The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-02-12
PLEASANT NEleHeoRs.

Nbouth hfk 10 " Ioothpichs
"Borrow!" said she. "What won't
folks borrowV
''She" was a thin woman i'm print
dress with red crochctcd shoulder
cape, and was raking leaves in II yard.
She engaged the writer in conversation
because she saw "a sympathetic look i'm
his eye. He pitied her because she was
blistering her hands and tanning her
complexion in the November winds.
He was!also sympathetic because he was
on the right side of the fence for sym
pathy.
She was n sharp-spolSen woman-an-
other cause for sympathy. She was
evidently born that way, but she was
plainly unfortunate in her birth. II
she had had n choice in the matter at
the time of the selection of her larynx
we fancy, from other things about her.
that her voice would now have been
pitched at A instead Of u.
The conversation did not start on
borrowing. IL began on leaves. She
said she guessed the wind blowcd them
in. We suggested that she had proba-
bly, borrowed them from her neighbor
for the fun of raking. That is as near
as we can remember how il began We
do remember how il ended.
Borryin'r said she. INV grand.
father had a wooden Reg and so did one
of his neighbors. My grandfathcr's
leg was painted and fixed up, and his
neighbor used to borry IL to wear 10
parties and SIGH. Once he borried il TO
wear To muster. He got run over by a
carryall and killed. His wilder claims
that the leg belonged TO the corps and
they buried him in it.
I've got n ncighbor who comes over
TO borry everything. She borrowed a
parasol of me in May and return it last
week. She was mach obliged, she said.
! never said one word, ] was SO para
lyzcd o speech to see her bring it
home"
"Do folks borrow as much as they
used top
"Jcs' the same, jcs' the same. Over
in my town where | was born I've got
sister. She's pcstcred TO death with
good-fOr-nothin' ncighbors who borrv
sugar and tea, and butter, and eggs,
and all such things. | was over there /,
this summer, and in came little girl !
after some sugar. Sister says To her: |
i amt got none Then the little girl |
says; viii you lend us some salt porlI?' |
Says sister: Yves out o. salt pork |
We'll, mum says goes on that little
girl, that eff you amt got no sugar nor
no salt pork, might borry your black
lace shawl and n ball % butter"
The woman went on ralting leaves
"Borryin' does grow on folks, too"
she added, after awhile. There's the
woman that lives over i'm that house,
the house with the yaller curtains on
the kitchen windcrs. She's good
woman, but she got To borryin for n
society she and me blonged to. She
used to come in and say: Now Sister
W., you're got To lend me your oil stove
to take down to the hall I'd do it,
Then she borried il for herself. Now
she berries it for the neighbors. Pretty
soon when ! want il I'll nave To 90 out
and borry 1t OF her or one of the neigh
oors' Shed go round last summer say
in: For the Ian sakcs, what YOU
a-bakin an a-slavin' over that hot stove
for? Why don't you borry Miss WIS
oil-stove? Many's the time lent her
stove and oil TO run it, Then she'd
claim pies for the society, and then
she'd borry EN- for hcrself-she saws
my pies suit her Heaven only knows
what she'll borry next! She berries my
boy for errands, my girl'to take care O.
The babies. don't object, but it's ag-
to have some one out in the
porch all the time dependin' on you for
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Lewiston (Me.) journal.