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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1872-05-31, Page 2AUNT PEN'S. FUNERAL Poor Aunt Pen! Item wry to say it, bat for a peison alight and well---Itoleably well and -very much alivejthat is—she did use to make the greateete busineet of dying I Alive ! ythee‘twhen she Was stretch- ed out oh the sofa, after an agony of asthrea, or indigestion, or whatever, , and had called us all about her with faltering and tears, and was appar- ently at her last gasp, she would sud- denly rise, like herowri ghoet, at the sound of a second ringing of the, door -belle which, our little renegade Israel had failed to answer, and de- clare if she could only once lay bandit on Israel she -would box his ears till they heard ! For the door -bell was, perhaps, among many, one Of Aunt Pen's weakest points. She knew every- body in town, as you might say. She was exceedingly - entertaining to every body .outside the family. , She was a great- favorite with every body. Countless. gossips came to see her, tinkling at the door -bell and hated individually by Isms', brought her all the news, heard all the previous ones had brought, ad- • -mired her, praised her,. pitied her, ' listened to her, and went away key- ing her tin such satisfied mood that she did not dieany mote that. rie.y. • And as they went away they' alwaters paused at the door to say to some 4 one of us Whet a cheerful invalid Aunt Pen had made herself, and what a nest of sunbeams her room alwaya. was, a.ncl whata lesson her patience and endurance ought to be..' - But, oh dear me, how very little they knew about it all ! - We all lived together, as it hap- pened; -for when we children were left alone wieh but a small income, Aunt E'en—who was also alone, and only ofive years' my senior—wrote • wordthat we might as Well come th her house in the city, for it wouldn't make expenses more, and might • make them less if we divided them; and then, too, she said .she would al- ways be sure of one out of three bright and reasonable nurses. Poor Aunt Pen 1 perhaps the didn't find us either so bright or • so reasonable as she had expected, for we used to think that in her lessi"degree she ‘cejl went on the same pri i letwith the crazy man who declar d all the rest of the *world except hit:Itself insane. In honest truth, as doctor after doctor was turned away by the im- patient, and distempered woman up • stairs, each One todk occasion to say to us down stairs that our attnes ill- ness was of that nature that all the physic -it required was to have her • fancies humored, and that we never need give ourselves •any uneasiness, foe she would doubtless live to. a good cid age, unless sorne•acute dis- ease should intervene, as there was nothing at all the matter with her • except a slight nervous sensitive- ness, that never destroyed any body. I suppose we were a set of young heathens, for really there were times; if yen will believe it, when that was not the inost_reassuring statement in the world. • . \ However. Sometimes Aunt Pen • found a doctoit or a medicine, or a _course of diet, or something, that • gave he great sensations of relief, and then she would come down, and go about the 'house, and praise our administration, and say every thing thing went twice es far as it used to go before we came, and tell us delightful • stories of our mother's housewifely • skill, and be quite herself again; and she Would make the ta.ble ring with laughing, and give charming little tea-parties; and then we all did wish that Aunt Pen would live forever—and be clown stairs. But probably the next day, after one of •t, the tea-parties, oysters- or' claret puech or hot cakes, or all toe -ether, • had wrought their d'Alene, and the • doctor was sent for, and the warm-. • ing-pan wos brought out, and there •Was - another six week's seige, in which, obeyed by every one, and 'physicked by herself, andsympath- ized with to her heart's content by callers, and shut np in a hot room with the windows full of floveering ' plants-, and somebody reading end- • less novels to her with, the lights - burning all night long—if she was- • n't ill she had every reason to be, • and nothing bet an indomitable con- stitution hindered -it. It was per- • fectly idle for us to tell her she was• herself; it only made .her very indignant with us,andmore • determined than ever' to persist in doing so. t Of course,: then; the longer Aunt Pen staid in -her room