Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1900-06-21

the boxes or old newspapers and
bottles. and grandfather's blue
shirt that he had when he follored
the sea. and several other things,
to make room for Rasher's fxings.
And be had them come ont by OK
press, and there was cart-load of
them.
Grandfather Jones was terrible
curis about them, and ! had all /
could do to keep him from poking
into the things afore they was got
upstairs for Mr. Rasher was of in
| the woods hunting bugs, when they
rome, and they cot in tho cart till
he got back.
Them Rasher boys was the worst
little sarpints that ever You see.
Their ma might have employed oil
the time she had wasted in mourn
ing over their early deaths, in some
other business. They turned every
thing topsy-turyey. The fust two
days they we're there, they let the
calves ont the pastur, and broke
tho best ROSTERS leg, and got our
/ dog onto Jenkins hens and killed
two OF them, and they lost tho
bucket down tho we'll, and Sammy
got into the river and would hayo
been drowndid If Daniel hadn't
happened to have seen him, and
they both ke.ched tho mnmps, aud
they broke Grandfather Jones'
specks, and got a good Gaming from
grandfather in consequence.
Wilder Whitney, she begun to
set her cap for Daniel afore she'd
been there q week but Daniel
didn't seem to sec IL, and be LATED
like a crazy loon when | told him
OF it.
"Bless your soul, ma, SEE he,
"the critters old enough to be ms
mother, and she hain't got tooth
in her head You must Do kinder
beside yerseli."
6Well. vou'iI ace. " seg 'tand,
lie you amt keorfal, she'li get some
holt onto and sue you for breaches
Of promise"
There's never any telling what
these widder wimmen may DO.
am one on them myself, and
fought to know.
Mr. Rasher, be iest filled that
house from one end to tother with
bugs and varmints OF all kinds,
Specimens, he called them. | was
so skairt with them that | wal
afeard to 20 TO sleep nights, for fear
a boa constructor or hippypotter
mer or some kind Of an onheerd .oI
crittor would creep out OF that atti,
and devour me. Rasher, be ginor
ally stuck pins through their 10
ards, bat land sake the most O.
them wriggled of from the PIN
and come to life again. founC
, frogs in my shoes, and one nigh
there waa a lizard and three snap
: ping bugs in my bed, and got ritl
in onto them--and come out agar
quicker than you could say scat
What time Rasher warn't a-bugginl
, BIO was engaged in billing and stew
ing various roDg-amelling thing
that he called chemicals, and tn
whole house smelt like a fourth
} class rum shop that had patent fer
tilizers to sell.
Mrs. Rasher, she practioed he
I, faith-cure onto grandfather. Ii
! is nigh about doubled up will
: rheumatic in his i'ints, and
when there is a NORTHEASTERN coming
. on, the way he'll grown is enuff /
: set you crazy, il your naiyes is a
I, all skittish.
! He had one of them spells com
! on about two weeks after tho board
= ers come and Mrs Rasher, sh
2 told him she could care him. Bh
7 made him set down aud loo
straight at her, and she locke
straight at him, and for fiftee
= minutes they kept II up, and the
= she told him to git up and walk
= She told him that nothing ale
I him but his itnaginations, and b
! told her that sh was mistook. An
: she argYed and he argYed, and the
both got mad, and she fred . hem
: book at him, and hehit her whac
I over the eyeglasses, and betwee