The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1913-10-16
You are most impudent,

II IL was man suing me Tor tnat
dead apple tree I'd tell him to go to,
but with a woman, and especially
widow, it's different. You'll get beat
en- because Deacon Hardy is the right
party to sue. You will have to show
that dead apple tree bears apples.
You will be asked if you don't quar-
rel with your neighbors. You will be
asked if your deceased husband was
not glad to die
The widow was speechless with sur
prise and anger.
And worst of all, ma'am-worst of
all for you, you will be asked your
age! Yes, ma'am, they will ask it,
and you must answer or go to Jail
for contempt! | take it that you are
under forty, and l am sure that your
neighbors do, and what sensation it
will create when you have to swear
to forty-three or forty-four."
The widow Nixon turned pale and
sat down.
You believe in sprinkling instead
of immersion" continued the car
penter What will folks say If
you take me into court, me believing
the same?"
IL"
And later on do you want folks to
say that you sued me before I would
marry you? They always get things
mixed up, you know. You can never
make anybody believe that you sued
me for a dead apple tree"
Sir, what is all this talk" demand
ed the woman as she suddenly found
her voice.
I'VE are talking about line fences,
dead apple trees, sprinkling, lawsuits
and getting married. Think it over,
minded man and will not take advan-
tage of YOU
With that he walked out of the
house. The widow first shed tears of
anger Then she went down to the
lawyer she had employed and said
she guessed she would withdraw the
suit
81 think it's better" he replied. I'VE
can't prove anything but a dead ap-
pie tree, and anyhow Deacon Hardy
is the man we ought to have sued"
1t thus came about that Mr. Hack
EFT heard no more of the suit For
two weeks he heard no more of the
widow, either. Then he got an idle
day and started off fishing. 1t was
also an easy day for Mrs Nixon, and
she concluded to visit a friend a mile
away. To shorten the distance she
made cut across the fields, and in
a rail fence a silver caught
her dress in such was as to hold her
fast as if she had been nailed down.
The carpenter heard her cries for help
from where he was angling, and he
fastened to her aid and began:
q suppose you have thought over
what / said the other day"
NO, SIR" was the huffy reply
Been too busy putting up currant
iell Ell? Better think 1t over. It's
4 vital question to both of u.s. You'll
never find another man to agree with
you more heartily than l do that
Sprinkling a convert beats immersion
LII uOllOW. WE udy Ql46F ABOUT
Danl in the lions den, but we never
shall about sprinkling."
Amt you going to get me loose?"
she asked
Certainly l am. l Cont expect a
caught fast on rail fence is
going to give much thought to matri-
nony, but think it over when you get
home | might walk along and refuse
o do thing till you had said yes
o me, but I'm fair-minded man, Mrs.
Nixon-a fair-minded man"
Mrs. Nixon decided to return home
'ut not to think. She kept saying to
herself that she wouldn't give the car
,enter's words one single minutes
and then she sat down
md thought over them for two long
hours. He was a queer man, was
Ter conclusion. She neither liked nor
lisliked him. She wasn't going to |
lsk him to call, but if he did call she
wasn't going to turn him outdoors.
A couple of weeks again went by. |
Such villagers as had got to know Mr.. |
Iackett were saying that he was a |