St. Landry democrat., 1888-06-23


III do enough. AS sure as preachin' i,
your pail wish he never set eyes on
'em fore he's worn 'em no time 4
ALL" and she began to m anipulate
another pie cover, as Jerusha, the
deacon S sister, middle aged spinster.
entered the room.
What's there, S'prony?" One of
Jerusha's self-imposed tasks was to
inspect and pass Judgment on all
family purchases, so the open parcel
was the first thing inviting her atten-
ton. -]4i.fEa EfEls
Them? 0 them's some clos Josier
thought he needed and wouldn' hev
time to hev made fore Thursday"
The tone and toss of the head were
so suggestive that the matter called
for immediate investigation on Jeru-
sha's part; SO applying her eye
glasses to her nose, she set about it
with an alacrity and cheerfulness
that foreboded ill to the poor deacon s
purchase
"Well. never! Pears as if Josler' S
getting sort of daft Ready-male
clos. an shoddy't that! Av course.
you might expect they'd be shoddy.
Sprony, you hadn't orter let him do
the buyin' if he's goin' to let himself
be took in like that-you really hadn't
ortcr. Shoddy, sure's the worldr
Replacing her glasses which had
dropped from her nose, she proceeded
to second inspection.
Look as though they'd rip awful
easy, too; and my! Pm sure they'll
bag all out at the knees the first wear
in'!' and the unfortunate pants were
dangled out into space, and. as an
other idea struck her, she fin ally held
them up before her own person.
Goodness gracious! they're as long
as The moral law. Josier can't never
wear them things thout he gcthers
'em up with string aroun'' the bot
tom an ties 'em roun' his ankles
with which sarcastic speech she
dropped the subject of her comments
and betook herself to her work with q
contemptuous '''huh.' -
The deacon had been beset by mis-
givings concerning his bargain, all
the way home; but they were chiefly
about the length. He thought he had
struck bargain. only, as he expressed
il: They are leetle long in the legs.
but one of the wimnin folks can fix
that all right
They could if they would. 1t was
this question which he was turning
over in his mind as he came from the
barn and stopped to sweep off his
boots outside the door. Would they
do itp As he opened the door he heard
Jerusha's last remark, and the willy
deacon determined on a piece of
'Jerusher alters liked to be the first
to diskiver things. SOS she diskiver-
I'D the length of them air pants, she'll
be Jest the one to ask to shorten 'em,"
mused the scheming deacon as he
pulled off his overcoat, hung il up and
drew up chair to the stove.
'Ahem! Jerusher. think we'll hev
snow huff fer sleighin' when D RUS
an the rest come?'' Then without
waiting for an answer: ben a-look-
n at my clos hev youP Az course
you seen they're leetle long; now
could you shorten 'em up trifie, say
= matter of two inchesp I lowed, |
oringin' EN- home, you'd be a master
land to do it, you're so handy with |
our needle. There amt nothing
lbout but what you can do with it, so
told Squire Perki ms comm along"
This last was a master-stroke, for
he squire had been an admirer of
Ierusha for some time, and people
aid she was not at all ayerse to him.
My he had never committed himself
! ''That'H get her sure,' thought the
vily deacon, but he was mistaken.
''Josi er Smith. I shan't do nothin'
f the kind. If you're sech an ijit at
our time of life as to go to buyin'
tore clos, why you'll hev to take the
consequences. that's all, and Jerusha
0ftily left the room.
WAL them pants s got to be short
ned up some way. They're power
III sight too long to hitch up high
unused the deacon, ''an'
hight jest as well ask s'prony and hev
one with it. ~
So the poor man waylaid his wife as
ne was enjoying an extra cup of Hy-
On in the pantry--a very propitious
me he thought He preached the
1bject with due humility.
"S'prony, them articles air leetle J.
% long, it's fact but you can take
ia couple inches as well as not. can t
PUP You see they're all I've got as is
scent.'i
The good woman became suddenly
gid. ';Josier, sed you'd be sorry
,u'd ever seen them pants. an your
ouble's begun already. ] haint got
minute 8 time to spare for myself
uch less for fxin' over store clo' s."
id once more the poor deacon was
Lrift.
He was really becoming miserable !
'er the matter when no tlRught of
s daughter % ~ 4
':Mar1e. de il. / gueda She ,
ayn't knoMs 'uch abopr1t, but ! :
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