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diff --git a/9446-h/9446-h.htm b/9446-h/9446-h.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bdc5135 --- /dev/null +++ b/9446-h/9446-h.htm @@ -0,0 +1,1966 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>AMONG THE BRETHREN, Part 4.</title> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> + +<style type="text/css"> + <!-- + body {margin:10%; text-align:justify} + P { text-indent: 1em; + margin-top: .75em; + margin-bottom: .75em; } + H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6 { text-align: center; } + HR { width: 33%; text-align: center; } + blockquote {font-size: 97%; } + .figleft {float: left;} + .figright {float: right;} + .toc { margin-left: 15%; margin-bottom: 0em;} + CENTER { padding: 10px;} + PRE { font-family: Times; font-size: 97%; margin-left: 15%;} + // --> +</style> + +</head> +<body> + +<h1>Samantha Among the Brethren, Part 4</h1> +<pre> + +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Samantha Among the Brethren, Part 4. +by Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley) + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Samantha Among the Brethren, Part 4. + +Author: Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley) + +Release Date: August 10, 2004 [EBook #9446] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SAMANTHA AMONG THE BRETHREN, *** + + + + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, David Widger and PG Distributed +Proofreaders + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + + + +<br><br><hr><br><br> + +<center> +<img alt="002.jpg (24K)" src="images/002.jpg" height="663" width="550"> +<br><br> +<img alt="001.jpg (118K)" src="images/001.jpg" height="912" width="711"> +</center> +<br><br> +<center> +<h1>SAMANTHA +<br><br> +AMONG THE BRETHREN.</h1> + +<h3>BY</h3> + + +<h3>"JOSIAH ALLEN'S WIFE"</h3> +<br><br> +<h2>(MARIETTA HOLLEY).</h2> +<br><br><br><br> +<h3><i>WITH ILLUSTRATIONS</i></h3>. +<br><br> +<h2>1890</h2> +<br><br><br><br> + +<center> +<h3>Part 4.</h3> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + + +<h3> +TO</h3> +<br> +<h3>All Women</h3> + +<p>WHO WORK, TRYING TO BRING INTO DARK LIVES</p> + +<p>THE BRIGHTNESS AND HOPE OF A</p> + +<p>BETTER COUNTRY,</p> + +<p><i>THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED</i>.</p> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<h2>PREFACE.</h2> + +<p> +Again it come to pass, in the fulness of time, that my companion, Josiah +Allen, see me walk up and take my ink stand off of the manteltry piece, +and carry it with a calm and majestick gait to the corner of the settin' +room table devoted by me to literary pursuits. And he sez to me:</p> + +<p>"What are you goin' to tackle now, Samantha?"</p> + +<p>And sez I, with quite a good deal of dignity, "The Cause of Eternal +Justice, Josiah Allen."</p> + +<p>"Anythin' else?" sez he, lookin' sort o' oneasy at me. (That man +realizes his shortcomin's, I believe, a good deal of the time, he duz.)</p> + +<p>"Yes," sez I, "I lay out in petickuler to tackle the Meetin' House. She +is in the wrong on't, and I want to set her right."</p> + +<p>Josiah looked sort o' relieved like, but he sez out, in a kind of a pert +way, es he set there a-shellin corn for the hens:</p> + +<p>"A Meetin' House hadn't ort to be called she—it is a he."</p> + +<p>And sez I, "How do you know?"</p> + +<p>And he sez, "Because it stands to reason it is. And I'd like to know +what you have got to say about him any way?"</p> + +<p>Sez I, "That 'him' don't sound right, Josiah Allen. It sounds more right +and nateral to call it 'she.' Why," sez I, "hain't we always hearn about +the Mother Church, and don't the Bible tell about the Church bein' +arrayed like a bride for her husband? I never in my life hearn it called +a 'he' before."</p> + +<p>"Oh, wall, there has always got to be a first time. And I say it sounds +better. But what have you got to say about the Meetin' House, anyway?"</p> + +<p>"I have got this to say, Josiah Allen. The Meetin' House hain't a-actin' +right about wimmen. The Founder of the Church wuz born of woman. It wuz +on a woman's heart that His head wuz pillowed first and last. While +others slept she watched over His baby slumbers and His last sleep. A +woman wuz His last thought and care. Before dawn she wuz at the door of +the tomb, lookin' for His comin'. So she has stood ever sense—waitin', +watchin', hopin', workin' for the comin' of Christ. Workin', waitin' for +His comin' into the hearts of tempted wimmen and tempted men—fallen men +and fallen wimmen—workin', waitin', toilin', nursin' the baby good +in the hearts of a sinful world—weepin' pale-faced over its +crucefixion—lookin' for its reserection. Oh how she has worked all +through the ages!"</p> + +<p>"Oh shaw!" sez Josiah, "some wimmen don't care about anythin' but crazy +work and back combs."</p> + +<p>I felt took down, for I had been riz up, quite considerble, but I sez, +reasonable:</p> + +<p>"Yes, there are such wimmen, Josiah, but think of the sweet and saintly +souls that have given all their lives, and hopes, and thoughts to the +Meetin' House—think of the throngs to-day that crowd the aisles of +the Sanctuary—there are five wimmen to one man, I believe, in all the +meetin' houses to-day a-workin' in His name. True Daughters of the King, +no matter what their creed may be—Catholic or Protestant.</p> + +<p>"And while wimmen have done all this work for the Meetin' House, the +Meetin' House ort to be honorable and do well by her."</p> + +<p>"Wall, hain't <i>he</i>?" sez Josiah.</p> + +<p>"No, <i>she</i> hain't," sez I.</p> + +<p>"Wall, what petickuler fault do you find? What has <i>he</i> done lately to +rile you up?"</p> + +<p>Sez I, "<i>She</i> wuz in the wrong on't in not lettin' wimmen set on the +Conference."</p> + +<p>"Wall, I say <i>he</i> wuz right," sez Josiah. "<i>He</i> knew, and I knew, that +wimmen wuzn't strong enough to set."</p> + +<p>"Why," sez I, "it don't take so much strength to set as it duz to stand +up. And after workin' as hard as wimmen have for the Meetin' House, she +ort to have the priveledge of settin'. And I am goin' to write out jest +what I think about it."</p> + +<p>"Wall," sez Josiah, as he started for the barn with the hen feed, "don't +be too severe with the Meetin' House."</p> + +<p>And then, after he went out, he opened the door agin and stuck his head +in and sez:</p> + +<p>"Don't be too hard on <i>him</i>"</p> + +<p>And then he shet the door quick, before I could say a word. But good +land! I didn't care. I knew I could say what I wanted to with my +faithful pen—and I am bound to say it.</p> + +<p><br> JOSIAH ALLEN'S WIFE, + Bonny View,<br> + near Adams, New York,<br> + Oct. 14th, 1890.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> + +<h2> +CONTENTS.</h2> +<br> + + +<center> +<table summary=""> +<tr><td> + + +<p><a href="#c13">CHAPTER XIII.</a></p> + +<p><a href="#c14">CHAPTER XIV.</a></p> + +<p><a href="#c15">CHAPTER XV.</a></p> + +<p><a href="#c16">CHAPTER XVI.</a></p> + +<p><a href="#c17">CHAPTER XVII.</a></p> + + +</td></tr> +</table> +</center> + + + + + + +<br><br><br><br> + + + + + + +<a name="c13"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="054c13.jpg (97K)" src="images/054c13.jpg" height="720" width="597"> +</center> +<br><br> + + +<p> +CHAPTER XIII.</p> + +<p> +Curius, hain't it? How folks will get to tellin' things, and finally +tell 'em so much, that finally they will get to believin' of 'em +themselves—boastin' of bein' rich, etc., or bad. Now I have seen folks +boast over that, act real haughty because they had been bad and got over +it. I've seen temperance lecturers and religious exhorters boast sights +and sights over how bad they had been. But they wuzn't tellin' the +truth, though they had told the same thing so much that probable they +had got to thinkin' so.</p> + +<p>But in the case of one man in petickuler, I found out for myself, for I +didn't believe what he wuz a sayin' any of the time.</p> + +<p>Why, he made out in evenin' meetin's, protracted and otherwise, that he +had been a awful villain. Why no pirate wuz ever wickeder than he made +himself out to be, in the old times before he turned round and become +pious.</p> + + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="055.jpg (49K)" src="images/055.jpg" height="516" width="335"> +</center> +<br><br> + + +<p>But I didn't believe it, for he had a good look to his face, all but the +high headed look he had, and sort o' vain.</p> + +<p>But except this one look, his face wuz a good moral face, and I knew +that no man could cut up and act as he claimed that he had, without +carryin' some marks on the face of the cuttin' up, and also of the +actin'.</p> + +<p>And so, as it happened, I went a visitin' (to Josiah's relations) to the +very place where he had claimed to do his deeds of wild badness, and I +found that he had always been a pattern man—never had done a single +mean act, so fur as wuz known.</p> + +<p>Where wuz his boastin' then? As the Bible sez, why, it wuz all vain +talk. He had done it to get up a reputation. He had done it because he +wuz big feelin' and vain. And he had got so haughty over it, and had +told of it so much, that I spoze he believed in it himself.</p> + +<p>Curius! hain't it? But I am a eppisodin', and to resoom. Trueman's wife +would talk jest so, jest so haughty and high headed, about the world +comin' to a end.</p> + +<p>She'd dispute with everybody right up and down if they disagreed with +her—and specially about that religion of hern. How sot she wuz, how +extremely sot.</p> + +<p>But then, it hain't in me, nor never wuz, to fight anybody for any +petickuler religion of theirn. There is sights and sights of different +religions round amongst different friends of mine, and most all on 'em +quite good ones.</p> + +<p>That is, they are agreeable to the ones who believe in 'em, and not over +and above disagreeable to me.</p> + +<p>Now it seems to me that in most all of these different doctrines and +beliefs, there is a grain of truth, and if folks would only kinder hold +onto that grain, and hold themselves stiddy while they held onto it, +they would be better off.</p> + +<p>But most folks when they go to follerin' off a doctrine, they foller too +fur, they hain't megum enough.</p> + +<p>Now, for instance, when you go to work and whip anybody, or hang 'em, or +burn 'em up for not believin' as you do, that is goin' too fur.</p> + +<p>It has been done though, time and agin, in the world's history, and +mebby will be agin.</p> + +<p>But it hain't reasonable. Now what good will doctrines o' any kind do to +anybody after they are burnt up or choked to death?</p> + +<p>You see such things hain't bein' megum. Because I can't believe jest as +somebody else duz, it hain't for me to pitch at 'em and burn 'em up, or +even whip 'em.</p> + +<p>No, indeed! And most probable if I should study faithfully out their +beliefs, I would find one grain, or mebby a grain and a half of real +truth in it.</p> + + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="056.jpg (54K)" src="images/056.jpg" height="492" width="320"> +</center> +<br><br> + + +<p>Now, for instance, take the doctrines of Christian Healin', or Mind +Cure. Now I can't exactly believe that if I fell down and hurt my head +on a stun—I cannot believe as I am a layin' there, that I hain't fell, +and there hain't no stun—and while I am a groanin' and a bathin' the +achin' bruise in anarky and wormwood, I can't believe that there hain't +no such thing as pain, nor never wuz.</p> + +<p>No, I can't believe this with the present light I have got on the +subject.</p> + +<p>But yet, I have seen them that this mind cure religion had fairly riz +right up, and made 'em nigher to heaven every way—so nigh to it that +seemin'ly a light out of some of its winders had lit up their faces with +its glowin' repose, its sweet rapture.</p> + +<p>I've seen 'em, seen 'em as the Patent Medicine Maker observes so +frequently, "before and after takin'."</p> + +<p>Folks that wuz despondent and hopeless, and wretched actin', why, this +belief made 'em jest blossom right out into a state of hopefulness, and +calmness, and joy—refreshin' indeed to contemplate.</p> + +<p>Wall now, the idee of whippin' anybody for believin' anything that +brings such a good change to 'em, and fills them and them round 'em with +so much peace and happiness.</p> + +<p>Why, I wouldn't do it for a dollar bill. And as for hangin' 'em, and +brilin' 'em on gridirons, etc., why, that is entirely out of the +question, or ort to be.</p> + +<p>And now, it don't seem to me that I ever could make a tree walk off, by +lookin' at it, and commandin' it to—or call some posys to fall down +into my lap, right through, the plasterin'—</p> + +<p>Or send myself, or one of myselfs, off to Injy, while the other one of +me stayed to Jonesville.</p> + +<p>Now, honestly speakin', it don't seem to me that I ever could learn to +do this, not at my age, any way, and most dead with rheumatiz a good +deal of the time.</p> + +<p>I most know I couldn't.</p> + +<p>But then agin I have seen believers in Theosiphy that could do wonders, +and seemed indeed to have got marvelous control over the forces of +Natur.</p> + +<p>And now the idee of my whippin' 'em for it. Why you wouldn't ketch me at +it.</p> + +<p>And Spiritualism now! I spoze, and I about know that there are lots +of folks that won't ever see into any other world than this, till the +breath leaves their body.</p> + +<p>Yet i've seen them, pure sweet souls too, as I ever see, whose eyes +beheld blessed visions withheld from more material gaze.</p> + +<p>Yes, i've neighbored with about all sorts of religius believers, and +never disputed that they had a right to their own religion.</p> + +<p>And I've seen them too that didn't make a practice of goin' to any +meetin' houses much, who lived so near to God and his angels that they +felt the touch of angel hands on their forwards every day of their +lives, and you could see the glow of the Fairer Land in their rapt eyes.</p> + +<p>They had outgrown the outward forms of religion that had helped them +at first, jest as children outgrow the primers and ABC books of their +childhood and advance into the higher learnin'.</p> + +<p>I've seen them folks i've neighbored with 'em. Human faults they had, +or God would have taken them to His own land before now. Their +imperfections, I spoze sort o' anchored 'em here for a spell to a +imperfect world.</p> + +<p>But you could see, if you got nigh enough to their souls to see anything +about 'em—you could see that the anchor chains wuz slight after all, +and when they wuz broke, oh how lightly and easily they would sail away, +away to the land that their rapt souls inhabited even now.</p> + +<p>Yes, I've seen all sorts of religius believers and I wuzn't goin' to be +too hard on Tamer for her belief, though I couldn't believe as she did.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> + +<a name="c14"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="057c14.jpg (97K)" src="images/057c14.jpg" height="692" width="603"> +</center> +<br><br> + + +<p> +CHAPTER XIV.</p> + +<p> +He come to our house a visitin' along the first week in June, and the +last day in June wuz the day they had sot for the world to come to an +end. I, myself, didn't believe she knew positive about it, and Josiah +didn't either. And I sez to her, "The Bible sez that it hain't agoin' +to be revealed to angels even, or to the Son himself, but only to the +Father when that great day shall be." And sez I to Trueman's wife, sez +I, "How should <i>you</i> be expected to know it?"</p> + +<p>Sez she, with that same collected together haughty look to her, "My name +wuzn't mentioned, I believe, amongst them that <i>wuzn't</i> to know it!"</p> + +<p>And of course I had to own up that it wuzn't. But good land! I didn't +believe she knew a thing more about it than I did, but I didn't dispute +with her much, because she wuz one of the relatives on his side—you +know you have to do different with 'em than you do with them on your own +side—you have to. And then agin, I felt that if it didn't come to an +end she would be convinced that she wuz in the wrong on't, and if she +did we should both of us be pretty apt to know it, so there wuzn't much +use in disputin' back and forth.</p> + +<p>But she wuz firm as iron in her belief. And she had come up visitin' to +our home, so's to be nigh when Trueman riz. Trueman wuz buried in the +old Risley deestrict, not half a mile from us on a back road. And she +naterally wanted to be round at the time.</p> + +<p>She said plain to me that Trueman never could seem to get along without +her. And though she didn't say it right out, she carried the idea (and +Josiah resented it because Trueman was a favorite cousin of his'n on +his own side.) She jest the same as said right out that Trueman, if she +wuzn't by him to tend to him, would be jest as apt to come up wrong end +up as any way.</p> + +<p>Josiah didn't like it at all.</p> + +<p>Wall, she had lived a widowed life for a number of years, and had said +right out, time and time agin, that she wouldn't marry agin. But Josiah +thought, and I kinder mistrusted myself, that she wuz kinder on the +lookout, and would marry agin if she got a chance—not fierce, you know, +or anything of that kind, but kinder quietly lookin' out and standin' +ready. That wuz when she first come; but before she went away she acted +fierce.