Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-09-30
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s'And if there isn't any fall in the
price of fruit" he said, Sour peach
orchard is going to net us cool hum
dred dollars
AS he spoke he flung the homespun
towel, with which he had been wiping
his hands, over the back of the chair.
go, George, do hang up the tow
ell" said Mrs. White, "the nail is
just as near as the chair back, and /
have enough steps to take in the
course of the day without waiting on
you"
"You are always grumbling about
something said the young farmer,
as he jerked the towel to its nail.
''There Does that suit you:"
''Here is a letter from Cousin
Dora, George said Mrs. White,
wisely avoiding the mooted question.
"She wants to come here and board
for few weeks
swell, let her come" said Mr..
White. ''It won't cost us a great
deal, and little extra money always
counts up at the years end"
''But, George, l was thinking
"About what?'
"Why, l am so much hurried with
the work, and there is so much to
do"
''That is the perpetual burden of
your song," said Mr.. White, irritably.
"Women do beat all for complain
ing"
"Won't you hear me out?" said
Mrs. White. $50 | thought it would
be good plan to give Dora her board
if she would help me with the home
work a little. 1t would accommo-
date her, and it would accommodate
me-"
''But it won't accommodate me y
said Mr.. White, cavalierly. Greatly,
Lefty, you are getting absolutely
lazy"
Mrs. White crimsoned.
s'No one ever said that to me be-
FORE" said she.
''But just look at it, said the
farmer. ''Tell me of another woman
in the neighborhood who keeps q
girl! Why, they make boast of do
ing their own work"
''They all have sisters, or mothers,
or grown-up daughters; [ have
none"
''Pshaw! '' said Mr.. White. "Ri-
diculous OF course you have to
work We all do, don't we? But
your work don't amount to a row of
pins. 1 don't know of any woman
who has it easier than you do
''That is all you know about it >
said Lefty, in a choked voice.
'sWrite to Dora that we will board
her for five dollars a week." said Mr..
White authoritatively. ''We must
earn all the money that we can while
there is chance. Make hay while
the sun shines, Ell? And guess you
will do as other women do, Lefty.
Now run upstairs to the garnet, dear,
and get my blue jean over-alls, that's
a good girl?'
Lefty obeyed, but the tears were
in her eyes, and big round ball was
rising in her throat, and she could
hardly see the jean overalls, as they
hung up high on the end of the
beams.
AS she reached up, a loose board
in the garnet floor tripped her; her
foot slipped through ON the laths and
plaster below, and with a groan, she
sank to the floor.
The time passed on, and George
White grew tired of waiting.
He shouted up the stairway:
''Look alive there, Lefty! Do you
mean to be all day?'
But no answer came. He ran up
stairs to find Lefty with one leg
broken just above the ankle.
''Now'n you have to get some one
to do the work" said Lefty, not with
out spice of malice, as she lay on
the calico-covered settee with her
ankle duly set and .bandaged.
''Not if l know it," said George
White. s'Hire lazy woman who'll
want a dollar and half week and
her board into the bargain to do the
work of this house? l guess not!
''But what are you going to do?"
asked Lefty.
$50 do it myself, to be sure. Half
an hour every morning, and half an
hour every evening ought to be
enough to square accounts"
"Well," said Mrs. White, 81 shall
like to see you do it."
''Then you'll have your wish,' said
her husband.
He rose early the next morning and
lighted the kitchen fire.
''Pshaw," said he as he piled on
the sticks of wood, ''what does a wo
man amount to anyhow? What's the
next lesson, Letty?''
81 always skim the cream and
strain the milk" said Lefty, who was
bolstered upon the lounge, and was
combing her hair with more delibera-
ton than she had practiced for a
year.
"Well, here goes then" said
George. And a period of silence
ensued.
Presently he shouted: 81 haven't