The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-15

held your own when the two Of you were
talking about anything"
"Bless you'll" exclaimed the farmer, "yo1
are rather proud of your old husband, aren'b
your But Phil will soon see, with half an
eye, that it would be the silliest thing In the
world for him to fall in love with a girl like
that"
II can't for the life of me see Why" said
the mother. He's just as good as she. and
O good deal smarter, or Pm no judge"
''See here, Lou Ann, said the farmer, with
more than hint of impatience in his voice,
you know 'twon't do either of 'em any good
to fall in love if they can't marry each other.
AM what would Phil have to support his wife
on9 Would she come out here an tend tn all
the house work or the farm, nke you do, JuST
for the sake of havhl' Phil for husbandl Not
unless she's fool, even if Phil is our boy an
about as good as they make 'em. An you
know well enough that he couldn't afford TO
live in New York; he's got nOthin' to do it
onn
Not now, but he might go in business
there, and make enough to live in style.
Other young fellows have done itr
"Yes-in stories, said the old man. Lou
Ann, don't you kind O. think that for q
| Ll6luDtI VI thirty years blduOln
you're gettin' mighty worldly mindedF'
mo, DON'T" Mrs RaSn answered "IG
not to want my boy to drudge away his
life like his fathers done is bein' worldly,
then Pm goin' to be backslider and stay
one | don't think twould be bit bad to
have n married son down to York, SOS his
old mother could have some place to go once
in a while when she's tired to death of work
| an worry"
"OhoI" said the old man; that's the point
of it, chs Well, l don't mind backslidin'
enough to say the boy may marry one OF
Satan's daughters, if it'll make life any easier
for you, old lady"
Much obliged" the mother replied, but
| don't know as care to do visitin' down
there"
The conversation soon subsidized, husband
and wife dropping into revery from which
| they dropped into slumber In one way or
other, however, the subject came up again.
Said Mrs. Hayn one day, just as her husband
was leaving the dinner table for the field In
which he was cutting and stacking corn:
II do believe Pills best coat is finer stuff
than anything Mr.. Tramlay wore when they
were up here. don't believe what he wore
Sundays could hold candle to Pills"
Like enough said the farmer; land yet
the old man always looked better dressed.
think his clothes made him look a little
younger than Phil, too"
| Nov, husband, you know it isn't fair to
make fun of the dear boys clothes in that
way. You know well enough that the stuff
| for his coat was cut from the same bolt OF
broadcloth as the minister's best"
YES" drawled the farmer through half
| Iozar1 infections Of tyninb xzyCyYId
| have driven frantic any woman but his own
wife
ITS real mean in you to say Yes in that
way, Reubenp
"'Tisn't the wearer that makes the man,
old lady; it's the tailor"
I'm sure Sarah Tweege cut an made
Pills coat, an if there's better sewin' wo-
man in this part OF the county I'd like to
know where you find her."
''Oh, Sarah Tweege can sew, Lou Ann"
the old man admitted "GoodnessI l wish
she'd made my new harness, instead of what
ever fellow did it. Mebbe, too, if she'd made
the sacks for the last oats bought [ wouldn't
have lost about half a bushel on the way
home Yesm, Sarah Tweege can sew bed
| quilt up as square as an honest mans con-
science. But sewin' amt tailorin'."
Don't she always make the minister's
clothesl' demanded Mrs. Hayn.
~ never thought of it, before, but Of
course she does don't believe anybody else
could do it in that way Yet the minister
amt got so bad figure, when you see him
workin' in his garden in his shirt sleeves"
''It's time for you to go back to the corn
| field" suggested Mrs. Hayn.
eyes, l reckon It's" said the farmer, caress-
ing what might have been nap had not his
old hat been of felt. faint safe for an old
farmer to be givin' his time an thought to
pomps an vanities-lke the minister's broad
cloth coat"
Get out" exclaimed Mrs. Hayn, with a
threatening gesture The old man kissed her,
laughed and began to obey her command;
but as, like countrymen in general, he made
his exit by the longest possible route, wan
dering through the sitting room, the hall, the
dining room and the kitchen, his wife had
time to waylay him at the door step and re-
mark:
~ was only goin' to say that if Phil does
make that trip to York don't see. that he'll
need to buy new clothes. He's never wore
| that Sunday coat on other days, except to
two or three funerals an parties. was goin'
it over this very mornin', an it's about as
good as new"
II wonder how this family would ever
have got along if | hadn't got such care
takin wife?" said the old man. "Its the best
coat in the United States if you've been goin'
! it over"
Phil was already in the corn-he had left
the table some minutes before his father
and as the old man approached Phil said:
Father, don't you think that wind break
for ha Shanr, napdS M tphino this foIIT1
sit generally does, my son. before cold
weather sets in.
81 guess I'll get at it, then, as soon as we
| get the corn stacked"
Whats the hurry The middle of No
vember is early enough for that"
"Oh, when it's done it'll be Off our minds"
"See here, old boy" said the father, drop
ping the old ships cutlass with which he had
begun to cut the corn stalks, you're doin' all
your work month ahead this fall What
are you goin' to do with all your time when
there's no more work to be done?n
81 can't say, Pm sure" said Phil, piling an
armful of stalks against stack with more
than ordinary care
Cant chi Then III have to, / s'pose,
seein' I'm your father. Iguess I'll have to- send
| you down to New York for month, TO look
aroun' an see somethin' of the world"
Phil turned so quick that he ruined all
| his elaborate work of the moment before, al
most burying his father under the topping
] stack.
That went to the spot, didn't itr' said the
old man. II mean the proposition-not the
fodder, he continued, as he extricated him
| self from the mass of cornstalks.
ITS exactly what I've been wanting to
| do u said Phil 'butn-
| ttp,,+ ,-o,, didn't lilo 70 eo1 eo ab4 WILL