</p> + + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="058.jpg (60K)" src="images/058.jpg" height="501" width="358"> +</center> +<br><br> + + +<p>Wall, there wuz sights of Adventists up in the Risley deestrict, and +amongst the rest wuz an old bachelder, Joe Charnick.</p> + +<p>And Joe Charnick wuz, I s'poze, of all Advents, the most Adventy. He +jest <i>knew</i> the world wuz a comin' to a end that very day, the last day +of June, at four o'clock in the afternoon. And he got his robe all made +to go up in. It wuz made of a white book muslin, and Jenette Finster +made it. Cut it out by one of his mother's nightgowns—so she told me in +confidence, and of course I tell it jest the same; I want it kep.</p> + +<p>She was afraid Joe wouldn't like it, if he knew she took the nightgown +for a guide, wantin' it, as he did, for a religious purpose.</p> + +<p>But, good land! as I told her, religion or not, anybody couldn't cut +anything to look anyhow without sumpthin' fora guide, and she bein' an +old maiden felt a little delicate about measurin' him.</p> + +<p>His mother wuz as big round as he wuz, her weight bein' 230 by the +steelyards, and she allowed 2 fingers and a half extra length—Joe is +tall. She gathered it in full round the neck, and the sleeves (at his +request) hung down like wings, a breadth for each wing wuz what she +allowed. Jenette owned up to me (though she wouldn't want it told of +for the world, for it had been sposed for years, that he and she had a +likin' for each other, and mebby would make a match some time, though +what they had been a-waitin' for for the last 10 years nobody knew). But +she allowed to me that when he got his robe on, he wuz the worst lookin' +human bein' that she ever laid eyes on, and sez she, for she likes a +joke, Jenette duz: "I should think if Joe looked in the glass after he +got it on, his religion would be a comfort to him; I should think he +would be glad the world <i>wuz</i> comin' to a end."</p> + +<p>But he <i>didn't</i> look at the glass, Jenette said he didn't; he wanted to +see if it wuz the right size round the neck. Joe hain't handsome, but +he is kinder good-lookin', and he is a good feller and got plenty to do +with, but bein' kinder big-featured, and tall, and hefty, he must +have looked like fury in the robe. But he is liked by everybody, and +everybody is glad to see him so prosperous and well off.</p> + +<p>He has got 300 acres of good land, "be it more or less," as the deed +reads; 30 head of cows, and 7 head of horses (and the hull bodies of +'em). And a big sugar bush, over 1100 trees, and a nice little sugar +house way up on a pretty side hill amongst the maple trees. A good, big, +handsome dwellin' house, a sort of cream color, with green blinds; big +barn, and carriage house, etc., etc., and everything in the very best of +order. He is a pattern farmer and a pattern son—yes, Joe couldn't be a +more pattern son if he acted every day from a pattern.</p> + +<p>He treats his mother dretful pretty, from day to day. She thinks that +there hain't nobody like Joe; and it wuz s'pozed that Jenette thought so +too.</p> + +<p>But Jenette is, and always wuz, runnin' over with common sense, and she +always made fun and laughed at Joe when he got to talkin' about his +religion, and about settin' a time for the world to come to a end. And +some thought that that wuz one reason why the match didn't go off, for +Joe likes her, everybody could see that, for he wuz jest such a great, +honest, open-hearted feller, that he never made any secret of it. +And Jenette liked Joe <i>I</i> knew, though she fooled a good many on the +subject. But she wuz always a great case to confide in me, and though +she didn't say so right out, which wouldn't have been her way, for, as +the poet sez, she wuzn't one "to wear her heart on the sleeves of her +bask waist," still, I knew as well es I wanted to, that she thought her +eyes of him. And old Miss Charnick jest about worshipped Jenette, would +have her with her, sewin' for her, and takin' care of her—she wuz sick +a good deal, Mother Charnick wuz. And she would have been tickled most +to death to have had Joe marry her and bring her right home there.</p> + +<p>And Jenette wuz a smart little creeter, "smart as lightnin'," as Josiah +always said.</p> + +<p>She had got along in years, Jenette had, without marryin', for she staid +to hum and took care of her old father and mother and Tom. The other +girls married off, and left her to hum, and she had chances, so it wuz +said, good ones, but she wouldn't leave her father and mother, who wuz +gettin' old, and kinder bed-rid, and needed her. Her father, specially, +said he couldn't live, and wouldn't try to, if Jenette left 'em, but he +said, the old gentleman did, that Jenette should be richly paid for her +goodness to 'em.</p> + +<p>That wuzn't what made Jenette good, no, indeed; she did it out of the +pure tenderness and sweetness of her nature and lovin'heart. But I used +to love to hear the old gentleman talk that way, for he wuz well off, +and I felt that so far as money could pay for the hull devotion of a +life, why, Jenette would be looked out for, and have a good home, and +enough to do with. So she staid to hum, as I say, and took care of'em +night and day; sights of watching and wearisome care she had, poor +little creeter; but she took the best of care of 'em, and kep 'em kinder +comforted up, and clean, and brought up Tom, the youngest boy, by hand, +and thought her eyes on him.</p> + +<p>And he wuz a smart chap—awful smart, as it proved in the end; for he +married when he wuz 21, and brought his wife (a disagreeable creeter) +home to the old homestead, and Jenette, before they had been there 2 +weeks, wuz made to feel that her room wuz better than her company.</p> + +<p>That wuz the year the old gentleman died; her mother had died 3 months +prior and beforehand.</p> + +<p>Her brother, as I said, wur smart, and he and his wife got round the old +man in some way and sot him against Jenette, and got everything he had.</p> + +<p>He wuz childish, the old man wuz; used to try to put his pantaloons on +over his head, and get his feet into his coat sleeves, etc., etc.</p> + +<p>And he changed his will, that had gi'n Jenette half the property, a good +property, too, and gi'n it all to Tom, every mite of it, all but one +dollar, which Jenette never took by my advice.</p> + +<p>For I wuz burnin' indignant at old Mr. Finster and at Tom. Curius, to +think such a girl as Jenette had been—such a patient, good creeter, and +such a good-tempered one, and everything—to think her pa should have +forgot all she had done, and suffered, and gi'n up for 'em, and give +the property all to that boy, who had never done anything only to spend +their money and make Jenette trouble.</p> + +<p>But then, I s'poze it wuz old Mr. Finster's mind, or the lack on't, and +I had to stand it, likewise so did Jenette.</p> + +<p>But I never sot a foot into Tom Finster's house, not a foot after that +day that Jenette left it. I wouldn't. But I took her right to my house, +and kep her for 9 weeks right along, and wuz glad to.</p> + +<p>That wuz some 10 years prior and before this, and she had gone round +sewin' ever sense. And she wuz beloved by everybody, and had gone round +highly respected, and at seventy-five cents a day.</p> + +<p>Her troubles, and everybody that knew her, knew how many she had of 'em, +but she kep 'em all to herself, and met the world and her neighbors with +a bright face.</p> + +<p>If she took her skeletons out of the closet to air 'em, and I s'poze she +did, everybody duz; they have to at times, to see if their bones are in +good order, if for nothin' else. But if she ever did take 'em out and +dust 'em, she did it all by herself. The closet door wuz shet up and +locked when anybody wuz round. And you would think, by her bright, +laughin' face, that she never heard the word skeleton, or ever listened +to the rattle of a bone.</p> + +<p>And she kep up such a happy, cheerful look on the outside, that I s'poze +it ended by her bein' cheerful and happy on the inside.</p> + +<p>The stiddy, good-natured, happy spirit that she cultivated at first +by hard work, so I s'poze; but at last it got to be second nater, +the qualities kinder struck in and she <i>wuz</i> happy, and she <i>wuz</i> +contented—that is, I s'poze so.</p> + +<p>Though I, who knew Jenette better than anybody else, almost, knew how +tuff, how fearful tuff it must have come on her, to go round from home +to home—not bein' settled down at home anywhere. I knew jest what a +lovin' little home body she wuz. And how her sweet nater, like the sun, +would love to light up one bright lovin' home, and shine kinder stiddy +there, instead of glancin' and changin' about from one place to another, +like a meteor.</p> + +<p>Some would have liked it; some like change and constant goin' about, and +movin' constantly through space—but I knew Jenette wuzn't made on the +meteor plan. I felt sorry for Jenette, down deep in my heart, I did; but +I didn't tell her so; no, she wouldn't have liked it; she kep a brave +face to the world. And as I said, her comin' wuz looked for weeks and +weeks ahead, in any home where she wuz engaged to sew by the day.</p> + +<p>Everybody in the house used to feel the presence of a sunshiny, cheerful +spirit. One that wuz determined to turn her back onto troubles she +couldn't help and keep her face sot towards the Sun of Happiness. One +who felt good and pleasant towards everybody, wished everybody well. +One who could look upon other folks'es good fortune without a mite +of jealousy or spite. One who loved to hear her friends praised and +admired, loved to see 'em happy. And if they had a hundred times the +good things she had, why, she was glad for their sakes, that they had +'em, she loved to see 'em enjoy 'em, if she couldn't.</p> + +<p>And she wuz dretful kinder cunnin' and cute, Jenette wuz. She would make +the oddest little speeches; keep everybody laughin' round her, when she +got to goin'.</p> + + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="059.jpg (53K)" src="images/059.jpg" height="506" width="453"> +</center> +<br><br> + + +<p>Yes, she wuz liked dretful well, Jenette wuz. Her face has a kind of a +pert look on to it, her black eyes snap, a good-natured snap, though, +and her nose turns up jest enough to look kinder cunnin', and her hair +curls all over her head.</p> + +<p>Smart round the house she is, and Mother Charnick likes that, for she is +a master good housekeeper. Smart to answer back and joke. Joe is slow of +speech, and his big blue eyes won't fairly get sot onto anything, before +Jenette has looked it all through, and turned it over, and examined it +on the other side, and got through with it.</p> + +<p>Wall, she wuz to work to Mother Charnick's makin' her a black alpacka +dress, and four new calico ones, and coverin' a parasol.</p> + +<p>A good many said that Miss Charnick got dresses a purpose for Jenette to +make, so's to keep her there. Jenette wouldn't stay there a minute only +when she wuz to work, and as they always kep a good, strong, hired girl, +she knew when she wuz needed, and when she wuzn't. But, of course, she +couldn't refuse to sew for her, and at what she wuz sot at, though she +must have known and felt that Miss Charnick wuz lavish in dresses. She +had 42 calico dresses, and everybody knew it, new ones, besides woosted. +But, anyway, there she was a sewin' when the word came that the world +was a comin' to a end on the 30th day of June, at 4 o'clock in the +afternoon.</p> + +<p>Miss Charnick wuz a believer, but not to the extent that Joe was. For +Jenette asked her if she should stop sewin', not sposin' that she would +need the dresses, specially the four calico ones, and the parasol in +case of the world's endin'.</p> + +<p>And she told Jenette, and Jenette told me, so's I know it is true, "that +she might go right on, and get the parasol cover, and the trimmins to +the dresses, cambrick, and linin' and things, and hooks and eyes."</p> + +<p>And Miss Charnick didn't prepare no robe. But Jenette mistrusted, though +Miss Charnick is close-mouthed, and didn't say nothin', but Jenette +mistrusted that she laid out, when she sees signs, to use a nightgown.</p> + +<p>She had piles of the nicest ones, that Jenette had made for her from +time to time, over 28, all trimmed off nice enough for day dresses, so +Jenette said, trimmed with tape trimmin's, some of 'em, and belted down +in front.</p> + +<p>Wall, they had lots of meetin's at the Risley school-house, as the time +drew near. And Miss Trueman Pool went to every one on 'em.</p> + +<p>She had been too weak to go out to the well, or to the barn. She wanted +dretfully to see some new stanchils that Josiah had been a makin', jest +like some that Pool had had in his barn. She wanted to see 'em dretful, +but was too weak to walk. And I had had kind of a tussle in my own mind, +whether or not I should offer to let Josiah carry her out; but kinder +hesitated, thinkin' mebby she would get stronger.</p> + +<p>But I hain't jealous, not a mite. It is known that I hain't all through +Jonesville and Loontown. No, I'd scorn it. I thought Pool's wife would +get better and she did.</p> + +<p>One evenin' Joe Charnick came down to bring home Josiah's augur, and +the conversation turned onto Adventin'. And Miss Pool see that Joe wuz +congenial on that subject; he believed jest as she did, that the world +would come to an end the 30th. This was along the first part of the +month.</p> + + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="060.jpg (152K)" src="images/060.jpg" height="689" width="635"> +</center> +<br><br> + + +<p>He spoke of the good meetin's they wuz a-havin' to the Risley +school-house, and how he always attended to every one on 'em. And the next +mornin' Miss Trueman Pool gin out that she wuz a-goin' that evenin'. It +wuz a good half a mile away, and I reminded her that Josiah had to be +away with the team, for he wuz a-goin' to Loontown, heavy loaded, and +wouldn't get back till along in the evenin'.</p> + +<p>But she said "that she felt that the walk would do her good."</p> + +<p>I then reminded her of the stanchils, but she said "stanchils and +religion wuz two separate things." Which I couldn't deny, and didn't try +to. And she sot off for the school-house that evenin' a-walkin' a foot. +And the rest of her adventins and the adventins of Joe I will relate in +another epistol; and I will also tell whether the world come to an end +or not. I know folks will want to know, and I don't love to keep folks +in onxiety—it hain't my way.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> + +<a name="c15"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="061c15.jpg (104K)" src="images/061c15.jpg" height="732" width="580"> +</center> +<br><br> + + +<p> +CHAPTER XV.</p> + +<p> +Wall, from that night, Miss Trueman Pool attended to the meetins at the +Risley school-house, stiddy and constant. And before the week wuz out +Joe Charnick had walked home with her twice. And the next week he +carried her to Jonesville to get the cloth for her robe, jest like +his'n, white book muslin. And twice he had come to consult her on a +Bible passage, and twice she had walked up to his mother's to consult +with her on a passage in the Apockraphy. And once she went up to see if +her wings wuz es deep and full es his'n. She wanted 'em jest the same +size.</p> + +<p>Miss Charnick couldn't bear her. Miss Charnick wuz a woman who had +enjoyed considerble poor health in her life, and she had now, and had +been havin' for years, some dretful bad spells in her stomach—a sort of +a tightness acrost her chest. And Trueman's wife argued with her that +her spells had been worse, and her chest had been tighter. And the +old lady didn't like that at all, of course. And the old lady took +thoroughwert for 'em, and Trueman's wife insisted on't that thoroughwert +wuz tightenin'.</p> + +<p>And then there wuz some chickens in a basket out on the stoop, that the +old hen had deserted, and Miss Charnick wuz a bringin' 'em up by hand. +And Mother Chainick went out to feed 'em, and Trueman's wife tosted her +head and said, "she didn't approve of it—she thought a chicken ought to +be brung up by a hen."</p> + +<p>But Miss Charnick said, "Why, the hen deserted 'em; they would have +perished right there in the nest."</p> + +<p>But Trueman's wife wouldn't gin in, she stuck right to it, "that it wuz +a hen's business, and nobody else's."</p> + +<p>And of course she had some sense on her side, for of course it is a +hen's business, her duty and her prevelege to bring up her chickens. But +if she won't do it, why, then, somebody else has got to—they ought to +be brung. I say Mother Charnick wuz in the right on't. But Trueman's +wife had got so in the habit of findin' fault, and naggin' at me, and +the other relations on Trueman's side and hern, that she couldn't seem +to stop it when she knew it wuz for her interest to stop.</p> + +<p>And then she ketched a sight of the alpacker dress Jenette wuz a-makin' +and she said "that basks had gone out."</p> + +<p>And Miss Charnick was over partial to 'em (most too partial, some +thought), and thought they wuz in the height of the fashion. But +Trueman's wife ground her right down on it.</p> + +<p>"Basks <i>wuz out</i>, fer she knew it, she had all her new ones made +polenay."</p> + +<p>And hearin' 'em argue back and forth for more'n a quarter of an hour, +Jenette put in and sez (she thinks all the world of Mother Charnick), +"Wall, I s'pose you won't take much good of your polenays, if you have +got so little time to wear 'em."</p> + +<p>And then Trueman's wife (she wuz meen-dispositioned, anyway) said +somethin' about "hired girls keepin' their place."</p> + +<p>And then Mother Charnick flared right up and took Jenette's part. And +Joe's face got red; he couldn't bear to see Jenette put upon, if she wuz +makin' fun of his religeon. And Trueman's wife see that she had gone too +fur, and held herself in, and talked good to Jenette, and flattered up +Joe, and he went home with her and staid till ten o'clock.</p> + +<p>They spent a good deal of their time a-huntin' up passages, to prove +their doctrine, in the Bible, and the Apockraphy, and Josephus, and +others.</p> + +<p>It beat all how many Trueman's wife would find, and every one she found +Joe would seem to think the more on her. And so it run along, till folks +said they wuz engaged, and Josiah and me thought so, too.</p> + +<p>And though Jenette wuzn't the one to say anything, she begun to look +kinder pale and mauger. And when I spoke of it to her, she laid it to +her liver. And I let her believe I thought so too. And I even went so +fur as to recommend tansey and camomile tea, with a little catnip mixed +in—I did it fur blinders. I knew it wuzn't her liver that ailed her. I +knew it wuz her heart. I knew it wuz her heart that wuz a-achin'.</p> + +<p>Wall, we had our troubles, Josiah and me did. Trueman's wife wuz dretful +disagreeable, and would argue us down, every separate thing we tried to +do or say. And she seemed more high-headed and disagreeable than ever +sence Joe had begun to pay attention to her. Though what earthly good +his attention wuz a-goin' to do, wuz more than I could see, accordin' to +her belief.</p> + +<p>But Josiah said, "he guessed Joe wouldn't have paid her any attention, +if he hadn't thought that the world wuz a-comin' to a end so soon. He +guessed he wouldn't want her round if it wuz a-goin' to stand."</p> + +<p>Sez I, "Josiah, you are a-judgin' Joe by yourself." And he owned up that +he wuz.</p> + +<p>Wall, the mornin' of the 30th, after Josiah and me had eat our +breakfast, I proceeded to mix up my bread. I had set the yeast +overnight, and I wuz a mouldin' it out into tins when Trueman's wife +come down-stairs with her robe over her arm. She wanted to iron it out +and press the seams.</p> + +<p>I had baked one tin of my biscuit for breakfast, and I had kep 'em warm +for Trueman's wife, for she had been out late the night before to a +meetin' to Risley school-house, and didn't come down to breakfast. I +had also kep some good coffee warm for her, and some toast and steak.</p> + +<p>She laid her robe down over a chair-back, and sot down to her breakfast, +but begun the first thing to find fault with me for bein' to work on +that day. She sez, "The idee, of the last day of the world, and you +a-bein' found makin' riz biscuit, yeast ones!" sez she.</p> + +<p>"Wall," sez I, "I don't know but I had jest as soon be found a-makin' +riz biscuit, a-takin' care of my own household, as the Lord hes +commanded me to, as to be found a-sailin' round in a book muslin Mother +Hubbard."</p> + +<p>"It hain't a Mother Hubbard!" sez she.</p> + +<p>"Wall," sez I, "I said it for oritory. But it is puckered up some like +them, and you know it." Hers wuz made with a yoke.</p> + +<p>And Josiah sot there a-fixin' his plantin' bag. He wuz a-goin' out that +mornin' to plant over some corn that the crows had pulled up. And she +bitterly reproved him. But he sez, "If the world don't come to a end, +the corn will be needed."</p> + +<p>"But it will," she sez in a cold, haughty tone.</p> + + + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="062.jpg (158K)" src="images/062.jpg" height="693" width="638"> +</center> +<br><br> + + +<p>"Wall," sez he, "if it does, I may as well be a-doin' that as to be +settin' round." And he took his plantin' bag and went out. And then she +jawed me for upholdin' him.</p> + +<p>And sez she, as she broke open a biscuit and spread it with butter +previous to eatin' it, sez she, "I should think <i>respect</i>, respect for +the great and fearful thought of meetin' the Lord, would scare you out +of the idea of goin' on with your work."</p> + +<p>Sez I calmly, "Does it scare you, Trueman's wife?"</p> + +<p>"Wall, not exactly scare," sez she, "but lift up, lift up far above +bread and other kitchen work."</p> + +<p>And again she buttered a large slice, and I sez calmly, "I don't s'poze +I should be any nearer the Lord than I am now. He sez He dwells inside +of our hearts, and I don't see how He could get any nearer to us than +that. And anyway, what I said to you I keep a-sayin', that I think He +would approve of my goin' on calm and stiddy, a-doin' my best for the +ones He put in my charge here below, my husband, my children, and my +grandchildren." (I some expected Tirzah Ann and the babe home that day +to dinner.)</p> + +<p>"Wall, you feel very diffrent from some wimmen that wuz to the +school-house last night, and act very diffrent. They are good Christian +females. It is a pity you wuzn't there. P'raps your hard heart would +have melted, and you would have had thoughts this mornin' that would +soar up above riz biscuit."</p> + +<p>And as she sez this she begun on her third biscuit, and poured out +another cup of coffee. And I, wantin' to use her well, sez, "What did +they do there?"</p> + +<p>"Do!" sez she, "why, it wuz the most glorious meetin' we ever had. Three +wimmen lay at one time perfectly speechless with the power. And some of +em' screemed so you could hear 'em fer half a mile."</p> + +<p>I kep on a-mouldin' my bread out into biscuit (good shaped ones, too, if +I do say it), and sez calmly, "Wall, I never wuz much of a screemer. I +have always believed in layin' holt of the duty next to you, and doin' +<i>some</i> things, things He has <i>commanded</i>. Everybody to their own way. +I don't condemn yourn, but I have always seemed to believe more in the +solid, practical parts of religion, than the ornimental. I have always +believed more in the power of honesty, truth, and justice, than in the +power they sometimes have at camp and other meetins. Howsumever," sez I, +"I don't say but what that power is powerful, to the ones that have it, +only I wuz merely observin' that it never wuz <i>my</i> way to lay speechless +or holler much—not that I consider hollerin' wrong, if you holler from +principle, but I never seemed to have a call to."</p> + +<p>"You would be far better if you did," sez Trueman's wife, "far better. +But you hain't good enough."</p> + +<p>"Oh!" sez I, reasonably, "I could holler if I wanted to, but the Lord +hain't deef. He sez specilly, that He hain't, and so I never could see +the <i>use</i> in hollerin' to Him. And I never could see the use of tellin' +Him in public so many things as some do. Why He <i>knows</i> it. He <i>knows</i> +all these things. He don't need to have you try to enlighten Him as if +you wuz His gardeen—as I have heard folks do time and time agin. He +<i>knows</i> what we are, what we need. I am glad, Trueman's wife," sez I, +"that He can look right down into our hearts, that He is right there in +'em a-knowin' all about us, all our wants, our joys, our despairs, our +temptations, our resolves, our weakness, our blindness, our defects, our +regrets, our remorse, our deepest hopes, our inspiration, our triumphs, +our glorys. But when He <i>is</i> right there, in the midst of our soul, our +life, why, <i>why</i> should we kneel down in public and holler at Him?"</p> + +<p>"You would be glad to if you wuz good enough," sez she; "if you had +attained unto a state of perfection, you would feel like it."</p> + +<p>That kinder riled me up, and I sez, "Wall, I have lived in this house +with them that wuz perfect, and that is bad enough for me, without bein' +one of 'em myself. For more disagreeable creeters," sez I, a prickin' my +biscuit with a fork, "more disagreeable creeters I never laid eyes on."</p> + +<p>Trueman's wife thinks she is perfect, she has told me so time and +agin—thinks she hain't done anything wrong in upwards of a number of +years.</p> + +<p>But she didn't say nothin' to this, only begun agin about the wickedness +and immorality of my makin' riz biscuit that mornin', and the deep +disgrace of Josiah Allen keepin' on with his work.</p> + +<p>But before I could speak up and take his part, for I <i>will</i> not hear my +companion found fault with by any female but myself, she had gathered up +her robe, and swept upstairs with it, leavin' orders for a flatiron to +be sent up.</p> + +<p>Wall, the believers wuz all a-goin' to meet at the Risley school-house +that afternoon. They wuz about 40 of 'em, men and wimmen. And I told +Josiah at noon, I believed I would go down to the school-house to the +meetin'. And he a-feelin', I mistrust, that if they should happen to be +in the right on't, and the world should come to a end, he wanted to be +by the side of his beloved pardner, he offered to go too. But he never +had no robe, no, nor never thought of havin'.</p> + +<p>The Risley school-house stood in a clearin', and had tall stumps round +it in the door-yard. And we had heard that some of the believers wuz +goin' to get up on them stumps, so's to start off from there. And sure +enough, we found it wuz the calculation of some on 'em.</p> + +<p>The school-boys had made steps up the sides of some of the biggest +stumps, and lots of times in political meetin's men had riz up on 'em to +talk to the masses below. Why I s'poze a crowd of as many as 45 or 48, +had assembled there at one time durin' the heat of the campain.</p> + +<p>But them politicians had on their usual run of clothes, they didn't have +on white book muslin robes. Good land!</p> + +<br><br><br><br> + +<a name="c16"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="063c16.jpg (105K)" src="images/063c16.jpg" height="721" width="602"> +</center> +<br><br> + + +<p> +CHAPTER XVI.</p> + +<p> +Wall, lots of folks had assembled to the school-house when we got there, +about 3 o'clock P.M.—afternoon. Believers, and world's people, all +a-settin' round on seats and stumps, for the school-house wuz small and +warm, and it wuz pleasanter out-doors.</p> + +<p>We had only been there a few minutes when Mother Charnick and Jenette +walked in. Joe had been there for sometime, and he and the Widder Pool +wuz a-settin' together readin' a him out of one book. Jenette looked +kinder mauger, and Trueman's wife looked haughtily at her, from over the +top of the him book.</p> + +<p>Mother Charnick had a woosted work-bag on her arm. There might have been +a night gown in it, and there might not. It wuz big enough to hold one, +and it looked sort o' bulgy. But it wuz never known—Miss Charnick is a +smart woman. It never wuz known what she had in the bag.</p> + +<p>Wall, the believers struck up a him, and sung it through—as mournful, +skairful sort of a him as I ever hearn in my hull life; and it swelled +out and riz up over the pine trees in a wailin', melancholy sort of a +way, and wierd—dretful wierd.</p> + +<p>And then a sort of a lurid, wild-looking chap, a minister, got up and +preached the wildest and luridest discourse I ever hearn in my hull +days. It wuz enough to scare a snipe. The very strongest and toughest +men there turned pale, and wimmen cried and wept on every side of me, +and wept and cried.</p> + +<p>I, myself, didn't weep. But I drawed nearer to my companion, and kinder +leaned up against him, and looked off on the calm blue heavens, the +serene landscape, and the shinin' blue lake fur away, and thought—jest +as true as I live and breathe, I thought that I didn't care much, if God +willed it to be so, that my Josiah and I should go side by side, that +very day and minute, out of the certainties of this life into the +mysteries of the other, out of the mysteries of this life into +the certainties of the other.</p> + + + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="064.jpg (43K)" src="images/064.jpg" height="483" width="367"> +</center> +<br><br> + + +<p>For, thinks I to myself, we have got to go into that other world pretty +soon, Josiah and me have. And if we went in the usual way, we had got to +go alone, each on us. Terrible thought! We who had been together under +shine and shade, in joy and sorrow. Our two hands that had joined at the +alter, and had clung so clost together ever sence, had got to leggo of +each other down there in front of the dark gateway. Solemn gateway! So +big that the hull world must pass through it—and yet so small that the +hull world has got to go through it alone, one at a time.</p> + +<p>My Josiah would have to stand outside and let me go down under the dark, +mysterious arches, alone—and he knows jest how I hate to go anywhere +alone, or else I would have to stop at the gate and bid him good-by. And +no matter how much we knocked at the gate, or how many tears we shed +onto it, we couldn't get through till our time come, we had <i>got</i> to be +parted.</p> + +<p>And now if we went on this clear June day through the crystal gateway of +the bendin' heavens—we two would be together for weal or for woe. And +on whatever new, strange landscape we would have to look on, or wander +through, he would be right by me. Whatever strange inhabitants the +celestial country held, he would face 'em with me. Close, close by my +side, he would go with me through that blue, lovely gateway of the soft +June skies into the City of the King. And it wuz a sweet thought to me.</p> + +<p>Not that I really <i>wanted</i> the world to come to a end that day. No, +I kinder wanted to live along for some time, for several reasons: My +pardner, the babe, the children, etc.; and then I kinder like to live +for the <i>sake</i> of livin'. I enjoy it.</p> + +<p>But I can say, and say with truth, and solemnity, that the idee didn't +scare me none. And as my companion looked down in my face as the time +approached, I could see the same thoughts that wuz writ in my eyes +a-shinin' in his'n.</p> + +<p>Wall, as the pinter approached the hour, the excitement grew nearly, if +not quite rampant. The believers threw their white robes on over their +dresses and coats, and as the pinter slowly moved round from half-past +three to quarter to 4—and so on—they shouted, they sung, they prayed, +they shook each other's hands—they wuz fairly crazed with excitement +and fervor, which they called religion—for they wuz in earnest, nobody +could dispute that.</p> + +<p>Joe and Miss Pool kinder hung together all this time—though I ketched +him givin' several wistful looks at Jenette, as much as to say, "Oh, how +I hate to leave you, Jenette!"</p> + +<p>But Miss Pool would roust him up agin, and he would shout and sing with +the frienziedest and most zealousest of 'em.</p> + +<p>Mother Charnick stood with her bag in her hand, and the other hand on +the puckerin' string. I don't say what she had in the bag, but I do say +this, that she had it fixed so's she could have ondone it in a secont's +time. And her eyes wuz intent on the heavens overhead. But they kep +calm and serene and cloudless, nothin' to be seen there—no sign, no +change—and Ma Charnick kep still and didn't draw the puckerin' string.</p> + +<p>But oh, how excitement reined and grew rampant around that school-house! +Miss Pool and Joe seemin' to outdo all the rest (she always did try to), +till at last, jest as the pinter swung round to the very minute, Joe, +more than half by the side of himself, with the excitement he had been +in for a week, and bein' urged onto it by Miss Pool, as he sez to this +day, he jumped up onto the tall stump he had been a standin' by, and +stood there in his long white robe, lookin' like a spook, if anybody had +been calm enough to notice it, and he sung out in a clear voice—his +voice always did have a good honest ring to it:</p> +<center> +<table summary="poem"> +<tr><td> +<p> Farewell my friends,<br> + Farewell my foes;<br> + Up to Heaven<br> + Joe Charnick goes.</p> +</td></tr> +</table> + </center> +<p>And jest as the clock struck, and they all shouted and screamed, he +waved his arms, with their two great white wings a-flutterin', and +sprung upwards, expectin' the hull world, livin' and dead, would foller +him—and go right up into the heavens.</p> + +<p>And Trueman's wife bein' right by the stump, waved her wings and jumped +too—jest the same direction es he jumped. But she only stood on a camp +chair, and when she fell, she didn't crack no bones, it only jarred her +dretfully, and hurt her across the small of her back, to that extent +that I kep bread and milk poultices on day and night for three weeks, +and lobelia and catnip, half and half; she a-arguin' at me every single +poultice I put on that it wuzn't her way of makin' poultices, nor her +way of applyin' of 'em.