The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-10-04
Selerf Story.
LANDLORD AND TENANT.

Confusion seize all houses, say II
roared Squire Clingly, striding up ant
down his snug library like wild aui
mal in its den. Taxes, repairs. ia
surance. and a TO Let always nun.
up or the front door. l was IuuaiiC
ever to buy that house. l wouldn't il
Foxwell hadn't told me that it was a
dead bargain. He talked me into il,
the sly. oily tongued fellow, and now
here he is telling me, as cool as Gu
cumber, that it needs a new roof. A
new roof! There will be one hundred
dollars clear out of pocket, and not a
shiliing in. There he comes now. I'll
give him piece of my mind. See if 1
don't. I say, Foxwell-eh2-what is
it9 A tenant for Rose Lodgei"
ga tenant, Squire" responded Mr..
Foxwell, the real estate agent, seating
himself, comfortably, in big easy
chair, and mopring the polished sur
face of bis bald head with silk pocket
handkerchief.
Never heard of such thing in NY
life!" cried out the Squire. ''Three
years that house bas stood vacant, eat.
ing its own head off with taxes snd re-
pairs, until the roof has fallen in, and
the neighbors say there is ghost there
and now here's a tenant. What's going
to happen nexti" da
"Wishes to take possession tomor
row." said Mr.. Foxwen. twill pay
fifty dollars quarterly, in advance.
Lease, three or Eve years. Best of ref
erence. A widow lady"
81 don't like widows," said the
Squire, With q grimace.
"No!" said Foxwell "Rut that's
scarcely logical reason for refusing
to let her have the house." ra
"I suppose she must have it," said
the Squire. "After house has stood
empty for three years, a man can't af-
ford to stand on trivial objections
But there's one thing / want under
stood first-she mustn't expect me to
call on her,"
"Oh, don't think she expects sny
thing of the Sort" said Foxwell
siShe-"
81 dare say-I dare say" uncere
moniously interrupted tn. Squire
ssI'll have the gate between Rose Lodg,
and this place nailed up, and change
my rooms to the north side. The,
there can't be any possibility of a col
lision. I leave all the business part t.
you, Foxwell!"
"Ail right, Squire" said Mr.. Fox
well, carelessly.
"A red-faced yirago of forty no
doubt" muttered the Squire to him
self, "who has nagged one husband in
to the other world, and is on the out
look for another. I'll give her a wide
BERTH"
/ So Mrs. Applegate arrived with I
boudoir-piano, mimic aviary, a pood.'
and whole conse rvatory of plants, ant
established herself in Rose Lodge
without ever having looked npoo th'
face of her landlord.
"I wish she wasn't widow" sait
the Squire. ''If she had been a man
now, Icould have strolled over ther
for a comfortable smoke of an evening.
The Squire had gone out one sultr.
July afternoon to see about the cutting
down of some trees ou the edge of tn
swamp, when he heard little feebl
cry for help from the adjoining pastur
field.
"Hullol" said the Squire to himself
"what's up nowi"
And scrambling over the wall ths
Squire came face to face with a prett,
pele-cheeked girl oiIeighteen or nine
teen, who was perched half way up tue
stone fence, in mortal terror of hugs
and belligerent-looking bull, who stoot
!, in the middle of the field, paving th'
d ground, and uttering low, ominou,
roar. z.--.. - -. -.
The besieged damsel came flying +
. ward the Squire. seizing his aFm ].
: both her hands.
8 "0h, help me, help mel" she plead
ed. 81 shall be eored to deathl,
: The Squire burst out laughing.
"You silly child" said lie, Don
u you see that he is tethered to tn
: groundf He can't get away"
"But was so frightened" said tn