the worse she really did get, and her nerves, with •Iconfinement and worry and relaxa- tion, would by -and by be in a condi- • tion for any sort of an Outburst if we attempted the least reasoning with her. She would become, for one thing, as sleepless as an owl; then she was thoroughly sure she was go- • ing to be insane, and down would go the hydrate of ohloral till the doctor forbade it on pain of death. After the chloral, too, such horrid eyes as she had! the eyes, you know, that chloral always leaves—inflam- ed, purple, swollen, heavy, crying, ' and good for anything but seeing. •THE HURON EXPOSITOR. MAY 31 1872. Immediately then Aunt Pen went into a new tantrum • she watt going to be stone-blind, and dependent on three heartless hussies for all her mereies in this life; but no, thank goodn4e5s ! she had friends that We* see that she did not go abso- latelY te the wall, and would never suffer her fe be int potted on by a parcel of girls 'who didn't care whether she lived. or died—who perhaps would rather she did die—who stood open- handed for her bequests ;she would. leave her money to the almshouse, and if we wanted it we could go and get it there 1 And after that, to be sure, Aunt Pen would have a fit of remorse for her words, and confess her sin chokingly, and have us all • come separately and forgive her, and would say she was the wretched - est woma,mon the face of the earth, that she should live undesired till her friends were all tired, and then die unlamented; and would burst into tears and cry herself into a tear- ing headache, and have ice on her head and a blister on the back of her neck, and be quite confident that now she was really going off with 'congeseion of the brain. '- After that, for a day or ,wo, she would be in 'a heavenly frame of mind with the blister, and cabbage leaves and simple cerate, and a couple of mirrors by which to exam- ine the rise and fall of the blister, • and having had a hint of real iltness, • she would consent quite smilingly to the act of convalescence, and a descent•to the healthy regiesns of the parlors once.more. • But nb sooner were we all gay and happy in the house again, running out as we pleased, beginning to • think of •parties and drives and theatres and all enjoyment—and rather unobservant, as young folks are apt to be unobservant, of Aunt Pen'tt slight habitual pensiveness in the absence of guest § or excitentent, and of her ways generally—than Aunt Pen would Challenge some lobster-ealad to mortal combat, and, of course, come out floored by the colic. A little whisky then and as a little gave much ease, she would try a great deal. The result always was a precipitate retreat up stairs, a howling hysteric, bilious cramps, the doctor, a subcutaneous injection of morphine in her arm; then chat- tering like • a magpie, relapse into awful silenee, and, convinced that the morphine had been carried straight to her heart, a composing of her hands and feet, an injuled , dis- miesal of eery soul from the room, with the assurance that we should find her straight and stiff and etone- e • dead in the morning. mouldering away into dust like count on4clay. She had sent Maria down for Mel and me to come up stairs with what- ever occupied US; for she was con- vinced that she was failing fast, and knew we should regret it if we did not havelhe last of her. As we had receiyed the same message nearly every day during the last three or four weeks, we did not feel extraor- dinarily alarmed, but composedly took our baskets and sciesors, and trudged along after Marie. "I a.D1 sure I ought to be glad that I've succeeded in training my nieces into such industrious habits," said Aunt Pen, after a little while, looking at Mel; "but I should think that when a near, relative ap- proached the point of death, the fact might throw needle and thread into the background for a time." Then she paused for Maria to fana little more breath into her. "It's differ- ent with Helen," soon she said; "the 'white silk shawl she is netting for me may be needed at any moment to lay me out in." - "Dear me, Aunt Pen !" cried Mel; what a picture you'd be, laid out in a white net shawl 3" For the • doctor had told us to laugh at these whims all we might. "Oh, you heartless girl !" said Aunt Pen. "To think of pictures at such a time 1" And she closed her eyes as if weary of the world. . " I never saw any body who liked to revel in the ghastly the way you do, Aunt Pen.", Mel 1" said •Asunt Pen, with