</p> + + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="065.jpg (141K)" src="images/065.jpg" height="629" width="628"> +</center> +<br><br> + + +<p>I told her I didn't know of any other way of applyin' 'em to her back, +only to put 'em on it. But she insisted to the last that I didn't apply +'em right, and I didn't crumble the bread into the milk right, and the +lobelia wuzn't picked right, nor the catnip.</p> + +<p>Not one word did she ever speak about the end of the world—not a +word—but a-naggin' about everything else.</p> + +<p>Wall, I healed her after a time, and glad enough wuz I to see her +healed, and started off.</p> + +<p>But Joe Charnick suffered worse and longer. He broke his limb in two +places and cracked his rib. The bones of his arm wuz a good while +a-healin', and before they wuz healed he was wounded in a new place.</p> + +<p>He jest fell over head and ears in love with Jenette Finster. For bein' +shet up to home with his mother and her (his mother wouldn't hear to +Jenette leavin' her for a minute) he jest seemed to come to a full +realizin' sense of her sweet natur' and bright, obleegin' ways; and his +old affection for her bloomed out into the deepest and most idolatrous +love—Joe never could be megum.</p> + +<p>Jenette, and good enough for him, held him off for quite a spell—but +when he got cold and relapsted, and they thought he wuz goin' to die, +then she owned up to him that she worshipped him—and always had.</p> + +<p>And from that day he gained. Mother Charnick wuz tickled most to death +at the idea of havin' Jenette for her own girl—she thinks her eyes on +her, and so does Jenette of her. So it wuz agreeable as anything ever +wuz all around, if not agreeabler.</p> + +<p>Jest as quick as she got well enough to walk, and before he got out of +his bed, Trueman's wife walked over to see Joe. And Joe's mother hatin' +her so, wouldn't let her step her foot into the house. And Joe wuz glad +on't, so they say.</p> + +<p>Mother Charnick wuz out on the stoop in front of the house, when +Trueman's wife got there, and told her that they had to keep the house +still; that is, they say so, I don't know for certain, but they say that +Ma Charnick offered to take Trueman's wife out to see her chickens, the +ones she had brought up by hand, and Trueman's wife wantin' to please +her, so's to get in, consented. And Miss Charnick showed her the hull 14 +of 'em, all fat and flourishing—they wuz well took care of. And Miss +Charnick looked down on 'em fondly, and sez:</p> + +<p>"I lay out to have a good chicken pie the day that Joe and Jenette are +married."</p> + + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="066.jpg (67K)" src="images/066.jpg" height="569" width="546"> +</center> +<br><br> + + +<p>"Married!" sez Trueman's wife, in faint and horrified axcents. "Yes, +they are goin' to be married jest as soon as my son gets well enough. +Jenette is fixin' a new dress for me to wear to the weddin'—with a +bask," sez she with emphasis. And es she said it, they say she stooped +down and gathered some sprigs of thoroughwert, a-mentionin' how much +store she set by it for sickness.</p> + +<p>But if she did, Trueman's wife didn't sense it, she wuz dumbfoundered +and sot back by the news. And she left my home and board the week before +the weddin'.</p> + +<p>They had been married about a year, when Jenette wuz here +a-visitin'—and she asked me in confidence (and it <i>must</i> be kep, it +stands lo reason it must), "if I s'posed that book muslin robe would +make two little dresses?"</p> + +<p>And I told her, "Good land! yes, three on 'em," and it did.</p> + +<p>She dresses the child beautiful, and I don't know whether she would +want the neighbors to know jest what and when and where she gets the +materials—</p> + +<p>It looks some like her and some like Joe—and they both think their eyes +on it—but old Miss Charnick worships it—Wall, though es I said (and I +have eppisoded to a extent that is almost onprecidented and onheard on).</p> + +<p>Though Josiah Allen made a excuse of borrowin' a plow (a <i>plow</i>, that +time of night) to get away from my arguments on the Conference, and +Submit's kinder skairt face, and so forth, and so on—</p> + +<p>He resumed the conversation the next mornin' with more energy than ever. +(He never said nuthin' about the plow, and I never see no sign on it, +and don't believe he got it, or wanted it.)</p> + +<p>He resumed the subject, and kep on a-resumin' of it from day to day and +from hour to hour.</p> + +<p>He would nearly exhaust the subject at home, and then he would tackle +the wimmen on it at the Methodist Meetin' House, while we Methodist +wimmen wuz to work.</p> + +<p>After leavin' me to the meetin' house, Josiah would go on to the +post-office for his daily <i>World</i>, and then he would stop on his way +back to give us female wimmen the latest news from the Conference, and +give us his idees on't.</p> + + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="067.jpg (144K)" src="images/067.jpg" height="728" width="616"> +</center> +<br><br> + +<p>And sometimes he would fairly harrow us to the very bone, with his +dretful imaginins and fears that wimmen would be allowed to overdo +herself, and ruin her health, and strain her mind, by bein' permitted to +set!</p> + +<p>Why Submit Tewksbury, and some of the other weaker sisters, would look +fairly wild-eyed for some time after he would go.</p> + +<p>He never could stay long. Sometimes we would beset him to stay and do +some little job for us, to help us along with our work, such as liftin' +somethin' or movin' some bench, or the pulpit, or somethin'.</p> + +<p>But he never had the time; he always had to hasten home to get to work. +He wuz in a great hurry with his spring's work, and full of care about +that buzz saw mill.</p> + +<p>And that wuz how it wuz with every man in the meetin' house that wuz +able to work any. They wuz all in a hurry with their spring's work, and +their buzz saws, and their inventions, and their agencys, etc., etc., +etc.</p> + +<p>And that wuz the reason why we wimmen wuz havin' such a hard job on the +meetin' house.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> + +<a name="c17"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="068c17.jpg (99K)" src="images/068c17.jpg" height="732" width="576"> +</center> +<br><br> + + +<p> +CHAPTER XVII.</p> + +<p> +You see the way on't wuz: we had to do sumthin' to raise the minister's +salary, which wuz most half a year behindhand, to say nothin' of the +ensuin' year a-comin'. And as I have hinted at before but hain't gi'n +petickulers, the men in the meetin' house had all gi'n out, and said +they had gi'n every cent they could, and they couldn't and they wouldn't +do any more, any way.</p> + +<p>As I have said more formally, there wuz a hardness arozen amongst the +male brethern.</p> + +<p>Deacon Peedick thought he had gi'n more than his part in proportion, and +come right out plain and said so.</p> + +<p>And Deacon Bobbet said "he wuzn't the man to stand it to be told right +to his face that he hadn't done his share," and he said "he wuzn't the +man either, to be hinted at from the pulpit about things." I don't +believe he wuz hinted at, and Sister Bobbet don't And she felt like +death to have him so riz up in his mind, and act so. I know what the +tex' wuz; it wuz these words:</p> + +<p>"The Lord loveth a cheerful giver."</p> + +<p>The minister didn't mean nothin' only pure gospel, when he preached +about it. But it proved to be a tight-breasted, close-fittin' coat +to several of the male brothers, and it fitted 'em so well it fairly +pinched 'em.</p> + +<p>But there it wuz, Deacon Bobbet wouldn't gi'n a cent towards raisin' the +money. And there wuz them that said, and stuck to it, that he said "he +wouldn't give a <i>darn</i> cent."</p> + +<p>But I don't know as that is so. I wouldn't want to be the one that said +that he had demeaned himself to that extent.</p> + +<p>Wall, he wouldn't give a cent, and Peedick wouldn't give, and Deacon +Henzy and Deacon Sypher wouldn't. They said that there wuz certain +members of the meetin' house that had said to certain people suthin' +slightin' about buzz saws.</p> + +<p>I myself thought then, and think still, that the subject of buzz saws +had a great deal to do in makin' 'em act so riz up and excited. I +believe the subject rasped 'em, and made 'em nervous. But when these +various hardnesses aroze amongst some of the brethern, the rest of the +men kinder joined in with 'em, some on one side, and some on the other, +and they all baulked right out of the harness. (Allegory.) And there the +minister wuz, good old creeter, jest a-sufferin' for the necessities of +life, and most half a year's salery due.