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"She's got a high fever. That's 'a all the fu'ther I can go now. What it may turn to till morning, I can't tell TILL morning. Give her these powders every hour, without she's sleeping. That's the most that she needs just now." "Yes, if she can keep them powders down," said Mr. Getz, doubtfully. "She can't keep nothin' with her." "Well, keep on giving them, anyhow. She's a pretty sick child."
Getz suddenly said, fixing on her a suspicious and searching look, "do you uphold to novel-readin'?" Miss Margaret hesitated perceptibly. She must shield Tillie even more than herself. "What a question to ask of the teacher at William Penn!" she gravely answered. "I know it ain't such a wery polite question," returned Mr. Getz, half apologetically.
Some girls can learn theirselves at home without even a teacher, and workin' all the time at farm-work, still, and even livin' out!" said Mr. Puntz. "I say a girl with inDUStry like that would make any feller a good wife." Getz stared at him in bewilderment. "The members of this Board," said Mr.
If a bomb had exploded in the midst of them, Mr. and Mrs. Getz could not have been more confounded. Mrs. Getz looked to see her husband order Tillie from the table, or rise from his place to shake her and box her ears. But he did neither. In amazement he stared at her for a moment then answered with a mildness that amazed his wife even more than Tillie's "sassiness" had done.
"Tillie ain't got the dare to keep comp'ny Sundays! It made her a whole hour late with the washin' this mornin'. I'm tellin' her she's got to tell Absalom Puntz he can't come no more." Mrs. Getz paused with comb poised in air, and her feeble jaw dropped in astonishment. "Why, pop!" she said. "Ain't you leavin' Tillie keep comp'ny?" "No," affirmed Mr. Getz. "I ain't.
"What you mean?" demanded Getz, impatient of all this mystery. "It's the daughter of one of this here Board that we're wotin' fur!" Mr. Getz's eyes moved about the table. "Why, none of yous ain't got a growed-up daughter that's been to school long enough to get a certificate." "It seems there's ways of gettin' a certificate without goin' to school.
The occasion of a girl's "furnishing" was a notable one, usually celebrated by a party; and it was this fact that led her stepmother to remark presently: "Say, pop, are you furnishin' fur Tillie, now she's comin' eighteen years old?" "I ain't thought about it," Mr. Getz answered shortly. "That front room's furnished good enough a'ready. No I ain't spendin' any!"
"I seen 'em go out up in here!" It was the voice of Absalom. The answer came in the harsh, indignant tones of Mr. Getz. "Next time I leave her go to a Instytoot or such a Columbus Sallybration, she'll stay at HOME! Wastin' time walkin' 'round in the woods with that dude teacher! and on a week-day, too!" Tillie looked up at Fairchilds with an appeal that went to his heart.
"There MY chanct comes in," thought the doctor; "there's where I mebbe put in my jaw and pop the question just when Jake Getz is makin' her trouble and she's gettin' chased off her job. I passed my word I'd stand by her, and, by gum, I 'll do it! When she's out of a job that's the time she 'll be dead easy! Ain't? She's the most allurin' female I seen since my wife up't and died fur me!"
Removing to Berks County, he was, for a number of years, connected with the Reading Railroad Company. In 1860 he was elected a Representative to the Thirty-Seventh Congress from Pennsylvania, and was subsequently returned to the Thirty-Eighth and Thirty-Ninth Congresses. He was succeeded in the Fortieth Congress by J. Lawrence Getz. GEORGE W. ANDERSON was born in Tennessee, May 22, 1832.
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