OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES 



rear, and with half -rounded ends. The high- 

 backed seat is supported upon a V-shaped 

 framework of ash, and covered over with a 

 yellow Buffalo skin, of which the fur is half 

 worn away. An oaken firkin is presently 

 lifted in, with a white linen cloth shut down 

 under its cover, and a corner of the buffalo 

 turned over it to shield it from the dust and 

 the sunshine. Then comes a bushel basket of 

 eggs, packed in rowen hay; next the great 

 clothes-basket, covered with a table cloth, in 

 which lie the two hind quarters of a veal killed 

 yesterday, (the fore quarters being kept for 

 home consumption). In the corner of the 

 wagon is thrust a squat jug— its stopper being 

 a corn-cob wrapped around with newspaper 

 — which is to be filled with 'Tort o' reek" 

 molasses. Then, at last, Jerusha, the wife, 

 in silver spectacles, and Sunday gown, clam- 

 bers in — a stout woman, with her waist belted 

 in, after a loose sausage-like way — who has 

 a last word for her "darter" Sally Ann, and 

 then another last word, and who cautions Enos 

 (her husband) about "turnin' too short," and 

 who a,sks if the mare "an't gittin' kind o' 

 frisky with the spring weather?" 



So they drive away — Enos and Jerushy. 

 They talk of the new "howsen" along the way; 



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