News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-08-25
IN A NEIGHBORLY WAY
MAGGIE'S MOTHER GOES TO BOR-
ROW A COUPLE OF EGGS.
A. She Says, "she May Borrow an
Egg Sometimes, But She's a Lady
and No. One Can Call
Her Dishonest"

What I'm wantin' this time" said
Margaret's mother, as she appeared at
the kitchen door of the neighbors
house, lis the loan of me two hands O.
-four an wee bit O. baking powder.
Maggie's 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, didn't return tn last
two eggs l 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 it from
me to ever remind anyone of what
they borry from me. If it's two eggs
or couple O. hands O. flour, what do
/ care? Come easy, go easy, says l.
There'll be eggs an -four when we are
all dead an gone to where we are
goin', so why worry? 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'.
Eyes, this is her last beau but one.
TIL last one never come back. Mag
gle thinks it's because her father bor-
ried two bones off him, and then told
him how he wiped up the floor with a
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 I was sayin', l wouldn't hest
ate to loan nobody a few eggs any
line 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, ]
ion't never have no eggs, but what |
Inference does that make? I'd loan |
EN- if l had 'em. It's the spirit that |
counts for more than the eggs any |
hing got, only l amt got nothin' but
ne health, praise the Lord for that.
whats that, you amt got no eggs
o lend, an you seen me and Mickey
hasin' your chicken around our lot,
n you think you know where I got
h. chicken for tn dumplin's? An
that if you do? Is a chicken anything
D be unneighborly about? l didn't
hink it Of you? If l had chicken
GU could chop tn head off it any
ime you felt like it, an welcome.
'hough l don't never have no chick
MS. An my takin' loan O. your
hicken shouldn't keep you from havin'
couple O. eggs to lend a neighbor, for
was rooster l borried, an anyone
nows ROSTERS don't lay eggs. But
emme have tn flour an I'll go me
'ay. / amt the kind that gets of
ended an refuses to be unneighborly
ecause Of a chicken. An the first
me one o. Smiths chickens flies over
1 our lot I'll pay you back your
poster an welcome. may be plain
'oman, but was raised lady, an no
ne can say I'm dishonest. Thank you
Or the flour" Post.