The Bourbon news., 1912-03-15
Cold Weather


room. Anybody that's collectin' this
kind of weather can have all that's
comm to me and no questions asked"
She threw her muff at Miss Hoff-
man and her fur collar at Miss Larson
and laid two icy fingers on the back OF
Miss Frizkie's neck. Miss Frizkie
sQuirmed out of reach.
you're terribly nervous, Frizzie,"
said Miss Connolly. "You ought to
take something for it."
'I'm more likely to hand out some
thing" rejoined Miss FriZkie, with
justifiable indignation.
Miss Connolly winked at Miss Hoff-
man, who promptly collapsed in an at
tack of the giggles. pretty smart
for you, Frizzie," said Miss Connolly.
Look at what you done to little
Hoffy. Some of them wheezes Of hers
is going to strike in some day.
''I wish you girls could see ma" she
went on after moment. "You never
did see any person hate the cold the
way ma does. The first night l breez-
ed in out of that north wind ma was
settin' just as close to the kitchen
stove as she could set.
Forevermore, ma I says, putin
my hand on the back of her neck,
like I done to Frizzie just now, why
don't you get into the stove?'
"T would says ma, If the door was
big enough
"Say, it always tickles me to death
to see ma get peevish, so went to the
door and flung it open. Gee says,
but it's close in here!'
"'Nell Connolly yells ma, shut that
door this minute, or I'll take my slip
per to you
81 didn't move fast enough to suit
her, so she jumped at the door and
slammed it shut and 1 really thought
she was going to hand me one on the
side of my head, she was so mad"
"'Well, she says, 7 never thought
to live to be the mother Of a goose,
she says, though 1t amt word that
I care to use, me bein' lady. 1t don't
LII
ways did say you took after your pas
folks
"The next morning, when I came
down to breakfast, ma was shaking
so with the cold that she was maxim
| the dishes rattle on the shelves. l
was doin' shiverin' act myself, but
wasn't in the same class with ma.
"My teeth was chatterin' so could
hardly talk, but says, as steady as
could: My, amt it oppressive this
mornin', ma? What do you say to
havin' cold boiled ham, lemonade and
ice cream for supper tonight?' l says.
ct couldn't get word out Of ma
that night when l come home from
work I don't knows l ever seen her
so sore before. After supper my kid
brother and sister got to scrappin'
and, bless Pete, If they didn't break
look and then she beat into her bed.
room and locked the door, and not one
CT us set eyes on her again that
night.
"The next night when I blew in
there was my kid sister gettin' sup
per.
where's ma?' says.
"'Gone to bed,' says the kid.
'Tt gave me an awful jolt. I'd never
knowed ma to go to bed in the day
time since I'd been acquainted with
| her.
t'She amt sick, is she?' I says.
ashes actin awful funny the kid
says. 4 can't tell whether she's sick
or not. You better go in and talk to
her.
''Well, I went into mas room and
there she was in bed with hot water
bottle on each side of her, about sew
en- blankets and three comforters on
top of her and my kid sisters cap that
she wears to school pulled over her
face.
"'Why, ma I says, what's the mat
! ter? Are you sick?'
,"T s'pose you might call it bein
SICK she barks. Il know I'm sick and
tired Of this here weather and I ain't
goin' to countenance it another min.
ute.' Ma knows some swell words, be
lieve me. She's got a grand educa
tion.
"'Well,' says to ma, T guess stay
in in beds the best thing you can do,
1 says. I'll fetch you in some supper
and some hot coffee and then maybe
you'll feel BETTER
"'You let me alone says ma. you
needn't bring me nothin' to eat. Dc
you think I'm going to sit up and eat
it? You bet your life 1 won't
"On the square, begun to think
she'd gone dippy. She didn't act nc
more like ma usually does than moth
in. oh, come out of it, ma 1 says.
"'You bet I won't come out of it,
ma says. I'm going to stay right in il
till spring. And, what's more she
says, I amt goin' to wash my face till
the temperature gets above freezing
and before I come to bed did nv hail