Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-09-06
X TIE NEW Family.
Moved Into the House Across tn
Street.
Were Inclined to be Neighborly and
Were Certainly Not Bashful-Be-
cause They Couldn't Borrow an
Entire Household They Became
Indignant.

Were going to have Some neigbors
at last" said Mrs. Hawley to her nus
band. when ne came home to dinner the
other day. There's a family moving
into the house across The street.
"Wha, kind of looking people are
they?"
We'll, one can hardly judge yet, but
I guess they're disposed to be neighbor-
~. One Of the little boys came over a
few minutes ago TO borrow our broom.
He said their's hadn't come YET, and here
he comes again"
Ma wants to know if you could let
her have the loan CT a tack hammer an
a few tacks?" he said, appearing at the
open door. An she wants 10 know if
you've such thing as a canpeJ-stre, cher
an a floor mop with a handle 10 l."
All OF thcse articles were given TO the
boy, and the Hawleys were at dinner
when he appeared again.
PA wants to know if he could have
the loan of your ak and a few tenpenny
nails an a screw driver, an ma would
like cup of O. coffee an your coffee mill
an some cups"
Better send her the coffee pot also"
whispered Hawley to his wife as she
left the table TO supply the boys de-
mands.
Ten minutes later a long, lank girl APP
peared at the open dining-room door
Henry forgO, TO ask you for he loan
Of your coffee pot when he got the coffee
an nav would Ike it. Our things amt
all come yit, an we'd like to borrow a
loaf of bread an a skillet an half dOz-
en- eggs an wooden pail an wash
board, an nav says she'll oblige you
in the same way some day"
Just as ne Hawleys were leaving the
table the boy appeared for the third
time.
Ma would like the loan of a needle
an some black No. 40 thread an a cork
screw an a butcher knife an a DRAWN
o. tea; she don't drink coffee. An pa
wants a little smokin' tcbacker, if you
have 1t, an a shoebrush an some black
in an handsaw. He says he wouldn't
bother you, but he knows you want TO
be neighborly an he'll do as much for
YOU some day. Him an ma are comm
to cell soon as we git settled. an he said
20 tell YOU that we intend to neighbor
with you right along"
The girl appeared at this moment and
said:
Nav forgot to tell Henry to ask
could you loan her a nursing-bottle an
nipple an a pint Of milk for the baby
An her an pas going down town, an
she'd Ike the loan Of your parasol an
three or four hairpins an pa would like
to borrow No. 1G collar an half a plug
O tobacker, an"
'You go home and tell your father
and mother that they can't borrow an
cher blessed thing here" said Mrs.
Hawley.
Then the woman came across the
street TO the Hawley gate and called out:
Purity neighbors, you air! But
said 10 my husband this morning that
I didn't like the looks o. We. and That I
didn't keer nothin' about neighborin'
with We, an you've showed yourselves
10 be just the narrow contracted. on
neighborly set l made up my mind We
was, an I amt used to 'sociating with
none SIGH, an I don't want YOU to come
a-nigh me- An I've fetched back yer
old tack hammer. for I didn't wan. to
be beholdin' to We for nothin' :"
and trle other things we never saw
again" said Hawley, when he told me
the story afterwards.-New York World