The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1897-04-09
OUR CHURCH FAIR.

| dear mel' observed Mrs. Ferret,
with friendly grin as she settled her.
self comfortably in q rocker ON her
neighbours stoop. "Now, I'd just about
die O. lonesomeness il didn't hev you
to come an visit with every onct in
awhile. You're the only noighbor within
hollerin distance o. my house, an can
cawl to your Jimmy eff I want him to
run O. an errand down to the grocery
store, or can peek out o. my kitchen
window an see you settin here with the
baby or doin your chores around the
I yard. An can hear you real plain talk
in to Jimmy am
'"Talkin to himl" echoed Mrs. Sharp,
with indignant wrath. "Yellin at him,
you mean, enough to wake the dead an
q disgrace to the neighborhood, that's
what it is, the way that child carries
on. It's his fathers fault, a-humCrin
him in everything. followed him all
around the yard this mornin with bean
pole, but might as well hev tried to
catch firehug as that young one
WE'LL" concluded Mrs. Sharp, with q
sigh Of suffering and defeated mother
hood, she's year old, an this winter
sees him a-goin to school or my name
amt what it is, an I'll never say nothin
to any teacher as gives him lickin.
He's fairly achin for one, an eff it
warn't for his fathers a-interferin the
rod wouldn't be spared ali the chile
wouldn't be spoiled. He's the aggravat-
mist young one ever did see. -
| a M tIa fa.. L.
night" snickered Mrs. Ferret, looscning
the strings of her gingham sunbonnet,
which she drew off her head and waved
back and forth in front of her face.
"Phew, amt it hot? Our church fairs
always on the very hottest days in the
year. That's cause O the ice cream.
They sell lot o. that on hot nights.
How did you make out last night? ]
didn't hardly hev chance to speak
with you, there was such jam, an l was
helpin 'em at the cake table. What time
did you get around? Was you there
when the band begun to playa"
81 got there just as they was playin
Sweet Maree. Johnny Wilson toots on
the cornet real good. might hev been
there mt the start" sighed Mrs. Sharp,
"but, laws, it were z o'clock afore got
through with the supper things Jim's
always late gettin home from the shop
eff I want to go anywheres, an Lord
knows faint often I do. OF course
clean after that put on my new shall
ley dress, the white one with the black
beetles on to it. only paid three an
half cents a yard for it down to Adamses
when they was sellin off job lot. 1t
made up real nice, an to see me in it
you wouldn't think I weighed 200
pounds. An I put on my sailor hat, with
| the blue band around it. When got
: through, / was pretty near roasted,
tell you, an my face was as red as O
pianny. So took the children an went
along. The baby behaved pretty good,
but Jimmy-just as eff he doesn't know
how to make noise enough to take your
head off-his pa goes an buys him a
whistle at the Jack-in.the-box, and he
KEEP up such a screechin with it that I
couldn't hear myself think, so I tux it
away from him an put it in my pocket.
It's there yet. )"
"How did you like the way the tables
was fixed?" inquired Mrs. Ferret.
"Oh, didn't think much o. 'emp
shifted Mrs. Sharp. II could hev fixed
'em better myself. They didn't look
tasty bit, all things was SO dear you
couldn't buy anything. l warn't goin to
pay double for things / could make
home easy enoug h-iron holders an that.
So we went an he'd some ice cream. 1t
was awful bad-the taste of it's in my
mouth yet. An they charged Is cents
| plate for it an never so much as give us
crumb O. cake with it. Cake was 8
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,
an some was sent to the cake table to be
sold an some was give to the supper ia
BILE to eat with their cawfee an that.
Well, there warn't enough to go round
at the supper afore it was half through
with. An one o. the cakes was made o.
ham fail Oh, just as true as you live,
AN every body knowed where it come
from too! Well, they was hoppin madl
I give 'em two pounds O. cawfee. But,
to make long story short, some o. the
supper committee come to us an 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 an
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 an pay her quarter for it
when she got through an told 'em it
was their business TO see after their own
table, an eff they wanted her cakes they'd
got to buy 'em, for all that warn't sold
was goin to be auctioned off. An never
heerd the beat o. the compliments as
passed between 'em. ] guess Mrs.
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