The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1889-08-31
OLD FASHIONED BOARD.
sobbernowps Summer at Posey's.
a Three Months TussIe With Rural
Sharks-Sublime Faith in a Sum.
,ner Resort 'sAd,'' which
was Shaken by Stern
Reality.
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.sYea," said Mr.. JobbernoWl, 81 have
returned from my long vacation In the
country, and I had very dizzy time
of it. You see, I went to a regular
old-fashioned country farm house.
How did find it? Wait and I'll tell
you how it was. I picked up The
Herald one day and this advertisement
caugb. my eye, and eventually my roll.
l cut it out, and think I shall pre-
servo it to my dying day." Here Mr.. |
Jobbernowl showed up clipped cad,
which read as follows:
GUNNER BOARD-I WILL RECEIVE
= a few boarders at my delightfully."- situa-
| ted farm house; real old-fashioneu comfort
guaranteed; fine bathing, frst-class shoot.
ing and shng pleasure o boats baGs
e address JOHN PosEY, Posoy ville r. g.,
Onion Co., III.
III bit and swallowed hook, pole aud
line. I correspondent with Mr.. Posey
and eventually got very deeply cut
rate price on one condition-thst 1
plank down in advance the entire
amount required fol- three months
board for myself and family. The
rates we received were charmiDg'y
reasonable and l accep@ed them at
, once, sending Mr.. Poseya check which
represented my savings since last
Christmas and which left my balace in
bank lower than the front of New
port bathing costume.
"My wife, little ones and myself felt
IA exuberant as so many DEVILS darn>
!. ing needles as we alighted at Jaysend {,
station on the G. @. & G. Q. II. X.
Here we took conveyencs in the shape
: CT a springiess, uncovered wagon to
j Posey vile, where we were to IND MIR.
4 Posey's farm and 100 days of unalloyed
:, hiss During our ride of thirteen
d miles over the railroadIess tract inter.
q yeu:ns between Jaysend aud Posey-
t Vile, we were not particularly i'm.
: pressed with the picturesque features
a Of ths country. Everything was flat
q az a billiard ,ab!c-every except The
road itself. On its sandy, dust > stretch
r. everything that was rugged and rocky
e had been concentrated. 1t was TIT
b most terrible drive I ever experienced
d There wes no;h:ng nonotoaous abou
d it, A wheel broke, and axle wa
~ twisted, the harness sprung leak
n the horse discovered a new SPAWN, tn
of drive. was drunk. Yet eventually W.
1r reached Poseyvilie and the farm.
s.Hera we found Mr.. Posey and
what was moro to tho purpose, Mrs
10 Posey. That lady, we soon discov
"a cred. was an unasylumed maniac
W. She didn't actually rave, SO MIR. Pose
~ retained her about the premises. Th1
III made it very pleasant for US bcardel
40 and we found there eleven Others
besides Us FIVE, installed there. III
iu dear old farm house contained sew
ed reens, such as they were. The La
sh thirty days L preferred sleeping in
mt hammock out doors. just preterre
ST. If, that's oil. Words fail To descrit
he, the meals we ate there. It was tn
tilt sic three times day. Great Goul
on deliver me from another such pr
ct lonced dose of diet! AS for scenery
vi Did YOU ever camp out for pleasure c
Il deserted brickyard in the swamp
part OF the deser:edest part of a deser
We'll, you want 10 try it some time,
Won wish to come TO realizing sen
ing of the beauties of nature in the IL
mediate vicinity of Pcseyville.
uWhy didn't l come back? He
,ar, could I when old Posey was my tire
vs surer and could not successfully gra
lis p,e with any question which involv
1T. the return of any part OF the treasur
the Besides, didn't want that ride acre
fra. country again until I was COMPEL
ty- to take it.
lar nrhe only bathing place was ff
For pond, so called, though all the frogs
civ Onion County had sufficient care
on tbeir sanitary condition to give
ecn vide double.lower berth. AS for abl
the daucy of fruit, the abundaucy consist
,ol mainly in the dryness and general
,er- of antiquity that pervaded the ca
An where the fruit languished. The b'
ral- had no springs, but made up that la
avs ia the falls 1 received. in sundry {
TO deavors TO sleep on one of them. A
2 is the shady walks-wcll, they were II
s,er ~ shady-after shutdown My impI
ing sion is that tie shady walks wa: