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

| Dottle ny. Mrs. rerret resumed:
San tho lemonade girls-Rebeccas at
the well, they called theirselvesl They
he'd one o. these big butter crooks ON o
low stand for the well, with 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 an then
they'd pour little juice into the we'll,
with some more water an sugar. An it
was the poorest stuff / ever tasted. They
he'd the we'll fixed up with evergreens
an goIdenrod. 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 over 'em an could hardly get by.
II wonder eff they made out good at
the Jack-in-the- observed Mrs.
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 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
you should hev seen your Jimmy! He
never took his eyes often that Jack-in-
the-box from the mint he fust come in.
l 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 Georgia 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 meP' 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 nobody's business to get any,
an, oh, laws, what 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 it is All
the workers was grabbin 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
scald. An it tasted o. the bag" shifted
Mrs. Ferret CONTEMPORARY. "But,
laws" continued she loftily, "they
don't do notbin right in the start!
There's no head an no management.
Now, would you believe it, there was
no tongue at the supper, except what
was Vaughn, an when ID was asked fer
| everybody thought somebody else was to
hev brought it, an they didn't, SO what
was everybody's business was nobody's
business, an that's how it WASH con-
cluded Mrs. Ferret scornfully.
''They he'd some quite nice things at
the fancy table" remarked Mrs. Sharp,
"but they was too dear. There was one
tidy there would hev bought, though
the only reasonable thing I saw. It
was made O. white Grape, hand painted
| just elegant There was a bough, with
| apple blossoms an two little birds settin
OH to it close beside each other as lovin
| as you please an lookin down kind o.
| scornfullike at another bird what was
settin all its lone on 10 the lower branch
an eyin them awful jealous, an merit,
right along under the two top ones, was
'Two's company, and underneath the
bottom one, 'Three's crowd Oh, it
was just too cute for anything! And
| when 1 asst for it they said il was sold.
Just my luck! l was awful disappoint-
ed" And L-rs. Sharp heaved an ample
] and regretful sigh.
'Sally Shipper an Mamie Startup he'd
the fancy table, saws Mrs. Ferret. Gan
between you an me don't think them
| two girls knows beCus. You know the
cake table was alongside o. their table,
so could see an hear considerable o.
what was goin on. was at that end
too. Of course their table was decorated,
| an themselves as much us they knowed
how. They he'd made u lot o. pink pa
per roses an stuck 'em in letters on a
piece o. white paper muslin stretched
acrost the top o. the poles over the table,
an this is what the letterin was: Come
al buy. Well sell you cheap.
81 could see the folks laughin,
laughed Mrs. Ferret, "when they looked
mp, but didn't know what it was at
till bunch o. young men came along,
an Sally, she jumps up an begins pin
up somethin an talk to Mamie at a
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