Daily Yellowstone journal., 1883-12-30
A Months Holiday.

hire a furnished house only for month.
Ii would I've chance in hundred"
Il can try, and am going to, May.
10 stay sitting in this dreary lodging
house all the holidays is unbearable
People who have pleasant country
places 10 leave them sometimes in the
summer, For the lakes and the noun
tains; aud the use of such house
would be godsend 10 u.s."
"Yes, dear. Well, what do You pro-
pose TO dog'
go down and see Snatchem e. Let.
lit, house agents."
IN 20 with you."
Our two young ladies were two charm.
ing sisters OF about 20-school- teachers
in the city. They had no home but the
large lodging house where they had
dwet for the last year, and this was
cheerless enough when deserted by the
incest people, who had hied them away
TO gseen fields and pastures Lew, at the
first breath Of sultry air.
May was pretty blonde--Joyce. Q
bright brunette; but just now their
beauty was shaded by overwork and
confinement. They needed rest and
escape from the monotonous round OF
sehoo!-teaching.
Snatchem & Lettit listened, and
shook their heads.
I'VE have no furnished houses to Let
for so short time as q month. For
two months now, or for the season."
ave have only months holiday,
and would only need it for that time"
said Joyce.
Can give YOU NO encouragement,
positively. Sorry! Would be glad 10
accommodate you, ladies. And You
might leave your address, and If any
opening occurs"
Il told you So" said May.
So they turned away.
A handsome. buxom lady, richly
dressed. passed in as they came out.
Here's the key to The Lilacs,' Mr..
Snatchem. shan't need it for month.
i am going to the seaside, where it is
livelier'
"But you took the cottage for the
season, Mrs. Baynhsm."
'"Well, all you have to do IL 10 let IL
for me. am responsible for the rent
have it let. There is the garden, horse
and phgton, poultry, COW, etc. Some.
body may - well have the good Of
them"
rs the place quite vacant7"
"No. Ny boy Neville ia there"
Fortunately we have o chance to let
it at once for you, Mrs. Baynham." said
Mr.. Lettit. seizing his hat and hurry.
ing after Joyce and May.
"well, we have got the hundredth
chance, sure enough. Joyce"
isn't it Q gem of place, May
And the strawberries and the fiowers!"
sand the charming rooms!"
"And the pony and pheton!"
@And the COW that gives real cream |!
Fresh eggs we'll have every day. too.
That boy, Neville seemed thoroughly
glad TO see us. expected he was dull.
Everything is Just delightful"
The girls may well have congrntu.
lated themselves. 1.-The Lilacs" had
every comfort and convenience for
country life, but Mrs. Margaret Bayn.
ham being especially fond Of society,
and her brother being absent on q
yachting trip for month. had tired Of
its quiet and seclusion. But the retire.
inent was just what Joyce and May
needed and desired.
The pure balmy air gave them re-
freshing sleep and good appetites.
With their own fair hands they cooked
y the daintiest meals, trimmed the room
with flowers, lunched of Strawberries
md cream, drove about the green
BOD roads in the luxurious pheton,
pr piayed and sang in cool parlors-
or there was piano and plenty OF
music at their disposal. So happy and
bontented were they, they could think
II the month ending only with y groan.
They put the unwelcome thought
side, and enjoyed the present. They
lad no neighbors, and they didn't want
my. They wore cool wrappers ell day,
bad. let their hair fall down their backs,
nd fingered for two mortal hours st
heir meals.
But in these days Of liberty and
bsndon came long rain-storin. The
lin came down In sheet-torrsnts. ID
~ deluge.
The girls watched IL from their cham.
pr window, and by turns read aloud
Fair barbarian"
From direction beyond their range
70 sturdy pedestrians. protected by =
gle umbrella. marched arm-in-arm
rough the merciless fall Of water.
Very stupid Of me; but thought
cotld make the six miles and get TO
sisters house before the rain fairly
In. But here we are blowing our
y throggh the water like couple VI
Fpoises( II you hadn't bean ill-l'n
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