quite a show a color in her cheek, "1 thall send yon down stairs." Do," said Mei; "where I can cut my gown in peace." "Cutting a gown at the bedside of the dying! Are you cold-blooded, or are you inseneible r "Aunt Pen," said Mel, leaning on the point of her scissors, "you know very well that I have to make my own dresses, or go without them. And 'you have kept me running your idle errands, up and down two flights of .stairs, to the doctor's and the druggist's, and goodness knows where andall, till I haven't a thread of any thing that is fic to be seen, You've been posturing this grand finale -of yours, too, all the last three, weeks, and it's time you had it perfect now; and you must let .mealone till I get my gown done." "It will do to wear at my funeral," said Aunt Pen, bitterly, as she con- cluded. . "No, it won't," said Mel, dogged- ly; " It's red." • "Red !" cried Aunt Pen, sudden- ly- opening her eyes, and half rising on one hand. "What in wonder have .yon bought a red dress for? You ere. quite aware that I can't bear the least intimation of the color. My nerves are in such a state that a shred of red makes me—" i" You won't see it, you know," said Mel, in what did seem to me an unfeeling =inner. "'No," said Aunt Pen. "Very true. 1 sha'n't see it. But what," edded she, presently, snapping open her eyes, " considered as •a mere piece of economy, you baught a red dress for, when you are immediately going into black, passes common sense to conjecture You had better send it down and have it dyed at once before you cut •it, for the shrinkage will spoil it forever if you dente" • • ".Much black I shall go into," said Mel. ;' \ Maria laughed. Aunt Pen cried. " &mat Pen," said the cruel Mel, "if you were going to die you would- n't be crying.. Dying people have no tears to shed, the doctors say." • " Sornebodk ought to cry," said -poor Aunt Pen, witheringly. "Don't talk to me about doctors," she continued, after a silence interrupted only by the snipp;ng of the scissors. "They area set of quacks. They • know nothing. I will have all the doctors in town at my funeral for pall -bearers. It will be a satire too delicate for , them to appreciate, though. Speaking of that occasion, Helen," she went on, turning to me as a possible ally, "1 have so many friends that I suppose the house will be full." • " Wouldn't you. enjoy it more from church, auntie '? ' said I. "Ob, you hard and wicked girls !" she cried. "You're all alike. Listen • to inc! If you won't hear my wishes, you must take my commands. Now, in the first place, I want the parlors to be overflowing with flowers, literally lined with flowers. I don't care how much money it takes; there'll be enough left for you_ more than you deserve. 4nd t Want you to be very sure that I'm not to lie exposed unless I look exactly as I'd like to look. You're to put ray white silk that I was to have been married in, and my veil, anJ the false' orange blossoms. , • They r all in the third deawer of the press, and the key's on my chatelaine. And if—it--well," said Aunt Pen, more, to herself than us, if he comes, he'll understand. The Bride of Death." After that she did not say any more for some minutes; and we were We nevei did. For, as we sel- dom had ea opportu.nitty of an uti- disturbed night's rest, we usually took her at her -word if any •access of ill temper, or despair, or drowsiness occasioned banishment from the presence. Not that we had always been so calm about it; there was a tinte when we were ex- cited with every alarm, thrown into flurries andpanics quite to Aunt Pen's mincle_running after the doc- tor at t wo-o'clock of the morning, building a fire itt the range ourselves at midnight to make gruel for her, rubbing her till we rubbed the skin off our .hands, combing her hair till we went to sleep standing, but Aunt Fen had cried wolf so long, and the doctors had all declared so stoutly that there was no wolf, that oui once soft hearts had become quite bard and concrete. , When at last Aunt Pen -had had an alarm from nearly every illness for which thee pharmacopceia pre- scribes, and .she knew that neither we nor the doctors would listen to the probability of their recurrence, she had an attack of "sinking." No, there was no particular disease, he used to say, -only sinking; she had heen 'pulled- down to an extent from which she had no strength to re- cuperate ; she was only sinking, a little weaker to -day than she was yesterday—only sinking. But