The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-09-03

the peasleXs LOOKING down OUT 'ellA'
way2 We'll last night ! wanted SON
pineapple tor supper. aad ! went down
cellar 10 BRING mp a can. and there
wasn't can left. not one. and
hadn't used those pineapIles near
up"
A long-drawa exclamation from The
assemblage rewarded Mrs. Craner
announcement
Then Miss Mehitab,e's voice cut in
How many cans are YOU sure you
ought TO have, Nancy
AT least dozen" retorted Mrs.
c. amer. iLpatiently. Then 20 her
1ext-door ncighb0r she added In a
lower tone. Dear me- How Dis
agreeably Hetty can speak. can
she2"
This was the beginning OF trouble
Tor Mecca Summit Zach day fresh
thefts We're reported In the postOfiice.
Il had thirty hens month ago.
declared Luke Cary. and last night
after thevd gone TO roost | counted
and found list twenty-five, don't
wonder that Peasley tribe can live by
tramping our fields We've got 10 get
rid Of them somehow
II tell YOU what I'm going To do
tNfAAAIlfu MISS VI AAANt+''ANF SUM
emerging from view behind the post
boxes.
"Well?" Everyone looked at her eN-
pectantly
She glanced about thoushtfully
No. come 10 think. | won't tell I'll
it's done. It's generally better TO do
things first and tell Of them after
wards"
disappointed protest arose, but
Miss Mehi,able closed her lips firmly
and sat down in front OF her desf.
merely ad ling AS for MS We haven't
missed a thing or locfed up a thing
Several days later Uncle Billy had
different tale 10 tell. while Nehi-
table kept silence. but looked wor-
ried.
= i've been rummaging around
some" proclaimed Uncle Billy. joy-
fully-Uncle Billy had felt actually
chagrined az being behindhand in TIE
matter OF lOsses-'ani finally though
20 look after our pork We don't use
much this time OF year. and ! hadn't
thought Of il IN a long time Now we
always keen il in a big earthenware
rock on a swlng-shof in the east Gel
lar | know" with emphasis and a
ElAAlit NAAtANfA ~ AAA7 49,
the crock was there when | fixed the
shelf two weeks ago and now" with
another glance toward Nehitable q m
sure il amt there or nowhere else in
the cellar. for I've hunted high and
low. OF course. I'm not saying who
has made OF with that crock OF pork.
~Of COURSE not" lauehed Mrs era
mer. "AIl You can do is 70 put two
and two together," Then. sweetiv.
-Hetty. have you hunted for the
pork?"
i've not had time 10 make a thor
ough search" admitted Miss Mehita-
BILE.
must be done. We must rid the
place Of those thieves. I object tc
helping support an able-bodied fam
lily"
so do l." came in chorus Uncle
Billy adding: THAT pork OF ours was
the finest we'd ever had. I'll miss Il
powerfully in beet greens. but then
. it's gone"
Along with nv wood" said HeIner
And my cans OF fruit"
And MY hens"
But here the chorus was swelle'
BY so many voices that the words
! blended and We're lost
What does Hepy think now?
! laughed Mrs. Cramer Better g
down and CAL. hadn't you?"
But Miss Nehitable, stamping LEI
] ters. had nothing to say that day
The next time. however. that tn
denizens Of the Summit collected Il
the nostoffice she had something Z
say. and being accustomed 10 "spea
+, her mind said IL without circumlr
cution. waiting only until Mrs. Car
!, mer had arrived and the drumme
4 from Patchunk City was leaning owe
n the candy-case.
10 THAT pork" Mehitable's vote
n scared above the chatter and con
manded instant attention. while Uncl
Ie BILLY lodged behind the post-boxes.-
r. that pork OF ours is down-cella
.r where IL has been all the time.
IL found the crock over in the dirt-bii
is where Uncle Billy set II two week
ago when he fixed the swine-shelf."
O. She paused. and silence continue
IN 10 be the portion Of the little crOu
h Uncle Billy cleared his throat In a
ID embarrassed manner. while Edwal
We Heiner slid uneasily down on h
st shoulder-blades.
OF Ard now" continued Miss Mehit
BILE. "I1l tell you what I did. I s
ID. down ten DAYS ago and wrote
w Judge Anger. asking him what sort
so. a family he'd put in the yellow house
N. The drummer spun round on b
ne heel. Heiner slid farther down in +
nd chair. and Mrs Cramer exclaime
"Oh," family
rs Miss Mehitable smiled grimly. ct
ial answer came in this mail The iud
de writes me that he can answer for
that they're respectable set.
Ter cause it's his only daughter and
lat family He says they've come ung
nd numbered with unnecessary fnrnitu
we and clothes because thew wanted
live out-ofdoors all the time and r
led have much - see to-her husband
arv in moor health"
ion Here the drummer broke IN. Ian,
ing His was the only laughing "a
Illv in the postofiice Come TO think
as Il. my wife said that the family
the alley Is named Beasley-thev
his there yeti"
nto Heiner reached for the door-kr
ri. in visible embarrassment He view
his the early MAY landscape attentive
six 1--WE forgot to speak Of II. but a