Thomas County cat., 1889-09-12
MISS NAOMI NUTTlNG.
She Makes a Success Of Winding
Her Own Business

She Makes a Success Of Winding
Her Own Business.
"Me and Squire Bagshot we're
goin' into partnership together" said
Miss Naomi Nutting.
"Eh? What?" cried the Widow
Scarsby, hastily adjusting her ear
trumpet. "You a-thinkin' O. gettin'
married at this time O. day."
Miss Naomi gave sniff of exceed
ing great derision.
"Wbo's talkin' O gettin' married."
said she. Not /. Nor, 1 guess, the
squire. We're outen our first child
hood, and we amt got to our second.
/ calculate. Not yet"
The Widow Scarsby looked disap-
pointed.
..Then," said she, ''what do you
mean?''
Why" explained Miss Naomi,
''the squire he's leased the old farm.
I'd got to let it to somebody. What
between the taxes and the interest
and the repairs and all, it was too
much for woman to look after. But
the COWS and the poultry and all is to
remain, and I'm to run the dairy and
the egg business. Ten per cent COM
mission I'm to have, and the use of
the old house. And I've sot out lot
OF new strawberry roots. and some of
the offshoots of Hester Brine's sweet
smellin' English violets, and I'm 60
in to earn my own livin', if I be a
woman"
"Vi-lets!' repeated Mrs. Scarsby,
"and Strawberries! John hain't no
faith in that sort of thing"
ut don't matter to me whether he
has or not" curtly observed Miss
Nutting.
"a woman never yet made farmin'
pay"
Anyhow" said Miss Nutting, Il
mean to have a try at it. My ex-
penses won't be much, that's one
comfort"
''Better give up the notion" said
Mrs. Scarsby, slowly shaking her
head.
mot if l know it," said Naomi.
I'm pretty certain can make good
butter, and 1 always took natural to
hens and chickens. And / know l can
market them Strawberries at the sum-
mer hotels on Cherry brook, and En-
glish violets bring fifty cents dozen
at the New York florists in January
and February"
You're runnin' great riskr'
sighed Mrs. Scarsby, in genuine job s.
comforter accents.
There's always the poor-house left
If / don't succeed" sarcastically re-
marked Naomi.
And Mrs. Scarsby went away to tell
her news throughout the whole neigh
bOrhOOd.
:. Upon my word" said Mrs DR..
Plumb, 1.-The woman has pluck! But
of course she won't succeed; women
never do"
Il never was so fat in all my life, -
said Mrs. Scarsby. las when 1 heard
Naomi say she was goin' into partner
ship with Squire Bagshot. l Is'posed,
of course, she was goin' to marry
him"
"Well, I don't know why she
shouldn't" said Mrs. Plumb. 1.-The
squire amt young, but he's likely
man enough"
He marry Naomi Nutting! said
Mrs. Scarsby. "A poverty.stricken
old maid, with one foot in the poor.
house!'
Fools used to say your John wa:
partial to her." shrewdly observed
Mrs. Plumb.
That's all q mistake" said Mrs.
Scarsby.
And she took herself and her ear
trumpet off to the mex. house, while
Ellie Price, Mrs Plumb's bound girl
who had been listening through the
dumb-waiter. breathlessly scamperet
to the grocery for the ounce of pow
dered cinnamon, which she had beer
told half an hour ago to bring, anG
there informed Mrs. Peppersauce as ;
profound secret that Miss Naomi Nut
ting and Squire Bagshot were about t.
be married.
II don't believe it." said Mrs. Pep
: persauce.
; Il heard it with my own ears!" sal,
, Ellie. glowing all over with the impor
. tance of her news.
: IAN old maid like thatw said Mrs
Peppersauce, scornfully.
She amt thirty yet" said Ellie
II heard missis tell Mrs Scarsby so.
Ill news, they say, spreads: fast; s.
does good news Which of thes
heads Squire Bagshot's engagement
came under is hard to specify. bu
certain it is that the morsel of gossil
= spread like wildfre through Cherr.
. village
;. me engaged to Naomi Nutting.