The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-06-07

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He knocked loudly at the door of the
cottage with the ivory knob of his cane.
"Can you tell me where Mr.. Haven
lives?" said he.
"This is the place." said the hostess.
"This ?" echoed Mr.. Haller.
"You are Cousin Herbert, l Isuppose?"
"Walk in. My husband will come
by the evening train. Allow me to
show you to your room. 1t is rather
small, but we are expecting a good
deal of company, and 1 dare say you
won't mind little inconvenience"
And she left him in the seven n-by-nine
~r>--I------I---.>l~--l-~ ..laaza he
could not stand upright, except just in
the middle of the room, and where the
three-pane window was close to the
floor.
"Humph!" soliloquized the ethete,
looking around him, "this isn't at all
what l expected"
Mary Haven had scarce got down
stairs and resumed the manufacture of
raspberry pies, when the shouts and
cries in various keys announced the
coming of Mrs. Johnson and her four
children from the nearest station.
"Is this Cousin Hugh's house, ma ?"
said Adelaide, the eldest, discontentedly.
cit amt nothin' but shanty," loud
ly proclaimed Alexander Gustavus, the
second hope of the family.
"There amt no paint on it." said
Helen Louise.
"Lemme get out lemme get out !"
cried Julietta, "and play in that lovely
black mud where that frog is sitting"
Mrs. Johnson sailed in with scarlet
face and perturbed look.
"I'm afraid, Cousin Mary" said she,
"that we shall inconvenience you.
There don't seem to be much accom-
mediation here"
"Oh, there's plenty of room up in
the garret, such as it is," said Mrs.
Haven, smiling.
"Of course one expects to lead gipSy
sort of life in place like this, and the
lake will be so nice for the little dears
to play in if only they are little care
full, for its so lucky you are here, Cousin
Johnson, to help with the pies and
bread, for I'm not very experienced
house-keeper, and"
81 thought you kept two or three
servants" said Mrs. Johnson, frigidly.
Thave only one young girljust at pres
ent," said Mrs. Haven "and, ofcourse,
when there's SO much company, there's
great deal to do"
"Oh! there comes an old lady with
a sweet little dog"
She glanced out of the open doorway.
"Goodness me! if it amt that intol-
erable old Aunt Sadie, with her inevi-
table dog" groaned Mrs. Johnson, as a
fat, elderly lady toiled up the path, in
scarlet shawl and a black lace hat.
"Bless mel" said Aunt Sadie, pur-
pie with heat and dripping with per-
spiration, "you don't never mean to
to say, Niece Haven, that this ere's the
place I've heard tell of on the lake
what dye call it?''
eft is where we live atpresent," said
Mrs. Haven, quietly.
"I'm down right sorry left the hotel
at the railroad," said Aunt Sadie, sadly.
81 amt used to these upholstered
houses, and I'm most sure Trip will
catch bad cold"
Uncle jerks was the last one to
come-a shrewd, brown faced old man,
and with keen eyes like an eagle.
He looked around him and seemed
to take in the situation at once.
"No servants, eh ?" said he.
"Well, it's lucky l came"
"I'm pretty handy to fetch water and
sfsl:s sH--sS-sSs, ss44>1 1icfP saoou1 SSnSf@any
and you're pretty slim, my dear, to do
all the work of this house with only a
young bit of girl to help you"
$50 Hugh hasn't done real well in
business?"
"I've little money uninvested my
self, and 1 don't know as / could do
better with it than to lend it to my sis
ter's son."
Thus he spoke, CHEEKY and kind,
while Mrs. Montague Prout famed her
self, Cousin Herbert Haller did battle
with the flies and wasps, Mrs. Johnson
followed her four children about in
ceaseless terror lest they should be
drowned, and Aunt Sadie felt her dogs
pulse and groaned over the heat.
One night at the cottage settled the
question of to stay or not to stay, In
the mind of Mrs. Haven's guests.
81 never slept in such hot place in
my life," said Mrs. Johnson.
"The bed was not long enough for
for me to stretch myself out in, and the
caves touched my forehead, said Cous-
in Herbert.
"The owls hooted all night in the
woods" said Aunt Sadie, 'and kept
dear little Trip barking until he was
hoarse."
81 wouldn't stay here if you would
pay me a hundred pounds a week, "
said Mrs. Montague Prout, thinking o.
her pink silk party-dresses, and twelve
buttoned kid gloves.
"Well," said Uncle jerks, drily, ''it
amt just the location L should nave
selected for summer residence, but
amt going off to leave Hugh and hi:
wife while l can manage to be useful te
them" So the company departed
with various adieus and insincere pro
testations of regard, and only Uncle
Jenks was left; and then Mr.. Haver
took his cigar out from between his lips
"Uncle Jenks," said he, "suppose We
go up and see how the carpenters ant
painters are getting along with the con
servatory up at the house"
"At what house?" said Uncle jerks
''Mine."
"Don't you live here7" asked Uncle
jerks.
''Not all the time" said Mr.. Haven
"We only came here to accommodate
such of our relations as merely desired
to make convenience of us.
"Oh ~ said Uncle jerks, SLOW
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