Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 215 pages of information about Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop.

Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 215 pages of information about Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop.

“Oh, yes,” replied that lady, “I was to town, ‘n’ the whole town ’s light-headed ‘n’ runnin’ hither ‘n’ yon like they was ants bein’ stepped on.  The town’s gone plum crazy over the minister bein’ gone altogether.  I do believe the only happy woman in it last night was Gran’ma Mullins, ‘n’ ’f you want to see happiness, Mrs. Lathrop, you’d ought to see Gran’ma Mullins this day.  Seems ’t Mrs. Sperrit was drivin’ in early last evenin’ ‘n’ she stopped at Gran’ma Mullins to get one o’ the crick stones out o’ her horse’s shoe, ‘n’ Gran’ma Mullins was weepin’ on the piazza while little Jane chewed up her spectacle-case, ‘n after she got the stone out Mrs. Sperrit jus’ up ‘n’ took little Jane home with her.  She said ’t little Jane could chew all she liked out on the farm, ‘n’ Gran’ma Mullins said ’t she all but fell on her knees at her feet.  She was down town this afternoon buyin’ two dozen o’ cotton an’ one dozen o’ glue, ‘n’ she says ’t she sh’ll spend the rest o’ her allotted time in peace ‘n’ mendin’.

“But Gran’ma Mullins’ joy is more ’n balanced by Mrs. Brown, for Mrs. Brown is clean discouraged.  I see her sittin’ on a barrel in the grocery store, ‘n’ it was a molasses barrel ‘n’ some ’d run out, but she hadn’t no heart to care.  She says ’t Henry Ward Beecher never budged last night, ‘n’ so far from that bein’ a relief, it led to worse ’n ever, for old Dr. Carter ‘n’ young Dr. Brown got so hungry observin’ ’t they went downstairs, ‘n’ young Dr. Brown knowed where everything was, ‘n’ as a result they eat up stuff ’t Henry Ward Beecher never ‘d even dreamed existed.  They opened jars o’ fancy pickles ‘n’ a jug o’ rare old rum ‘n’ played Ned in general.  ‘N’ afterwards they went to bed in the guest-room where Mrs. Brown never lets any one sleep, ‘n’ they got right in on top o’ her Hottentot pillow-shams ‘n’ old Dr. Carter tore a sham with his toothpick.  ‘N’, added to all that, Amelia ’s furious ’cause she read in a book ’t teaches how to stay married ’t a husband’s first night out is the first rift in the lute, ‘n’ she was down town buyin’ a dictionary so ’s to be sure what a lute is afore she accuses young Dr. Brown.  ‘N’ there’s a man over in Meadville down with a sun-stroke, ‘n’ they want Dr. Carter to hurry, ‘n’ they can’t seem to make him realize nothin’.  He jus’ sits there in Mrs. Brown’s parlor ‘n’ shakes his head ‘n’ smiles ‘n’ says, ‘Oh, that rum, that rum!’ over ‘n’ over.  ‘N’ Mrs. Brown says ’t if it wasn’t plain from the expression of his face as he means it as a compliment she certainly would be real mad, for he must ‘a’ downed two quarts.  It ‘s all jus’ awful, ‘n’ I would ‘a’ waited ‘n’ walked home with her, only Mrs. Allen come along ‘n’ I wanted to go with her instead.  Mrs. Allen needs some sympathy too, for Polly ’s all broke up over Sam ‘n’ Felicia Hemans.  Mrs. Allen don’t hesitate to say right out’t to her order o’ thinkin’ Sam ’d ‘a’ showed more sense ’f he’d married Mrs. Macy ’cause Mrs. Macy has got a little property ‘n’ it looks

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