Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-11-21
she Comes, and the Iury is Brighter;
She GENES and the CI9om's Relieved;
HEd the Spirit 81 man is Fighter
For TDls Blessing just Received.

agOin' to give it up now 'thout some
better reason than there bein' no one
to eat en-
'Ednah Jane Mrs. Hepsey cried
from the sitting-room, you git that
milk out O. your hands, and bring Amy
in here onter that sofy! She's a
standin' while you're a talkin', and
she must be ready to drop"
! Il wish | could have got over day
before Yesterday" said Mrs. Amy,
when this somewhat coercive process
| had been accomplished. 81 wanted
you to get it in time for the baking
Baking" Mrs. Hepsey echoed
"Ednah Jane, you put that milk TO
rise where it will keep sweet, and
/ don't you go to wasting it on no pies"
And Ednah Jane departing to fulfill
this command, Mrs. Hepsey straight
ened herself as for some heroic OF
deal, and said with great resolution:
Now, Amy Drew, I'm not agoin to
have you tug all that milk over here
for nothin'. You just sit still where
you are, and don't you let me hear a
word out of your mouth, for I'm agoin'
to pay for it.
mo, indeed" said Amy, neither
Jim nor l would like it at all. He
keeps two COWS now, and we have
plenty
Il am" repeated Mrs. Hepsey, I'm
a-goin' to pay for that milk" and she
called to Ednah Jane for her purse;
but pending it's arrival the fact that
she had begged only, a pint asserted
itself with such indisputable force
that when Ednah Jane appeared she
said
If Amy won't take nothin' for that
milk, you just git her some O. them
Bartlett pears-git three-no, four
You can eat four, can't you? And il
you can't you can tuck two into your
bag-they won't mush; they amt
that kind. Ednah Jane, you git five
while you're about it-and bring in
some of that candy you got me last
christmas, and slice o one O your
you go to hindering me, it's no more
than you've done for me time and
agin."
Mrs. Hepsey was large-bone6
creature of heavy, masculine, imper
turable features. Her manner o.
speech, in good keeping, was appar
emily undisturbed by any inner con
f1ict; and yet as, seated in an ungain
lily wooden rocker of like structure
and expression, she awaited the eX
ecution of her order, Mrs. Drew was
by means ignorant of the late man
ly contest between the spirit of justice
and that of "nighness," and, being
touched by the conquest of the for
mer, was quick to reward it by gen
erous expression of her pleasure; anC
certainly, whatever might be said O
the Christmas candy and the pie, the
pears, which Mrs. Ednah had taker
care should be of those least likel!
to be kept rather than to keep, de
| served her warmest praise. But un
fortunately, she had hardly takeI
the first crisp and juicy mouthful
: before Mrs. Hepsey suddenly exclaim
: ed: Lord help us, Ednah Jane, i
there amt Mr.. Archibald turning il
: here this very mint! Amy. you ca
them pears yourself. Don't you g
to givin' on 'em, not one, to Mr.
Archibald. He's got pears of hi
! own, and there amt no sense in hi
ha7kering arter mine, eff they be
: better kind'n hisn."
But l can't eat 'em ALL venture
: Amy, to whom the idea Of choking
down five enormous pears in the pres
ence of a hankerer was far from COZ
t genial.