Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1884 — The Borrowing Family. [ARTICLE]

The Borrowing Family.

The borrowing family sent their boy Jack over te Mrs. Murphy’s to borrow porno tea and sugar and a plate ®f butter. Mrs. Murphy was busy, and had ho inclination to lend to neighbors who’ never returned anything they borrowed. At the a June t me she did nc4 care to entSmy bfl end them. fcMM.be glad to accommodate yees,” (foetald, politely, “but, oi’m in a hurry addhaven’t the time to wait on ye. I’ve other fish to fry just now. ” j . The boy went home andseported that Mrs. , Murphy was too busy to attend io him, and had other fish to fry, etc. 4 And why didn’t ye wait,” asked his breathlesly. “Go back and take another plate with you and tell Mistress Murphy yon’Y in no hurry, and mother’d be much obliged to her for a plate of the fried fish!”— Detroit Fret Press. Emily Faithfull says: “There is no country in the world in which husbands are so good, so kind, and so affectionate, as in the United States.” This is looked upon ta a modest way of making a leap-year oiler.