Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-10-16
TIE MAKERS STORY.

as he P1Ilsllrd ms saucer with the
pewter spoon.
Drlyoh he'd given them q treat today,
a it WAS tho last day Of hayIug, and
out atile far iIrm.'
She had made the day before one of
thc5r delicious baked Indian Vutliugs
OF wllHA l,U New England women
have rats,u.l the old fashioned for
mula. and tho great milk pan fall 81
a rich brown WlIs, aE" thick Jelly
the pltchelo yellow cream SgcaCtcued
well with maple sugar. tiIrpilral blue
Saucegs tlr -IcI' 81 pewter spoons.
hai aU.u hailed vita urcianntiuu rs
they appeared IN "a separate basket,
after enc usual gunntum If butlrrcd
broad, slices OF cod salt beef. pie and
dougAWu!S had been spread on the
graz, .u.Gc? the I'D pine tree by the
brook.
uo:ys d,ufe OF, dimpliug and Smil-
ing @ hear la plaudits of the men,
for she uHai,c, well and liked 10 be
praised lyr b.. g., all women do.
ilo, well II is that mel do not real.
lie how for Lind words viii 90 with
wourui VI should be "A race Of ab-
iect slaves IL nly we We're praised and
smiled oI cr5ugh. And Dclyes pud.
ding Gpaaryri all the hattery il had.
"SmGll3 IKE a hull posy bed, said
Jonathan Lsyos, unusually wide
awake. for u hc had n weakness il lay
where fool mdchcd IT,
"Iast,ra heap better n pp,i0s, saia
Zeuas. Wtl liuc Storn; he never lad
been aldo % SEQ the use OF flowers.
Loo s. kinder sylum to M" said
Uncle PapIro3 tibet Is. IccUrdin' 90
what ! heord Priest Iiainps say I'm
mcctiu' one lig@ t hc chgugcd of
with FaY>Dl Perkins. He sud. The
last of everything is soium, aud this
here is ,ae last day q Eayiu', and the
last outdoor snack well got this year"
HI, De! her gigrlcd sam Turner
II gus tde's quite a few things
the; Amt s0ium cnMG u the last Of
'em. I'm consumed glad tibet Aayiu's
over; Gems as though could dance
N~is.Glyuny u think ont
"Eyorygpdy amt 50 dun lazy as
you be- grDwlcl Jonathan.
"lc don't always know when lis
the last o a thing" said Zcnas, medi.
tatiyely.
"No, you don't" said Uncle Pa.
phro. setting down his saucer Oh the
pine needles aud casting "A wiStiul eye
on the well scIaped pudding dish.
wherein only a brown rim remained
to show What It had held.
THAT idea els 10 mind the works
and ways of two old cousins of my
mothers fIt husband that lived
down to Dayton when | was a boy,
aud air alvin there set if they
haven't dried up an blew away fore
now. They was MchiuIhic and Hep
zib2r Tucker By name, and was called
10 Dayton tie Tucker girls, rs long rs
| knpwCd Of EN- though Ia oldest in
habitant couldn't remember when
they was young.
"HcpSy aHd Kitty, mother used to
call en-. We'll, their way about most
things was p~ecuoliar; they hadn't
much to live on. but they made the
most ont. Mother said she'd known
EN- 10 cook up salt Goldfish skin for
breakfast rather n throw il away,
sweetaHcd their cUstards with m'lasses,
aud made their ginger cake out o rye
-four, and all sech.
Moreover. they wouldn't never do
a mite OF anything after dark, cause
light was costly. They'd do up the
supper dishes. and then they'd set
each side O. the kitchen fire. in two
high backed. rush bottOmed chairs,
their gowns turned up over their
knees lest a spark might burn 'em,
and their hands a-lyin' in their laps,
for they couldn't knit because the
needles sort o. glimmered in the fire.
light and hurt their eyes; they had
dreadful weak eyes because they sot
in the dark SO much; eyes need usin'
as much as legs do, and need light 10
use 'em Ia.
"When they heered the . o'clock
bell ring they'd go 10 bed-not a min
ute before or after, for nothingnor mo-
body.
"NNell, Dayton folks got tired o.
hearin that Q o'clock bell ring after it
had been a-goin' over a hunderd years,
and they got tired o payin' the ringer,
too. SO one time % a town meetin'
they voted 20 stop il.
Now, Hepsy and Hitty didn't go to
town meetin's, nor they didn't want TO,
so they knowcd nothin' about il, aud
didn't know when il rung "A Friday
night that twas the last time they'd
ever go 10 bed by it they'd ha' felt sol
um enough ifthey had 50, there they
sot q Saturday evenin' us usual, aud
KEEP a-watchin' 20 hear the bell, but il
didn't ring.
"'The evcnin's are gettin' long,
Hepsy 10 Kitty.
"'Woll, they do seem 10 be-, says
Kitty Had ] better put another stick
on, sister,
al dono. There's enough TO rake
up now, aud Inebbe thered be TOO
much Of you did
80 they sot an sot, and bimeby
Hepsy says, I'm afeared the won't be
Goals IL you don't put a stick on,
So she put one on, and IL bel