Middletown transcript., 1893-01-07
MRS. BABES COSTUME.

bellows ana uncfieS. why"
"Of my age!'' interrupted An
Maria, sharply. Anyone would thin
to hear you talk, Solomon 'Rastu
Babb, that was hundred. P'rap
you've forgot that I'm good tel
years younger than your sister Betsey
who has just appeareilout in a:elegan
satin rademY costume, with everything
to match, which cost fifty dollars
Fifty dolIars!'' easped Solomon
"W-h-e-w! Why, that's almost .
fortin! How on airthdid Betsey evei
scrape together fifty dollars?''
"Betsey!' answered Ann Maria,
scornfully. did you ever know
Betsey to scrape ennything yet, un-
less it might be that big calico kivered,
stuffed rockin' chair O her'p? No;
her husband-a smart. enterprisin' !,
forehanded man-very different from
some poor, shiftless do.littles | could
name-giv' her the money; every cent
he got for whole litter O. pigs"
''Sho! Now, Ann Marier, don't go
to gettin' peppery." meekly answered
Solomon. "Let's talk about that ere
bunnit you're aster it's bunnit,
amt it7"
"a bunnit? No; NOT by jug full!
What's the good Of 1 bnnnit, unless
you've got everythingto go with itS
I'm goin' to hev ME rademy-a
satin rademy-like Betsey's, only,
where hers is navy blue, I'm goin' to
hev gobbler blue, which is good deal
l,velier color; and q mean to hev
gobbler -blue bunnit. just kivered with
plumes, and rosies, too. | vowed last I
Sunday when | sot in meetin' with |
nv old duds on and see that lazy
Bets come sailin in, all glitterin'
and a-shinin' from top 10 toe, and the
minister and his wifea-crowdin' round
her and shakin' hands. and the mem
bersa starin' andA. cscklin', with Sis
ter Skippiit this, and Sister Skippitt
that, and dear Sister Skippilt-that
would have the wherewilhal to make l
bigger spread in that meet'n.house
than Eben Skippitt' wife or would
raise rumpus!'
And Mrs. Babb, tall, thin woman
with an aggressive nose and small, Il
swapping black eyes. paused from
sheer lack of breath, and famed. her.
self vigorously with corner Of her
green apron.
Pears to me" said Solomon in a
meditative tone, IF all you and Betsey
60 to meetin' for is to make spread ;
and spite one another, you would do
better to stay at home and save shoe
leather"
"Talk's cheap" answered Ann !.
Maria. shortly. Il want you to jest !
understand one thingSolomon 'Rastus:
IfI thought | couldn tcut stylisher i
fgger-give me the clothes-than !,
ennybody 10 the Skippist family. or !
among the Babbs either, I'D jest hang i,
up my fiddle on hook"
"How much do you 'spect this ere !
er-costoome is a-goin' to COST" queried ),
Solomon, with ashow Of interest. /
:" dunno exactly, but .kalkerlate i
The whole rigout will come nigh on to {,
sixty dollars" j"
"Sixty dollars!' exclaimed Solo, : :
mon, in an increduIous tone, and he .
opened his little gray eyes to their :,
7ery widest extent. LAND O. Goshen j
What? Sixty dollars for one gown. 4
A gown? No; whole costoome; :
which takes in the bunnit. and rib /.
IONS, and gloves, and earrings, and
,reastpins, and all sech. But you -
leedn't trouble yourself about how i i.
many wards O. cloth I've got to have, i, II
n how many spools O thread I've got i
Q have. All you've got to do is to
ONE up to the scratch with the Ar
= =
"Me!'' gasped Solomon. "Land O. :
bertyl Where on airth do you =,
pect could get sixty dollars, Ann ~ ~
larier? Land O. Goshen Ann i, ~
larier, you must be crazyl I tell "
ou dunno where I could get one -
ent. You ought to know as well as 90
that this has been q dretful hard
ear for all kinds o crops" :,
borrow it from one or tother OF 1T
lie storekeepers up at Harrison vii
lge and give 'em your note. III
20, Lord Ann Marier, I can't /! nj,
really cant! There amt nobody 'mn, 81
ould trust me with sixty dollars,
ote or no note, and | should hate 10
Wfully to ask EN- and get snubbed Or
lme as | sartin should" an
"Look-a here, Solomon r exclaimed III.
nm Maria, wrathfully, "will you just No
op your "n,enpefih anu strlke pee tia
DC up that long, steep hill you can il
e out'n the winder for Harrison viii
ge to borrow my money OF the store mu
'eperS' an
NO, won I! SAID solomon, n&tly; sot
III die fust T. ~;
Every WE'LL" said Ann Marier, res
utely; "then I'll jest perceed to re-
unetter after it myself, and don't
alkerlate to recounetter for nuthin,' mo
ther. When start out holm 'taters ON
hot afternoon, while you are int
eeping on the haymow, pigweed and tin
rrel has got TO die; and when start on
on gobbler-blue satin rademy cos be
ome, with all the fixil's shat ere fat
bbler-blue satin srademy costoome Be
IS got to be perduced, if ] have to ant
Il Martha Washington. Fro
"SelI Martha Washington Sell six
e-old-caow!" and Solomon fell cos
ok helplesslyin his chair and rolled JUS
his eyes until only the whites were yol
,ihle. "You don't mean it, Ann bad
arier7" he gasped. "You sartin' tin
,uldn't sell the only caow we've got tea
get costoomef" fal
Yes; and. as | amt 10 the habit o. was
tin the grass grow undenmy feet Pr
Ien set out to do ennything, U am dur