Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-20
Hot Weather sketch.

the limits of state importance. OBSERVER.
A Hot Weather sketch.
One very hot afternoon last week, we, unfor-
| tunate zoe, whom the stern necessities of bust
ness retain all the week through in the reeking
atmosphere Of the city, went on board North
river steamer for the purpose Of swallowing at
least fifty miles of pure air. Stretched at length
in the saloon on the upper deck, we closed our
eyes and resigned ourselves with a delicious
feeling of relief to the reviving influences of
the cool wind. Close by us sat two persons.
They were engaged in what appeared to be Il
very interesting conversation. One was raw
boned, six foot, thin-faced countryman; the
other a small, saow compeXioned, passably
genteel looking middle aged man from the city,
| with black whiskers shaved to point near his
| nose, and also shaved off at the point of his
| jaw under his ear, giving his face The appear
ance of having Teen badly scalded all around
below his mouth. You might have mistaken
him for gentleman if it had not been for those
whiskers. Our city friend talked exceedingly
small, like woman" The stalwart anatomy
from the bank of the Hudson, on the contrary,
| spoke out like a large man-as he was. The
| little man with the unhappy whiskers was evil
IDENTIFY the father of a family, and the nervous
| anxiety OF his manner, the way in which he
| eyed the shores of the river and peered away
inland, straining his eyes TO examine every
cottage on the hills, showed at once that his
| wife had sent him out that afternoon to "look
for board in the country" Wretched mani we
sympathized with him at once.
"Walp said the anatomical Hercules, "my
names Devine. What might yourn be2"
Davis, sir; my name is Davis" said the
little man.
oval, Mr.. Davis-Shultz kin 'commodate
bout forty, and l guess he's got as many as
that now. | wouldn't like to take as many as
that, cause you see it makes too much work for
the wimmin. wouldn't mind seven or eight,
though. You see kin live with it, and kin
live without it; but | wouldn't care if | did
take seven or eight. How many on you be
| THEREOF
ave have five in the family" said Mr. Davis,
meekly.
"Surey-wal, five amt too many, guess
| You'd like to stay some time, wouldn't your
eyes, Mrs. Davis is weakly, and thinks of re-
naming out of town for the summer"
Gust so. You see, if l take any b0arders
this year, I'd like folks that want to stay three
months or so, cause things don't get mussed
no more in three months than they do in three
weeks, and the wimmin are particler our way
Maybe you'd like to bring pi-an-no up with
you~
Really, don't know"
eyes, wal-Shultz has ten dollars a week for
all them that sets at the first table; but maybe
you citizens don't think ten dollars out of the
way2"
dAs we intended remaining so long out of
town, | didn't wish to give more than eight.
IlOW liuCu yOu Sudi SC yum luot
yearp
oval, only ask them ten. But you see they
were friends, and made themselves to home, like,
with u.s. Used to rove round all the time, and
90 into the field and pitch hay, and didn't care
for no nicities Fact was, we didn't put our
selves out on their account at all. Now, may
be your folks is the kind that keeps good
deal to themselves, and wants looking to, con-
siderable"
eve are not hard to please, | assure you"
said Mr.. Davis, with a wan smile, which led me
to think, perhaps, Mr.. Davis was easiee to please
than Mrs. Ditto.
"Ahl wal-you didn't know whether you'd
like to bring up q. pi-an-no, or not. Your folks
play, don't they%
Eyes, my eldest daughter plays very WE'LL"
"Sureyl wal, the pi-an-no is beautiful music,
| say. Eff SO be you did want to bring up pi-
an-no-you've no idee how many pi-an-nos my
brother carts up from the landin' every year.
| Almost everybody that comes out now brings a
pi-an-no; and eff so be you'd like to bring yourn
along, guess we could manage it. You see,
| father is dead agin music. He won't have it,
| no how Some folks, you know, are queer
about music. Father is. Three years ago |
bought my little girl an ACCORDION. The accOr-
| deon is beautiful music, too, when it's well
| played. | say so. Wal, we Showed it round con-
siderable, and all the folks liked the looks on it
| first rate. We didn't let Nancy play on it right
| off, but kept it layin' about. After while she
| begun to play on it, and the old man looked
kind a-sideways at it for spell. After that, he
didn't take no kind of notice on it, and Nancy
plays as much as she likes, and he never says
| word. So eff so be you would like to bring up
| pi-an-nO with you, it wouldn't do to play it
| right of at once; if you did, the old man would
/ walk straight into the room and say, what's
this? can't have this music here, no how
| You'd have to wait till along about nine O'Clock
| in the evening for spell. Then you could
| begin and play on till ten or 'leven, or so on,
and in a week or so he'd kind a-get use to it, |
| guess"
"Wen don't know" said Mr.. Davis; 'T'n
think about--speak to Mrs. Davis. 1t will be
| just as Mrs. Davis says"
oval, eff you would like to bring up your pi-
ammo, l guess you might. However, there's
some splendid riding round our parts, specially
| to mineral spring. Mineral springs about six
| miles from our place"
Mineral springP said Mr.. Davis. "What
| kind of water is there there~
| ooh, Just the same as Saratogue water. Min
| eral springs on my Uncle Jotham's place. Eff
Uncle lothian had any kind of enterprise, he
| might make a most anything out of it. But
| the old man amt one of the stirrin' kind. He's
got about seven hundred acre there, round the
| spring, and only two boys. The boys has
worked hard, but they've come to the conclu-
| sion there's no kind of use in it, and they
| won't work so no more. The youngest is car
| tin wood to the landin' 1t takes him about
half an hour to load up in the mornin', and
| ABOUT nan an nOur again 10 THROW MS lOau OH
at night. That's all he does now, and don't
call an hour day hard work. guess they've
| pretty much made up their minds to take it
easy the rest of the way. Shultz talks about
raisin' his house. Eff was to raise the kitchen
| part of mine could accommodate dozen first
| rate"
"Well, Mr.. Devine, do you think you could
/ take my family at the rate we spoke OFF"
oval, guess could"
The boat touched the dock, and the last we
heard as Mr.. Devine went on shore with the
"meek-eyed" Davis, was "and eff SO be you'd
like to bring up that ere pian-no, guess we
could manage it."-NeaO York paper.