The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-10-04
MISS NAOMI NUTTING.
She Makes a Success of Winding
Her Own business.

''Me and Squire Bagshot. we're
goin' into partnership together" said
Miss Naomi Nutting.
"Eh? What?" cried the Widow
Scarsby. hastily adjusting her ear
trumpet. "You a-thinkin' o. gettin'
married at this time o. day?"
Miss Naomi gave 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.
/ calculate Not yet"
The Widow Scarsby looked disap-
pointed.
Then" said she, what do you
mean?"
Why" explained Miss Naomi,
''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 too
much for 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 strawberry roots. and some of
the offshoots of Hester Brines sweet
smellin' English violets, and I'm go
in to earn my own Hvin', If 1 be
woman"
''Vi-lets!" repeated Mrs. Scarsby,
land strawberriesI John hain't no
faith in that sort of thiugn
ut don't matter to me whether he
has or not" curtly observed Miss
Nutting.
"A woman never yet made farmin'
pay"
Anyhow" said Miss Nutting. Il
mean to have a 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 IL l know it," said Naomi.
I'm pretty certain | can make good
butter, and | always took natural to
hens and chickens. And L know 1 can
market them Strawberries at the sum
mer hotels on Cherry brook. and En-
glish violets bring fifty cents a dozen
at the New York florists in January
and February."
You're runnin' a great riski''
sighed Mrs Scarsby, in genuine Job $
comforter accents
There's always the poor-house left
if don't succeed" sarcasticauy re-
marked Naomi
And Mrs. Scarsby went away to tell
her news throughout the whole neigh
borhood.
Upon my word" said Mrs. DIR.
Plumb, ''the woman has plucki But
of course she won't succeed; women
never do"
Il never was so fiat in all my life,"
said Mrs. Scarsby, las when L heard
Naomi say she was goin' into partner
ship with Squire Bagshot. | s'posed,
of course, she was goin' to marry
him"
We'll, 1 don't know why she
shouldn't" said Mrs. Plumb The
squire amt young. but he's a likely
man enough"
He marry Naomi Nutting!' said
Mrs Scarsby. "A poverty-stricken
old maid, with one foot in the poor
houser'
Fools used to say your John was
partial to her." shrewdly observed
Mrs. Plumb.
That's all mistake said Mrs.
Scarsby.
And she took herself and her ear
trumpet of 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 Mrs Peppersauce as
profound secret that Miss Naomi Nut.
ting and Squire Bagshot were about to
be married.
II don't believe it, said Mrs. Pep
persauce.
Il heard it with my own earsr' said
Ellie, glowing all over with the impor-
tance of her news
IAN old maid like thatm said Mrs
Peppersauce, scornfully.
She amt thirty yet, said Ellie
Il 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 il is that the morsel of gossip