The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-10-11

| Keys, which he 81 such occasions
transferred to the left-hand pocket of
his vest. -~ -
| Uncle PolydOr came in time. He was
as punctual rs an undertaken or q tax
collector, and made sunshine in the
house for seven days. He congratu-,
lated Sammy on his apparent prosperi-
/ ty; every thing 50, neat and abundant
about him such profusion and order
and pretty servant-girl-they had to
hire. I, neighbours daughter for the
days Of uncle's stay. -.
"An!' he said ''this is as it should
be. [ knew you would get along, Sam
my. Industry and economy, my boy,
always succeed, Look at me When
was one-and-twenty hadn't a dime
now am worth 100000 and over.
But you won't have to work always
any more than myself, my dears.
When old Uncle Polydor is dead, his
will will be opened and read, and the
rest of the family will be nightly as
tOnished, warrant You. Sammy.
Then Sammy and Mrs. NJ. and the
oldest girl would protest. They knew
that il they didn't pronounce Uncle
Polydor as young OF younger than he
was ten years ago he would get sulky.
and if they did not promise him forty
good years of life yet, he would set
them down as mercenary, and cut
them off with g shilling. He could
not abide contradiction, and so his
conclusions as to their comfortable and
prosperous condition were never dis
puted. When little Polvdor asked his
great-uncle for a dime to purchase a
Chinese kite, fashioned after the like
ness Of hawk, he was sharply re-
proved and packed off to bed, with
chamber injunction to abstain from
such impertinence in the future, for
uncle must not be led to suppose that
they would sponge on him for cent.
And SO it went all the time of his
stay-hypocritical assurances of con-
tentment, exuberance of welcome, and
disastrous lavishness of expense, until
by the time Uncle Polydor started for
some other devoted NIillet, the inf1ict-
ed and tortured ones were regularly
''eaten out of house and home." Their
landlord wondered how they could be
so profuse in their hospitality and en-
tertainlnent, and not pay him the mod
est eighteen dollars so long overdue,
and he came near saying as much in
the sacred presence OF Uncle Polydor
himself.
Every evening, regularly as clock.
work, the old man chuckled over his
pipe and pint of punch, and repeated
his prediction concerning the surprise
of the rest Of the family when the
reading of his last will and testament
should occur, and Sammy took sip
and a puff and quantum of courage.
''Didn't tell you so, Sammy? :" said
Mrs. Millet, when the day was done.
s'Haven'tI always said that the big
gest share of that two hundred thou
NIillet? I wish l had named all our
boys Polydor and our girls Polydora.
II can't see how we could have
done it, except iii the style of One.
polydor, Twopolydor, Threepolydor
Millet, and SO on. But hope you are
right, my love. Even so near right as
little legacy Of two thousand dol
lars
''You are actually mean.minded,
said Mrs. Millet; ''two thousand in
deed! It'll be a hundred thousand or
nothing
'sThe latter is like as not. But in
either event it is tedious waiting for
dead mems Shoes"
Sammy was wrong for once. Uncle
Polydor went up the river to Scrag-
boro next week he went fishing, and
had to be hshed for himself, and when
caught was as perfect a specimen of a
drowned ship-chandler as ever the
coroner had jurisdiction on. He was
buried with his fathers, if interment
in the next State but one fulills the
conditions Of the statement, and on
the afternoon OF the funeral his will
was opened by old Tapewax, the at
torney, in presence of all the Millets,
great and small.
and bear testimony to the astonish-
ment of every other member of the
family, and receive the forced congrat-
ulations of the others on his particular
elevation to the important post of be.
ing the biggest Millet.seed in the meas.
ure.
''To that nephew who has really been
most generous in his entertainment of
me-, read the lawyer, 81 will and be-
queath one thousand dollars, the mat
ter to be settled by my said nephews,
comparing notes and agreeing on the
subject. Item: TO that nephew who
needs it most, the same amount, to be
applied III the same manner. Item
To each and every one, one hundred
dollars, to buy black suit and mourn
ing ring. Item All the rest and resi-.
due of my estate to the hospital for