The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-11-23
He SAW The LIGHT
STORY ABOUT JIM WILLETTS
WIFE "GoT" Mr.. HYNE.
His Friend PeasIee Had to Ask Him
Twice, but Then He Wanted to
Be Sure He Got the Right
Opinion.

Opinion.
Mr.. Peaslee. lately returned from a
visit to the city, proudly displayed a
new cane, brave with hammered sill
yer.
"HOw does that piece of wood look
t. We, Hyne?" he demanded happily.
Sand them silver dewdads, tool" Mr..
Hyne glanced at the stick sidewise but
offered no audible comment.
MY nephew gin it to me-" Mr.. Peas
lee went on complacently. "He fetched
home two of 'em one night and he says
to me, There they be- she; take airy
one you're a-mind to-"
"Huh!" grunted the deacon.
"Mr. Peaslee glanced at his friend,
and presently smile of understand
| ing spread over his face.
You kinder remind me, Hyne," he
begun. "of Jim Willett's wife when
he bought her a new settin' room car
pet"
The deacon looked up, clearly suspi-
| ciOus of what was coming. II don't
know Jim Willett, nor his wife, either"
he observed.
"Wal," Caleb replied cheerfully,
you'll know suthin' bout 'em in a
minute if you'll quit fidgetin' and listen.
Jim and his wife lived over on the
Spruce Knoll road but he moved away
| before you come to town to live. Firm
the time Jim married her she never
was suited with the place where they
happened to be livin', and she KEEP
him mOvin' firm one place to another.
"She was the naggin' kind, and her
| face and temper was both as thin as
a case knife If she ever had good
word to say for jim, l never heard her
say it. l never knew her to agree with
him nor allow that his judgment was
with anything.
"This time Jim had been to the city
| with load of truck, and suthin' put
| it into his head to buy a new Settin-
room carpet. His wife'd been more
| crabbed'n common lately, and be jeal-
Oused if he didn't fetch her suthin'
from the city she might be even wuss.
$50 when he got home, after he'd put
up his boss, he took the roll of carpet
| under his arm and went into the house
with it. Mis- Willett was in the settin'
room, and one of the neighbOrS with
her. She sort of shifted when jim
come in:
"What've 20 got in that great bun
dle?' said she.
$50 Jim unrOlled the carpet and
spread it out, and firm what the neigh
Dor told me afterWard it was hand
some piece of weavin'. The neighbor
woman went to carryin on bout how
pretty it was, and all that; but Mis-
| Willett never made a zip, with her
mouth draWed down at the corners
and trOttin' her foot little. She must
have acted, l sh'd jedge," said Mr..
| Peaslee slyly, "a good deal as you did
when l was a-showin' you my cane a
spell back" and Mr.. Hyne grinned
wryly.
oval, anyway" Caleb went on, "Jim
saw she wasn't gOin' to speak, so he
made the mistake of sayin suthin'
himself.
""There was two of them carpets
| for the same price, he says, shiftin'
from one foot to the other, tryin' to
make things pass off pleasant, but
this one seemed the better one to me,
so l took it,
"Wal, that was 'nough for Mis- Will
lett, and she turned on him with her
| eyes fairly snappin'.
"'DO you mean to stand there and
tell me, you WitleSS critter,' she
snapped out, that you had a chance
to choose betwiXt them two carpets
/ and then went and fetched home this
thing, when you Orter known I'd liked
the other one twice as we'll? There,
she says, turnin' to the neighbOr wOm-
an, now you en- see some of the things
/ have to put up with firm that man.
No more Judgment than a child! And
the neighbOr had hard work to keep
firm laughin' right in her face.
"NOw, Hyne," concluded Mr.. Peaslee,
I'm goin' to ask you again what you
think of my cane"
The deacon flushed consciously. 81
guess you picked the handsomest one,
Caleb" he said. II shouldn't say there
was mite of doubt bout it !'-YOuth's
Companion.