News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-26
A DISCOURAGED LANDLORD.
Experiences With Summer Board
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He was long, somewhat angular man
with one suspender, and that fastened
with horseshoe nail, and was wearing
pair of boots, both of which were in
tended for the right foot. He sat on the
Battery and looked off across the wild,
salt brine towards the east of Governor
Island, and appeared sad.
81 come down" he said in the strict
est confidence, as he waved away a boot
black with lofty scorn, 'to look up few
summer boarders; some of 'em 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 L don't
want 'em to go nohow. Mebby Ill
yank the wing of my house round back
about twenty feet beyond the well and
make constable of it anyhow, an not
| take any more boarders.
doesn't it seem to pay" L asked en-
couragingly.
"It has its discouraging feat'res," he
replied, as he extracted large fragment
of dark plug tobacco from his pocket.
"Somehow [ had bad luck with my
boarders last summer. 1t PICARD 'sif the
haft of EN- was goin' to die most OF the
time, but by hookin' up the colts an
runin' 'em to town after the doctor bout
four times day, 1 managed to pull EN-
all through after a fashion.
"First off, most of 'em took sick all of
sudden, like, 'sif something was the
matter o the grub. l figgered 1t out
that it was the green vegetables.
Judged they was good vegetables to start
with but the tin cans they come i'll sorter.
pizened 'em, somehow. [ don't think
they'd "a been so sick if they hadn't
made such tarnal hogs of themselves.
Some of 'em pretty near slowed away a
whole can O 'sparagus an O course If
there was any pizen in the tin they was
bound to get it.
"Then long, thin young Teller got
into the garden an made hissef sick eat
ing green watermelon, didn't care so
much bout his bein' little sick, but |
hated to lose the melons, havin planned
to sell 'em to get little terbacker an
things [ needed. Then one OF the hOr-
ses kicked another Teller an hurt his
leg-the hoss's leg [ meau-the teller
was all right after a couple o weeks or |
so. The boss hit his leg agin a stone |
wall an hurt it somehow, SO couldn't |
use him for several days. Then l 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 afterward
left it out all night an let it get rusty.
Then they all took turns gettin' the ma
layr they called it, though l couldn't see
it done much too 'em 'cept give 'em
better appetite. The water wouldn't
mOre'n get nicely settled in the well for
another one o the young uns would fall
in an rile it all up agin. When some O.
the women want hoppin' round the
front yard screamin' themselves sick
about snake they'd go down an try to
walk log, an fall in the creek an get
vet an catch cold an make themselves
,ick that way so I'd have to go after the
loctOr ag'in.
can long in July the lightnin' up'n'
struck the only good healthy boarder L ]
lad. 1t twisted off the best apple-tree
here was in the orchard, but it took the J
oilers appetite away for month. 6
'sThen another man fooled round with +
he dog till it bit him, an [ had to go i
fter the doctor twice for him. An bout :
he same time butter went up ten cents q
pound so l couldn't ford no more o +
nat, and then 1 had to set every meal u
n listen to EN- kickin' bout the merlas- 7
IS, an tyin to say funny things about
/, though could see they didn't feel
verify funny.
$50 it KEEP a goin' till fall. One of tho
oys got his foot caught in the mowin' F
achine an busted the pitman rod
iuare off. Pretty soon they all seemed
sorter get sick all over like an got
lie doctor agin, an he said they was all
nder run down physercally an seemed G.
} be graderly gettin weaker, an he "
Iessed bout the only thing that would II
I'VE 'em was to pack 'em up an get 'em i ilI
ack home.
s'He limited better sorter hurry bout o
or they might get too week to move,
, [ rushed 'em right off. That discour- Is
red me some on takin' summer board v
s. Still, didn't know but I'd try it q
ice more, but there don't seem to any u
these that want to board this sum- u
er for some reason an [ guess it won't =,
~ to look up no others. They pear to q
, unreasonable critters anyhow. Good u
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