Atunt Pen at a very good breakfast , of boiled birds and toast and coffee; a very good lunch of cold meats and dainties, and a great. goblet of thick cream; and a very good, dinner of soup and roast and vegetebles and , dessert, and perhaps a chicken bone at eleven 'o'clock in the evening. And when the saucy little Israel, who cerried up her tray, heard her say that she was sinking' he remark- • ed that it was because of' the load on her stomach. One day, I remember, Aunt Pen was very much -worse than usual. • We were all in her‘room, a sunshiny place which she had connected with the adjoining one by sliding -doors, so that it might be big enough for us all to bring our work on Occasion - and make it lively for her. She had on a white cashmere dressing -gown triramed with swan's-down, and she layamong the luxurious cushions of blue lounge, with a paler blue blanket, which she had one . of us trIcot for her, lying over her feet, and altogether she looked very ideal and ethereal; for Aunt Pen always did have such an eye to pictmesque • effect that I don't know how she could • ever consent to the idea of, all silent and sorry, and Mel was fidgeting in a riot of repentance ;ewe had never, either ot us, heard a word of any romance of Aunt Pen's be- fore. We began to imagine that there might be some excuse for the overthrow of Aunt Pen's nervoes system, some reality in the over- throw. You. will leave this ring on my finger," said she, by-and-by. "If Chauncey Read comes, and wants it, he will take it off. It will fit his finger ak well now, I suppose, as'it diel when he wore it befme he grave it to me." • Then Aunt Pen bit her lip and shut her eyes, and seem- ed to be slipping off into a gentle sleep. "By -the -way 1" said she, sudden- • ly, sitting upright on the lounge, "1 won't have the horses from Brown's livery—" " The what, auntie r "The horses for the cortege. You know Brown puts that magnificent ?van of his in the hearse on account of their handsome action. I'm sure " Mrs. Gaylard would have been frightened to death if she could only have seen the wayf they pranced at her funeral last fall. I was deter- mined then that they never should draw me • " and Aunt Pen shivered for herself beforehand. "And I can't have them from Timlines, for the same reason," said she. "All his animals are skittish; and you re- tuember when a pair of them took fright and dashed away from the procession and ran straight to the river, and there'd have been four other funerals if the schooner at the whart hadn't stopped the runaways. And Timlins has a way, too, of let- ting white horses follow the hearse with the first mourning -coach, and it's very bad luck, very—an ill otnen, a prophecy of Death and the Pale Horse again, won't have them said Aunt Pen, the greatest ex Isaac the Jew." ‘f Well, aunti fal of her late see but you'll Shank's mare." Even Aunt "Don't you rea ing to lose me, " No, auntie," all think you are a hypo." "A hypo" " Not a hypocrite," said Mel, "but a hypochondriac." "1 wish I were," sighed Aunt Pen; "1 wish I were. I should have some hope of myself then," said the poor inconsistent innocent. " Oh no, no ; I feel it only too well; I am going fast. You will all re- gret your disbelief when I am gone ;" and she lay back among her pillows. That retain& me," she murmured, presently. "About my Monument." "Oh, Aunt Pen do be still 1' said "No," said Aunt Pen, firmly; "it may he a disagreeable duty, but that is all the better reason for me to bring my mind to it. And if I don't attend to it now, it never will be attended to. I know what rela- tives are. They put down a slab of slate with a skull and cross -bones scratched on it, and think they've done their duty. Not that I mean any reflections on you; you're all well-meaning, but you're giddy. I shall haunt you if you do anything of the kind I No, you may send Mr. Mason up here this afternoon, and I will go over his designs with -him. I am going to have carved Carrara marble, set in a base of polished Scotch granite, and the in- scription is— Girls 1" cried Aunt Pen, rising and clasping her knees with unexpected energy, "1 expi•ess- ly forbid my age being printed in the paper, or on the lid, or on the stone 1 I won't gratify every gos- sip in town, that I won't ! I shall take real pleasure in baffling- their curiosity. And another thing, while 1. am about it, don't you ask Torn Maltby to my funeral, or let him come in,' if he comes himself, on any account whatever. I