The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1895-10-18
THE PRICE OF PEACE.


Rhode Island, I've never come across .
couple more unlike than what MIR. and
Mis- Minis was
Mr.. Minis was one of these shut.up-
to-himsclf men. and he'd glum round
for days over some little matter that y
word would "a set right II he'd only
been plain n.hearted.
Mis- Minis was all the other way
talk 1t out and done with it; little
hasty and imprudent, maybe, but she
is well-meaning, Mis- Minis is, and MS
good woman to neighbor with as I
wnnt to see.
! hev thought whether or no being
OF different persuasions didn't work TO
keep 'em apart. See, she was brought
up an orthodox. and he favored the
Methodists. She Joined with him and
laid out todo her part amongst 'em,
but she never was to home with the
Methodists
Then, another thing, she hated
dog, and MIR. Minis must always have
great clumsy hulk, good for nothing
but to bark and eat and lie around un-
der foot. while Mis- Minis, she marn't
have even q kitten, though she set
everything by cat And so it went.
One day stepped in to borrow Mis-
Minis cutting-bosrd, and just as got
to the door heard her say: You amt
going to turn Charley in amongst my
flowers, be ye?"
He didn't condeacend any reply--not
as could hear.
Nov, MIR. Nims," says she, hes
stepped on my pansy-bed and broke of
dahlia already. Amt there any
other place on this whole farm where
you can put him? don't want him
here" says she.
Mr.. Minis countenance didn't change
more than wooden Indian.
Il do,' says he. There's good bat
ing Of grass to be fed down, and l cal
culAte to leave Charley here for spell"
says he. And he budged of as stiff as
though he'd swallowed q ramrod
Mis- Minis didn't say u word more,
but she gave that old dog push that
sent him out nf doors with yelp; and
Ilidn't blame her mite, nuther.
brought the cutting board back as
they was a-settin' down to dinner, and
Mis- Minis asked me to draw up to the
table. She had an excellent dinner
Mis- Minis is an elegant cook-but not
one identical word did he speak. only
to ask II I'd have smother potato
She seemed clipper enough, but see
a shadow pass over her countenance
when the old horse sneezed right un-
der the window where her piney bed
was, and the dog, that had got back
under the table by that time, yopped
ont as though somebody had accident
ally trod on his tail.
Mr.. Minis was q great hand for rails
ing colts, but she was a terrible scary
creature; and ! expect riding after
half-broken colts has given her fit
Of the newralogy many's the time.
He was dreadful set in his way
came as the general run OF men arr
and II was IKE ngnting tne easy vino
TO Try 70 move MIN ont OF IT. Inem
two used to remind me OF q pair OF
napajnwed scissors that you can't cut
with. Some might have put the heft
Of tne blame on 70 ner' ana 4 pose
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when sne'd Det'er nave Kep ssnl
run An one day 20 borrow sleeve
pattern wnen ! heaIa mr. MINIS
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