THE TRIALS OF MR KEYSER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 270, 2 October 1879, Page 3

THE TRIALS OF MR KEYSER.

Mv 3 Keyser, before starting to spend a day with a friend, instructed the girl to whitewash the kitcher. during her absenco. Upon returning, Mrs Keyser found the job completed in a very satisfactory manlier. On Wednesday Mrs Keyser always churns, and on the following Wednesday when she was ready she went out, and finding that Mr Keyser had already put iiilK'into the churn, she began to turn the handle, This was at 8 o'clock in the morning, and she turned until 10 withou 1 . any signs of butter appearing. Then she called for the hired man, and lie turned until dinner time when he knocked off with some very, offensive language addressed to the butter which had not yet come. After dinner the hired girl took hold of the crank and turned it energetically until 2 o'clock when she let go with a remark which conveyed the impressing that she believed the churn to be haunted. Mr Keyser then came out and said the churn was good enough if people only knew how to use it. Mr Keyser then worked the crank until half-past 3, when, as the butter had not c»me, he surrendered it again to the man beiause he had an engagement in the village, The man ground the in; chine to an ascompanij&mont of fr I'htf. 1 impreca inns. Then ®me Keyser children each took a turn for lialf-an-hour; then Mrs Keyser tried her hand; and when she was exhansed she I again enlisted tho hired girl, who said her or yers wh lo .turned. But the butter gidn't come. When Keyset' came home ihd found the churn still in action, he "it'Jingi'y: and seizing the handle, lie said he'd mule butter come if he stirred up an earthquake in doing it. Mr Keyser effected about two hundred revolution of the crank a minute—enough to have made any orddinary butter and when the perspiration began to ; stream from him and still the butter didn't come, he uttered one wild yell of ra«e and disappointment and kicked the churn over the fence. When Mrs Keyser went to pick it up, jliodflb nnso close down to the buttfJjpPafflf took a sniff. Then she undeifflfod how it was. . The girl had mixewhe whitewash in the churn and left it there. A good, honest, and intelligent servant who knows liort' to churn could have found a situation at Keyset's the next day. There was a vacancy.