The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1897-04-14


the flower staud KEEP goin from one ia
BILE TO another astin for cord to tie up
their bowkays, an scissors to cut 'em
with, an vases to put 'em in, an they
Uttered the floor all over with their
leavin $, an then asst Mrs Adams for a
broom TO sweep up with. She spoke up
pretty sharp an told 'em them things
didn't grow in the basement o. church,
an they he'd no business to undertake a
! thing Of they expected other folks to
wait OH them, an she just give it to 'em
coed, but one o. them was her own
daughter, so she he'd chance to speak
her mind.
Mrs. Ferret famed herself vigorously
with her srnbonnet and paused, not for
want of subject, but for want of
breath. Mrs. Sharp was listening in
rentIy, WIN broau smlle ot encourage
ment; ST. after shooiug away Il big blue
bottle fy Mrs Ferret resumed:
"An tie lemonade girls-Ro beccas at
the well, they called thelIselvcsl They
he'd one o. these big butter crooks on a
low stand for tho well, with big
chunk o. ice in it, an 1il dipper TO
dish out tho lemonade with, an u tray
with about dozen o. tumblers on to it
all turned upside down. They squeezed
tue lemons home an brought the juice
in fruit caus, an every now an then
they'd pour a little juice into the we'll,
with some more water sn sugar. An it
was the poorest stuff l ever tasted They
he'd the well fixed up with evergreens
an goldenrod. An there was big branch.
es o. the greens tied 10 the legs O. the
table, an they stuck out so folks was
trippin over 'em an could hardly get by. "
az wonder eff they made out good at
the Jack in-the- box" observed Hrs.
Sharp.
"Them girls in the Jack-in-the box, "
said Mrs. Ferret emphatically, "hed
about ten fellahs a-helpin 'em, an such
carryin's on you never seel o. course
folks wasn't waited on properly an did
not like what they got, although it was
writ up, Take what comes an 10
change. So that's the way it went. But
you should hev seen your JIMMY He
never took his eyes often that Jack-in-
the-box from the mint he fust come in.
| seen him. for he was stannin just
along my end o. the cake table. He
stood up a9'in the wall with his two
hands in his pants pockets an his mouth
wide open, just where he could peek
through an see all the parcels as they
was rolled up. An you know they run
short O. things. So when they was all
give out there stood Jimmy, with his two
eyes as big as saucers. An / heard him
say to George Adams, Il seen every
burned thing in thereP 1t sounded aw-
full cute, wound up Mrs. Ferret. 81 he'd
i to laugh.
"Who washed the dishes?" inquired
Mrs. Sharp.
ooh, don't ask mep' replied Mrs.
Ferret, laughing despairingly. "Any-
body they could get, l expect. 1t was
Touch an go with 'em from first to last.
J hey was all that cranky an fiustered
all the time. There was no hot water an
noboCy to rec to the fire, an somebody
took the teakettle that was full o. cav
fee an he'd poured half o. it into her
dishpan nfore she seen what it was, for
it was dark, an there warn't enough
lamps, an nobcdy's business to get any,
an, oh, laws, what rattlin time they
did hev to he surel don't know how
they made out with the ice cream, but
the supper didn't amount to Gs much as
they expected. You see how it is All
tho workers as PraLbin for themselves
an skinnin everybody they could for
their own credit an they all want TO do
everything but the dirty work, an they
won't spend dollar TO hev couple o.
wimmin TO attend to the fire an wash
the dishes, for the boiler has to be KEEP
full an the tea an cawfee hot. Miss
Saunders, she undertook to make the
cawfee. So she tied up five pound o.
cawfee in meal bag an put it to soak
in the wash boiler full o. cold water an
set it over on the stove to come to q
scald. An it tasted o. the bag" shifted
| Mrs Ferret CONTEMPORARY. "But,
laws" continued she loftily, "they
don't do nothin right in the start
| There's no head an 10 management.
| Now, would yon believe IL, there was
no tongue at the supper. except whai
was Wutkihi IN NhSh ~ WIS onheu io'
everybody thought somebody else was &c
hey BROUGHT it, an they didn't, so What
was everyhody's business was nobody''
business. an that's how il wasl" con
oluded Mrs. Ferret scornfully.
"They he'd some quite nice things al
the fancy table. " remarked Mrs. Sharp,
"but they was too dear. There was one
tidy there l would hev bought. though
the only reasonable thing saw. II
was made o. white Grape. hand painted
| just elegantl There was bough, with
apple blossoms an two little birds settir
| ON to IL close beside each other ms lovin
as you please an lookin down kind o.
scornfullike at another bird what was
settin all its lone on TO the lower branch
an eyin them awful Jealous, an merit,
right along under the two top ones, was
'Two's con pany, and underneath the
bottom one, 'Three's crowd. Oh, II
was just too cute for anything! And
when l asst for il they said ii was sold.
Just my luck was awful disappoint'
ed And Mrs Sharp heaved an ample
and regretful sigh.
''Sally simper All Mamie Startup he'd
the fancy table. y says Mrs. Ferret. IAN
between yon an me don't think then
two girls knows beams Yon know the
cake table was alongside o their table