New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-07-21
GOING TO MEET'N.
TIE srrFERtyGS OF MARIA.

"The Pollard NelghborhoodP July 15-Mr Sen.
net was what they called pleasant weather piou''
If the shone, and there seemed no possiOio
chance that It would rain. he would announce al 'c
breakfast table of Sunday morning that nc poSo"
We nights well go to meet'n''
These words always caused the greatest eAci'emo"'
in the appearance of Maria, ten. who would 'len
begin pluckng her mothers sleeve and whispering
shrilly:
Mother, can't wear my new boots" pause
Motherl I guess I've lost my clean ruiiie >" an,
other pause Mother! If father SLAVES we shaii
be ae'
To all OF these remarks Mrs. Bennett wouid ho'
pay the slightest attention until they had been re-
peated score Of times, when she would suddenly
turn on the child and cry out shet up" In such
tone as TO nearly make me drop my portion oil iried
johnnycake
For the lands sake - said Mr. Bennett. pausinG
with his knife laden and raised. let tho gai SPEAK
can't ye, Julial'
"Pd know what else I've ben dom all bieakfas'
time but jest to leo her speak, promptly responded
his wife.
Having mentioned Mr. Bennets knife. beg leave
10 speak OF It more at length Not only did he have
one but all at the table furnished with the same
kind of a weapon 1t had bone handle, "hich was
gradually detaching itself nom its place of usefulness
and leaving apertures between each half ana the
portion of steel 1t should enclose. These apertureS
were filed In with paSty matter gradually conectcu
from dlshwater, which I have never analysed but
which seemed homes for microbes and such things
recently discovered by science. The matter was not
stimulating TO the appetite 1t the blade, now
ever that had a great effect upon me when nrst
took my place at this table, and that even now though
can WELD it with some skill, fills NE with indes3rb-
able emotion. 1t Is broad blade; 1t cuIls Dack-
ward somewhat toward the end. which Is broader sun
and rounded These articles always struck me as
nr
Turkish like a scnetar. My ideas Of cutlasses and
hangers arc vague but as lift my knife at Mr. Ben
nets table have feeling as II were using some
thing piratlcal. If there were only an edge Or as
We say here an "adge" to It, how one might at
tack repel
Thank fortune there IS edge, otherwise inc
mouths of papa and mamma Bennett and little Maria
would long since have been cut from ear to ear. AS
II IS even look at them all with wonder and tremDle
to think what they might have done to themselves
Owing TO tho backward turn In the blade, when you
raise the knife with your victuals on IL, you must
bring 1t round to the left and then with uexterouS
twist Won can deposit the load which lies on the en-
l.rced end Of said knife You have idea how fast
Won can eat meas in this way. little practice en-
ables Won to keep the peas the blade until they are
tossed I'm your mouth. And currants ana huche-
berries are taken from the saucer at your size Win
the same utensi have heard that 1t is merely an
arbitrary decision which orders that you shall not
organs. Whether this edct be merely arbitrary or
not. 1t is not obeyed at Mr.. Bennets Even Mr.
Bennets summer boader, though brought up In other
traditions has now begun TO shovel She felt she
must cat with something The forks here are norm
handled like the knives They have two very slender
tines | would like to some one chase peas over
his nIate with one of these woned forks particularly
II he were hungry. As for spoons, naturally the
Bennets have little for them, and It is hard to
get one II is the height of green pea time now, and
of string beans. IS Shell beans have not come YET
Mr. Bennett says that Of all the garden sass that
crows give him peas He has peas planted so that
they last right through into late september was
mistaken in saying is the height of the season. Tor
# is so managed here that this phrase Will appear all
summer. He despises person who doesn't like this
kind of sass. He says the Lord made peas 10 De
eaten and he is going to eat UNI. In my ignorant IN
nocence 7 WAS glad when they first came, and ex-
pressed my Joy, since when Mr.. Bennett has approved
OF me.