Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-06-21
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wished IL had been one of those tarantulas
that come in lunches of bananas. and had
dropped on her. felt so spiteful Myra
had borne such great troubles could nor
bear TO have such tiny pins stuck I'M" her
1.-The visitors were afraid the house
leaked or smoked or did something else
they were so grabbed and contrary that |
was about plagued to death They came
and went. like Nightmares after welsh rab-
bit. At last Mr.. Stickney came-a nice.
espectahle-looking person. lie seemed
mp to the mark. promised fair. agreed to
pay punctually every month. | took
long breath, and we thought all would he
right. The first month he said the stove
needed tinkering and the gas-fXtureS were
out of order; it would take the whole
months rent TO fix them up, but these
were permanent Improvements and would
increase the value of the property. He
seemed plausible frankie needed some
new clothes, but we had no money that
month. Well, next pay day il was some
thing else. and he took il out of the rent
permanent improvement again; and so il
has been for six months he has never
paid cent. He looks a. satisfied and
grand as if he owned the world when
ask him as civil as ! can for Myra's rent.
1t made me real saucv to see him. with
his chew of tobacco in his mouth domi-
neering over daughter and me. Mrs.
toutts, he said, women don't know any
thing about business (the old fooy y they
can't understand the why's and the where
iores of trade. =
You are very smart. Mr. Sucknev.
replied, and very polite besides, but any
one, even woman, can tell when a man
rents house and lives i'm it, he ought to
pay. We don't know anything about bus
mess perhaps-more' the pity. If we
were not meant TO know something about
business, why We're our natural protectors
taken away? They would not allow wolves
and Stickneys to cheat and swindle us
and il stands to reason we ought To know
enough to take care of ourselves
''lt's of no use for me ever to 90 there
again; ! came TO You to help us. for am
at my wits end"
''What about the libel, Mrs. Coutts ?''
! ventured to ask
slight drawing of the corner of her
mouth indicated that the subject was not
altogether an unpleasing one to my client. |
''Do You think" she replied, There is
any harm in sending Bible to man who |
don't seem ever to have read one? | made |
present to the Stickney man of a twenty |
five cent Testament. with the leaf turned |
down al the verse about devouring widows |
houses, and you'd have thought it was rat |
tlesnake, he was so furious. Doyouthink,
she asked, little anxiously, ''they could |
harm Myra because gave him that Tesla /
ment? He told me he would sue Us for
libel all on account of a d0g's-ear in the |
good book - she said with smile
another question want to ask You is. |
Why did you call on me ?"
She smoothed her handkerchief very /
deliberately over her knees and ironcd it !
with her hand as she replied, "Well. You /
used to pass my house every morning and
you stepped so peart and looked 80 fresh
and young thought perhaps you might
not know as much law rs some of the bic
bugs, but didn't believe you'd had time
to forget your own mother. and maybe YOU
would have the heart to help a poor dis
tracted mother to get the right for her
child. never meant to talk so long. but
the way you spoke of your mother opened
my heart, and everything came ont before
! could stop
That decided me. The appeal was made
to one suffering from an attack of that
inconsistencies which never comes but
once. when the youth has left home for
good, is in the midst of strangers waiting
for business. and his unoccupied time gives
him ample leisure to dwell on the state OF
things for ever behinds him. Il will at
tend to your case. Mrs. Coutts," | said
promptly, land it shall not be my fault if
this swindling goes on any longer
We hear great deal of the expressions
and cruelties of landlords. From Miss
Edgeworth representative Attorney Case
to the hard-hearted collector of shllinos
in our day, landlords are supposed to take
delight in abusing their tenants But this
was clearly a case where the tenant was
the unjust party, and the landlord or rath-
err landlady-was the sufferer.
went to see my daughter Myra' and
visited Mr.. Stickney also. The arguments
OF man and a lawyer in the course of
time proved effectual and afterward the
money was promptly paid. But Mr.. Stick
ney has moved away; Myras mother is
my mother now. We are living in Mvra's
house. and whatever other people nav
think, it is enough for me to know hat she
is satisfied with her new tenant. This is
the reason why thank God that Mvra's
mother was my first client &C. {.