Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1897-04-08

sweet Maree. Johnny Wilson tOOtS on
the cornet real good. might hev been
there at the start" sighed Mrs Sharp,
"but, laws, it were Z O'Clock afore got
through with the supper things. Jim's
always late gettin homo from the shop
Of I want to 60 anywheres, al Lord
knows 'tain't often l do OF course
there was tho children all myself to
clean after that. put on my new shall
ley dress, the white one with tho black
beetles OH to it. only paid three an
half cents yard for it down to Adamsos
when they was sellin off a job lot. 1t
made up real nice, al to see me in it
you wouldn't think 1 weighed 200
pounds. An put OH my sailor hat, with
the blue band around it. When got
through, was pretty near roasted,
tell you, AL my face was as red as a
pianny. So took the children an went
along. The baby behaved pretty good,
but Jimmy-just as ef he doesn' know
how to make noise enough to take your
head otf-his pa goes al buys him
whistle at the Jack-in. the box, and he
KEEP up such screechin with it that I
couldn't hear myself think, so tux it
away from him an put it in my pocket.
It's there yet. -"
'How did you like the way the tables
was fxed?' inquired Mrs Ferret.
"Oh, l didn't think much O. 'em"
shifted Mrs. Sharp. II could hev fixed
'cm better myself. They didn't look
tasty bit, an things was 80 dear you
couldn't buy anything I warn't goin to
pay double for things l could make
home easy enough-iron holders an that.
So wo went all he'd some ice cream. It
was awful bad--the taste OF it's in my
mouth yet. An they charged 10 cents a
plate for it all never so much as give us
a crumb O. cake with it. Cake was
cents extray.'
Here Mrs. Ferret gave long chuckle
before she said:
''They was awful mad at the cake
table. Mrs. Adams he'd charge O it.
You know the cakes was all donated
all some was sent to the cake table to be
sold an some was give to the supper ta-
BILE to cat with their cawfee an that.
Well, there warn't enough to 60 round
at the supper afore it was half through
with. An one O the cakes was made O.
ham fat! Oh, just as true as you live,
AL everybody knowed where it come
from tool Well, they was hoppin mad!
l give 'em two pounds O. cawfee. But,
to make long story short, some O. the
supper committee come to us oil wanted
to take the cakes often our table. An
Mrs. Adams--you know how spunky
she is-an she told 'em right up and
down they shouldn't hev 'em, an
don't blame her. Said she had trouble
enough goin around begin 'em for her
own table, an they'd oughter done the
same for theirs. So they begged her all
said they was short, an folks was askin
for it at their supper. An she said she
he'd nothin to do with the supper excep'
to eat hers AL pay her quarter for 1t
when she got through All told 'em it
was their business to sec after their own
table, an ef they wanted her cakes they'd
got to buy en, for all that warn't sold
was goin to be auctioned Off. An never
hecrd the beat o the compliments as
l1ssed between 'em. ] guess Mrs.
Adams was kind O. riled anyway, for
Just afore it was time for the fair to be-
gin, an every ybody was hustlin around
to get things straight, them two girls at
the flower stand KEEP goin from one ta-
bic to another astjn for cord to tie up
their bow kays AL scissors to cut 'em
with, an vases to put 'em in, AN they
Uttered the floor all over with their
leavins, an then asst Mrs. Adams for a
broom to sweep up with. She spoke up
pretty sharp an told EN- them things
lidn t grow in the basement o. church.
an they he'd no business to undertake a
thing ef 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 a chance to speak
her mind.
Mrs. Ferret famed herself vigorously
with her sunbonnet and paused, not for
want Of a subject, but for want OF
breath. Mrs. Sharp was listening in.
tently, with broad smile OF encourage
ment; 80, after shooing away a big blue
bottle y, Mrs. Ferret resumed:
can the lemonade girls-Rebeccas at
the we'll, they called themselves! They
he'd one O. these big butter crooks on
low stand for the well, with big
chunk O. ice in it, All tin dipper to
dish out tho lemonade with, an tray
with about dozen O. tunblers on to 1t
all turned upside down. They squeezed
the lemons home an brought tho juice
in fruit cans, an every now al then
they'd pour little juice into the well,
with some moro water All sugar. An 1t
was the poorest stuff ever tasted. They
he'd the we'll fixed up with evergreens
All goldenrod. All there was big branch
es O. the green's tied to the legs O. the
table, an they stuck out so folks was
trippin over em al could hardly get BY
II wonder Of they made out good at
the Jack i'll -the-box," observed Mrs.
Sharp.
"Them girls in the Jack-in the-box, y
said Mrs. Ferret empbatically, "hed
about ten fellahs a-helpin 'em, an such
carryin's on you never see! o. course
folks wasn't waited on properly an did
not like what they got, although it was
writ up, Take what comes al no
change So that g the way 1t 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.
I seen him, for he was stannin just
along my end O. the cake table. He
stood up ag'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 tho parcels as they
was rolled up. An you know they run
short O. things. So when they was all