Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1914-09-16
CHAPTER IlI-Continuod.

widow for the third time. made sturdy
retort:
That's Jest like yew old maids-al
ways a-blamin' the men. Yew kin jest
bet | never would have let one of my
husbands go ter the poorhouse II
would have mortified me dretful. II
must be purity poor sort of a woman
what can't take the care of one man
and keep a roof over his head Why
my second Oliver G., used ter cay
OH" Miss Ellie wrung her hands
cant we do sometime"
Il could do a-plenty," mourned Miss
Abigail, "ef | only had been savin
Here | git salary O. four dollars a
month, an not one penny laid away
Yew tergit," spoke some one gently
that ii takes consid'a able ter dress a
matron proper"
Aunt Nancy, who had been sneezing
ruriously at her own impotence, now
found her speech again.
We're a nice set ter talk erbout
dewin' somethin'-a passel O. poor ole
critters like us!" Her cackle of EN-.
FILTERED laughter was interrupted by
OF the home, Butterfly BIossy"
We've got to do something" said
Blossy firmly
When Blossy spoke with such de-
cision every one OF the sisters pricked
up her ears. Blossy might be "a shall.
ler-pate;" she might arrange the
goldenwhite hair of her head as be-
ntted the crowning glory OF a young
girl, with puffs and rolls and little
curls, and-more than one sister sus-
pected-with the aid OF rats" she
might gown herself deliberately in the
mended finery Of the long ago. the
better years; she might dress her
lovely big room-the only double bed
chamber in the house, for which she
had paid double entrance fee-in all
sorts of gewgaws, little ornaments.
hand-painted plaques Of her own pro-
'ducing, lace bedspreads, embroidered
splashers and pillow shams; she might
even permit herself a sutton who came
twice year more punctuauy than the
ltne-storms, to ask her withered little
hand in marriage-but her heart was
In the right place. and on occasion she
had proved herself a master hand at
"fxin things"
YES said she, rising to her feet
and fiinging out her arms with an elo-
quent gesture, we've got TO do some
thing, and there's Just one thing to do.
girls: take the captain right here
here"-she brought her hands TO the
laces on her bosom-"to our hearts,
At frat fhnra
ladies staring blankly at Blossy and
then at one another Had they heard
Alright? Then there came murmurs
and ordinations, with Miss AbigalTs
voice gasping above the others
What would the directors saw"
What do they always say when we
ask a favor?" demanded Blosev.
How much will it cost?' II won't
cost a cent"
Won't, eh7" snapped Aunt Nancy
How on earth be yew goin TO vIttje
him? I hain't had a second dish o.
peas this year"
Some men eat more an some less "
remarked Sarah Jane. as iII-favored a
spinster AZ ever the sun shone nm
generally It means 20 much grub ter
so much weight"
Miss Abigail glanced up al the coil.
ing. while Lazy Daisy. who had re-.
fused 10 tip the beam for ten wears
surreptitiously hid an apple into which
she had been biting.
Les have EN- weighed" suggested
a widow. Ruby Lee. with pretty
well-preserved little face and figure
"an' Of tergether they don't come up
70 the heartiest one Of us"
Miss Abigail made hasty interrup-
tion
Gals, haint yew never noticed that
the more yew need the more yew git ,
Before Jenny Bell went 10 live with
her darter ] didn't know what should
dew, for the 'taters was gitHn' pooty
low. Yew know she used ter cat
twenty ter q meal, an then look hum.
cry at the platter An then 81 old
Square Ely didn't come a-drivin' mn
one mOrniu' with ten bushel I'm the
farm wagon, He'd been savin' EN-
fer us all winter fer fear we might run
short In the spring Gals. thars one
thing yew kin depend on the fore.
sighteduess of the Lord ] haint afraid
Ter risk a-stretchin the board an
keep o. thirty ter perv,a, ample fer