Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1908-05-01
BIDDY'S
BLU D z r S

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visit. When she had mentioned the
circumstance to her maid that naughty
individual had announced her own i'm
mediate departure. Hubby had had to
get breakfast that morning, the house
appeared to have reached the climax
of chaos, and the guests were to ar
rive at four O'Clock,
Mrs. Youngwife had been at the
telephone all the forenoon trying to
get help, if only temporarily, but even
that seemed impossible on such short
notice. She would have to take the
company to the hotel after all, and
Dick would be so disappointed, He
was proud of his coy little home and
its mistress
The doorbell rang Mrs. Youngwife
hastily dried her tears, showed the re-
mains of the after-the-theater supper
under the davenport and scrambled
into becoming gown.
"Plaze, mum, the intillygince loidy
tould me as how you'd be wantin' a
CURL" said the hearty voiced Irish
woman who was ushered in.
Il do want one badly. Can you
come right away?"
Biddy could come at once, and after
the usual preliminaries, she was duly
installed. She did beautifully the first
day. Though inexperienced, she was
honest, clean and willing, and Mrs.
Youngwife was beginning to congratu'
late herself upon securing such
treasure. Her complacency received
something of a shock, however, when
they all went down to breakfast the
next morning and found the melon
served on soup plates.
why, Biddy. | told you distinctly to
put it on the small fruit plates" she
said, reproachfully.
Did ye? Belize We did, replied the
girl. 81 jist mistook fruit plates fur
soup plates Sure, darlint, ye wadn't
be blamin pore Biddy fur O. troifie
loike thot That's nawthin' to worrit
ye at ALL Emmy wan en- ate fruit out
Ov a soup plate, but eff twas t'other
way about, an We had t ate soup out
ov a fruit plate ut might be bother
some, bein' they're mostly so Smaller"
There was such a laugh at this that
the young housekeeper decided to
throw formality to the winds and
make a feature Of Biddy. This was
done, with so much success that when
the guests took their departure they
declared it to have been one of the
jolliest visits they ever had made. I
Biddy's opinion of her blunders may
be gathered from her conversation /
with the girl next door.
Its puzzlin', Maggie - she said, 9TH
way they say wan thing whin they
name anither Whin they ask fur
chaze We niver en- tell whittier they'll |
be after havin fish, flesh, er fowl. Ye /
on'y en- be sartin it's not chaze they're /
wantin'. Afore dinner the missus
Gums into the kitchen an says to me,
says she:
"'Can you make a cocktail, Biddy?'"
"'Sure, num- says l.
"'How do you make emf says she.
"I generally roasts en- says I,
she'd be mainin' SOON kind av
a bird.
Cocktails aren't to eat They're
to drink says she.
90, it's soup you'd be havin' me
made wild EN-, is ut?' says l. Soon
does like 'em best that way
But wad We behave ut. Maggie,
cocktails is kind av a poonch We
make wild gin an SOON Italyian Ticker
hat looks like lie nd tastes like var
lish. Now, who'd be thinkin they'd
Civ ut tn name av bird?
An along this afternoon tn missus
iays: 'Biddy, says she, 'whin We sarve
he five-o'clock tay, bring in thin def
ups without handles yell find in the
ideboard I wint t tn sideboard an
seen SOON ould cracked cups like
him me an Mike Civ Miss Dooligan
yhin we cum t Ameriky. Sure
kinks l, she can't be intindin' tn
t see thin ould things and
got out SOON cunnin' little white
ups that sets up on standards like,
n took EN- inter tn parlor wild tn
ay. Win tn missus seen 'em she
avs: %, Biddy, those aren't fer tay
hose are aig cups. Take em back
n bring in tn blue vans
Faith, an how wad l be KNOWN
hey wuz aig cups? They wus nawth-
l. at all like an aig. An bless We, the
didn't know the diffurence {
1imselves. Wan ov thin whit L tn
Under. suddint like jist thin, an that $
,ok tn attinshun ov the ithers Eff
l. missusd jist kept still they'd
runk their tay an niver knowed
awthin' wuz wrong.
But what bates me, Maggie, is tn
nse OK ut all What fur do they ate I
ate fur twinty minits an thin salud I
IT tin? Why c'nt they take a bit O.
ate an thin bit O salud an thin
/ O. salud, an thin a bit O. mate ;
yin. like me an Mike does? Eff tn
.eator'd NV intended thin t be ct {
,purit he'd a-growed first tn mate {
d thin the salud like strawberries an {
lches.
But there's many man in tn a
lalerty knows more nor the Creator. "
til Creator nd knowed as much es r
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