The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-02-27


sellin' our everlastin' souls-if faint
unreligious to say it and, besides
property ST Orham is so low now that
we'd only get ha'f what It's worth
and when that moneys spent there
wouldn't be anything left"
'.Sell the place. Fathers place!
Why. Prissy Allen. how can you talk
so, Where would we live:"
well. we might hire little house
down at South Orham or somewheres."
South Orham, Where all those
Portuguese and things live? I'd rather
dier' And it was Miss Tempy's turn
to cry.
"You needn't cry for that, Tenlpy.
We won't sell yet awhile. Not TIL
| there's nothin' left But we can't have
the barn shingled, and as for Bradley's
goin' to college. that, I'm afraid, is
out of the question"
ooh. dear. dear, And the barn looks
awful. Nelissy Busted was sayin'
| only last week that folks was Won
| d'rin' when we was goin' to have it
1 fixed. And poor Bradley! Ny heart
was set on his bein' a minister.
/ don't know but I'd live in the poor
/ house to make him one. They say Mr..
/ Otis keeps a real nice poorhouse. too
/ she added
Miss Prissy smiled dolefully. 1T
/ hasn't got to the poorhouse vet she
4 said. land I hope we can send Bradley
/ through high school anyhow. But
We'll have to scrimp awful, and we
must try to earn some money. | was
talkin' to Abigail Mullett at the church
fair last August. and she spoke about
those aprons and one thing anothe.
that I made and said she never saw
such hammin' and tuckin'. She said
she'd give anything if she coEld get
somebody to do such work for her in
the dressmakin' season. I've been
thinkin' maybe she'd put out some OF
her work to me if | asked her to. She
does more [ressmakin' than anybody
around; has customers way over to
Ostable and keeps three girls some
times And Won know how the sum-
mer folks bought those knit shawls
Of yours. Tempy. Well l don't doubt
you could get orders for lots more.
Well try, and well let Bradley start
at high school and see how we make
it GO
= So Miss Tempy frightened up. and IN
few minutes she had in her mind
sold SO many shawls and Miss Prissy
had done so well with her hemming
MD tucking that she saw them Put
ding money in the bank instead OF tax
ing it out In fact. she was getting
rich SO fast in her dreams that her
sister didn't have the heart to throw
more cold water at this time And
even Miss Prissy herself felt unwar-
rantably hopeful She had borne the
family burdens SO long that to Share
the knowledge of them with another
was great relief They discussed
ways and means for a half hour Yong
er, and then Miss Tempy insisted on
getting that pepper tea"
II honestly believe She said. -'that
IL | hadn't took pepper tea steady for
the last four or five years / shouldn'
be here now. That and Blaisdell' 3
emulsion has given me strength to
bear most anything, even the pros
poets of the poorhouse. Thank good
ness, I've got a new bottle of emul-
sion, and pepper teas cheap, SO shan t
have to give that up even il we are
poorer'n jobs turkey
AL right sighed Miss Prissy. '.If
it'll make you feel any better to par
boil my insides with hot water and
pepper, fetch lit along Don't say any
thing to Bradley about wharf we've
been sayin sTwont do amy good and
will only make the poor child feel
bad
But Bradley WAS not in the dining
room. The book he had been reading
was turned face downward 0n the
table, but he WAS gone, and so was
his hat.
why, 1 NEVER exclaimed Miss
Tempy. He never went out an even.
I'm before without sayin7 anything to
one or you. What do you s'pose is the
matter?"
You don't think he heard what we
said, do your anxiously asked her sis
ter. II thought shut the door,
You did shut it, but, now you speak
OF it, seems to me l remember it was
not Iatched when come out jest now
| hope he didn't hear. He's such a
sensitive boy. jest like all the Aliens .
The pepper tea was prepared
double dose this time-and the sisters
sat slipping it, Miss Prissy with many
coughs and grimaces and Miss Tempy
with the appreciation Of a connoisseur.
After moments silence she said:
"Prissy, do you know what I've
been thinkin'? I've been thinkin'
what blessin' 'twould be If we had
Cap'n Titcomb to go to for advice
now"
"Humph. IL I've thought that once
I've thought it million times in the
last year. was the decided answer.
1t was after 10 o'clock, and only
Bradley's absence had prevented the
ladies from going nm IN hnd ubo,, fbo