Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1883-04-27

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SG up party and get excursion
chsapt I've always wanted to
at The city was like myself.
On care about paving hotel
NJ Luke entered with ardor into
- eme and the oh man sat down.
.sLErOMSle she 4 Of fbrous paper. a
aenI. tand and stumpy steel
~ GNbn a stick with thread. To
= GUAter, in which he formally
am's folks" Of the pleas
n DQnpthey might prepare them
j Tny yexpect.
v,,p document was brought Just rs
ANDAis Biggs was getting iuto the
Lime, of bis mornings work in his
: PhoSith Elizabeth dreaming at an
hg table. and tn, breath of
TQ' Niphct9s roses perfumng the
q dear, said he, looking aghast
at his EiIe, what are we to do? An
the family are coming to visit us .
WITH the proof-sheets of my last novel /
coming in, and your etchings Of wild /
I Rose only half completed 2
"We must do the best we can,
Hiram, said Eliza1eth, perplexedly
\ knitting her pretty brovs together.
MY darling child, there's no best
about T. groaned Hiram, tearing his
hair-Vhich, being brown and curly,
locked none the less picturesque for
the operation. you don't know the
peculiarties Of tie Biggs family as |
4 do. You will be dragged up and
4 down Grand street, Eighth avenue
and the Bowery from morning until
night-r-you will have to visit every
shows theatre and picture gallery in
New ~ ork, and pay all the bills.
Your houSeke ping will be picked to
pieces, your dress criticised, and ten to
one my mother Will offer to come here
and take charge Of the baby, while
Josepha will volunteer to improve
your no cherish d drawings"
Mrs. Hiram Biggs glanced with ter
r0r attire plump baby who, in charge
OF its whiteeapped nurse, was being
CARED up and down the pavement In
front of the house. Then she looked
piteoUsly around the pretty Brussels
carpeted library, with its deep Grim
son-curtained bay-windows, its tall
Dracpna plants in majohca vases, 1T
oil-pa'nt .Ngs and Japanese scrolls, 1t
j cage Of fSyecn paroauets, and shelVe
7 to her~elf the whole Biggs famil..
spreading themselves over it
slcred precincts. She was only
human, too, this young wife
she could scarcely help remem
bering how Mrs. HOratio had snubbed
her when She first came, a tlmid,
shrinking bride, to the Biggs farm
house; how Mrs. Luke had once re-
fused to land her twenty-five cents, in
lliram's absence. to pay the charges on
a telegram, alleging as reason that
it wasn't never good policy to have
business matters between relations, :"
nor how old Mrs. Biggs had cried and
said d" that Hiram had shown dreadful
poor Judgment in selecting his wife"
while Mss Josepha had taken especial
pains to contradict every statement
She made, and Luke and Horatio had
ignored her altogether.
Hiram laughed. "My little darling" 3"
said he, | can interpret that look.
Nou shall not be tormented out of
your existence to become a conven-
fence t. a swarm of relations-in-law,
who don't any of them care copper
cent for you. If they had ever treated
MS decently it would be different
matter As it is"
But Hiram, you can't send word
to your own father and mother and
brothers AM sisters not to come"
plea led Elizabeth.
No. said Hiram Biggs, thought
fully 81 shall do nothing Of the sort.
But shall nd no word at all"
"Thyll come, all the same" said
Eliz lheh
But said Hiram, with sparkling
eyes, they don't know where we
live"
THEY'LL OK out your name in the
sighed Elizabeth.
II isn't there" said Hiram, chuck
ling,
"Not III rep repeated his wife.
Don't You remember that we
didn't move IN here until the middle of
June How cN Id our names be in
the directory? argued Hiram
Mrs. BiggS clasped her hands dra-
maticaIy There's family of Bigg-
ses in the next avenue said She
III Bi-gs' Books, Stationery and
News AGENTS. They'll 60 there"
"Wel, let them," said Hiram
Just as they pl ase, so long as tbev
don CON here. And he threw the
letter o. BlFg5 pere into the scrap
basket, sec etly feeling hims If to be |
avenged On the family for all the sliobts
and jeers and neglect that thfy had
cast not oaly on him, but on his gen
tie little Elizabeth.
But, fIira n, said Mrs. Bigps aft
seems so dreadful = oo
&" Not half so dreadful as a vista
tion Of The whole Biggs family would
be, sail Hiram, with qroan. ~
But Hiram knew little of the nor
severance ana energy of the Biggsds if
he believed that 50 trifing an impedi.
ment as lack Of invitation or a deIav
in sending addresses would keep % OUT
the invasion 1t was Canute and the
ocean over again; and in three davs
the whole family arrived. all hacked
into oae ~ok to save expense. WITH With q
perfect La ing Tower Of Pisa Of iI., bag' :"
gage on the roof the driver perched pei III d"gl Il
front mob dy knew how, and 'gv Mrs ,n
Luke's two it'll boys astride of -Iia, the
yery apex cf the tower. - 'n0 :
At the fr't Wholesale grocery store I
On Bar Hay street directory 'vVae wae /
handed in ald daily studied. and tSs t@s '
driver hanging halfway down, m like ike 4
one who a hers sanplire, OMs' dreadfI itHI :
trade was hidden to drive to 9S0iS 9G11 %
Tbirteqn'h avenue. -0'olH
. II Biggs," said Mrs Uorotio