The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-06-08
WHOLE No. g, 1872

ordered him off his place, and told him
never to set foot on it again and they
have been i'll friends ever since.
We'll as was sayin' | heard Susan
mention Philip Starkey's name and ex-
pected an explosion, and sure enough
it CONE, for Zed Granger's fist came
down on the rickety table with force
that set the tallow candle to dancin.'
and says he, if you get fifty dollars
squeezed out of that villain Philip Star
key for that lean dog of missionary,
you may count on me for seventy-ive.
Well Mirandy Gilman, l VOW if
Susan Pettibone didn't riz right up, and
says she, come sister Slocum, and we
left our knittin' on the table, and put
on our bonnets. and walked down the
road to Philip Starkey's and knocked
at the front door, and we was let in,
and Susan told Philip the hull story and
said it rested with him whether we got
seventy five dollars out OF I'D Granger
for the poor Creeturs out in Montana
who were in such great need.
Well, says Philip Starkey l don't
knew nothin' about the missionary, and
l know that l have use for every dollar
| can lay hands on but its worth fifty
dollars to get one out of old Zed Gran
ger for any purpose, and here's your
fifty !; and he counted it out and give it
to her with the understandin' that if
Zed backed out of the bargain he was
to have it back.
Susan got him to take a receipt for
it, and she also got him to give her a
note sayin' that he had given fifty dol
lars to the Womans Missionary Society
for the benefit of the Missionary's family,
and then we walked back to Zed Gran
gers.
Well we went through the gate and
didn't even halt at the front door, and
| VOW MlEandy If the lights want out,
and the shutters closed and the hull
place shut up, and us standin' there
with the fifty dollars and the note which
Susan was to read to Zed Granger.
Well we stood there quite a spell,
and Susan said loud enough for any,
body to hear that was listenin' that we
had staid so long that maybe MIR. and
Mrs. Granger had thought we had gone
home. She said we would take the
fifty dollars home with US and she
hoped Mr.. Granger would send his
seventy-five in the morning before
Philip Starkey had a chance to blow it
over the hull neighborhood that he had
rued the bargain.
The words were hardly out of her
mouth when a window up stairs opened,
and Miss Granger's weak voice says,
sis that you Miss Pettibone, Mr.. Gram
! ger will be down in minute.'
Sure enough we sees light pretty
soon, and Zed unlocked the door and
Susan stepped In and follered.
Susan showed him the fifty dollars
and give him the note to read, and
without word Zed took check book
out Of the drawer of the rickety table,
and filled in check on the Dorton
bank for seventy-fve dollars, payable
to Susan Pettibone, and give it to her
and in less time than it takes to tell it,
we was out the gate and goin' up the
road home.
l wouldn't have been SO persecutln'
even in such good cause as this
said Susan Pettibone as she bid me
good night, but it is better for Zed
Granger to get into the habit of givin'
and better for his family.
And Susan was right for the very
next day who should l see but Miss
Granger in their old fashioned carriage
on her way to Dorton to buy some
things for the house that they had been
raaly sufferin' for, and says to myself
Susan Pettimore you didn't seem very
proud of that exploit-but if you ever
done good deed in your hull life
you've done it now, for you give a lit
to Home Missions by helpin to chris
tianize Zed Granger and l hope he
won't have no relapse.
So Jerusha that was the plan Susan
Pettlmore took to get that seventy-hve
dollars out of Zed Granger for Home
Missions, while the plan took didn't
amount to shucks.