The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1889-09-20
ME AND URIAH.
Our Experience in Keeping Sum-
mer Boarders.


Me and Uriah had got along fust
rate fur about thirty years or so whel
the love of gain got bold of me, ant
made up my mind to keep summe
boarders.
There was the Blinkerses; they'(
made enough to buy new kerridge tt
take um tu meetin', and there wus tn,
Poplinses that had all gone into silk
fur the same cause; and | sez to Uriah
sez |:
Look here, Henery." that's m,
pet name for Uriah, "why not?N sez l.
well, nanny" sez Uriah, that's
his pet name for me, ''well, dunno as
there is any reason pertickeler ag'in it,
only we've been so kinder comfortable
as we be. We'll hev to do more, and
We'll hev to buy lots of things; and
cookin' fur twenty amt like cookin'
fur two, specially when the two amt
pernicketty and is healthy. You'd
orter hear Farmer Poggins wish to
mussy his wife would give up takin'
urn; she's been to bed, with the doctor
com in twice a day. on account of over
work. Boarders amt all angels, and
keopin' um amt all parrydice.'
"But think of the money. my pre-
cious old honey" sez I, maxim potry
without meaning tn do it. Think
how you will kinder like to say to
yourself: Now. there is so much
banked sha'n't spend it onto rib
bins or kerridges. Wen bank it and
get satisfaction out of it, and you and
me won't hey no fear fur old age.
What's a little more workp You amt
but fifty and | amt but forty-seven.
We've got our health and strength; it
won't hurt US
1T may in other ways" sez Uriah.
"But never hinder you from actin as
you please, and never shill, Nancy"
And SO the next day jez went down
tn New York and had it put inter the
paper that Mrs. Pottleton, of Stopover,
would take Il few select summer
boarders. Plenty of fresh eggs and
milk, fruit, mountain air, and not
many muskeeters
Say uone," seq the young man at
the desk, when he read the advertise
ment-he wuz young man knowed
to speak tu-'say no muskeeters, Mrs.
Pottleton, as the rest does
The rest tells tibs, then," sez /.
They is some everywhere
Leave it, out altogether them sez
he, and so did, and put in my prices
instead.
Well, | got lots of answers, and by
the middle Of June l had fifteen board
ers. Me and Uriah was sleeping in the
barn. / was obleeged to keep help,
which was great trial, and was be-
ginning to run down considerably from
work and anxiety. Still, 10 los is $50.
as used to keep saying to myself.
when l gotup feeling like boiled owl,
and | wasn't goin' give up after gettin'
my own way agin' Uriah the way had
got it.
I dunno but I'd hev stuck tn it ef 1t
hadn't been for the Jessamys. They
was city folkses and come down one
Monday mornin'.
The ma, Miss Jessamy. was one of
the hy-away kind of widders' dressed
principally in bugles. She shone COM
In up the road considerbul more'n a
The darters WIS sixteen
and eighteen and twenty-one. They
WIS laced and bustled out, and frizzed
and ribboned like Christmas dolls in
York show-wlnders. And they brought
down trunks enough for an army, and
games they called lawn-tannis and
archery.
The fust wus balls and bAts and net
tins, the last wus bow -arrers and
Target But they couldn't find no place
Tor their tennis, and the lamentin' and
The sighin' and the appealin' to dear
Mr. Pottlaton to Rgive them ground
enough, until Uriah jest made blamed
'ool Of himself and squared off one OF {
'he hay-rhedders for um, and rolled it {
and help EN- fur tn sot up nets. and l
went and made rustic seats fur 'om.
md wasn't to be seen only at meal
lines fur the best OF the week. t
Wall. I'd calkerlated on Uriah help-
N me I'm old times Of had punkin- t
pies III make he'd cut up the punkin, q
Ind he'd heat up the oven Uriah was \
'eol rnart for a man, aud never hevin' .
10 Children be did lots OF things fur :
out the clothes sometimes
rhen there wurn't no need Of him onto i
he farm, and he used to stand fur me !
o drape my skirts on like lamb '
3ut'now, when / he'd more tu do than b
sver had in my life before he didn't $
'ome nigh me. p
bore 1t quite spell before spoke. a
iut one night walked up in our bed
Y the barn. aggravated by remember v
II that I'd had to split my own kin
tlin's that day, and said all had to u
NY -bottlin' up SO long had plenty,