The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-11-13

to make over her carpet Seems she wanted 10
all aroun SOS it'd fade away under the All fray
in the where it don't show. | don't say
the idea wasn't good one-although it's come pretty
hard on Mrs Swcet-but anyhow, good good. she
dug up the tacks last night ripped the widths an set
down TO this mornin. Her story she turned
the duck out to pasture right after breakfast this
in, an then went to work an scwed away as happy
bean until about o'clock. Then she felt awful
tired from the rppn' an yesterday an all, so she
thought she'd rest a little Seems as her legs all
done up IN the carpet an gcttn out was hard so she
thought she'd just lay back the floor Seems she lay
back suddcncr she really intended an she hit the
floor she was took.
"Shc give yell, an she says she kept giyin yells
for one solid hour an no one come. She says as no
words tell how awful was, for every yell
pain like barbed wire lightcnin forkn an knihn all
ways through her. No ono heard her, for the black
smith shoeinS mule one side OF her an Gram
Mullins and Lucy dscussin Hiram the other
You know what a mule is to Shoe Mrs Lathrop. an
you know what Granma Mullins an Lucy is TO discuss
Hiram III take my Bible oath when Gran'ma Null
lins an Lucy gets to dscussin Hiram they couldn't hear
steam Penelope out Of circus not If settin
full tilt right their very doorma SO poor Mrs
Macy laid there an holercd till Mrs. Sweet came for
the culendcr.
Mrs Sweet says the shock she got when she opened
the door an her with the carpet her enough
TO upset her
tryin take up her carpet by crawin' under an
maxim the taclls that way. But when she
her face up, an o Christian d
her what the matter, and Mrs Macy told her frank
an open she didn't know 5ojo! the matter Then
Mrs Sweet went to work and tried to set her up. An
she says the way she yelled perfectly awful.
She says she erked her by the an by the legs,
an by the head an her howlS only grew awuller
an awfullcr Mrs Macy says her agonics ter
rblc every time she slid little along, an she begged an
prayed for her to go an get young DR.. Brown So
finally Mrs Sweet next door an separated Lucy an
Gran ma Mullins. an Lucy went for young DR. Brown,
an Granma Mullins an Mrs. Sweet went for Mrs.
Macy Oh, my, but their story is they erked hard
then for they wanted her to be respectable bed aorc
he came but it use, an he bounced in an fell
Mrs Macy an the carpet before his eyes got used
to where he was They had to help him up an then ne
had to go the kitchen disnfect his bump before he
could take look at Mrs. Macy. But seems he got
around to her at last and felt her pulse an then he'd
forgot his knetoscope, he just pounded her softly all
over with the tack-hammcr. but he didn't find out moth
in that way for she yelled wherever he hit her He
said then as he'd like Xrays through her, only
as there isn't cellar under her house just there hcred
be way get picture of the other side of what
the matter with her.
so he said she mast be got up an although she
howlcd as she couldn't be, he had Lucy an Hiram an
the blacksmiths crowbar an the blacksmith an
plain as she d have to whether Mrs Sweet
saws it was surely sight They put the orcwbar
across footstoo an Hiram erkcd on the other side
at the same mc an with yell like Judgment Day they
sat her up
Now what do you think, Mrs. Lathrop' What do
YOU think There tack Sckln square III the mid
die o her back
"Oh n.y. but young DR.. Brown is awful msdl Mr.
Kmball says he guesses he's got suthin out o some
body now he won't to preserve IN alcohol for
ornament his mantelpece. Hiram is mad, too, for