Richland beacon., 1888-08-11
A DISCOURAGED LANDLORD.
Experiences With Summer Board
ers

! He was a long, somewhat angular man,
with one suspender, and that fastened
with a horse shoe nail, and was wearing
pair Of boots, both of which were III
tended for the right foot. He sat on the
Battery and looked off across the wild.
salt brine towards the east of Governors
Island, and appeared sad.
81 come down." he said in the strict
est confidence, rs he waved away boot
black with lofty scorn, "to look up few
summer boarders; some of EN- L had last
summer, but they don't pear to be over
ly anxious to get any more good country
board, an on the whole guess don't
want 'em 20 go nohow. Mebby LII
yank the wing of my house round back
about twenty feet beyond the well and
make COW stable of it anyhow, an not
take any more boarders.
doesn't it seem to pay, | asked en-
couragingly.
"It has its discouraging feat'res,' he
replied, rs he extracted IA large fragment
of dark plug tobacco from his pocket
Somehow [ had bad luck with my
boarders last summer. 1t pearl slf the
haft of 'em was goin' to die most OF the
time, but by hookin mp the colts an
rnnin' EN- to town after the doctor bout
four times day, | managed to pull em
all through after fashion.
"First oil, most of 'em took sick all OK
a sudden, like, sif something WIS the
matter o the grub. l figgered 1t out
that it was the green vegetables. l
Judged they was good vegetables to start
with but the tin cans they come In sorter
pizened 'em. somehow. | don't think
they'd n been so sick if they hadn't
made such tarnal hogs Of themselves.
Some of EN- pretty near slowed away q
whole can o 'sparagus an q course If
there was any pizen III the tin they was
bound to get it.
"Then long, thin young felier got
into the garden an made hissef sick eat
ing green watermelon, didn't care So
much bout his bein little sick, but l
hated to lose the melons, bavin planned
to sell EN- to get little terbacker an
things | needed. Then one of the hor-
ses kicked another feller an hurt hi3
leg-the hoss's leg | mcan-the teller
Was all right after a couple o weeks or
SC. The hoss hit his leg agin stone
wall an hurt it somehow, SO | couldn't
use him for several days. Then | got
new kind O. condensed milk for EN-, an
blamed if that want pizened somehow,
too, an made 'em all sick ag'in.
can all this time they was complain
in bout the muskeeters an maxim me
tired. An one o the boys shot hisself
in the foot with my gun, an aiterward
left it out all night an let it get rusty.
Then they all took turns gettin' the ma
layr they called it,though | couldn't SEQ
it done much too EN- 'cept give EN- a
better appetite. The water wouldn't
more n get nicely settled in the well tor
another one o. the young uns would ial!
in an rile it all up agin. When some o
the women want hoppin' round the
front yard screamin' themselves sick
about a snake they'd go down an try to
walk log, an fall in the creek an get
wet an catch cold an make themselves
sick that way so I'd have to go after the
doctor ag'in.
"An' long in July the lightnin' up'n'
struck the only good healthy boarder l
had. It twisted off the best apple-tree
there was in the orchard, but it took the
feller's appetite away for month.
"Then another man fooled round with
the dog till it bit him, an l had to go
after the doctor twice for him. An bout
the same time butter went up ten cents
a pound 90 couldn't ford no more o
that, snd then / had to set every meal
an listen TO 'em kickin' bout the merlas-
ses, an tyin to say funny things about
it, though 1 could see they didn't feel
overly funny.
$50 it KEEP a goin' till fall. One OF tho
boys got his foot caught in the mowin.
machine an busted the pitman rod
square off. Pretty soon they all seemed
to sorter get sick all over like an L got
the doctor agin, an he said they was all
kinder run down physercally an seemed
to be graderly gettin weaker. an he
guessed bout the only thing that would
save 'em was to pack 'em up an get 'em
back home.
"He limited 1 better sorter hurry bout
it or they might get too weak to move,
80 1 rushed 'em right off. That discour-
aged me some on takin' summer board
ers. Still, 1 didn't know but I'd try it
once more, but there don't seem to any
O. these that want to board this sum-
mer for some reason an guess it won't
pay to look up no others. They pear to
be unreasonable critters anyhow. Good
| by."