Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-01-26
SYNOPSIS


trysting place. She is fifteen minutes
late. this ordinary little Pennsylvania
Dutch girl, Nicely Schwenckton, but ne
awaits her eagerly. She Is so demureiy
beautiful. he thinks. but SO out OF his
''class."
Continued from last week)
Aunt Rosy, who was greedy eater,
at once concluded her own supper
with a few hasty mouthfuls and rose
to 60 with him. "Lizzie |" she spoke
over her shoulder from the stairway
opening out from the kitchen, you
get at and clear off the table and do
the dishes and then finish up them
diapers"
"Yes'm," answered Lizzie, rising at
once and beginning to scrape and col.
lect the plates.
A moment later Sammy, a cowed
and sullen boy of twelve, skulked into
the kitchen, sat down at the table and
began hungrily devouring his belated
supper.
Nicely strolled to the foot of the
stairs and stood listening to the voices
in the room above; and Lizzie, her
eyes wide and strained, left the sink
and tiptoed across the room to stand
at her side.
"Lizzie she won't obey to me-" Aunt
Rosy's complaining voice came down
from the sick room. II can't do
nothin' with her. After school this
after she run out and stayed till near
supper time already! If you don't
learn your children to obey to me,
Mister, 1 can't housekeep for you, and
then where'd you be, with sick wife
and a boarder that's that pertikkler
-wantin' napkin to every meal yet !!
and interferin' and maxim Susie
worse with lettin' In the cool air
where she's layin' here sicki Well
of-all-things!"
"And, SAM" Susie's weak voice
backed up her sister, "Meely she en-.
courages Lizzie to disobey to my Sis
ter Rosy. l misoverheard her sayin'
to Lizzie, It's pity you amt old
enough to do like your sister and
brother done-run OFF, Yes, mind
you, Sam. If she didn't tell Lizzie
that!"
"Yi, vi, yiw Mr.. Schwenckton's deep
voice responded In strongest disap.
proval.
Eyes, and If you don't get rid OF
your fancy boarder, Mister, you will
have another of your children runnin'
off, now mind I'm warnin' you'll" said
Aunt Rosy.
Zach, no, MOI" Mr.. Schwenckton re.
turned I'm a tone of mingled distress
and resolve.
swell, then, you gotta switch 1t out
Of Lizzie, Mister, the way you done
out of Sammy. If you give her the
good switchin' you give Sammy last
week fur not mindin' to me, then
guess I won't have no more trouble
with her. Sammy you bet he minds to
me now when I speak to him! Well
I guess anyhow then! He jumps when
I speak since he got that there good
whippin' off of you! And Lizzie she
needs 1t worse'n Sammy va"
The noise Of Mr.. Schwencken's sud.
denly rising and walking to the door
at the head of the stairs sent Lizzie,
white and quivering. back to her dish,
washing.
Nicely. slowly following, took 8
towel and began to dry the dishes al,
ready washed. both of them waiting
In tense anxiety for the entrance OF
''the Mister"
But Mr.. Schwenckton did not at
once come down Nicely and Lizzie,
from where they worked. could still
hear. family, the voices In the room
above
81 have awful afraid" Lizzie whis.
pered, her teeth chattering as she
splashed In the dishpan. "Pop he
whips so hard It's awful good of
you, Nicely. to help mel Mebby If ]
have all done nice and clean till Pop
comes down. he won't whip me so
hard!"
"You poor little thing!" Nicely ex'
claimed, working as fast as Lizzie her
self. 81 won't let him touch you
I'll"
"But have afraid that would make
him do It all the harder, Meely-your
takin' up for me after what his Susie
Just toll him !-how you toll me IT was
a pity I wasn't old enough to run Off !
II you took up for me now, after her
tellin' him that, he'd think I was get
tin spoilt by you and that he'd have
to learn mel"
"But you've done nothingl That
horrible woman liesi I'll tell him how
she liesl And how she imposes on
you two children and overworks you
He's too fond Of you. Lizzie. to allow
It, once he understands. He seems SO
especially fond of you. Lizzie. Did he
ever whip your
"Not yet I'm the only one he didn't
whip. Each one. as soon as they got
big enough, got one awful hard whip
PIN and then never no more. Oncet