Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-04-02
CHAPTER III-ContInusd.

Now the Amazonian Mrs. Holman, q
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 a purity poor sort OF 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"
''Ohl" Miss Ellie wrung her hands,
cant we do somethin'7"
II could do a-plenty," mourned Miss
Abigail, "ef | only had been savin'.
Here l git salary O. four dollars a
month. an not one penny laid away"
"Yew tergit," spoke some one gently,
that it takes consid able ter dress a
mstron proper"
Aunt Nancy, who had been sneezing
furiously at her own impotence, now
found her speech again.
We're a nice set ter talk erbout
dewin' somethin-a passed. o. poor ole
critters like us!" Her cackle OF EN-.
Filtered laughter was interrupted by
the low, cultivated voice of the belle
of the home, Butterfly Blossy."
We've got to do something" said
Blossy firmly.
When Blossy spoke with such de-
cision every one of the sisters pricked
mp her ears. Blossy might be "a shall
ler-pate;" she might arrange the
golden-white hair OF her head as be
fitted the browning glory OF young
girl. with puts and rolls and little
ourls, and-more than one sister sus.
pocted-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
spiashers and pillowshams; she might
sven permit herself a sutton who came
twice year more punctually than the
hand In marriage-but her heart was
IN the right place, and on occasion she
had proved herself a msster hand at
-rxin' things"
YES" said she, rising to her feet
and fiinging out her arms with an elo
ruout oaof,,ra .masva oot 60 a. .ox,o
thing, and there's just one thing to do
girls: take the capeain right here
here"-she brought her hands TO the
taoes on her bosom-"to our hearts, -
At first there was silence, with the
ladies staring blankly at Blossy and
then at one another. Had they heard
Alright? Then there came murmurs
and ordinations, with Miss Abigail,
voice gasping above the others:
What would the directors sayf"
What do they always say when we
ask a favorf" demanded Blosey
How much will 1t cost?' II won't
cost a cent"
Won't, eh7" snapped Aunt Nancy
How on earth be yew goin' to vittls
himf hain't had a second dish O
peas this year"
Some men eat more an some less.
remarked Sarah Jane, as ill-favored {
spinster as ever the sun shone on,
generally It means so much grub tel
so much weight"
Miss Abigail glanced up at the cell
ing, while Lazy Daisy, who had re
fused TO tip the beam for ten years
surreptitiously hid an apple into which
she had been biting.
les have EN- weighed" suggeste,
widow, Ruby Lee, with a pretty
well-preserved little face and figure
-an' Of tergether they don't come nj
to the heartiest one OF US"
Miss Abigail made hasty interrur
ton:
Gals, hain't yew never noticed tina
the more yew need the more yew git
Before Jenny Bell went to live witt
her darter didn't know what / shoul
dew, for the 'taters was gittin' poot
low. Yew know she used ter ca
twenty ter a meal, an then look hur
CRY at the platter. An then eff oil
Square Ely didn't come a-drivin' u
one mornin' with ten bushel In tn
farm wagonl He'd been savin' 'er
fer us all winter fer fear we might ru
short In the spring Gals. thar's on
thing yew kin depend on. the fore
sightedness of the Lord. hain't afrai
ter risk a-stretchin' the board al
Seep O. thirty ter pervide ample re