Produced by hekula03, Barry Abrahamsen and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) Josiah’s Alarm AND Abel Perry’s Funeral BY JOSIAH ALLEN’S WIFE ❦ ILLUSTRATED ❦ PHILADELPHIA J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY 1895 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JOSIAH’S ALARM Copyright, 1893, by J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY. ABEL PERRY’S FUNERAL Copyright, 1887, by J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY. PRINTED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ List of Illustrations. ---------- PAGE “Before they got it sot up” 5 “Raisin’ vegitables and flowers for 9 market” “I ketched Josiah a-figgerin’” 13 “A-comin’ up from the suller” 23 “George Washington’s hired man kicked at 37 it” “Josiah killed a fat turkey” 45 “A lawyer by perswasion” 53 “Alone, and lonesome as a dog” 66 “Abel and S. Annie selected one” 74 “It lay there by the side of the road, a 84 great white shape” ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _Josiah’s Alarm._ ---------- WHEN we had the furnace put into our new house, the man who built the house, and the agent who sold it, acted awful skairt. The agent talked dretful skairful. He said we would be too hot. He said, “In every other respect it wuz a perfect furnace, only it would be liable to heat us up too much.” By the contract Josiah wuz to give a big hefty price for the furnace, and this wuz the one they brung. Wall, finally the agent talked so much about the awful amount of heat it would throw out that Josiah got skairt, and he sez,— “I guess we had better get a smaller one, Samantha. How it would look to have a sunstroke in the winter!” sez he. “It would mortify me to have one myself, or have you.” This wuz before they got it sot up. But I sez,—