Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1881-09-01
TN .lDE WHICH ooxuu>Lr fAcEs OFT.

TN -IDE WHICH COMMONLY fACEs OFT.
Go into the country. Cicely' No. never.
While memor, holds scat IN this distracted
globe. never II leave home AT all ;hi,
summer, ~lll 20 TO the biggest and best
hotel can find m America. but 90 into the
country. pure. simple and unadulterated. ss
We did last summer. never. nv dear. ull !
have become hopeless idiot
Why mott What DId YOU never hear Of
our last summers experience Sure enough
quite forgot YOU did not get home from
Nice till April. and then of course Elranor's
wedding put everything else out Of NV head
Well, be kind enough 10 take an easier
char and a fan. and please hand me the vel
lou floss, and then prepare for chapter,
Clcell.
You know, Of course. that Advertisements
are delu-lNe and heaven know. | am old
enough To know II self but all the same
Mas taken IN hy one last summer.
We didn't want TO 20 10 any OF the usual
places. for poor Eleanor had just refused
that horrid Harr, Evans land quite the Wis
e., thing she ever did in her life. NV dear.
and he would keep following the poor child
eVerNw here she wcnt and eternAllV be asking
her 10 reconsider ; and II is 4 marvel 10 me.
CIcely. when Il man preiends 10 be fond of a
woman and only to desire her happiness,
that he will be Inconslderate a. to persist
in asking her to reconsider. People are for
ever leaving money to found homes and A.,
lum, and hospitals. I'm sure if somebody
would only found an asylum to confne re
jected lover, I'LL they were cured Of their lu-
nscy and promised never 10 ask the poor
IL l..
told benefit to one portion of the human
racel'
Bu, there this isn't telling you about
last summer.
You see poor Nell said to me one day :
Its no use. X ate, for US 20 20 TO any we'll
known plac. tins summer be would torment
my hair gray. We must spend the season
in hiding quite If We we're thieves"
Then one Sunday she happened on this
advertisement. and II struck Us all at once
a. perfectly charming. The name Was love
~ to begin with. .Coldbrook Farm such a
refreshing name And the promised air,
rooms, shady walks, plenty Of cream and
berries, and everything else bucolic and de-
lightful. Bessemer set his face against il
from the first, and did not approve; but
when he found Vas really determined he
gave in like ali angel and wrote TO engage
our rooms. OF course We should need the
whole house, with Nell and myself and the
boys. and little Alice and the nurse, and
Bessemer coming down Sundays.
The answer was satisfactory and delicious
ly rural. Evidently written BY the daug ht.r,
on perfumed pink paper, with crow-quill
and each letter shaded heavily at the bot
tom. IL began Respected Sir and il posi-
lively ended, Yours aft, 5. Jennie Hackel-
ton for Jairus Hackelton, Selectman.
Well We reached there, or rather We
reached dismal railway station ten miles
from there, about 1 o'clock on a hot June
afternoon. judy had blind headache, so
! had TO hold Alice, who was tired and cross
with long days travel from Boston, and no
wonder either, poor baby. 1t appeared tina,
We must ride ten miles then in a back
breaking stage, over rutty. country road.
and seriously, my dear. if live to be thou
sand shall never forget that ride, with ba-
by crying, the boys wriggling like electrified
eels, and Judy grunting At every lurch OF
that numbering stage.
Beside all this, the driver announced. af-
ter We were well away from the depot that
he could only take two trunks with US on
account Of the nigh horse being lame.
But when can | have them? said |, in
horror.
'Oh wal said the driver, Il cal'late to git
horse and team, and Joel to help me, anG
drive over arter 'em to-morrer or day ar
ter
Will you fancy that and, Of all things,
the two trunks he had selected to bring wer.
Judys and the small one in which Bessemer
had packed his fishing clothes and tackle
And | must tell YOU that when We finally got
our trunks they would not bring them in,
but Just left them on the lawn and We had
TO unpack out of doors and carry things in
by armfuls, before the farmer considered the
trunks light enough to lift.
Then, do you know the stage-driver haw-
hawed right out when Nell asked # he
would take US 10 Coldbrook Farm,
There hain't no such place said he grin
ming. Il cal'late that is q name made up BY
the man they got to write their advertise
ment for 'em. Coldbrook Farm, Hah
Hackieton Holler it allus has ben, and Hack
Teton Holier it slus will be till the day
ojedgement, or | miss my guess.
That was the first blow, Cicely for hol-
low has such depressing sound to me, and
suggests malaria. and mosquitoes, and hot
nights To give the devil his DUE my
dear. confess that the house looked pleas
ant when at last We reach if. 1t stood back
from the road and was not especially in a
hollow. OF course il was white with green
blinds, and, miserable dicfu. as Bessemer
says, it was a cottage.
We had one fair room down stairs, with q
sort of closet out of it-they called it dark
ka1 EDx ..Ix Tku,x Oh Ia.
awful sloping-roofed chamber for poor Nell,
and worse and smaller for the boys; and
they said We were to use their parlor as if it
were our own.
And, oh, that sitting room, Cicely! The
nausesting carpet. the green paper curtains
that would not roll up, the hair-cloth sofa
that Nell said was made for bier and prob
ably never used for anything else. declare