The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-09

ment; so, after shooting away big blue
bottle fly, Mrs. Ferret resumed:
San the lemonade girls-Rehaccas at
the well. they called theirselvesl They
he'd one o. these big butter crooks on
low stand for the well, with q big
chunk o. ice in it, an tin dipper to
dish out the lemonade with, an tray
with about dozen o. tumblers on to it
all turned upside down. They squeezed
the lemons home an brought the juice
in fruit cans, an every now all then
they'd pour little juice into the well,
with some more water an sugar. An it
was the poorest stuff ever tasted. They
bed the we'll fixed mp with evergreens
an goldenrod. An there was big branch
es o. the green's tied TO the legs o. the
table, an they stuck out so folks was
trippin oYer 'em an could hardly get by"
II wonder eff they made out good at
the Jack in-the- box" observed Mrs.
Sharp.
"Them girls in the Jacb-in- the-box,"
said Mrs. Ferret Pmphatically, "hed
about ten fellahs sN.elpin '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 an no
change. So that's the way it went But
Won should hev seen your Jimmy He
never took his eyes often that Jack-in-
the-box from the mint he fust come III.
| 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 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
to laugh"
"Who washed the dishes?" inquired
Mrs. Sharp.
"Oh, don't ask mer' replied Mrs.
Ferret, laughing despairingly. ANY
body they could get, l expect. 1t was
touch an go with 'em from first to last.
They was all that cranky an flustered
all the time. There was no hot water an
nobody to see to the fire, an somebody
took the teakettle that was full O. cav.
fee an he'd poured half O. it into her
dishpan afore she seen what it was, for
it was dark, an there warn't enough
lamps, an nobodys business to get any,
an, oh, laws, what a rattlin time they
did hev to be sure! / don't know how
they made out with the ice cream, but
the supper didn't amount to as much as
they expected. You see how 1T is. All
the workers was grabbin for themselves
an skinnin every body they could for
their own credit, an they all want to dc
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 1T to soal
in the wash boiler full o. cold water al
set it over on the stove to come TO
scald. An it tasted o. the bag, y sniffet
Mrs. Ferret contemptuously. But
laws" continued she loftily, 1.-The.
don't do nothin right i'll the start
There's no head an no management
Now, would you believe it, there wa
no tongue at the supper, except wha
was Vaughn, an when it was asked 10
; everybody thought somebody else was T.
hev brought it, an they didn't, so wha
, was everybody's business was nobody
, business an that's how it wasl" con
cluded Mrs. Ferret scornfully.
"They he'd some quite nice things a
7 the fancy table,, remarked Mrs. sharp
, "but they was too dear. There was on
) tidy there l would hev bought. thoug
the only reasonable thing saw.
was made o. white Grape, hand painte
. Just elegant! There was bough, wit
annie blossoms an two little birds settl
Q on TO it close beside each other as low
. as you please an lookin down kind
scornfullike at another bird what wa
Q settin all its lone on to the lower branc
: an eyin them awful jealous, an merit
. right along under the two top Ones wa
4 'Two's company, and underneath Ia
b bottom one, 'Three's crowd. Oh,
, was just too cute for anything! An
!, when / asst for it they said it was sole
e Just my luckl was awful disappoin,
i ed" And Mrs. Sharp heaved an amp
!, and regretful sigh.
9 ''Sally Shipper all Mamie Startup ne
d the fancy table, ;" says Mrs. Ferret. "A
n between you an me don't think the'
y two girls knows beans. You know u
d cake table was alongside O. their tapi
so could see an hear considerable
@ what was goin on. was at that on
II too. OF course their table was decorated
o an themselves as much as they knowe
n how. They he'd made lot O. PINK p
n per roses an stuck 'em in letters on
10 piece o. white paper muslin stretcht
J acrost the top o. the poles over the tabi
it an this is what the letterin was: 'Con
it an buy. Well sell you cheap.
n ct could ace the folks laughin,
d laughed Mrs Ferret, "when they iooK'
d mn. but I didn't know what IT was