The Arizona sentinel., 1888-10-13

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 ''I haven't got milk-pans enoughI'
 "Of course you haven't" said Lefty. "You must scald your yesterdays. You know you said you couldn't set up tin-shop when I asked for dozen more last month"
 "They smell like fat-boiling fac tory" said George. disdainfully. "What ails 'em?'' You should have scalded them last | night, i sighed Lefty, wishing that she had wings like dove that she m ight soar into the milk-room and restore order out of the chaos.
 Here's gor' said George. ''There isn't hot water"
 ''Oh, George, you've forgotten to put the kettle on!''
 ''So did," said her husband. And the sticks, hang 'em, are all burnt outr'
 'You know I wanted you to get a ton of coal, said Lefty, "but you said as long as wood cost nothing but the chopping and hauling, wood it would be-
 Have I got to wait for that con- founded water to heat?" groaned George.
 q don't know any thing else for you to do," remarked Lefty, drily.
 ''Humph!" observed that lord and master. "What's for the breakfast?"
 Ham and eggs, suppose.
 "Well, I'm up to that part of the programme, at least" said he, cheer fully. "Oh, the dickens! What is the use of keeping your knives so sharp? I've nearly cut my thumb off! Where do you keep the oatmeal? I can be attending to your old milk pans while the breakfast is cooking, I suppose. There is nothing like economy in work"
 But it was mortal hour before the milk was strained and the pigs fed, and by that time the house was blue with sort of a smudgy smoke.
 ''Hullo," shouted George, coming in. What's all this-is the house on fre?"
 'No." said Lefty, calmly, "only the breakfast has burned up."
 George uttered long sigh.
 Who'd have thought the fire was so hot?" said he. 'What am to do nowP"
 Cook another, I suppose" said Lefty.
 And what nextP" demanded George, fiercely.
 "Why, set the table, and then clear it away and wash the dishes"
 "With this cut finger?" complained the husband.
 "I was obliged to do it all the weeks I had felon on my little finger" re- marked Lefty. ''The young geese and the turkeys ought to have been let out and fed long before this; and the three calves in the barnyard to be attended to. And then there are the kitchen and sitting-room to be swept and dust ed and the beds to make, and the string beans to be picked, and the bread to bake, and the huckleberry pies to make, and your white vest to be ironed, and the potatoes to be peeled, and the preserves to be scalded over, and the cheese to be turned, and the table to be cleared and the dishes to be washed"
 Hold onr' cried George, ''you've said that once"
 ''Very likely, but it has to be done three times a day-and the chickens to be looked after. and the linen pill low-cases to be put to bleaching, and the windows to be washed, and your trousers to be patched, and the stock ings to be darned, and the fire to be made up gain, and tea to be prepared you know you always want some- thing hot for supper. And there's the nights milk to be brought in and strained, and the pans scalded and the geese and turkeys to be fed and put into their coOps; and, oh, dear! for got the churning! That will take an hour at least. But, dear George, am getting hungry!-and I don't see the least signs of breakfast. Georgei Where are you going? I-want-my breakfast"
 For George had disappeared in the midst of her exordium.
 In twenty minutes or so he returned, and by his side trudged Mary Ann Putt, the nearest neighbours twenty-year-old daughter
 ''I take it all back" said Mir. White. "I lower my colors, Lefty. Your work is harder than mine. I'll be everlast- ingly blest if it ain't Why, I couldn't take care of the milk and cream for the wages girl would ask. I never realized before how much woman had to do."
 Are you quite sure that you realize it now?" asked Lefty, mischievously.
 'Well, I've got a pretty fair idea on the subject" nodded George.
 ''But you should be hsre on washing day" said Lefty. Cor on ironing day, or on the day when we chop sausage meat, or make soft-soap, or"
 Stop, stopm shouted George. "If you say another word I'll go for Ma halia Binks, too. Haven't I said I'll take it all backP What more would you haveP"
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