Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-07-22
IN A NEIGHBORLY WAY
MAeeiE's MOTHER GOES TO Dor.
row A COUPLE OF EGGS.
Az She Says, "she May Borrow a.
Egg Sometimes, But She's 4 Lady
and No One Can Call
Her Dishonest"

Wnat M Wa0tln' THIS time, SAID
Margarets mother, as she appeared at
the kitchen door of the neighbours
house, us the loan of me two hands o.
-four an a wee bit o. baking powder.
Maggies beau, her new one, Is comm
to supper the night an we are goin' to
have chicken dumplin's for supper, an
two eggs.
mo. indeed, Maggie amt goin' to fix
the supper, Maggie is too high an
mighty to go spoilin' her complexion
over tn cook stove whilst she's got a
ma to do it for her. She might do
like l was tellin' her an leave her
complexion In tn box it come In till
after tn supper was made, but she
got that insulted she went up tn stair
an left me to do all tn work.
mo, indeed, l didn't return tn last
two eggs / borried-I clean forgot
them, an l never would thought of
them again If you had not reminded
me of them. You have a grand mem
DRY, but what is the likes of two eggs
between neighbors? Far be 1t from
they borry from me. If it's two eggs
or a couple O. hands O. -four, what do
l care? Come easy, go easy, says l.
There1l be eggs an flour when we are
all dead an gone to where we are
goin', so why worry? l don't care no
more for two eggs than Maggie does
for my feelin's, an tn Lord knows
that amt enough to be worth the men
tionin'.
Yes, this is her last beau but one.
TIL last one never come back. Mag
gle thinks it's because her father Dor
ried two bones off him, and then told
him how he wiped up the floor with
Teller that dunned him for two bones.
But l says to Maggie it amt nothin'
of the kind. He just got cold feet be-
cause Mickey stuck feathers troo the
top of his new stiff hat to play Indian
with; If he didn't want to get bald
headed from lack of ventilation he
should have thanked Mickey an said
nothin. It's like tells Maggie, If he
loved her truly he wouldn't let two
bones an a few feathers come be-
tween him an her.
"As / was sayin'. wouldn't hest
tate to loan nobody few eggs any
time they want EN-; eggs is made to
use an as long as they get used
what's the odds who uses 'em? OF
course, not havin' no hens like you,
don't never have no eggs, but what
difference does that make? I'd loan
'em if l had 'em. It's the spirit that
counts for more than the eggs any
day, an have tn spirit to lend any
thing got, only amt got nothin' but
me health, praise the Lord for that.
whats that, you amt got no eggs
to lend, an you seen me and Mickey
chasin' your chicken around our lot,
an you think you know where I got
tn chicken for tn dumplin's? An
what if you do? Is a chicken anything
to be unneighborly about? didn't
think it of you? If l had chicken
you could chop tn head off it any
time you felt like 1t, an welcome.
Though / don't never have no chick
ems. An my takin' q loan o. your
chicken shouldn't keep you from havin'
a couple O. eggs to lend neighbor, for
1t was a rooster I borried, an anyone
knows ROSTERS don't lay eggs. But
femme have tn flour an I'll go me
way. amt the kind that gets of.
Tended an refuses to be unneighborly
because of a chicken. An the first
time one O. Smiths chickens flies over
in our lot I'll pay you back your
rooster an welcome. may be plain
woman, but was raised lady, an nc
one can say I'm dishonest. Thank you
for the fiour."-Houston Post.