The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-09-18
LANDLORD AND TENANT.

LANDLORD AND TENANT.
"Confusion seize all houses, say
II" roared Squire Clingly, striding
up and down his snug little library
like a wild animal in its den
"Taxes, repairs, insurance, and a To
Let always hung up on the front
door. Twas a lunatic ever to buy
that house. / wouldn't if Foxwell
hadn't told me it was a dead bargain.
He talked me into it, the sly, oily
tongued fellow, and now here he is
telling me, as cool as a cucumber,
that it needs a new roof. A new
roofl There will be one hundred
dollars clear out Of pocket, and not
a shilling in. There he comes now.
I'll give him a piece of my mind
See if l don't. l say, Foxwell-eh2
what is it2 A tenant for Rose
Lodge"
"a tenant, SQUIRE" responded Nj.
Foxwell, the real estate agent, scat
ing himself, comfortably, in big
easy.chair, and mopping the polish
ed surface of his bald head with a
silk pocket-hankerchief.
"Never heard of such a thing in
my life!" cried out the squire
"Three years that house has stood
vacant, eating its own head of with
.t,txes and repairs, until tKe roof has
fallen in, and the neighbors say
there's ghost there, and now here's
tenant. What's going to happen
ncxt?"
"Wishes to take possession to,mor-
row." said Mr.. Foxwell. "Will pay
fifty dollars quarterly, in advance
Lease, three or five years. Best Of
reference. A widow lady"
~ don't like widows" said the
squire, with a grimace.
"Nol" said Foxwell. "But that's
scarcely a logical reason for refusing
to let her the house."
81 suppose she must have it," said
the squire. "After a house has stood
empty for three years, a man can't
afford to stand on trivial objections.
But there's one thing l want under
stood first-she mustn't expect me to
call on her"
Oh, don't think she expects any
thing of the sort" said Foxwell.-
"She-"
"I dare say-I dare say" unccre.
mOniously interrupted the squire
"I'll have the gate between Rose
Lodge and this place nailed up, and
change my rooms to the north side,
Then there can't be any possibility
of a collision. leave all the bust
ness part to you, Foxwell."
"All right, SQUIRE" said Mr.. Fox.
well, carelessly,
"a red,faced virago of forty don't
doubt" muttered the squire to him.
self, "who has nagged one husband
into the other world, and is on the
outlook for another. I'll give her a
wide BERTH"
So Mrs. Applegate arrived with a
boudoir.piano, a mimic aviary, a
poodle, and u whole conservatory of
plants, and established herself in
Rose Lodge, without ever having
looked upon the face Of her land.
lord,
81 wish shc wasn't a widow" said
the squire. "If she had been man,
now, l could have strolled over there
for q comfortable smoke Of an even.
ing"
The squire had gone out one sui
try July afternoon to see about the
cutting down of some trees on the
edge of the swamp when he heard a
little feeble cry for help from the ad-
joining pasturo.fuld.
"HulloI" said the squire to himself,
"whats up nowP"
And scrambling over the wall the
squire camc face to face with pret-
ty, pale.choeked girl of eighteen or
nineteen, who was porchod halfway
up the stonofcnce, in mortal terror
of a huge and bclligercntlooking bull
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