</p> + +<p>I tell you it looked dark. The men all said they couldn't see no way out +of the trouble, and some of the wimmen felt about so. And old Miss Henn, +one of our most able sisters, she had gi'n out, she wuz as mad as her +own sirname about how her Metilda had been used.</p> + +<p>The meetin' house had just hauled her up for levity. And I thought then, +and think now, that the meetin' house wuz too hard on Metilda Henn.</p> + +<p>She did titter right out in protracted meetin', Sister Henn don't deny +it, and she felt dretful bad about it, and so did I. But Metilda said, +and stuck to it, that she couldn't have helped laughin' if it had been +to save her life. And though I realized the awfulness of it, still, when +some of the brethern wuz goin' on dretful about it, I sez to 'em:</p> + +<p>"The Bible sez there is a time to laugh, and I don't know when that is, +unless it is when you can't help it."</p> + +<p>What she wuz a-laughin' at wuz this:</p> + +<p>There wuz a widder woman by the name of Nancy Lum that always come to +evenin' meetin's.</p> + +<p>She wuz very tall and humbly, and she had been on the look out (so it +wuz s'pozed) for a 3d husband for some time.</p> + +<p>She had always made a practice of saying one thing over and over to all +the protracted and Conference meetin's, and she would always bust out +a-cryin' before she got it all out.</p> + +<p>She always said "she wanted to be found always at the foot of the +Cross."</p> + +<p>She would always begin this remark dretful kinder loud and hysterical, +and then would dwindle down kinder low at the end on't, and bustin' out +into tears somewhere through it from first to last.</p> + +<p>But this evenin' suthin' had occurred to make her more hysterical and +melted down than usial. Some say it wuz because Deacon Henshaw wuz +present for the first time after his wive's death.</p> + +<p>But any way, she riz up lookin' awful tall and humbly—she was most a +head taller than any man there—and she sez out loud and strong:</p> + +<p>"I want to be found—"</p> + +<p>And then she busted right out a-cryin' hard. And she sobbed for some +time. And then she begun agin,</p> + +<p>"I want to be found—"</p> + +<p>And then she busted out agin.</p> + + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="069.jpg (157K)" src="images/069.jpg" height="680" width="613"> +</center> +<br><br> + + +<p>And so it went on for some time—she a-tellin' out ever and anon loud +and firm, "that she wanted to be found—" and then bustin' into tears.</p> + +<p>Till finally Deacon Henshaw (some mistrust that he is on the point of +gettin' after her, and he always leads the singin' any way) he struck +right out onto the him—</p> + +<p> "Oh, that will be joyful!"</p> + +<p>And Sister Lum sot down.</p> + +<p>Wall, that wuz what made Metilda Henn titter. And that was what made me +bring forward that verse of scripter. +That the Bible said "'there wuz a time to laugh,' and I didn't know when +it wuz unless it wuz when you couldn't help it—"</p> + +<p>But I didn't say it to uphold Metilda—no, indeed. I only said it +because they wuz so bitter on her, and laid the rules of the meetin' +house down on her so heavy.</p> + +<p>But Josiah said, "What would become of the meetin' house if it didn't +punish its unruly members?"</p> + +<p>And I sez to Josiah, "Do you remember the case of Deacon Widrig over in +Loontown. He wuz rich and influential, and when he wuz complained of, +and the meetin' house sot on him, they sot light, and you know it, +Josiah Allen. And he was kep in the church, the meen old creeter. And +Miss Henn is a widder and poor."</p> + +<p>"Yes," sez Josiah, calmly, "she hain't been able to help the meetin' +house much, and Brother Widrig contributes largely."</p> + +<p>Sez I, in a fearful meanin' axent, "I hearn he did at the time he wuz +up—I hearn he contributed <i>lots</i> to the male brethren who was a-judgin' +him—but," sez I, "do you spoze, Josiah Allen, that if wimmen wuz +allowed their way in the matter, that that man would be allowed to stay +in the meetin' house, and keep on a-makin' and a-sellin' the poisen that +is sendin' men to ruin all round him—</p> + +<p>"Makin' his hard cider by the barell and hogset and fixin' it some way +so it will make a far worse drunk than whiskey, and then supplyin' every +low saloon fur and near with it, and peddlin' it out to every man and +boy that wants it.</p> + +<p>"And boys think they can drink cider without doin' any harm—so he jest +entices 'em down into the road to ruin—doin' as much agin harm as a +whiskey seller.</p> + +<p>"And mothers have to set still and see it go on. It is men that are +always appinted to deal with sinners, male or female. Men are judged by +their peers, but wimmen never are.</p> + +<p>"I wonder if that is just? I wonder how Deacon Widrig would have liked +it to have had Miss Henn set on him? He wuz dretful excited, so I hearn, +about Metilda's case—thought it wuz highly incumbient on the meetin' +house to have her made a example of, so's to try to abolish such wicked +doin's as snickerin' out in meetin'.</p> + + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="070.jpg (119K)" src="images/070.jpg" height="636" width="623"> +</center> +<br><br> + + +<p>"I wonder how he would have liked it to have had Charley Lanfear's +mother set on him? She is a Sister in the meetin' house and Charley is +a ruined boy—and Deacon Widrig is jest as much the cause of his ruin— +jest as guilty of murderin' all that wuz sweet and lovely in him es if +he had fed arsenic to him with a teaspoon."</p> + +<p>Sez I, "In that very meetin' house to Loontown, there are mothers who +have to set and take the bread and wine tokens of the blood and body of +their crucified Redeemer from a man's hands that they know are red +with the blood of their own sons. Fur redder than human blood and +deeper-stained with the ruin of their immortal souls.</p> + +<p>"What thoughts does these mothers keep on a-thinkin' as they set there +and see a man guilty of worse than murder set up as a example to other +young souls? What thoughts do they keep on a-thinkin' of the young +hearts that wuz pure before this man laid holt of 'em. Young eyes that +wuz true and tender till this man made 'em look on his accursed drink. +Young lips that smiled on their mothers till he gin 'em that that +changed the smiles to curses?</p> + +<p>"Would a delegation of wimmen keep such a man in the meetin' house if he +paved the hull floor with fine gold? No, you know they wouldn't. Let a +jury of mothers set on such a man, and see if he could get up agin very +easy.</p> + +<p>"They are the ones who have suffered by him, who have agonized, who went +down into deeper than the Valley of Death led by his hand. They went +down into that depth where they lose their boy. Lose him eternally.</p> + +<p>"Death, jest death, would give 'em a chance to meet their child again. +But what hope does a mother have when down in the darkness that has +no mornin', her boy tears his hand from her weak grasp and plunges +downward?</p> + +<p>"How does such a mother feel as she sets there in a still meetin' house, +and the man who has done all this passes her the emblems of a deathless +love, a divine purity?"</p> + +<p>Josiah sat demute and, didn't say nuthin', and I went on, for I wuz very +roze up in my mind, and by the side of myself with emotions.</p> + +<p>And sez I, "Take the case of Simeon Lathers. Why wuz it that Sister +Irene Filkins wuz turned out of the meetin' house and the man who wuz +the first cause of her goin' astray kep in—the handsome, +smooth-faced hypocrite?—it wuz because he wuz rich as a Jew, and jest +plastered over the consciences of them that tried him with his fine +speeches and his money."</p> + + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="071.jpg (133K)" src="images/071.jpg" height="649" width="616"> +</center> +<br><br> + + +<p>"Fixed over the meetin' house there in Zoar, built a new steeple, a +towerin' one. If wimmen had had their way, that steeple would have +pinted the other way."</p> + +<p>Josiah looked up from Ayers' Almanac, which he wuz calmly perusin', and +sez he,</p> + +<p>"How a steeple would look a-pintin' down!"</p> + + + +<br><br><hr><br><br> + + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Samantha Among the Brethren, Part 4. +by Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley) + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SAMANTHA AMONG THE BRETHREN, *** + +***** This file should be named 9446-h.htm or 9446-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/9/4/4/9446/ + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, David Widger and PG Distributed +Proofreaders + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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