The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-01-23

You say they have an eighty-pound
tub OF the butter which they have put
away for soa grease. Now, that is a
shamel-I say "a burning shame!-to
waste things like that, and / inclose
the money Tor the whole tub at three
cents pound. for have n new board
er now. The clerk at the corner store
came over aud engag Il board, and the
same night got a letter from granny
and daddy, saying they had sold ont,
and were coming here to live with me:
ut L can tell you right here that they
have agreed to pay four dollars "A
week for their board and granny
will make her own bed, and
daddy will pay for half the wood
we burn, in the bargain. Now, Fidola,
You needn't get jealous over their liv-
ing with me, for you know L am the
youngest and have the best right to
their things. L was the last one to
leave home, and never drudged in early
life like You did to get experience in
being economical.
l have just finished Sophia Jane
new dress that is, we call it new,
though, goodness knows, it amt, for it
is one Phyletus' mother used to wear
and wanted TO be buried in, but as her
brown one was faded and had rip in
the back, | had her buried in it and
saved this for Sophia Jane. She SAYS
she believes dead folks know what is
going on, but / don't care if they do.
The only thing L fear is, that when
Gabriel blows his trumpet and my
mother-in-law comes sweeping up be-
fore the judgment seat, the church
members will poke fun at her because
of the patch on her back. Goodness
knows! her virtues will so far out
shine theirs that she will soon forget
the little modification that may cause
her.
/ intended TO have made the dress
over for myself, but you see Miss Hess
began to look shabby, and so l sacri-
feed my feelings, and went to work
and made it up for her.
And now you say you hear that Mrs.
Littlesoul is talking of coming over
here to live. Well, if that don't beat
ALL But let her beware; L know
thing or two about her that / never
even told you about. You see. when
she and / lived in the double house,
we used to get our things so mixed up
that we couldn't tell which from
tother, and so we put our chickens to-
gether and agreed TO gather the eggs
at five o'clock each day, and divide
them up, half and half. Well, we got
along pretty well until last fall, when
one day L was out looking among the
squash vines, and all at once 1 came
upon a hens nest with about dozen
eggs in it. Now, l says to myself,
"Tryphena, You found that nest OF
eggs, and, as the hen stole her nest,
the eggs are yours" Then, too, / re-
membered of having read somewhere in q
book of provrbs--I think it was called
"Solomon's Many Wives Proverbs
that Whatsoever q woman fndeth,
that shall she also lose the half of, I'M
less she doth straightway conceal the
same" 1t seemed to just fit my case
exactly, and so l looked toward the
house and, seeing no one in sight, /
just unbuttoned my waist and put those
eggs in my bosom, and then started
for the house.
Now that old sneak of Madam
Littlesoul was up in the chamber
Watching my meanderings all the time,
though she took good care to stand
back from the window where l could
not see her, and, as came on the back
porch, what should she do but meet
me and begin patting me on the chest
and saying how feshy was getting,
and such talk as that. The vulgar
thing Just managed to smash two of
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and then she lowed that l would soon
advertise myself for an incubator and
go to settin'.
Oh! but wasn't / mad / tell You,
Fidola, for the time being / laid aside
my church garments entirely, and
boldly waded into the sin and iniquity
of first-class quarrel, and, being in,
/ bore il that Littlesouls might beware
of me next time. Not having any
missiles handy, made use Of the eggs,
and though, to my everlasting regret,
they were not rotten, yet / managed to
smear her clothes in grand shape.
Well, the outcome of IL was that we
left the house and moved over here to
get out of such low, vile company.
Now that you know how sneaking mean
she is you must try to keep her away
from here. Why, Fidola, she would
steal the lice of ahen roost where the
chickens had all died with the cholera
morbus.
But got even with her, Fidola, for
when we moved L had big box fixed,
and we divided the chickens by candle
light, and after she had gone TO bed /
went out and slipped few more into
my box. Then l nudged Phyletus and
says, "Tryphena has more diligent
way of increasing her flock than by
means of incubating, or settin' either"
and l went TO bed and slept the sleep
of the triumphant.
Now write some good cheering COM
fort in your next to your good sister,
TRYPHENA HIGGINS.
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of Cashmere are formed by the long