The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-09-27
MISS NAOMI NUTTlNG.
She Makes a Success Of Winding
Her Own BUSINESS

"Me and Squire Bagshot. we're
goin' into partnership together" said
Miss Naomi Nutting.
Eth? WHAT cried the Widow
Scarsby. hastily adjusting her ear
trumpet. You a-thinkin' O. gettin
married at this time O day?"
Miss Naomi gave a sniff of exceed
ing great derision.
WHO'S talkin' o gettin' married."
said she. Not /. Nor, l guess, the
squire. We're outen our first child
hood, and we amt got to our second.
l calculate Not yet"
The Widow Sea shy looked disap-
pointed.
Then" said she, what do you
mean?"
Why" explained Miss Naomi.
1.-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 toe
much for a 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 rawberry roots. and some oi
the offshoots OF Hester Brine sweet
smellin' English violets. and I'm 60
in to earn my own Twin, If | be o
woman"
''Vi-lets.' repeated Mrs. Scarsby.
land Strawberries! John haint nc
faith in that sort of thing"
1T don't matter to me whether be
has or not" CURLY observed Miss
Nutting.
"A woman never yet made farmin'
pay"
Anyhow" said Miss Nutting. Il
mean TO have 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.
Not if l know it." said Naomi
Il m pretty certa n | can make good
butter. and | always took natural to
hens and chickens. And know ! can
market them strawberries at the sum
mer hotels on Cherry brook. and En-
glish yiolets bring fifty cents a dozen
at the New York Aorists in Janua y
and Februarr.''
You're runnin' great riskr'
sighed Mrs Scarsby, in genuine Jobs g
comforter accents.
There's Away, the poor-house left
If don't succeed" sarcastically re-
marked Naomi.
And Mrs. Scarsby went away 10 fell
her news throughout the whole neigh
borhOod.
Upon my word" said Mrs. DR..
Plumb. 1.-The woman has pluck! Blu,
of course she wont sAeeed; women
never do.
Il never was so fat in all my life, "
said Mrs. Scar-by. las when | heard
Naomi say she was goin' into partner
ship with Squire Bagshot. Is'pssed.
of course, she was goin' to marry
him"
well. I don't know why she
shouldn't said Mrs. Plumb. The
squire amt young. but he's likely
man enough"
He marry Naomi Nuttingr' said
Mrs Scarsby. "A poverty-stricken
old maid, with one foot in the poor
house!"
Fools used to say your John was
partial to her, shrewdly observed
Ms. Plumb.
That's all a mistake" said Mrs
Scarsby.
And she took herself and her ear
trumpet off to the next house, while
Ellie Price, Mrs Plumb's bound girl.
who had been listening through the
dumb waiter. breathlessly scampered
to the grocery for the ounce of pow
dered cinnamon. which she had been
told half an hour ago to bring, and
there informed Ms. PeEpersauce as a
profound secret that Miss Naomi Nut.
ting and Squire Bagshot were about to
be married.
81 don't believe it." said Mrs. Pep
persauce-
II heard it with my own earsi" said
Ellie, glowing all over with the impor-
lance of her news
IAN old maid like thatr' said Mrs.
Peppersauce. scornfully.
''She amt thirty yet" said Ellie.
II heard missis tell Mrs Scarsby so. :"
Ill news. they say. spreads fast; so
does good news Which of these
heads Squire Bagshot's engagement
came under is hard to specify, but
certain it is that the morsel of gossip
spread like wildfire through Cherry
village
'sMe engaged to Naomi Nutting,"
said the squire. s'Well, it's the first
I've heerd of it
ssNaomi Nuttin1 0olna IN marrr