The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1906-10-06
PREACHING
...AND...
PRACTICE.
~ EBEN E. RExFoED,
in Home and Flowers.

he calls systum. Have a place for
things, says he, an keep things ID
their place That's where they blonS.
Live UP 10 that rule. an you'll alays
Know where to find things when You
want EN- An do things when they
need Goi1
! Josiar's ideas are good amt a 60
in to deny that-but the fact IS, he
don't Jest live up TO en-. lie mas
places for his things. but the things
amt always there Only last week he
wanted the hammer Wanted ii bad
an right off. an the way he went
| through the house huntin for 1t. an
scolGin' cause it want to be found
was a caution.
Have you looked behind the cellar
door," | asked. That's where he
made a place for it, an ordered us to
Put il whenever we used it, the min
nit we'd got done with it.
Looked behind the sul1er door.
| says he, dretful savage. Wall, l snd
say | had, That's where | looked
| fist. That's where | expected TO find
it-where | would ha' found it if you
Or the youneuns had did as | told
you bout putin it back where it
b'lCngs, after you'd used it. | swan.
it does make me awful mad to think
none O you'll take any pains TO do S
I've told you
But haint had the hammer says
|. Il hain't had no use for it. An |
don't blieve the children had it. It's
most likely where you left it,
Hear the woman talk" says Josair.
au' he jest glared at me. I'D have you
know, ma'am-an' you do knoW-that
| don't so leaving things round as
you an the rest of EN- do. If you'd
try-jest try-to have some kind O
system about you. l wouldn't mind it
so much, but that's the meanness CT
it. you won't try. You jest set out
to 'be contrary, an you encourage the
the hammer a lyin' round. you'd pu,
it up ev'ry time-I',i know right where
to look for it. Hain't had it, How'd
you know you hain't had it? How
lCEg'd you remember whether you'd
had it or not? You'd forgit afore you'd
turned round. But OF course you'd
declare, up hill an down, that you
hadn't had it or seen it. It's enough |
to make a man swear. If | ever find +
it asin I've a good mind to put !
paddock on it, an carry the key round |
with me-"
What is 1t you're huntin for now. I
pa?" asked Jimmy, who'd ben soma'rs /
on a arrant, an hadn't heard the rum
pus +
The hammer" says Josiar, like
snapin' turtle Your mother says
she haint had it. but that don't prove
she hain't, by any means. Have you
seen it,"
Its up on the scaffod in the barn.
where you nailed them boards yes't'dy,'
says Jimmy. You didn't bring it
down, when you got through
When | heard that, | laughed.
couldn't help it, consderin' all Josiar'd
said. He heard me, an it made him
mad.
"Oh, laugh, will ye?" says he in a
ow, awful tone. you think it smart
20 make fun O. me, right afore the chill
lren, don't ye? laugh Laugh. Why
don't ye? But don't carry your foolish
ness too fur. for you're fatter'n any one
, your POlan' Chinys, an it might
bring on apoplexy" Then he went
out, an slammed the kitchen door so it
most Jared the clock off the shelf.
All summer the suller stairs has
needed fixin'. There's board loose an
'ev'ril times I've come nigh takin' a
all. I've spoke to Josiar about it
nore'n dozen times, but he never
,OL round to fix it. We got into the
labit O sayin' ev'ry time any O the
AMY went down suller, LooE out
er that step" More'n once | told
|Cslar about it, an said faint Twin
lp to bis idees O dom things when
hey needed dom to let it go so, but he
sits contrary if, you keep tellin' him,
m by'meby | see faint 10 use O. vast
n breath on the matter. so | hain't
aid anything to him about it lately.
Thinks | he'll be more likely to get
round an fix it sometime, if | let him
,e
Wall, last week he began to dig the
''tatoes in the garden, an when they'd
,ot dried off, an the children had
licked 'em up, he went to carryin' 'em
own suller in bags. He made three
# four trips 'thout anything happ min.
ut the last time he went down he
to step jest right on the stair
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