Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-15
S. Barring GOULD,
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figure for the first time Now that know we
are to remain here, 1 have put them in glasses
to taste water and am replacing them In the
dark in the cupboard"
Have you many?"
"a couple of dozen named bulbs, all good"
81 will help you carry down the glasses and
roots. Where are they?"
In the drawing room. We kept the glasses
there all summer in the chefonier."
a hope you will be able to spare me one or
two for my study"
"Of course you shall have supply in your
window. They were procured partly for Mr..
Pennycomequick and partly for my mother"
"You say of course; but 1 do not see the
force of the words. Remember have had
lodging house experience: my sense Of the fit-
ness of things is framed on that model and my
landlady never said of course to anything 1
suggested which would give me pleasure, but
cost her some trouble. / am like kasper
Hauser, of whom you may have heard; he was
brought up in a solitary dark cell, and denied
everything, except bare necessaries; when he
escaped and came among men, he had no no.
tion how to behave, and was lost in amazement
to find they were not all goalers had on my
chimney piece two horrible sprigs of artificial
flowers, originally from bridecake, that from
length of existence and accumulation of SCOT
were become SO odious that at last burnt
them. The landlady made me pay for them as
though they were choice orchids"
"You must not make me laugh. said salome,
''or shall drop the glasses from under my
arms"
Then let me take them" said Philip,
promptly "you have two in your hands, that
sufhces. tire you with my "reminiscences of
lodging-house life"
Not at all-they divert me-"
at is the only subject on which my conversa-
ton flows. do not know why it is that when
speak on politics have difficulty in express
ing my ideas, but when 1 come on lapdladydom
the words boil out of my heart. like the water
from a newly-tapped artesian well. have a
great mind to tell you my Scarborough expert
ences."
do So"
''Once when was out of sorts went to the
sea coast for change-but 1 am OBTAINING
you.n
"Well, I will put down the glasses and bulbs
in the Pummy cupboard and return to hear
your story"
Instead of going downstairs with Salome,
Philip, though he had relieved her of two
glasses went with them to the drawing room
whence she had taken them-whch was in no
way assisting her. Moreover, when he was
there, he put down the glasses on the table and
began examining the names of the bulbs
QOuDle PINK OluSns elnRlo Culna Dlue Tue queen
of the yellows and SO on. He had offered to
help Salome. but he was doing nothing of the
kind: he waited till she had filed the glasses
with water, planted couple of bulbs in them,
and consigned them to the depths of the cup
board. When she returned to the parlor he
was still examining the names of the tubers.
Now said he, Il will tell you about my land
lady at Scarborough" He made no attempt to
carry down glasses, he detained the girl from
prosecuting her work. ~ was at Scarborough
| for a week. and when 1 left my lodgings the
Iandlady charged me 80 shillings for toilet set,
because there was a crack in the snapdish. 1
had not injured it. pointed out the fact that
the crack was gray with age. that the discolor-
alton betokened antiquity. but she was mac
cessible to reason, impossible to convince. The
injury done to the soapdish spoiled the whole
set, she said, and must pay for an entire set.
might have contested the point, at law; but
| it was hardly worth my while, so agreed to
pay the 30 shillings, only stipulated that
should carry OF the fractured soapdish with