The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-06-18
"FaCuIty"


count Of her helm widdcr and pity
her for not havin' man 90 look out
for her and DO things But / dknow;
mebbe She makes out bout MS well as
other folks, and better'n some,"
Deacon Lysander Hync appeared to
ponder the matier for inomcnt,
'M we'll" he said at last II
dknows | ever noticed but what she
got along all right but beln' without
her husband emit help beln' hard.
ship. ] never give It much thought
but now you've mentioned 1t | do
wonder how she makes out as well's
she does. How dyou s'pose she does
tT
eshe does It by bein' more facultied
than most anybody else here in Dll-
mouth" replied Mr. Peaslee, promptly
II dsuow anybody, man or woman
that turns things to count as wells
Ursula does. Most anyone can make
things go woll as long as they don't
have misfortune but it takes faculty
TO turn sprained ankle to count"
Mr.. Hyne turned a questioning face
toward his friend and Caleb settled
himself easily into his seat
"Im goln' to give you this Jest as
Ursula told If TO my wife, he began
"and She didn't tell it as anything Won
derful, you understand; Jest told her
Ia ihe way Of talk, same's women dqI
when they git together"
eIt seems, 'eordln' 10 what URSULA
tells my wife, that she'd got pretty
well ketchcd up with her fall work, but
ihere was some little things that she'd
got 10 do TO feel completed--thlngs
that really needed q man TO DO like
nailln up places round the buildin's
and such chores as that. But she
didn't feel as If She ought TO afford
hirin' man, SO she was Eoin' to try
10 do EN- horsolf-and right at that
pint She slipped on that shelvin' stone
1T her back door and sprained hen
ankle|
"sho, now r soid Mr. Hyne with
gruG sympathy "That wns hard
ship. aud no mistake
"'Twan't any hardship ut ALL" con
tradicted Mr. Peaslee, and you'll find
out so IL you gimme chance to tell
ym bout it. Alebbe 'twould have
worked hardship 90 d woman less
facultled than Ursula-I don't want to
say as to that--blit she sot to work and
turned IT 10 count
/ Mr.. Hyne looked puzzled. II don't
see how he began.
I'm tryln' tell you how" Mr.
Peaslee Interrupted, somewhat tartly
wrhere she was, With all this work
laid out to do-work that would take
l.er the greater part Of a week to do,
even s'posin' she hnd the use Of her
limbs-and now she couldnt stir a
foot to help herself She had right
to feeliIlscouraged. Iwould've Il Il
had been mel
"But it want me-" Mr. Peaslee went
on dispassionatey "lt was Ursula, and
ii amt any part Of her creed 70 SET
down With her hnnds folded and com
plain lb6ut hard luck. She Jest sot
her mind 10 it and found why TO got
her work done by swappin' work
same's youn' ! might cbange of i
we had work that wns too hefty fol
either Of US.
"She sent word to Norris Waning
and jim Elder aud Glenn Bldnott that
she wanted they should call jest as
soon as they could make it handy II
do fl. She Aggered like this she knew
Iim's wife either wouldn't or copldn'i
cook punkln pies, an0' jim liked 'eni
And she'd seen how out at the elbows
and hcSin' buttons Glen Bidnosts-
clothes was. Since his mother ditd
fhere amt been anybody to take g
stitch for him, you know. And she'd
heard Norris Waning say that he
wished his wife'd knit him some good
yarn mittens, cause nothin' else
seemed to come anywhere near kecpin
his hands warm in real cold weather
"Wel, when they got there 1t turned
out jest as Ursula had iiggered-they
was glad 10 turn to and help her and
let her do the things she could 70 pay
She got the punkin stowin' right on
and she sent Clem home for all the
clothes he had that needed mendin,
and in the meantime she took up the
stitches for q mitten for Norris. And
then she sot 'em all to work at JOBS
that she needed done-Jim shinglln
the henhouse ami Clem gatherin' them
sweet apples behind the barn and Nor
iis cleanin' out the cellar and pickin
up the yard-and by night them three
men had done work that it woulda took
her more'n a week to get done, even
s'posin' she could have done it at all
"And.' she says to my wife, I got