The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-09-14

u IF Look. Look at, at, ;n,,,,t the stun n
Nll plumb straight, and there amt an
improvement in hay-cutters or hoss-
rakes or threshers but he gifts G-holt
Nh it the fust thing
"Oh!' said Nancy.
"Yaas," drawled Peter. "Jest what
was sayin'. Right up TO the mark.
Their amt no gittin' ahead of him. /
do s'posc, now, he's made more money
outen his farm than any other man in
Park County,
"Humph ~ said Nancy
Peter sat and looked at her, uncon-
sciously winking his dull eyes rs she
washed md wiped the old India China
dishes with rapidity and skill which
inspired him with involuntary respect.
'Jest what was snyin'," he after
ward remarked. "Ezaclily like chain
lightuin'. Never see any one work so
fast in my life. Fairly made me
dizzy ~
"Wcll, Nnn, there amt no such
hurry said Farmer Hale, coming
complHcently in from the adjoining
room, where he had been interviewing
carpenter Oh the subject of nn addi-
ton to his barn. Cant you afford to
set down II spel?"
Nancy Hale--a feminine copy of her
tall, rcsolute faced brother-shook her
head
There's always hurry" said she,
"till the works done :"
'Jest what | was a-sayin'," said
Peter, rubbing his horny hands and
Iecrctly calculating on the chances of
his being asked to stay to dinner.
NiFur | smeit chicGeu fricasse. hr't IT. sta
reN't ed, "an' I'm dreful poet after tai
'owtt.\.at."
JuAt then Nancy whirled a,ound and
looked her brother full in the face.
"4in't there no dreens to carry this
disb water away ?" said 'she. 49,
hlve Hale shook his head.
eve ginerally pour it ronnd the
roots of the grapevines and plum
trees, said he. "lt's called very fer
tilizin'."
"Jest as allus say" put in Peter
"Better'n bone-dust"
Nancy took the shining tin kettle in
! her hand.
Where's the water faucet?" asked
she.
"Ain't none nearer than the we'll,
said her brother, little uncasily.
"Come now, Nan, you're completely
spilled, livin' in them city flats.
Miss Hale uttered sniii.
/ Anl | hon, N,,,, ,t.t,'t ,,,,t no
sense in Jenny's head" added the
farmer.
II calculate it's put there already"
said Nancy. "Why, Elnnthan, your
completely behind the times,
"a man with farm the size % mine
can't afford to throw away no money in
humorin' the whims OF the women
folks observed Mr. Hale, with some
asperity,
"Well, | want you to un lerstand
one thing" remarked Nancy, giving
the pm Cf dishwatcr fling toward
the trellis, where venerable Isabella
grapevine coiled itself like jointed
snake, II shant stay long, if You
don't fix up the kitchen little han
! der"
Jest what | was a-snyin'," NUT
tered Peter Pinkcroft, looking fur
lively from one to the other OF the
contesting parties
"Our mother didn't w.nt none o
them newfangled traps" sullenly
spoke Hale.
''She wanted 'em, l guets," said
Nancy, "but she didn't get EN-. She
worked herself TO death aud died aforc
che was middle-aged. And father mar.
ried n second wife, and she wore her
self out, too. Father he stood it
bravcly. He didn't have to lug the
water and pour away the swill and
milk the cows and run arter the little
turklets and ducklings-"
81 guess we amt no better'n our
ancestors!" growled Hale.
"We ought to be wiser at any
rate" retorted Nancy, measuring II
lidful of tea into the shining britannia
teapot.
"Well, hain't no time to stand here
argufyin' - said Hale, with increasing
acerbity.
''Jest what was a-sayin' myself" :"
remarked Peter, slowly rising. 'I'n
20 down g fur's the bars with you,
Squire Hale. It's my way"
The carpenter came back for u two
foot rule he had left just as the heads
OF the two men dipped down under the
slope of the hill.
Miss Nancy Hale eyed him severely.
$50 they're going on to build an ad-
it'un to the barn." said she.
! .ss. mom," responded the car.