Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-11-28

cloth or anywhere out o. sight. and be
quick about it."
A suspiciously bumpy mound of
the pears and candy was hastily
erected at Amy's elbow, but before the
pie could be added, Mr.. Archibald,
whose easy-going habit it was to dis
pense with bell or knocker stood in
the doorway. Mrs. Hepsey at once
frowned a pantomimic injunction that
the pie-which ill-chance had dis
covered in Amy's hands-was, no more
than the pears, to be parted with in
his favor. Mr.. Archibald" she as
'sured her niece, soto voce, don't
stand in any need of vittles, and eff
you don't jest keep right on eatin' it
shall really feel hurt"
WALL said the all-unconscious WISH
tor, whose good-fellowship was not
without jocular vein--or feeling
pears to me. Miss Drew, never
find you here that you amt afoul O.
something to eat Don't they feed
you to hum?'
Il have to cook for myself there"
Amy said. as facetiously responsive as
1t is possible to be. under the difficult
ties of conveying pie safely to the
mouth by means of an old-fashioned
steel knife, the blade of which is
sharp-pointed. and has from long
lservice been worn to a shadow: be
sides, Thanksgiving, you know. is
time to be greedy"
Hannibal, who had given one good
laugh to his own wit and waited with
open mouth for that of its answer.
now gave another, and took his seat.
Talking o. Thanksgiving, he said,
III just met Henry Macintosh
fetching hum two turkeys that he'd
been to Blockston to buy. Now, ac-
cording to my views, man had
oughter buy his Thanksgiving bird in
his own town; for don't man look
10 his own town to sell his own wares
Hen Macintosh, for instance, where'd
be his pots and kittles, want to know
eff the rest on us all went atearing
into Blockston arter ourn?" And here
flushed with the happy sense that he
was meeting the popular view, he tilt
ed back in his chair and fairy
beamed; but, CHANGING to catch the
eye of Mrs. Hepsey, so rigidly ir-
responsive was it, that his glory-in-
fiated soul collapsed as suddenly as a
small balloon with the gas let out.
"One o. them turkeys" Mrs. Hep
sey coldly informed him, was minei"
wall now, Mis- Tarbox," he re-
sponded. don't you go to Citing your
back up about that turkey. didn't
mean nothin,' and of course there's a
difference"
Il jist thought" Mrs. Hepsey said,
with lofty and condescending defens-
iveness, las Henry was a-goin' in for
his own anyway he might as well git
two as one; and don't know as 1t was
bread and butter to any one but our
two selves"
"Sartin, sartin, the crestfallen Han
nibal replied; and looking about for
inspiration to a topic less infamma
tory-or rather more congeniaI. for
, Hannibals conversational efforts were
all of a positive and sympathetic
characteristic eye fell upon the par
ings of Mrs. Drew's pear, which had
also escaped concealment, and again
lightened up. He had stumbled on a
subject where his views could by no
possibility fail of full and congenial
lespousal All breaches would at once
be healed
''Ef there was one thing" he said,
his manner seeming at once to defy
and to challenge contradiction. Il
liked about old Tarbox moren another
it was that he want mean-Tarbox
wa 'n't-and seem them pear chompins
reminded me ont. Eff friend drop
ped in unexpected now, and he had
fruit-or anything else for the matter
of that-why it want out o. sight'n
mind 1t was thar, and that friend
was as welcome TO share ont as he
was himself. He was openhearted,
that's what old Tarbox was, open.
hearted and openhanded" And again
he paused-glowing in the warmth OF
his own creating-and presently
asked. Didn't that air Bartlett O. hisn
bear pretty full this year,"
Mrs. Drew, whose risibles were In
danger of getting the better OF her
politeness, received here a warning
glance from Mrs. Hepsey, who borne up
by the all sustaining justice of her
own argument-that he had pears OF
his own-replied calmly. "Yourn bore
too, II recollect"
! Wall" Mr.. Hannibal said rising.
II believe I'll just take a look at