he
Wa \ s;i;ie afearei. an he let 'er so
without sayin' nothSn' more
The mean scamp, I.Ieky TOR him
I wasn't his wife said Aunt Hannah
fierreiy. ~I'd iarnt him whats what
asore this time.
well, We see, Dave went an, told
them factory fellerS how mean Nose
had used his vie, an they d allus had
kind OF a gradge against him. an
didn't want no better fGn than Z scare
him half TO death; 80 they Just risgeh
up in old clos an turned their coats
wrong side out an BACKED their faces
SOS be couldn't tell none on en-
Then they got a big bag o. feath-
ers an kitsie OF tar, and come up
there and tried 10 get Nose out. But
he sruelt a RAT an they couldn't raise
him. They pounded on the doors an
49, L sarat Anur II he
didn't let EN- in. but be never let on
he heard EN-. Bineby some on EN-
got the hog trough an threw il through
| the winder
Good 70. EN-. - said Aunt Hannah.
chuckting with delight. That's the
most sensible thing they ever done
A hogs trough is the best thing they
eoala find for sieh hog"
They stsid round there purity nigh
half an hour, an one or two OF EN-
got in through the broken winder and
looked high an low, bat they couldnt
find hide nor hair OF Nose, After
they'd been gone spell. Lish went
over an hollered 10 Mos'n told him
they'd all cleared out, an nobody
should toch him. Bat he never showed
himself, an Li>h lit a candle an went
all over the house from garrit { suller,
but he couldn't find Nose nowhere !;
bat Jest as he was going TO give It up.
he heard Nose call IN a kind o. scarf
whisper;
'lish, is il youe Be they all gone p
AN a. true as YOU live there was
Nose down on all foars-a-erawlin'
out OF hogshead way in under the
sulier stairs. He was all covered with
ashes and dirt, an he shook jet like a
popple leaf. He was scarf all but {
death, an HING on 10 Lish 50, not TO
| leave him alone-that he had to fetch
him home with him. He put him IN
the bed up garrit, an | never knew
nothin' about il till mornin or there Il
been music We better b'leve. | jest
made Iish take that ere bed out inter
the yard, and it's there now; nobody
never want ter sleep ont alter that
nasty critter'd been sleeping in it. =
well, l declare fort Aunt Han
nah sail, spitefally, at the close of the
narrative, Il wish { goodness they'd a
caught him. an tarred an feathered
| him an rode him on a rail outer town.
| ii owed the Old Scratch dozen sin
ners an he Wouldn't take Moses Pot
| ter an call it even, I'd cheat him out
o. the hull ont He's the biggest old
hypercTit that | ever see.
There, there. Hannah Uncle Joel
interposed mildly, coming out OF the
| pantry, where during the reeitals OF his
| neighbor's nlisdemeanors he had been
hunting high and low for something
\ he could not quite remember:
Judge not, lest ye be judged.
BY their fruits We shall know
| them. =" Aunt Hannah retorted
| sharply, land if man don't know
nothin' but hoggishness and hypoc-
| risy. | dunno where's the sin in calm
him a hog an hypercrit, an you
| needn't stand up for him, nuther
He's got more devil in him than ever
| was east out o Mary Magdalin' any
| how"
| well, Hannah, twas a woman the
Lord east 'em out OF. The Bible don't
say IS he ever east seven devils out
| of man.
| mo. he left 'em all in the men, an
| they're there now" was the triumph
| ant retort
Under this scathing rebuke, Uncle
| Joel retreated to the pantry and con-
| tnued his search.
what in the world are you sputter-
| in round that butr'ry for2" his wife
| called. as the chatter OF pans and
| dishes first drew her attention to
Uncle Joel's treSpass upon forbidden
| ground.
"Why, Pm Iookin' for them eggs,
| Hannah. We told me T. set the old
| speckled hen, DIDN'T ye2 an | can't
| find the eggs nowhere.
| Mercy on US an you've been all
| this time about it, | thought you'd
set her half an hour ago"
And rising from her chair. Aunt
| Hannah started hurriedly for the pan
trr, when an exclamation Of
| 20, Miss Potter, DO see! recalled
her.
And what sight,
There in the feathery depth of the
| chair cushion was the Old felt hat,
cru-h he'd as flat a. pancake, and ali
| that remained OF the dozen eggs wa,
q mass OF broken shells. whites and
| yolks mixed in manner not COM
mon in cake-making. Her dress was
beautifully p!astered with the mixture,
and every movement sent drippings OF
it down to the floor.
In her eageruess To hear her neigh
bor's story she sat down without look
ing behind her, and the soft depths OF
the cushion had given no warning OF
| the mischief she was Going.
| My goodness was all She could
say. a. she stood looking upon the
horrible mixture.
We'll. Hannah, said Uncle Joel,
Il never hOaght We was in sich a
hurry 10 hatch them eggs that We d SET
| on 'em yourself
| And fer the first time in her twenty
years Of married life Aunt Hannah
had no Teiort really. and the old
| speckled hen wa. not set that day
| Ia ff..s,l a IN aasefira.sA Ttmrs