The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-10-29
THEIR CITY COUSINS,

never had such hard summer in my
life, said Mrs. Briggs. "And after all, we
haven't made cent out of it."
The Briggs family looked rather dolor-
'usly at each other. EGl#
But, ma" said Ida, you wouldn't
have us charge our own relations board Pr
Not if they was to make a short visit,
wouldn't" said poor Mrs. Briggs. But I
didn't calculate on their staying from June
to September, and occupying all my best
rooms, SO that 1 couldn't have no paying
boarders but the sohoolmaster and old Miss
Jewell. I'm afraid your father will have to
wear his last years suit straight through
this winter-and there amt no chance for
buying new carpet for the best room as
seen
But, ma" pleaded Ida, they were SO
very genteel And your own second cou.
rims into the bargain"
Yes, ma" said Phemie, an apple-cheek.
ed girl of fourteen, land Eudora showed
us how to do spatter-work ard rick-rack,
and how to make splint card racks.
g Fiddlesticks," said Farmer Briggs.
" For my part Pm glad they're gone. Kere.
happuch used to be decent sort of girl
when she helped Mrs. Miller to do her
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of cherries, roses, and red clover blooms.
The Briggs farmhouse was an antique
structure of stone, half buried in monster
butternut trees, with wellsweep at the
north end of it, and huge, wide-throated
chimneys in oil the rooms-and Mrs. Briggs
had always had half dozen or so of good
paying boarders every season. But the
Delatour family, swooping unexpectedly
down upon them, took possession of their
very best rooms just for q sociable little
visit they said, which soeiable little visit
was prolonged into late September, and
ended only with the frosts and falling
leaves. Mr.. Dale, the schoolmastsr, stiil
retained his little room in the wing, which
nobody else cared to take on account of q
old Miss Jewell painted pictures in the gar
ret chamber because it was eminently quiet
and possessed good north light. But
neither of them paid extravagant prices, and
poor Mrs. Briggs exchequer was by no
means full when the autumn winds came.
But then, as nda said, their cousins were
so very high toned-and when they went
away with their mountain of trunks and
packing cases, they invited Ida and her
mother so cordially to leone and visit
them soon." II the poor Briggses could
only have heard Miss Eudora say to hel
mother, as they drove away:
" Mamma, how could you ask them
Those vulgar country people !"
OF course they won't think of coming
Mrs. Delatour answered, complacently,
smoothing down her elegant summer silk.
" One must ask them as mere matter of
form"
Ma" said Ida to her mother "did
you understand what Mr.. Delatour's bust
ness was p
" Inspector Of the Port, or Warden of the
Navy Yard, or some such high-salaried
office, Mrs.. Briggs answered. e know it
brings him into contact with the most ele-
CANT and refined people In New York. 1
never saw him, but am told that he is very
genteel. "is ~. -iSAAA az r.
"Oh, ma, how should like to go to New
York and return the visit, said eager Ida,
with her eyes shining like brown stars.
so we will some time" said Mrs.
Briggs, II pa don't object" ,,so.,.3 /.
i've nothing to say one way or the
other said Mr.. Briggs. Only never
did hold to porcelain kettles sailin' down
stream with iron pots. There's sure to bea
smash somewhere"
PAS 80 queer" said Ida.
Mr.. Dale, the schoolmaster, had not been
sorry when the Delatour family went away.
1t seemed to him that he had seen almost
nothing of Ida of late-and Ida had always
been dear to him, since the days when she
was his favorite pupil in the class of q big
girls " at school. But he was destined to no
small degree of disappointment. Ida was
not the same Ida, after the visit of her gor-
geous city cousina She was very pleasant
and polite aida was always that--but there
was an undefnable veil of GOODNESS in her
manner.
never could settle down here in the
backwoods TO Be q country schoolmaster'e
wife after Cousin Delatour's descriptions Of
metropolitan life," thought she.,
And Mr.. Dale felt the mysterious barrier
that had arisen between them, and waited
for more propitious hour in which to de-
clare his love- aMM 81
So one brilliant December morning with