Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1867-04-24
A GOOD STORY
TO LET INQUIRE WITHIN

Two young damsels and a spinstcr
aunt came in, and after lengthy in,
spection Of the premises, came to
state council in the parlor.
like the house very much,' said
the spinster aunt solemnly, and with
a few alterations l will engage it for
my brothers family
Very good, madam said Nahum,
rubbing his hands, and scenting
speedy termination of his trial Name
EN-
The door handles must all be gild
ed, and | should like the house newly
papered in velvet and gold, and re-
painted, and the partition between the
parlors taken down and replaced by an
arch, and an extensive dining room
built on behind, and bay style Of
range in the kitchen and dumb wait
er put in, and new brOnzed chandeliers
throughout, and another furnace in the
sub cellar, and
Hold on, ma'am-just hold on one
minute, said Nahum, feebly gasping
for breath Wouldn't you like the
old house carried away, and a new one
put in its place? | think it would be
rather less trouble than to make the
tyifing alterations you suggest
Sir" said the spinster loftily.
| don't think we can agree ma'am.
Very well-very WELCOME girls
With prim dignity the lady mar
shalcd her two charges out, muttering
something about the extortionate
ideas OF landlords nowadays
Nahum wildly rumpIing his iron
grey hair with both hands, soliloquz
ed : We'll, if Job had been alive and
had house to let there never would
have been any book OF Job written.-
There goes that everlasting bell again;
III haul it out by the roots if this thing
goes on much longer. III tear down
the bell and put the place up at auc-
ton
Another lady; but quite different
from the Other-a slender, little, cast
down lady with head that dropped
like lily of the valley, and dress of
brown silk that had been mended and
darned and turned and retrimmed, and
! even Nahum Briggs, man and bachelor
| as he was, could see how very shabby
it was. Yet she was pretty, with big
| blue eyes and shining brown hair, and
| cheeks tinged with fair, feeting color,
| boomed in vivid carmine. And gold
en- haired little Iassie chung to her dress,
as like her tiny lilly buds to "a bloom
/ chime of flower bells.
/ As Naham Briggs stood looking at
/ her, there came back to him the sun
shine days Of youth-a field OF bloom
| ing clover crimsoned the June,li like
waves of blood, and blue eyed girl
! leaning over the fence, with her bright
hair barred with lovely sunset gold,
and he knew he was standing face to
face with Barbara Wylie, the girl he
had quarreIled with years and years
ago, and whose blue eyes had kept
him an old bachelor all his life long.
/ This house is to be let, | believe Z
( she asked timidly, with a little culver
/ in her lips
| believe it is Barbara Wylie.'
She looked up startled with sud
den flush of recognition and then Bar
bara turned very pale and began to
cry, with the golden haired girl cling
ing to her skirts and wailing-
Observation-Disclosures, what's the mat
ter, mamma?
Nothing, now,' said Barbara, reso-
I lutely brushing away the tears. Ii
you please Mr. Briggs | will look at
| the house | am a poor widow now,
very poor, and-and l think of keep
ing a boarding house to earn my daily
bread. 1 hope the ront is not very
high ? :,
well talk about the rent atterward,
said Nahum, fercely swallowing down