The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1889-01-11
miscellaneous.
MISS JONES'S QUILTING
by JOSIAH ALLEN IS WIFE.


Our minister was merricd wear ago, and
we hey been piccing him II bed-quit ant
last week we quilted it. ] always make q
pint Of going to cuttings, FIR you can't be
haCk-DIied To your luce, that's u moral ser
ltnly know wmmen jest like book, fol
| hcv been one Il good vile. | ALWAYS stand
up for my own sect, still | know srrtin eff
tects follow sertin causes to wit, aud namely
ii two bricks are sut up side by side, if one
tumbes over ON 10 the other one, the Other
one cant stand, il amt natur'. If toner
holds glass OF Ticker to his mouth, he cant
help swallcru', it amt nalur'. If II young
man goes slny-ridjng with IL pretty girl
and the buffalo robe slips OF, he can't Eelr
| holdln' it around her, it aiu't nnlur. | nigh,
90 on illus'mtin'. but cnutt; qpiliiu' Jest sets
wimmen To- slanjc;in' as easy and beautiful
rs crythin- You ever see. Sol went. There
wasn't any body there when got there. Fol-
reason, always 90 carly.
! hadn't been there long before Miss Den.
con Graves came, and then the WidGer
Tuhhs, and then Squire ElwarRscs wife and
Maggie Snow, and then he'DubNs girls I'VE
call I'm G{rls though 1t would be lest as pro.
per 10 Cn,l mutton lamb for forty summers
hcV gi!led their heads II one has gilt EN-
They were the last that come, for Miss
Couldn't leave; and the Ripev's had unrx.
pectcd company. But with Miss Jones,
where the quilting party was held, aud her
girls, Mary Ann and Alzina, we made many
a. could set round the quilt comfortable
The quilt was made OF different kinds of
calico; all the wimmen round had pitcc1 a
block or two, and we took ups Rejection to
get the hnt'cn and !uin' and the cloth to set
1t together with, which was turkey red, and
come to quilt it it looked well we quilted il
hcIrn' bone, and n running vine around the
border Atler tie path-mastcr was dem0re-
LIKED, the sChon!-nstress tore TO pieces, the
party to iHplcy's sCandclZgd, Miss Browns
baby voted II uuqrestiOGable idiot, and the
rest Of the uurepr"scn,cd neighhorhoud delt
with, Lucindcr Dobbs spoke up, and SEE
she -
IL hope the minister will Ike the bed -unilt."
GuCindcr is the one that studies mathema.
lies 10 disiplinc hcl mind and has the Roman
nusr)
at amt nownys likely lie will" stz her
sister Ophca (she is the one that has her
hair trjzz'cd on top, and wears spccracics J
ut amt nnNays likelv he will, he is cold
man, II stone statute
Now, you see, | set my eyes by the minis
ter. he is always dOin' good To somebody, be-
sides prcaChn' more like ~ngcl than II hui
man hein'. | cant never forget, nor don't
want to, how he took hold Of my hand, and
how his voice trembltd and the tears stood
in his eyes, when my little Joe died: pretty
Little lamb he was III his infant cluss, and he
loved him; you see such things cut deep, and
there is some lines YOU can't rub out, il YOU
try ever so hard. And wasn't goin' to set
still aud hear him run down; you see it rled
up the old Smith blood, and when TINT is
ril'd, Josiah says he always takes bis hat
and leaves I'LL it settles. Aud | srukc up,
and sen |:
Lucky for him he was mndc OF stone be-
fore he was mrrr;,d, for common flesh and
h!oUd," So |, "~ouid have gin out uhunl,ei
TINT, 5, cIas,c round by The girls MS he was. I"
(Iuu see il was The towns talk how Ophelia
acted before he was meriicd, and she almost
went intnh decline and took heaps Of nj tncr-
vert mud frtly.)
Il don't know what you mean, Miss AL
len" stz she, turning red as brick. al never
heard OF his hcin' chas'c; know | never
cuul bear the sight OF him"
The distant sight" seq Mary Ann Jones.
Ophelia looked so mad at that, that don't
know bnt she would have prickcd her with
her quitjn' needle, if old Miss Graves hadn't
spoke up. She is u fat old lady with double
chin, mild aud lovely" rs Mount Veruons
sister, She always agrees with everybody
Thomas Jefferson, Josiah's boy by his frs,
WIFE, calls her "Woocn Aprons" for one
dry he SCI he heard her say to Il neighbor,
II don't like wcollcn aprons, do you -
"Why, yes, Miss Graves, ! do" "Wall, So
do l." But good old soul, if we was all such
pcaccmakcrs as she is, WE should be pretty
sure of heaven, though Thomas J. said that
it saien should ask her TO 90 the other way,
she would 90 rather than hurt bis feelings; ]
jest told him 10 shet up his weekcdncss, and
he shcL up.
AS said, she looked mildly NJ over her
spcctaccs and nodded her purple cap rib
b0us t~u or three times, and said, YES"
jest So" to both OF us; and then she was so
afraid that we wouldn't think she was iinein'
with both Of US, SCI she, YES, Miss Allen"
jest So Ophelia." And then to change the
subject, s.z she, "IIns tie minister's wife got
home yetI'
II think moi" said Maggie Snow, 81 was
to the village day before yesterday, and she
had not come then"
Il suppose her mother is well off" seq the
Wilder Tubbs, land as long as she stays
week. | should think she would stay all
summer"
The widder is about as savin' woman as
belongs 10 the mcttn' house.
at don't look well for her to be gone so
long" seq Lucinder Dobbs, II am very much
afraid it will make talk"
"Mebby it will snve the minister five dol
lars "A week." SCI Ophelia, as exlravagant as
she is in dress MS many as four silk dresses
she has got, and folks ms good as she is in the
congregation hain't got but one, and a GER
tain person .fW Ms good rs she is, that hnin't
got any" (Ophelia's best dress is poplin,) ait
won't take her long 10 run out the minis
ter's salery"
"',he had her silk dresses before she WAS
merrei, ana her folks was wealthy" said
Miss Squire Edwards.
AS much rs we have done and are still
doing for them, it seem ungratelnl 10 her."
SEE Lucinder, ITO wear such bonnet as she
wore all last summer, plain white straw
with little bit of white ribbon on it it looked
so scrimped and stingy. have thought she
wore ii N purpose to mortify us before the
BapliSts, jest MS if VIC couldn't afford TO
dress our minister's wife as good as they did
theirs"
Maggie Shows cheeks WAS get,in' red rs
fire, aud her eyes begun to shine Jest as they