should rise in my shroud if he approached me. Yes, I should! Tom Maltby may be all very well; I dare say he is; and I hope I die at peace with him and all mankind, as a good' Chris - tier. shoalcl. I forgive him.; yes, certainly, I forgive him ; but it doesn't follow that I need forgethim ; and, so long as I remember him, the way he conclacted in buying the pew over my head I can't get over, dead or alive. And if I only do get well we shall have a reckoning that will make his hair stand on end—that he • may rely on !" And here Aunt took the fan from Maria, and moved it actively, till she remembered het - self, when she resigned it. "One thing more," she said. "Whatever happens, Helen, don't let me be kept over Sunday. There'll certain- ly be another death in the family withim the year if you do. If -I die on Saturday, there's no help for it. Common decency won't let you shove me into the ground at once, and so you will have to make up your minds for a second summons." And Aunt Pen, contemplating the suttee of some one of us with great Philoso- phy, lay down and closed her eyes now. And I Shuses either," 'for he is simply rtion.er since old ," said Mel, forget- epentance, "I don't have to go with Pen laughed then. y think you are go - els I" asked she. eplied Maria. "We again. " You Might bave it by torch -light on Sunday hight,though," said she, half opening them. "That would be very pretty." And then she dropped off to sleep with such a satisfied expression of countenance that we judged her to be welcoming in imagination the guests at her last rites herself, Whatever the dream was, she was rudely roused from it by the wretch- ed little Israel, who came bounding up the stairs, geld, without word or warning, burst into the room, al- rfeost white with horror. Why Israel was afraid I can't conjecture, but, at any rate, a permanent fright would ,have been of great personal ad.vant- age to him. "Oh, ma'am! oh, miss 1 dere's a pusson down stair, a cullud woman, wid der small -pox I" he ahnost whistlecrin his alarm. "With the small -pox 1" cried Aunt Pen, springing into the mid- dle of the floor, regardless of her late repose in artioulo mortis. "Go 'away, Israel! Have you been near her? Put her out immediately'? How on earth did she get them r "You allus telled me to let every body in," chattered Lsrael. "Put her out 1 put her out 1" cried Aunt Pen, half dancing with impatience. "We can't get her out. She's right acrost der door -step. We's feared ter tea] her.". .But., Aunt Pen's head was out of the window, and she was shouting. "Police! fire 1 murder! thieves 1" possibly in the order of importance • of the four calamities, but quite as if she had a plenty of breath loft; and, for a wonder, the police came to the rescue, and directly afterward an ambulance took the poor victim of the frightful epidemic to the hos- pital. I believe it turned out to be only measles after all, though." Rtin, Israel 1" screamed Aunt Pen then ; "run instantly and bring home a couple of poupds of roll - brimstone, and tell the maids to riddle the furnace ire and make it as bright and hot as possible, and to light fires in the parlor grates, lind in the old Latrobe, and in every room in the house, without losing a minute, We'll make this house too warm for it!" And, to our amazement, as soon as Israel came darting back with the irctpish material, .A tint Pen took a piece in each hand, directed us to do the same, and wrapping the blue afghan round her shoulders, descend- ed to the lower rooms three steps at a time, sent for the doctor to come and vaccinate us, and having set a chair precisely over the register -where a red hot stream' of air was pouring up, the placed herself -upon it and issued her orders. Every windtw was closed, every grate from basement to attic had a fire lighted in it, and little pansof brimstone were burning in every room and hall in the house, while we, astonished,indigetant,frightened, and amused, sat enduring the tor- ments of vapor and sulphur baths to the point of suffocation. ing twisted behind him as be wene to such extent that you might have supposed he had had his neck wrung. Well, we put the white silk and the tulle on Aunt Pen. after all; yellow as it was, she would haven other—only fresh, natural, orange bloisoms in place of the false wreath. And if we had not so often had her word for it in past times, we never should have taken her for anything but the gayest bride, the -most alive and