Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1881-09-01


give one the nightmare. Towels the size Of
a dinner napkin. and cotton al that, leaving
a lint all over one ; no soap-luckily We had
our own Lubin; | should have perished
without it,
suppose. being the head Of the family,
the feather-b bed was given me As special
honor for Nell and the boys had horrible
straw beds that made the whole room smell
like barn. or haymow, or something hor-
rid.
We hadn't sign Of toothbrush mugs
If You'll believe il. Nell used her drinking
cup. and used baby's silver mug tIli We
drove to the village and bought yellow ones
with blue stripes. which wer. truly aesthetic,
bit of color on our toilet stands
The table
No napkins, and brown tsblecloth and
plates too heavy for any one but an athlete
10 use. Steel forks and kni,es honestly a
half yard in length! confess that the but
ter and cream we're delicious but the bread
was made Of saleratus, or 'emptins, or 'rls-
ings or whatever may be the nasty name OF
IL.
She served the boiled eggs with plates tn
break them on and her coffee was viler
than tongue can tell She steued her deli
cious fresh berries in molasse>, or made them
into sticky. pale-cru.,ed pies; and a, for
oatmeal, she never had even heard of it.
had Bes.emer bring some down, but she
cooked it so badly We could not touch it.
Mrs. Hackleton sat with US and poured
our coffee. She vas a neat, thin woman,
With a snap to her eyes. and a screw TO her
black hair. which bespoke faculty If not
temper. The selectman also sat with US IN
his shirt sleeves. lie usually came IN late,
and performed his toilet in full view Of the
table. often standing in the dining room door
talking. as he arranged his hair with the
family comb. lie yery good 10 the
boys. I'll give him credit for that but he
ate like Dr. Samuel Johnson, used his Own
knife to serve the butter, and he helped al
table horribly.
lie would pile our plates with the boiled
dish. which vas our dinner t~lce week !:
pork. beef. cabbage. turnip and everything.
on a single plate. We had great deal Of
What the boys would call sheep. They
killed the poor creatures in the barn and the
meat came 10 the table actually palpltaiing
with nrryousness. Bessrmer DECLARED ae
could hear it blea, he cut It ON his plate :
Bcs,emer will say such horrid things some
times YOU know
And then the mosquitoes; poor bah, bit
ten past rrcog g-i,ion, and not even a screen
in the house
washing.
OF course. | expected TO send away the
famil, wash, but do you know she ~as 80
horrld to poor judy when she ~as getting
up baby's things that finally had 10 give
l.
too.
The Post Office vas three mortal miles
ava, aud they wouldn't let u, have horse.
just because they were having. A. # nv
hearing from Besscmer evel da, was not
more important than their old ha, And
one night. If You'll believe II, the dAug hter
came. bringing IN our mail. and said
Here. postal from Yer husband SAYS
he'll be- down a Friday night instid Of a
SATURDAY and wants YOU TO TELEGRAPH il YOU
have any arrant for him "
Think of the cool impertinence
THIS girl by the vay. deserves a chapter
by herself. for she was truly a character.
She had been away to an academy some
where. had taught school herself, and had
an autograph album and lover. The lover
Was skulking lout, with big red hands,
OILY hair and green silk craNat. He came
every night 20 see her. and after her singing
the entire Moody and Sankey collection To
him they repaired 10 the doorstep and ate
peanuts aud giggled I'LL long after 10 or l..
Besides tins the girl had the impudence
To copy Nell in every way. She did her hair
ike Nells and tired To get her hat up like
Nell's. and positively asked to borrow her
pink India muslin. that beauty she had fOE
last class dsy from Paris. She said she
wanted TO take a pattern Of the polinay :"
Did ever hear my dear?
And we'd no way to lock our door and
We had to move our trunks against them
while we dressed for fear they would bounce
right in.
And baby go, poisoned by ivy. and stung
BY bees and Courtney cut MS fingers in 4
moving machine, and Jack ~as tossed by a
horrid COW and when finally Alice had the
Group. and no doctor within ten miles. |
Just wrote Bessemer to come and take Us
about it, I'd never say the word couDtI,
again, but would go and do exactly a. he
said every summer of my life
Was not that abJect for me-
And Bessemer promised, and what Is
tFrFcs ut has hLtAnllN htpN hAr
word to this day I"
THK SIDE COMMONLY TURSBD To THE WALL.
Take CITY boarders this summer? No,
Miss Pilsbury, never not ef dro~dge my
fingers TO the bare bone and die on the
town, Never will take city boarders agin
es longs my name is Sarah Jane Hackle-
ton
Why not What han't never told We
about them boarders We had last summer (?
No?-
Wal. declare now, that's real curious. |
thought Tditold everybody about that But
you ,it right down. | see you've brought
| your knittin work and come to set spell ;
all about il.
Now that its all over and done with. I'm
free to confess that I'm the one that started
the idee in the fust place. Father he was
sot agin it. from the very fust
There's hard work enough for We, moth
er. as It's, SAYS he, and there hain't no call
that you should git the house full Of stran-
gers. and spend all summer drowdging fur
EN- ~
But there was sister Car'line over TO Reed
vile, takln boarders and layin by money in
the bank. and says | to Say Jane, says /,
.Ef there's money on the ground, it's sin
and shame not to pick it up" so at last We
persuaded Of him to say yes.
We got Say James teacher over to Reed
VILE to write US out a harnsome advertise
ment and send it to some Boston papers,
and by and BY We had letter come to him.
The letter was wal enough. and fair speak
ing. 1t was from Boston man, and he
wanted rooms for his wife and her young
lady sister, and two boys under 10, baby
and nurse gal. He said he would pay lib
eral for plain, country livin', and We all
liked his letter, and says l to Say Jane"
saysI
Likes not the sisterll be real good
mate for ye.'
So Say Jane wrote for him, as putty let
ter as ever see, ef do say rs hadn't ought
to, and tole them we would take 'em.
Wal, they come on a Friday night, bag
and baggage. baby, black gal and all 81
Eas,n,sn's stage full and running over, and
two big trunks, and bags and shawls enough
for a caravan. And that wasn't circum-
stance, Maria, to the luggage that 81 and
Joel Hackelton went over to South Durham
and fetched next day! And they pesred to
be rally mad because he said he couldn't
| tech To take 'em in till they'd iightened of