Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-02-22
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certain piece Of pie. Pie. and plate
were broken and tfampled upon the
kitchen carpet. We were coming to a
"fist fight" when Sissy remembered
that there was another pie OF the kind
in the cellar. she brought 1t, and we
deyouted the most of it in peace.
While eating the pie we resolved
upon new plan. In our eagerness to
try it we forgot our noon work, and
again leaving the house went to the
orchard.
Poor Daisy Dinglel 1t was rather
warm day in July, and at noon the
heat was oppressive for i poor worried
calf. Our plan did not work. Daisy
Dingle would not stand, so we gave her
more exercise until at last she was con-
| quered.
just as Sissy had taken her place
astride the calls back our neighber,
who had returned from church, and
who had been watching us unobserved,
came along, interfered, and we were
obliged to abandon our sport.
We were mortified and worried to
think we had been discovered, and thus
made liable to exposure as well az ptih-
ishment, We ran into the barn to hide,
each blaming the other for what had
been done. Soon firing of this, we
looked about to see what next we could
do unobserved.
Mr.. Jones made cider for vinegar.
He kept barrels of it in his barn.
There were three barrels that Sissy and
I had often thought might still be fit
to drink but how to get some had al
ways been puzzle.
We thought this an excellent oppor-
tunity for tasting it.
The bungs were tight in each barrel,
and We saw no possible way to get
them OUT but instead of spigots there
were plugs that we thought might be
easily knocked out. L gave one hard
hit and the cider, or rather vinegar
came suddenly squirting over both of
us in q stream, and we were thoroughly
drenched.
We had planned to drink with
straws, but did not even taste it, for
we made an effort to replace the plug
AS it finally ceased flowing we CON
Guided that we were successful in stop
ping it.
We tried the second and third bar
rels with almost the same result.
Next we hunted eggs. These we
took to the kitchen, made coal fire,
filled the tea-kettle with eggs and
water, put it over the fire, and closed
the stove.
While waiting for the eggs to boil
we remembered our work AS it was
getting late we dropped everything,
and, leaving the door wide open, pro-
ceeded to water cattle.
In the midst of this Mr.. and
Mrs. Jones returned. They had been
very anxious about us. and came back
much earlier than was anticipated.
When Mother Jones caught sight of
us she screamed, but when she reach
ed the kitchen door and saw at one
glance the hot stove and hungry
tramp feasting upon the remains of
shrek and tainted away, which so
scared the tramp that he fled.
The kettle had boiled dry and was
emitting a strange odor.
The stove was hot enough to burst,
and the carpet was irreparably spoiled
Mrs. Jones was sick all night from
fright. The next morning Daisy Dinglo
was found dead.
Our neighbor came to tell of our
doings in the orchard, Just at the mo-
ment Mr.. Jones discovered, by the
smell of vinegar, what had happened
to his barrels.
Mrs. Jones about this time discov-
cred the eggs and the ruined condition
of the tea kettle. She could not find
the dress she had wished to wear that
day, nor could she for long time get
over the loss of two, or the ruined CON
dition of our clothes, besides everything
else.
They wisely concluded to never leave
us alone again.
Both We're too indulgent to punish us
severely, so we got off with mild
reprimand. They blamed themselves
for not getting an older person to take
charge of us.
Years have passed. Both Mr.. and
Mrs. Jones are dead. Sissy and I are
married. From this we learned good
moral, and it serves us we'll in our own
family of little ones. 1t is this Never
leave children alone with the care of o
house.