Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-11-04

good naturod about 1t, either. So
went along acrost the lot and as
got nearer 1 seen twas Jane Ann hol-
lering and waving something, and
run as fast as my old felts would car
~ me pretty Iniddling cold that
morning).
When 1 got near enough I heard
Jane say:
KS into the paper,"
And l took another tack with the
felts. and then ] holIered, What's in
the paper2 Who's dead %
| BY this time I'd clum the bars and
Jane Ann says, says she. My tomato
| jaml Your writing,"
| What" says l. ".Ain't no one dead ?
| Amt them hogs out2"
No" says she, but the papers here.
and your writing in it-looxs real
peart, that tomato jam does" says
| Jane.
Well, / sot right down on the chop
ping block and wiped my face, / was
| some hot, as the feliers say. L seen
| Jane was all a-fluster, SO l says. You
| git my specs and Ill take a look al it
! Thinks |, near half mile for that
| tomato jam; wimmen is curious.
IL seems Jane had some doubts about
II oeing put into the paper. No doubt
L am little out of practice, but when
| L went TO the yellow schoolhouse |
was a master hand, writing; one day
L writ a compensation on Spring, and
when the teacher read it, he said:
'Er-well!"
] don't know just what. Twas like
| this; the fellers on the front seat
I snickered right out, when he said it;
and at recess / asked what WAS the
matter
They said how the master said
! something dreadful like swear
word; Course, they wouldn't tell-they
was Jealous.
Now, says Jane, when | had read il,
| Don't you think Id better have that
new hat was talking about? 1 might
so TO the store, or somewhere. and be
f.TI.
writes for the paper. 1t would sort of
keep UP your reputashun," says she.
Now, Jane Ann" says !, you don't
need no new bunnit to keep UP my rep
utashun- Nathaniel Dooiittles repu
tashun is made already What sort of
a reputation do you think I'd git if you
went around with a peach basket or
peck measure tucked onto your head2'
/ seen Jane was some down in the
mouth. and L says: when killed that
old rooster luther day for company, he
had some real shiny tail feathers, and
l put um in the wood-house,. Tack
them on your bunnit. Jane. and you'll
be all fixed. l bet cent if they were
down TO the millinery they'd cost
much forty cents"
Jane started arter the feathers, and l
called after her.
Don't you hang them over one ear.
If you do. you shan't wear them to the
meeting house, / set my foot down on
Jane has terrible high notionsi
When We set down TO dinner (the beans
were not burned and the pumpkin pie
was on deck. Jane says:
Wild Cherry wants the sisters and
editor invited to dinner in hog killing
time. What you going TO do about
that?"
She said she thought 'twould be real
nice to have a sort OF Bee not Jim's
bees), but Bee like a quilting bee
or such. She said as how the sisters
could help cut lard and mix sassage
and the editor could help run the sas-
sage mill Somehow she'd got it all
. fixed.
l finished my pie. then l says: Jane
them city folks don't know that hog
killing time is terribly greasy time
on the farm and dreadful hard work.
TOO. don't suppose they know any
thing about sassage. only those little
links they buy TO the store made of
scraps of beef, cracker and such-like's
as not they'd get grease all onto them
selves, ,and 1 don't suppose the Editor
would know a sausage grinder from my
corn shelter. He'd spill things all onto
himself, too
NO" says /. hog killing time amt
NJ time at all for company or bees. |
neither. You just wait till the leaves |
git onto the trees next spring and po-
tatoes planted and then-well. wen |
see"
We'll" says Jane, I've been keeping |
my ewes peeled to the Social Coz ner, |
and ] thought twas proper for TO |
tell the Editor / seen he took my adj |
through them receipts and such-only
a few expensive things like Jims |
punkin pie and such got in, and /
pose he let that slide i'm cause twas /
pretty rea ding for the wimmen folks" |
] never seen no sense in such but ! |
told Jane if Jim got any cropnle |
crown" hen layin' eggs around careless |
like, that Id gin him forty cents for
..why. Nat" SAYS she.
Yes. and | don't know but 1 would /
Fifty; /
better ask Ma if cropple crown hens is
worth as much as that. l seen Billie /
is the right track-be saving, that's |
Jane Ann is that stirred UP about So |
cial Corner she has burned the flap
Jacks twice lately.
When 1 asked about it she run on
telling what some woman said in So
seen Papa's Boy spell ago. and
a right husky lad he is, too, I'll tack
my whole name on to this. so he and I
Dolly and other curious ones shan't lay /
awake nights figuring on VINO Nat Is.
l seen Elizabeth is hot on the trail of
who's who [ fear she loses track mid
ding often. though. If she's got any
fxin's, (Without the chicken,
just send II along. If IL is something
real filling ana amt too many eggs.
cream and such into il. | expect that
her fixin is some of them flummery
that emergency had me floor
ed. but ! looked in dictionery and MIR.
Webster SAID how il meant pressing
necessity.
Now if that pressing necessity was
a parcel of hungry men to dinner or
the kids with hopping cough, Jane
would be on deck: but if twas voting
for the prize as "Shut-in'' proposes
she be beat at the start.
Our editor and sisters treated me
So ] told Jane [ suppose I'd
have to write once more and tell them
So
Jane was quite wrought up about
it: but / can't be wasting my time
it's terribly rushing times
to my house for man with hog kill
ing time coming and wood to cut and
such: and then look AZ the expense Of
caper and stamps and such, II didn't .
have ANYTHING TO do. IKE these winnien 4
folks 'twOgid be different
Hero is something lane makes that
is ALTERED gond on cold dan
always call 'em pancakes, nut Jane
saws fritter is more fashionable