The Washington herald., 1907-05-05

along, and We was mighty proud Of our
choir in them days. We always had a
voluntary after we got our new organ.
and I used TO look forward TO Sunday
on account o. that voluntary 1t used to
sound So pretty to hear 'em begin singin
when everything was stin and solemn.
and / can never forgit the hymns they
sung then-Sam and Miliy and John and
my Jane.
But there was one Sunday when MiIry
didn't sing Her and sam come ia late.
and l knew the minute J set eyes on
Mtlly that somethin was the matter Gen
orally she was smilin and bOWin to
people an around. but this time she
walked in and set the children down
and then set down herself without even
lookin at anybody, to say nothin' o.
smiiin or speakin Wen, when half
past ten come. my Jane began TO play
Welcome. sweet day OF rest. and all of
EN- begun singin' except Milly. She set
there with her mouth tight shut and
let the bass and tenor and alto have it
all their own way. / thought maybe
she was out o. breath from comm in
late and in a hurry, and / looked for
her % Jine in, but she Jest set there,
lookin' straight ahead of her; and when
sam passed her hymn-book, she took
hold of il and shut ii up and let it drop
in her lap. And there was the tenor
and the bass and the alto dom their
best, and everybody Iaughin', or tryln'
10 keep from laughin'. ] reckon if Uncle
Jim Matthews had a been there. he'd
"a took Miily's place and helped EN-
out, but Uncle Jimd been In his grave
more two years. sam looked ike he'd
go through the floor he was so mortified.
and he kept lOOkin' around at Milly as
much as 10 say, Why don't you sing?
Please sing. Miily, but MiIiy never open
ed her mouth.
I'd about concluded Muly must have
the sore throat or sOmethin' like that.
bat when the first hymn WAS give out.
Milly started in and sung as loud as any
body; and when the doxoIogy come
around. Milly was on hand again. and
everybody was settin there wonderin'
why on earth MiIly hadn't sung in the
voluntary. When church was out /
heard sam invitn' Brother Hendricks 10
go nome and take dinner with him-Br0-
ther Hendricks preached for us that day
and they all drove of together before
Ia had time 10 speak 10 Mflly.
But that week. when the Mite Society
met. Mlliy was ther. briEu- and early.
and when we'd all got fairly started
with our SEWN. and everybody was in Il
gooG-humoT. sally Ann says, says She
miliy. 1 want 10 know why lou didn't
sing IN that voluntary Sunday / reck-
on every body here wants to know saws
she, 'but nobody but mes get the 1our-
age 10 ask YOU.
and Milly'5 face got as red as a beet
ana she burst out laughiu', ana says she.
/ declare, IN ashamed to tell you ALL
! D.
me last SUNDAY. You know saws she.
there's some days when everything goes
wrong with "A woman and last Sunday
was one o. them days. i got up early
says She, and dressed tile children and
FED my chickens and strained the milk
and washed up the milk things and got
breakfast and washed the dishes and
cleaned up the house and gcJaered the
Vegetab bies for dinner and washed the
childrens hands and faces and put their
sunday clothes oa -em. and lest as
was startiu' 60 git myself ready for
church, says she, I happened to think
that ! hadn't skinned the milk for the
next days churnn'. So 1 went down 10
the s9rlnghouse and did the skimmin'.
and jest as / picked up the cream-ilr to
put IT mp on that shelf sam built for mc.
nay foot slipped, says she, and down
step. ana broke the jar all % smash and
spilled the cream an over creation. and
there / was-four pounds o. butter and
o-cent jar gone. and my spring house in
such mess that I amt through cleann'
Il Yet and my right arm as stiT as "a
poker ever since.
We all had to- laugh at the way NiHv
told d., and Sally Ann says Wei, that
was enough 10 make a saint mad Yes
says Mily ana sou all know I'm far
from bein' saint. However says she. /
1 picked mp the pieces and washed up I
The worst o. the cream. and then I went
TO the house 10 gil myself ready for
church. and before 1 could git there, !
heard Sam hollerin for me 10 come and /
sew "a button ON his shirt; one of 'em 1
lad come off while he was tryin 10 but /
ton it, And when ! got out my work
basket, the children had been plsyin with ]
e, and there wasn't a needle in it. and 7
my thimbie was gone. and l had 70 hunt /
lp the apron / was maxim for little sam
and sit a needle of that and 1 run the /
needle into my finger. not havin' any
hirnble. and got blood spot on the
BOSOM O. the shirt Then. says she. he 4
ore / could git my dress over my head
lere come little sam with his clothes ALT
iirty where he'd fell down in the mud
ma there I had him 10 dress again. and
nat made me madder still. and then
Nneu / finally got out To the wagon. /
says she, i rubbed my clean dress
against the wheel. and that made me mad
tSatnf and the nearer we got to the
.hurch, the madder I was: and now. saws
ihe. do YOU reckon after all I'd been
I'm ough that mOrnin', and dinner ahead
lt me 70 git and the children To look
ifter all the evenin' do YOU reckon that
feit ike sett.n' up there and singin
Welcome sweet day O. rest?' Saws she.
! amt seen any day o. rest since the
lay 1 married sam. and 1 don't expect
% see any till the day I die. and il Par
'on Page wants that hymn sung. let
iim git up choir of old nA ids and old
bachelors, for they're the only people
hat ever see any rest Sundays or any
'ther day
''We all laughed. and said we didn't
'lame Milly a Bit for not singin' that
lynn. and then MiiIy said. I reckon / [
night as well tell you all the whole
tory. BY the time church was over.
avs she, I'd kind o. cooled off, but when
heard sam askin' Brother Hendricks TO
90 home and take dinner with him, that
made ME mad again: for I knew that
meant a big dinner for me TO cook, and
made up my mind then and there that
wouldn't cook blessed thing. com
'any or no company Sand killed chick
rs the night before says she and they
vas all dressed and ready. down in the
pring-hoUse; and the vegetables was
ight there on the back porch. but I new
T touched en-. says she. 4 happened
o have some cold ham and cold mutton
n hsnd-not much of either oae-and 1
hced en- and put the ham in one end o.
he big meat-dish and the mutton in the
ther. With a big bare place between.
o's everybody could see that there was
ot enough of either one to so round: