The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-10-12

cOmtOrtaDlA fOOmSE ana GHeI0 We S1lStll
find quiet lodging. If you freely give
into our plan, as we have said, we will
pay the half. When we leave, the house
will belong to you; but, should this not
please you, we must go, although we
would willingly remain.
Van Rysvoort seizea eagerly upon
the proposal, finding his own advantage
in every view. He kept els customers,
and enlarged his house at their ex-
pense.
The same evening the honest Van
Rysvoort consulted with builder, who,
at one and the same time, was his Cos
sip and godfather. The builder set
briskly to work next morning, for the
Englishmen would admit of no delay
and, as they marked out the ground, all
was quickly in progress.
From morning till night, Mr.. Richard
Mowbray and Mr.. William Feathering-
ton never left the workmen. Van Rys-
WORT took great interest in what was go
ing on, but said nothing. It is true he
was not quite contented that the haste
with which the Englishmen hurried on
the building gave ne great guarantee tor
It's durability. He would have been bet
ter pleased, perhaps, had the building
not been raised quite SO much in the COR
per by the old wall, and that it had been
carried up story or SO higher; but his
guests were inexorable, and would only
allow of one floor. In fourteen days the
carden-house was completed, as If
by magic. The Englishmen were SO de-
lighted that they took immediate pos
session.
Van Rysyoort and his wife were now
convinced that none but mad English
men would leave good, dry house for
new and wet one. However, that was
the business of his guests and being,
to all appearance, freak, they resolved
that it should be we'll paid for. The en-
tire building, according to the accounts
of the artifcers employed upon it, cost
2, 1874 forms, asum which the inn-keeper
considered so professionally low that he
increased it to 4, 738 forms, for his own
benefit. Monstrous as was the bill pre-
scented to them, the Englishmen paid it,
the avariClous host consoling his con-
science with the reflection that it was all
little enough for accommodating such
crazy lunatics within his premises.
This matter being settled, the Eng
lishmen, now installed in their garden
house, seldom made their appearance
out of it. They ate, drank, smoked and
read The papers as usual; but the most
curious part of the story is, that they al
lowed no one to enter, and even made
the beds themselves.
All this time their accommodation was
not Of the best order. Perhaps the frau
Van Rysvoo1t wished to cry how little
they could be pleased with. Nothing
could De worse than their eating and
wine for honest Herr Rysvoort's rea-
soning was, that before mad English
men should drink of good vintage,
they must learn TO value it. The facil-
ity with which they paid his double
charges was only equaled by the I'M
ccznplainingness with which they swal-
lowed bis ill-prepared viands.
The more shamelessness he exhibited,
the greater became the forbearance OF
his guests. The brain of mine host was
always at work to solve SO much mys-
terry he ventured to display o certain
logged anger still, he moved not the
equanimity Of his customers. The most
puzzling a-d annoying circumstance
was the making their own beds. Why
did they always keep themselves fast
licked in? Why did they burn light
all night? They moved into the garden
for quiet and sleep and yet, since they
had possession, they appeared to sleep
not at all Van Rysvoort lost himself
in wild conjecture. He stood at his
window whole nights watching the light
~ ko I;ohY g OF To- OF
SO puzzled his senses with his guests,
that he could no longer enjoy life. The
bewildered and tormented landlord now
took good friend or two more into his
counsels, snd the result of a long de-
liberation was, that the two Englishmen
were neither more nor less than false
coiners. Van Rysvoort, Rot 3 little
alarmed at this verdict, passed IN re-
view the whole of the gold pieces he
had received from the Englishmen, but
found amongst them not suspicious
piece. Urged by his thrifty better-half,
he took a guinea to a neighboring Jew
money changer, to ascertain its weight
and purity. The Jew made every usual
test, but declared it good. Now was the
honest inn-keeper quite at his wits end
SO was his vile and SO was his gossip
and godfather, the builder.
Things went on in this manner until
the middle Of October, when the English
men suddenly changed their mode of
living. Each bought gun and shoot
i.g pouch, and went out-but never to-
gether-as they said, to sport upon the
dunes and canals. At last, one evening,
Hir. Featherington called the inn-keeper,
and informed him that they were both
going upon three days shooting excur-
sion.
And sure enough, the following morn
ing, long before sunrise, a carriage was
waiting at the door, and the English
men, in full sporting trim, jumped into
it and drove Off.
So precipitate were they that the inn
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