The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-11-03
NUMBER TWENTY-oxE.
Another side orr.

ing to take the opportunity to tell
you the story / spoke OF before, for I
don't want you to think that No. 81
is haunted only by ghostly memories.
Well, to .bcgin with, one dreary, rainy
night, there was ring at the bell
utter everybody had gone to bed, so /
threw on my wrapper and went down
myself, thinking it must be q tele-
gram. But when ! opened the door
there stood the querest looking man,
tall and big, and my, oh, myl what
great hands and feet he did have, and
such o shock Of sandy, bristling hair,
q freckled face, and the most comical
nose / ever saw. And you would
have laughed to hear his voice-such
q funny one. His only baggage was
thin old carpet sack and a Gotten
umbrella"
"Well, how dye do said he, BE you
the landlady?p
Z II be," says /. )
mWal,' says he, I did put up at the
tavern and was getting ready to 60
to roest when they said they'd charge
me three dollars a day, an just
thought fore I'd pay it for them
gimcracks and SKATERS and dishs
that you grandmother couldn't tell
what's made Of, I'd set on the fence
all night, though they mostly be
made with pints on the top in these
parts. Naow Gun you give me pork
and beans and sensible grub for a
fair price?"
81 think so; anywhere from 81 to IS
week, according to accommodations,
saysI.
THAT II do" says he; "let's squirt
around"
No. q happened to be the only va.
cent room, so l showed him that, and
told him it was the highest-priced
une in the house, but he said it would
do, and atdownin the best chair, and
soaked it through from his rain.drip.
ping clothes; ruined it in five min.
utes. He looked SO suspicious that
made him pay in advance, and then
l saw him open the lean carpet.bae
and take out wooden bootjack; then
] left him alone in his glory.
Next morning he appeared at the
table with that irrepressible hair
iiercer than ever, now that it was dry,
and theamount he ate would have run
u steamboat.
saw the young gents smile at
each other and the elder onss look
amused, and trembled for the poor
fellow. The only lady boarder l had
was Miss Birch-a seamstress up
on the fourth Aoor-and, without
meaning her any harm, ! must say
that she was the homliest creature
that every offended my two eyes, and
as good as she was ugly. And the
new Embellishments Capstack,
his name was-no sooner saw her
than he seemed to fall in love with
her. Why, that very first day, when
he "reckoned he'd walk down to The
crossroads SPELL" he brought her
five cents worth Of peanuts.
And from that time on his attcn-
tions were untiring. He was always
bringing her things, candy, illustrat.
ed papers. fruit, ribbons, cheap jewel
ry, aud once yellow dress pattern
He asked her to 60 to every enter
tainment that he heard of, and she
always refused, but that made nc
difference. On the 18th of February
he sent her thirteen valentines, all
directed in the same hand. And
really think it was on her accou mi
solely that he stayed 50 long, as the
other boarders made it so unpleasant
for him. There's no stopping the
young gents when they get started
with their jokes. There were The
two in 24i, one in 25, those up 81
and some from the fourth floor, thai
spent their winter in tormentinf
poor Mr.. Caps,ack.
They would gil his pitcher will
kerosene and he would wash his face
in it, and then come to inc and sa,
that the gus was certainly leaking
10 his room, it smelt 50 strong.-
They'd cut white horse hairs ovel
his bed in little fine bits, and they
sting like 10000 mosquitoes, if you
don't know r. Tbop tba nonr follo,