The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-09-03
HER S0N-IN-LA


~ kind o. hate to let that furnitur,
go, Betsey Jane, said Mr.. Piggott.
''Well, | wonder whyi" slowly enun
ciated his tter-half, who stood with
her hands upon her sides, and biz
white apron pinned around her by nc
means slender waist. "You amt Noah
guess, nor amt Noah's wife, and W,
don't want the kind o furniture thai
come over In the Ark. Mis- Squire
Nipps, she's got real black walnut, anc
Doctor Hawley's wife has Spanish ma.
hogany that you can see your face in, and
these chairs, at their best, weren't nothin
better than common curly maple with
rush bottoms
The August sun was sleeping the old
shingled roof in brightness, the round,
tremulous tops OF the monster butternui
trees were a study in green and COLA,
and a flock Of young turkeys were cluck.
ing sleepily in the high grass OF the ad.
joining meadow.
MIR. and Mrs. Piggott stood out on the
dandelion starred grass, proudly viewing
the old house which had just been newly
painted Of vivid olive, "picked out i
with Venetian red.
II Belonged 10 my gran'ther,n said
Mr. Piggott. ''He went 10 housekeep.
in with II when he was married.
well, so long he's been dead and
buried forty year. said Mrs, faAfGahti
CURLY, "a don't see wAaQ
@' "TslI i What, Mn,
frank, CHEEKY voice, as b
farmer In his shirt.sleeves, with scythe
balanced lightly across his stalwart shout
der, came up to the we'll curb to get
drink. 'I'll give you twenty-five dollars
for that set q furniturep
Jemima Piggott for short called
"Jimmy"-who was sitting on the door
step, hemming a red -bordered towel,
looked up with sudden bright smile in
her dark-blue eyes.
"Oh, Moses, . said she, involunlarily,
'I'm so glad"
Mrs. Plggott shifted scorufully.
"Well, said she, ''if you and Moses
Raintree are willin' 10 90 to house
kecpin' with such lot Of old truck as
that
at was Grandsir Piggott's," said
Jimmy, simply.
Twenty-Five dollars" said Moses.
''Is II bargainYn
Eyes, aud glad to get IT," answered
his mother in-law-e elect, with equal brew
ity.
Mrs. Piggott went to the nearest town !
the next morning and bought staring
set Of machine-made parlor furniture,
upholstered in cheap and snowy iute.
'Jemima hain't speck Of her mothers |
pride, said she, "or she'd never marry |
a man that can't do no better than put |
her into blacksmith's shop made over. 4"
''lt's very neatly fixed up. interposed
her husband, land you couldn't hardly
tell IL from regular built house. Nose
has done II himself out OF hours. every
nail and screw Of IT. And he bought the
lot hisself out Of his own honest earnin's.
When Grandsir Piggott was boy
"Oh, I'm sick of hearin' Of your
Piggottl" unceramoniously in
ierrupted Mrs. Piggott. "Now look
here, John; that walnut furniture is lust
The thing I've wanted this long time.
'Tm glad you're suited" said Mr..
tlRgott, uoletully.
"And now the next thing is pianner
for Lucilla-" began his wife.
"A-piannerln
eyes. Why mott Every girl has one
nowadays."
Jimmy never had one"
Jimmy hadn'tno ambition. Lucilla's
quite a different kind. Lucilla's clear
Thcro ai,,ff a he -
Piggott about her. Lucilla must 90 in
good society, and marry some one that's
3 peg higher'n a vorkin' man.
You mean William Warburtoni"
81 don't name no names" oracularlv
his wife. "What mean is
hat Lucilla must be fixed up like other
girls, and size and me, we've settled il
The must have pianner-on installments.
you know. OF course we can't expect TO
pay for il all to once"
But Betsey Jane, we amt paid of
he old morgidge on the wood lot yet"
"Well, what o. thatr'
"Mr. Nudge may fOreelose any day.
"He wontp
"And the farm stock Is all run down
1.-THE farm stock can wait. Your
daughters welfare il the frst thing to
hink Of. Now we've got the house
tainted up and a new set Of modern
urniture, toe next thing is q pisnner add
! dancin' party, with froze ice cream
md cake and lemonade for Lucilla"
''But l don't see what with Jimmv's
how We eau pay for itln STAN
nered poor Piggott"