The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1899-11-10
Jabe exclaimed, on beholding her moth

aape exclaimed, on Den0ldin2 ner m0tn-
er's situation i
How did you get in there?'
81 Its none of your bushes how came
ont, some way or other. Where's your
manners, Jabe Hovey, that you stand
there and laugh at me in this perdicker-
ment?n
"Perdickerment should say it was
soap barrel, If was any Judge"
stWhat il 'tis? Do you think I'm SO big
fool that don't know what I've got
into? Marsha, where's your father
Why don't be come al0ng?" &%
< HE ia coming" ..e-s
ayes, SOS ChIistmasl And L s'pose
II the house was on fire he wouldn't hurry
a mite quickerIn --
ssWhy, Judy, )" said Mr. Stutson, on en-
tering the cellar, 'sWhere on arth be ye,
anyway" a >.-.4s IL
"Where be II Can't you see nothing ?
Better put on your spects and look in the
soap barrel! Wal. / declare for it! Ell
l hain't got to stand here and wait for
another one to haw haw and giggle For
my part, L don't see nothing to laugh at.
What are you thinking of, Giles Stutson.
standing there laughing like that at me
What kind of use is it for me to learn
Marsha Ann to be respectful, when you,
"Ceme, come, mother, don't scold. Ii
you could see yourself as we can, you'd
laugh, you couldn't help it. But how
| came you to get IN there, Judy? Guess
you must have got foul of that cider bar
| rel.''
''Giles, what do you mean a-talking so,
whe you know l was one Of the leading
wimmin in the temperance cause; and
| the idee! Accusing me right a-fore my
own child of doing such thing !"
"Wai, Mrs Stutson, how be you going
to get out % asked Jabe.
''That's what I'd like to know, Jabe
You get that wssh-bench AROUND here, sc
that I can have it to step on to: and you
| take hold of this side, and Giles, here
| you take 'tother, and when you two hps,
me up, Marsha Ann can scrape off the
soap. Here, Giles, you amt good fol
nothing! Ye never was knee high to 8
toad! II L ever git another man, I'll gil
| one that won't have to stand on sheet
of paper to reach soap DARRELL"
After numerous attempts, Mrs StutsoI
was partially outside the barrel, with one
knee resting on the top, when, splash
she went back again. scattering the soar
In every direction, a goodly portion lodg
ing on Giles's shirt front, while he, witt
the others, was enjoying another hearty
laugh.
''Did ever see sch a pack Of fools p
she exclaimed.
''There's no use in crying oyer spill
milk, Judy"
| "Spilt milk and a woman in soap bar
rel are two different things, and you'll
find it out so afore you git through"
| 81 always told you, Judy, IL you'd d.
a little less scolding, and use little more
soft soap, you'd make a good many NOR
friends than you do now"
"Wall. l guess I've got enough GU
this time to suit you, and don't you neve
dare to say seft soap again, just as lont
as you live J"
After spending q great deal of time ant
strength, Mrs Stutson was at last as ia
out of her dilemma as the wash-bench
and began commenting upon her owl
personal appearance.
"Who ever see SIGH looking critter
Caliker dress all spilled, shoes, stocking
and the hull rig"
She then ordered Jabe to get tub o
water, and MAJ sha to bring clean clothes
Mr. Stutson had already gone for the mea
rack, thinking it would have been cheape
to put 1t up in the first place than to hav
been hiudered in this way, and wishing
| women folks would mind their own bust
ness and let the men folks alone.
"Just look at this cellar bottom ~ Mr.
Stutson exclaimed; land all this bencl
and thingsl It'll take hull day to cleal
it up as it ought ter be, and all this be
cause the men folks didn't tend to thing
as they orter."
But from that day to this, wheneve
Judy begins to scOld, Mr. Stutson says
"a leetle soft soap, judy" and Judy
silent.