Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-04-04
A FEW BOARDERS.

CO. "What for -
''To turn an honest penny, my DEAR"
said Mr.. Pensico.
'Pshaw ~ said Mrs. Pensico.
''Times are hard, - said Mr. Pensico.
"But you've got money enough, - re-
piled his wife, with toss of her curly
head.
Sylvia, y said Mr.. Pensieo, grayely. s'do
you know that nobody has money
enough 90
No." said Mrs. PensicO, shelling away
with great vigOr at the pan of lima beans
i'll her lap. 81 don't know anything of
the Sort
''Just think how nice it would sound"
said Mr.. Peter Pensico, with his eyes half
closed and head on one side, "Select
board for few gentlemen, in cottage
on the Hudson-fine view-excellent
boating-plenty of shade-miIk and veg
etables-terms moderate. think 1 see it
in the columns of the paper.''
''I thought you rented this cottage to
please me?' said Mrs. Pensico, raining
down the emerald shower of lima beans
at a double quick rate.
SO did, my dear-so did, p respond
ed her husband, ''But why shouldn't we
please few boarders, too?''
Mr.. Pensico was a retired grocer, STAT
and forty, - if not Efair.'' Mrs. Pensico
was retired wardteacher, full 20 years
younger than her husband, who had
boarded at the same house with the deal
er in nuts, spices and moist sugars.
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more dangerous disease the older you
grow. Mr.. Pensico took it very hard
so hard, indeed that he married Sylvia
Smith at the end of fortnight's acquaint-
ance and took her to live in a pretty lit
tie cottage on the Hudson.
''You are jewel, my dear,'' said Mr..
Peter Pensico, "and mean to place you
in an appropriate setting.''
But as the conf1agration of his young
love died into a more steady and even
flame, Mr.. Pensico's old spirit of thrift
arose within him. Love in a cottage was
very charming; but the wages of a cook,
chambermaid and handy man counted up
amazingly at the end of month. A COW
grazing in the meadow was picturesque,
to be sure, but the feed bills were some
thing to shudder at. Sylvia in white mus
lin was an adorable object; but it some
times occurred to Mr.. Pensico's perturbed
brain that calicoes would have been more
economical, viewed from the laundress'
standpoint. In short, love and economy
were as daggers drawn in the noble soul
! of the ex-grOcery man.
''Don't you think it would be a good
| idea, my love?' persisted Mr.. Pensico,
brushing fly away from the circular
bald spot on the top of has head.
F'No, 1 DON'T" said Mrs. PensicO.
''But why not?''
''I don't like the idea of keeping tav-
ern,' retorted the bride.
'tMy DEAR said Mr.. Pensico, ''you ex-
aggerate. A few select boarders-"
"a few select fiddIesticks :" interrupt
| ed Mrs. Pensico. as she rose up, finging
the lima bean-pods all over the floor.
Mr.. Pensico looked at his wife with a
calm and speculative eye.
|'She don't like boarders," pondered he
"And she doesn't like to submit, as a wife
should, to her husbands authority. Good
I'll enforce both questions, or I'll know
the reason why -
And Mr.. Pensico sat down to write the
advertisement, whose glowing periods
had been floating in fragmentary radi-
ance through his brain for the last five OF
ten minutes.
81 acon't take boarders - said Sylvia.
'sMy DEAR" said Peter, 'Eyou will dC
just-pre-cisely-as l think BEST
Oven see!" cried Mrs. Pensico.
ga woman ought to be proud to hav'
an opportunity of helping her husband
on in the world,'' oracularly observed
Mr.. Pensico.
''I believe the richest people in the wOrlC
: are always the meanest,' said Sylvia
with jerk of her pretty brown curls.
Economy, my dear-economy! sal
: Mr.. Pensico. g Take care of the pence
and the pounds will take care of them
selves "A penny saved, is penn
earned money makes money
And Mrs. Pensico, fairly Overwhelme
by this ca taract of proverbs, ceased he
unavailing remonstrances. After al
1 what good would they do?
: Poor little Sylvia was beginning to con
t prehend that marrying rich old scre,
was not the shortest way to perfect happ
{ ness.
i But a woman defied becomes woma
dangerous, and Mrs. Pensico determine
0 that she would not be conquered.
, Four days after the appearance Of tn
o advertisement, which cost so much tim
1t and pains, three young gentlemen al
Il plied for board. Mr.. Pensico assumed
8 magisterial aspect.
L ''Teu dollars a week is my fixed price
said he, ''but as there are three of you,
don't mind saying $25.''
/ And on these terms Messrs. Smit
L Brown and Jones became possessors of Il
IS three bed rooms in the cottage, drivil
ol Mr.. Pensico and his wife to sofa be
; stead in the back parlor.
II care we always to live SOP" plaintiV
IN ly demanded Mrs. Pensico.
cone shouldn't t mind little inCOnveI
ence, my dear, when a matter of $2S
n week is at stake" said Mr.. Pensico, wi
,g an air of superior wisdom.
h. But as the days wore on, and Messi
al Jones, Brown and Smith began to ie
,x themselves more at home, matters Deg
he to be less pleasant to Mr.. Peter Pensico'
"My dear, said the PGtsr ta"''Ssas TO