happy woman, , in. the world. They returned to the old house frora their wedding journey, and we all live together in great peace and pleasantness. But though three years hive passed and gone since Chauncey Read came home aue brought a new atmosphere with hint into all our lives, Aunt Pen Lae never had a sick day yet; and we find that any allusion to her funeral gives her such a superstitious trem- bling that we are pleased to believe it indefinitely postponed, and by tacit and mutual consent we never say anything about it. I can't bear this another mo- ment," wheezed Mel. "It's the only way," replied Aunt Pen, serenely, with a rivulet trick- ling down her nose. "You. kill 'the germs by heat, and since we can't bake ourselves quite to death, we make sure of the work by the fumes." Anct as she sat there, her face rubicund, her ewan's-downstraight, drops on her cheeks, her chin, her forehead, and whereier drops could cling, her eyes watering, her curls limp, and an atmosphere of unbear- able odor enveloping her in its cloud, the front -door opened, and a foot- step rung .on the tiles. Jess you keep out o' year !" yel- led Israel to the intruder, seeing it wasn't the doctor. " We's got teler small -pox, and am a -killing deagena- mens--," • Pen !" cried a man's voice through the smoke—a deep, melo- dious voice. "What 31 exclaimed Aunt Pen, starting up, and then pausing, as if • she fancied the .horrid fumes might have befogged her brain. - e Pen!" the voice cried again. " Chatmcey ! Chauncey Read 1" she shrieked. "Where do you come from Am I dreaming'" "..From the North Pacific," answered the voice; and we dimly discerned its owner groping his way forward. "From the five years' whaling voyage into which I was gagged and dragged—shanghaied, they call it Oh, Pen, I didn't dare to hope I should find—" "Oh, Chauncey, is it your she cried, and fell fainting at his feet. 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And NORTHROP & LYMAN, Newcastle, Ont., Sole Agents for the DOIrkiniOR. NOTE.--Electiic--Selected and Electrized. Sold in Seaforth by E. Hickson & Co. and B. Lumsden. • The Great Ve+male Remedy. J.033. ItIOSES' 1>Z1110DXCAT, TEEM invaluable medicine is unfailhrg 'es cnre of all those piiinful and dangerous diseaseS .ihjahthierd:enstituti°1issusbtrieectirQPItroderstcsanexcesandrenaove8alobn4 audaeieea:uremayhereliea0h. 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E. iSeaforth by Hickson & 1.1.LaraaC0197=1.45 iC Our a bss so touch ceutlyr Nvorn out or etie ,Western, P ..--The only citizens of Calhou eying tinware to t lege dogs. The trolled that when ail oyster- ca. backs up aud wal i0 it on. a.— A inan in B tits trained his iete to market f salt is, that whe ineengry,,,he picks and vans -with it t Expecting a meal — Blunders a as for instaace ; peer woman eem and still continei little satisfactory --That was a ter in which it w 41 a public brea.kf members of the E will be held this --- They still will be seen in t -"One who wish what he knows. test way to raise oprn." A mammoth window was labe ; Bred by -nor vaqua ; Long Joh hill.'' ttSoraebody wr Lowell aOuricr,, thod of preserving osopher advised ixTna for pound, If. Gs' arecipe Cut in -strips not -*preld them out o for three clays, an vinua.mon, and pa.c vith sawdust." —The agrieu cussing the hes ing—fortand-aft free country ev permitted to en to the dictates science. — A conches suicide is that impoliteness to are sent for. --The edite fool as to pub' made nobody in ed to abandon VOW engaged it labor of peddli There is stunt the fellow's e that every gen an instinctive ---,It is ba wife-e—no gen mornings to bu' --The folio Ash atentrzeten ago. A nuteile 44 the old joke in this Count Old John just died at Bn was, it is said, full of anecdote WAS once arinki Enid toon of Foi (A its finality, ti teer has not John, won)i Asie a weak crab. • —A happe:1 eeriting to t about his lealt old, nine inc two pounds, its beauty, nem — A -voice ton Terntor wives 1" and - -gPmlele " Tak — A beani young lady h in Philadelt and aecompl little leathel xesistilt) y swi —A fennel presented Jee one of hisleT, unsuspecting following pal One r6 Gone Steppe" 'Cause Poor li Smashf In thy, Busine4 A Mgai -The Bra lengthy a Young Eng at the hotel• l wn, who fortunate vi an lament particulars I About two ing his natal a painter le Mr. Noble) ward a yoi shop where that shewe aeknowiede at Mrs. Brt apparently, could wish noweeee 'They had lehen his 6, "jiving in