Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-04-29
HOUSE HURTING.

Mrs Fleshly very much wanted to let about six rooms in the house to some small and respectable family, and Mrs. Prod very much wished to hire sixrooms in some house, with small and respect able family in the other part; but, as both had lived long enough to under stand the hazards of moving, and what it was to dwell under the same roof with disagreeable tenants or landladies, they thought it wise to be particular when they met for the first time, and bargain, and thus lessen the possibility of future regrets on account of 1t.
 The terms having been stated, as they went about the premises Mrs. Prod proceeded to give some idea of her fam fly; state, in the first place, to avoid all mis- understanding. We are Mir and Mrs. Prod-that is, my husband and myself and he is a few years older than myself, and in the four business; and my brother, Joseph S1ueams -I was a Squeams before I was married-and heis 25 and clerking it-and that is three and then there is my son James, who is l2, and that's four and my son Samuel, who is &, and that's five, and they go to schc ol."
 "And in our family there are four" returned Mrs. Fieshly. "We are Mir. and Mrs. Fleshly, with no children Mir. Fleshly being i'll the boot and shoe b,lsi- ness, and little older, like your hus- band. And then there are my grand mother, who is eighty, she being Fleshly, as she married my husbands fathers father my maiden sister, Re becca Tiddy, who is-ahem La few years older than I am, and as l was Tiddy before I was married"
 "The six rooms which we wish, Y" con- tinued Mrs. Prod, "are to be parlor and kitchen, one chamber for MT. Prod, one for my brother Joseph, and one for James and Samuel together, and one spare. <"
 "We have all them" said the equally precise Mrs. Fleshly, "and when we can agree as to front and back, have no doubt we may make things agreeable, if we should agree upon other things"
 "I am glad you spoke of that, for wished to question you myself about the other things, for, after all, it may be the other things which will be the most important. How is your water? Is it good and handy?"
 "Croton in both kitchens, as you may now perceive, and both in wet sinks, as you perceive and 1 ,sin glad you spoke of the water, for Rebecca is nervous, and can't bear to hear the water running all the time, and I presume that your boys are not rude and won't let it. "
 II shall see that they do not, Mrs. Fleshly and now, as we are speaking Of water, how is it about coal?"
 viii show you the coal-holes my self, Mrs. Prod. There they are. Two holes in the sidewalk, and you may have the right or the left, and I can put an r over mine or a P over yours, to pre- vent mistakes or we can have 1t dis tinctly understood among us all which hole belongs to your family and which to mine. "
 "I will speak to Mir. Prod about that. thlnk he will have no objection to do- ing whatever you think is right"
 "I suppose not HG, ha the gentle men are always easy to get ssalong with. '
 "Too easy sometimes, and that's the reason why go house hunting myself. Nobody but woman knows what a woman wants in house."
 "That is very true" agreed Mrs Fleshly, in a brsiness-like tone. "Ant how are you about visitors? Do yol have very many to keep the door bel ringing much of the time? Rebecca i very nervous about bell-ringiLg. Sh says t pierces her head through an, through, and makes her afraid tha somebody is coming to see her."
 "We have but very few visitors, answered Mrs. Prod land, speaking c annoyances, ] was going to ask you you have &ny objection to our burnin fluid in the house instead of gas. NJ brother, Joseph, prefers gas, but Nil Prod insists upon fluid"
 l don't see how he can insist upo fluid when we have gas in all tn rooms" :"
 "But we have so many lamps to b put in use, and Mr. Prod has a grea many gallons of fluid, and thinks more wholesome and portable"
 And very dangerous to be carrie' about the house by boys, Mrs. Prod, t be dropped and set us all on fire. I don think Grandmother Fleshly nor Rebecc neither would consent to the risk Don'tyou think Mir. Prod would agre to gasp"
 q think I will try and see, as you s much wish it."
 "And that reminds me of anothe thing, which is, that I should hope tha your brother, being single young man keeps good hours, and also your tw boys"
 "They are always in, if not in bed, b ten o'clock" "
 "And I suppose your husband Ii too?
 "Most generally, Mrs. Fleshly, fc he is a religious man. And I am gla you spoke of that, for was about t wish to ask you the same question my self, for I hope your husband don't com late; as Mir. Prod has an idea that isn't respectable for a person to be see entering at an unreasonable hour" Mir. Fleshly always comes home fa tigued, at supper time, and nothin could persuade him to stir out of tl house till morning."