Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-08-02
ANOTHER SIDE OFT.

Now, Miss Gray, we have missed
our car, and have long walk before us,
clear to Lincoln Park, so am going to
take the opportunity to tell you the
story spoke of before, for Idon't want
Won to think that No. 81 is haunted
onlyby ghostly memories. Well, to be-
gin with, one dreary. rainy night. there
was a ring at the bell after everybody
had gone to bed, so | threw or my
wrapper and went down myself, think
ing it must be a telegram. But when L
opened the door there stood the queer
est looking man, tall and big, and my,
oh my what great hands and feet he
did have. and such a shock of sandy,
bristling hair; freckled face, and the
most comical nose L ever saw. And
Won would have laughed TO hear his
yolce-such funny one. His only
baggage was thin old carpet-sack and
a cotton umbrella.
well, how dye do" said he. be
YOU the landlady.
Yes"
Wal saws he i did put up at the
tavern and was gettiu' ready to roost,
when they sail they'd charge me IS a
day. and Jest thought, fore I'd pay
il for them gimcracks and statters and
dishes, tnat yer grandmother couldn t
tell what's made of, I'd set on the fence
all night, though they mostly be made
with pints on top in these parts. Naow,
kin YOU give me pork and beans and
sensible grub for fair price ?"
q think so: anywhere from 81 to s.
a week, according TO accommodations.
say l.
"That'l do, says he let's squint
around.
No. p happened to be the only va
cant room. so / showed him that, and
told him it was the highest-priced room
in the house. but he said it would do.
and sat down in the best chair, and
soaked it through from his rain drip
ming clothes running it in five minutes.
He looked so suspicious that l made
him pay in advance, and then L saw him
omen the lean carpet-bag and take ou'
a wooden boot jack, then L left him
alone in his glory.
Next morning he appeared at the
table with that irresistipble har mercer
than ever. now that it was dry, and the
amount he ate would have run a steam
boat.
saw the young gents smile at eact
other. and tie older ores looked amused
and trembled for the poor fellow
The only lady boarder L had was Miss
Birch-a seamstress on the fourth fiool
and. without meaning her any harm
must say she was the hcmeliest crea
ture that ever offended my two eyes
and as good as she was ugly. And the
new boarder-Barnabas Capstack, hl'
name was-no so 'ner saw her than h'
seemed to fall III love with her. Why
that yery first day, when he ''reckonet
he'd walk down to the CROSSROADS
spell" he brought her five cents worti
of peanuts. and from that time on hi
attentions were untiring. He was al
wavs bringing her things, candy, Illus
trated papers, fIuit, ribbons, cheal
iewelry. and once a yellow dress pat
tern. He asked her to go to every en-
,ertainment that he heard OF and sh'
aI.ays refused. but that made no on
ference. On the 14ti of February. NJ
sent her thirteen valentines, all directed
in the same hand. And really thlnl
II was On her account solely that III
stayed so long, as the other boardei
made 1t so unpleasant forhim- Ihere
no stepping young gents when they ge
started with their Jokes. There wer
the two IN 24!, one in %, those up Il
&c. and some from the fourth hoor, Una
,pent their winter in tormenting poo
Mr.. Capstack.
They would fill his pitcher with kero
sene. and he would wash his face IN II
and then come TO me and say that Tn
GAS WAS certainly leaking In his room,
smelt so strong. They cut fine horse-hair
over his bed In little fine bits, and tines
stunp like 10000 mosquitoes. Ii yo'
don't know it. Then the poor ieiio
would come down in the morning VII
little sores over his face, and suppose
the rest of him, where he'd scratche
the skin off. They would sew up u
clothes and exchange his pantaioons io
n pair that wouldn't reach his oio
socks. but he'd tie them down Ike I'll
Brother Jonathan he was, and renaf
that ..tbat air goods kinder shrinks'
And they even played the old snip
trick on nim-took him out to b''rilii'1, :.
woods and lett him holding cand'
till they should drive up the sam'
And he held up the candle until 1t puil
down to some powder IN the emu az
exploded +; and the way ne came gaiiol
ING down Eagle street about o ocioe
in the morning suggested that ne WI
scared, to say the least.
But nv he took it all so patiently
and was so good humored, and was .
f.itbfu, TO his true love, and he pa'
his hoard so very promptly, that
.o,,a not helm liking the fellow.