Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1901 — Norah’s Subterfuge. [ARTICLE]

Norah’s Subterfuge.

The kitchen maid thrust her head inside the door of the family sittingroom and called out: Mrs. Sthrahng, the cockroaches is thick in the panthry ah’ the chiny closet! What’ll I do wid ’em, mem?” “Cockroaches, Norah?” exclaimed Mrs. Strong, much displeased. “How does it happen that you have allowed them to become so numerous?” “They kim here from Mrs. Pairkins’s, mem, next door,” mentioning the name of a neighbor with whom her mistress was not on very good terms. “Come from Mrs. Perkins’s, did they?” said Mrs. Strong, considerably mollified. “Well, I don’t blame them! They’d starve to death in that house 1” —Youth’s Companion.