Year: 1876

day. aud in the course of the conversation be
said;


"I'a going to move. | can't stand those
Thompsons next door 70 me any longer
They're the awfulest people to borrow things
that ever saw Coffee and butter, and su-
car and -four don't mind SO much, although
when woman borrows high priced sugar and
Java coffee aud sends back sand aud chickory,
a man naturally feels bilious and mad. But
they've borrowed pretty near everything IN
the house. First it's one thing then It's
another, from morning till night, right straight
along.


Now there's the poker. A poker is piece
of machinery that you would think anybody
might 90 around and bay, or, ii they couldn't
afford it, they might use a fence palng to
shake up the fire. But Mrs. Thompson seems
to banker our poker. She borrows 1t fifteen
or twenty times day, and last Saturday she
sent for it thitty-Iour times. She pays boy
81 week to run over and borrow that poker,
and she's used il SO much that it's all bent up
like a corkscrew.


Now. take chairs for instance. She asks
us TO lend her our chairs three times day at
every meal and she borrows.tbe rockins-ehair
whenever she wants to put the baby to sleep.


A couple Of times she sent over for a sola'
and when the boy came back with il he said
Mrs. Thompson was mad as thunder, and
kept growing round the house all day because
there were no castors on it. Last Monday she
borrowed our wash boiler and we had to put
of our washing ill Tuesday. She did her
preserving In It, and the consequence was oil
our clothes were full Of preserved PEACHES
Eve cot on an undershirt now that I'm mighty
doubtful if III ever get off, it's stuck to me
so tight


Every now and then she has company, and
then she borrows our hired girl and all the
parlor furniture once because ! would not
carry the piano over for her and take down the
chandelier she told our girl that there were ru-
mors about town that was a reformed pirate.


Perfectly scaudalousl They think nothing
of sendiog over after couple Of bedstcads OF
the entry carpet, and the other day Thompson
says to me:


Butterwick, does your pump log pull up
easy?


And when I said thought it did, he said


well. would like 70 borrow it for few
days till can get one, for mines all rotted
away


Tie only wonder to me is that he didn t try
to borrow the well along with it.


And then on R;u.sday Mrs. wompfon sent
that boy over to know if Mrs. Butterwiok
wouldn't lend her our front door. She said
theirs was away being painted and she was
afraid the baby would catch cold. When ]
asked him what he supposed we were going
to do to keep comfortable without any front
door. he said Mrs Thompson said she reckoned
we might take up bed guilt or something
And when refused, the boy said Mrs. Thomp-
son told him if wouldn't send over the front
door to ask Mrs. Butterwick to lend her a
pair of striped stockings and horse-haiT
hustle and to borrow the coal scuttle til
Monday.


What in the name Of Moses she is going tc
do with hustle and coal .c1ttlc can't con
coiye.


But they're tie most extraordinary people
Last Fourth Of July the boy came over aud
told Mrs. Butterwick that Mrs. Thompson
would be much obliged If she'd lend her the
twins for few minutes. Said Mrs. Thomp-
son wanted eIn 10 suck OF a new bottle top
because it made her baby sick to taste irefh
ndiarubber Cheeky wasn't il? But thai''
her way. She don't mind it any more.


Why I've known her to take of our John
ny's pants when he's been playing over there
with the children, and send him bone bare
legged to tell his mother that she borrowed
them for a pattern. And on Thompson
birthday, she said her house was 50 small for
a party that if we'd lend her ours we might
come late in the evening and dance with the
company, If We wouldn't lei on That We lived
there.


Yes, sir; I'm going TO move. I'd rather
live next door to lunatic asylum and have
the maniacs pouring red bot shot over the
fence every hour Of the day Indeed would u