Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-09-12
MISS NAOMI NUTTlNG.
She Makes a Success Of Mindino
Her Own Business

She Makes a Success Of Winding
Her Own Business.
''Me and Squire Bagshot, we're
goin' into partnership together" said
Miss Naomi Nutting.
"Ehp WhatP" cried the Widow
Scarsby, hastily adjusting her ear
trumpet. "You a-thinkin' O. gettin'
married at this time O. dayp"
Miss Naomi gave sniff of exceed
ing great derision.
who's talkin' O gettin' marriedpn
said she. Not !. Nor, 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
meanp"
"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 Brine's sweet
smellin' English violets, and I'm 60
in to earn my own livin', il l be a
woman"
"Vi-lets! repeated Mrs. Scarsby,
"and Strawberries! Johp hain't NO
faith in that sort of thing"
1T 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, 81
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 heI
head.
mot If l know it," said Naomi.
'l'm pretty certain l can make good
butter, and l always took natural tC
hens and chickens. And know l car
market them strawberries at the sum
mer hotels on Cherry brook. and En-
glish violets bring fifty cents dozer
at the New York florists in January
and February"
You're runnin' great riskr
sighed Mrs. Scarsby, in genuine Job s
comforter accents.
"There's always the poor-house lef
II l don't succeed" sarcastically re
marked Naomi.
And Mrs. Scarsby went away to tel
her news throughout the whole neigh
borhood.
Upon my word" said Mrs. DR.
Plumb, 'the woman has pluck! Blu
OF course she won't succeed; womel
never do"
II never was so fat in ell my life,
said Mrs. Scarsby, ''as when l heart
Naomi say she was goin' into partner
ship with Squire Bagshot. Is'posed
of course, she was goin' to MARI.
him."
"Well, l don't know why she
shouldn't" said Mrs. Plumb "Th
squire amt young, but he's likel,
man enough"
He marry Naomi Nutting!" sai'
Mrs. Scarsby. "A poverty-strickel
old maid, with one foot in the poor
house!"
.'Fools used to say your John wa
partial to her." shrewdly observes
Mrs. Plumb.
That's all mistake" said Mrs
Scarsby.
And she took herself and her ear
trumpet off to the next house, wnli
Ellie Price, Mrs. Plumb's bound girl
who had been listening through tn
dumb-waiter, breathlessly scampere
to the grocery for the ounce oil pow
dered cinnamon, which she had oea
told half an hour ago to bring, an
there informed Mrs. Peppersauce as
profound secret that Miss Naomi Nu'
ting and Squire Bagshot were about
be married. -,
IL don't believe it," said Mrs. feI
persauce. -, .;
81 heard it with my own ears! sal
Ellie, glowing all over with the impo'
tance OF her news.
IAN old maid like thatT said MT
Peppersauce, scornfully.
..She amt thirty vel" said Eiii'
"I heard missis tell Mrs Scarsoy So
Ill news, they say, spreads: fasti
does good news. Which OF thes
heads Squire Bagshot's engagemer
came under is hard to specify. OF
certain it is that the morsel Of gossi
spread like wildfire through Cnerr
village.
.Me engaged to Naomi Nutting'
.sid the squire. .Well. it's the mr.
I've heerd of it
Naomi Nutting gong to mari
thas old widower!" said John scars y