| Show MUIS M Y brother lemuel AMU married mehitable Mehl table pierce when be was quite along ia in years nobody thought bed lied ever get married at all any moren more a mr my brother reuben aw an silas bliss the three lad had lived together and kept bachelors hall ever since our mother died I 1 waa was married j and away from 4 home long before bhe she died 1 4 r know boa ho they would get along at first but all of the boy born had bad been used to h lu alpin ma a good deal and they I 1 were veto real handy and aban I 1 asked it they coln to la layo a housekeeper they rit t hear bear to it they aid said they coln to have no strange woman round in mas men place bo so clias he took hold and did the shin and trouin and Iti suben did the swee pin plu and lemuel be he was the youngest next to me no did the cookin he could cook a dinner eq raial jal to any woman and hie wit pies vies beat mine my husband eald said so to and I 1 bad had to give in they did well they seemed to got along so 20 nice and none ot em am hild ever seemed to think much about the girls not even when they was boys that I 1 must say I 1 was astonished when lemuel be up and got married to mehitable pierce she gaea was ft little along in years too rather more so than lemuel and a dreadful smart piece she was good lookin and she had bad property but she the was dreadful smart and cp up an choln I 1 could never see how lennel lentiel over goethe courage to auk it her to shavo hare him he was always a kind of 0 mild spoken little fellow reuben hn hit declared he he vowed towed abat tv at bitable Meol M table asked him ber herself self he held laid he knew know it for a fact and he said it i with the tears down his cheeks reuben was the oldest and hed always been terrible fond of lemuel that poor boy never have got in such a fix if that woman up i an asked him an he have spunk enough to say no said reuben and he swallowed hard Mo Mehl bitable table had a nice of her own that her father left her all furnished and everything so of course cemuel ramuel he went to live with her and i Mehl tables house was pretty near where I 1 lived so I 1 could eee see everything that was sofa on it want very long before I 1 said to hannah morse morris my husband husbands old maid sister that live lives with us and caches school thai that I 1 believed lemuel was henpecked though I 1 hallat any anything thin 4 against galust me bitable ni hi table w 1 I dont see what else anybody that married mehitable pierce would ex hect said hannah bhe sher spoke real harp sharp tor for her I 1 ive va always kind of wondered if it hannah would have had lenvol it t hed asked her well eald sak 1 I 1 llovio poor cemuel will be happy hap ply hes iles always been such a good m mild lid willin boy that it does sem neom a pity pitr for him to 04 rode over rough shop ind have all the will he over ever did hare have trodden into the dust well thai that Is ii what hlll happen or ill miss my duesi said hannah i morse for a long while I 1 thought she was right it was really pitiful to see lemuel he babeno baveno have no mere more liberty nor will of his own thac that it five avo cearold boy and not so much able let him do this and that and if it there wap was any thlu thiu he be wanted to do she was set against it and bed hed always in the time lemuel has run over to my house and blia wife come racin to the fence and creamed screamed after him to come home and hed lied tart start up as scared seared as be he could be and AM tho the time ive been la in there and restarted be started to go out and hed shed tell hira him to flet t down and hes set without a murmur mehitable Mehl table she bought all hie his clothes an she be favored long tailed coats and he bein such short mac mat 1 I 4 ne never ver looked well la in em and she he vo lathim have sanra herl and cr out but made them thein herself and abo she have blitte very good patterns she used her fathers father s oil old ones and be he no such built man as lemuel and I 1 know be suffered everything both in hit pride an his fael feell lne ns lemuel began to look real down trod ho ile seem like half halt such a R man as be he did and tho queerest t thing about it was able ibis pear to uke ilke the work of nr own hands 0 so o to speak one ono day he talked to me about it 11 1 I dunno what als said ehe she but lemuel he be dont seem to have no go ahead and no ambition and no will of his lite own he tries to please me but it dont seem As a it he had grit enough even for that sometimes I 1 think he aint well but I 1 dunno what LUs him ive iva been real careful of at him he hes jr worn wora thick baniels Ban nels and hes had wholesome vic victuals I 1 aint never let him have a pie I 1 lemuel was always dreadful fond of pie said 1 I 1 I felt kind of sorry toy for I 1 remembered bow low fond pa por pair ir lemuel lad 1111 always WAYs well of me ma bers pies aad v V what good ones he be used to make him sell elf 1 I know it 11 said aid mehitable Mehl table he wanted to bake make some himself bimi elf when we were first married but I 1 vetoed that I 1 t goin to have a man n round makin pie pies and ani I 1 wasile coln to have him batin of em after they were made plea pies ain aln t good for him but I 1 declare I 1 dunno what does make man him act so kind of spiritless I 1 told him today I 1 thought hed better make a resolution for the new year and stick to it and see it it put some spunk into him pretty soon she he went home I 1 could see ehe she was real kind of ot troubled she always did think a good deal of lemuel in spite of everything the next day was new years and la in the afternoon mehitable came in ILL again she hare have her bewla as ebo she generally did she was a very industrious dust rious woman she jest mat at down and begun twist lair the fringe of her blayd shawl as it if she was real her iler face was puckered up too I 1 I 1 dunno what to make of lemuel said she be finally why the raitt ter teri I 1 bald I 1 L kind of scared seared klad he ile says hes bes made a resolution for the new year sald she and that he a goin to keep it 6 well what ie is it I 1 eald said L 1 I dunno duano 11 eald said she well it its if a good one you don dont t care do you couf eald said 1 I 1 and it couldn t be anything any thin but a good one it if my brother made it 1 I dunno what it Is said she won t the he tell r T no he wont I 1 caul get a word out of him about it it he don t act like himself well I 1 must say I 1 never saw such a change as como come over mehitable and lemuel after that he tell what his resolution was and she make him though she almost went down on her knees it began to 8 seem eem as a it she was fairly ch angin angla 1 characters it with lemuel though she ha bad d a spell of bein herself moren more n ever at first bryin to force him to tell what that resolution was then she give that up and she never asked him where he wan vax coial an he could come IQ in my bouse house an alt sit jest as long aa an he wanted to and she boight him a it short tailed coat and eoas store collars and shirts and he looked like another mac men he got to st clayla tyla down to the tore store nights an politics L mehitable Mehl table she bought all his clothes with the other men real loud I 1 heard him myself due night and I 1 I 1 believe it was lemuel well lemuel he never gaye in and he never told till the next new now yew year a day when hed said be he would hed H id said all along that hed tell her then id got most as curious as an mehitable Mehl table myself by that time and new now years year a moro 1 arun prun t over real early they adough through breakfast I 1 knew know the minute I 1 taw them that he hadt badt told he said he till he was as through bis his breakfast he WM was most through wae was finishing up with a big piece of mince pie and hed had made paris it too when hed swallowed jhb last mouthful ho looked up and he laughed lugh pd real pleasant and sweet and slid yet with more manliness than id ever seen in him spose you want to kuba that new now tear years resolution wag wu Taid said L lem em uel u A t I T can tand stand lt it a it bile long er or talu aid kebl table now the time bad com tue ita it want to act too eager but I 1 showed out jest what I 1 felt for fore V a land jand sake lenuel babbit what was it UT I 1 ald said 1 L lemuel lamuel he laughed agate well it t much of sali anything he gal 4 in hi his gentle crawlin draw lin ln way 1 1 make no resola tion really affy 7 what lemuel sva SV Z j babbits ailed art A US U A no said be 1 I thick of none to make so 1 a res alution not 4 mat I 1 I 1 I 1 made anop jt 14 or dr f copyright by story pub C 4 1 k |
