Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-03-21
THE RETURN VISIT.
How Mr.. Meadowland Kept Sum.
mer Boarders.

Al oiu Iut. lIllJttu IL blcduOWlduu, WIN
last season carried on summer board
ing-house in quiet way. This letter,
as some one has said, explains itself:
My DEAR SIR: Your letter, in which
you say you are going to write book
on Summer Board and Other Nox-
ious Institutions" and want some facts
about the business, is received. 1t will
make me feel first-rate II can help you
any, and / will tell you what l learned
about the business while running my
house, which ! might say right here l
have just entirely refitted for next sea-
son, having painted the front door and
moved the hen-coop.
! opened my house the first of last
June, putting small notices in the New
York papers that quiet country board
with COW on the premises and fresh air
and marked absence of muskeeters
could be had by addressing -. X, this
Office u. X" stood for me, you I'M
derstand. While l was waiting for
people to begin corresponding with u.
X" my wife's cousin happened to find
out where her dear old friend was liv-
ing, and came up from the city on a
visit, bringing her husband and her
five children with her, cause she
reckoned they would enjoy the cow ia
cilities, and so forth. We was glad to
see 'em and give EN- the front rooms,
and was reviving old memories and
milking the COW three times a day SO
the children would have enough, when
along comes an uncle of mine, and
brings his wife and three children, and
all of them was tickled to death to
learn that we had COW; and they set
tied down in the back rooms. Before
the public began to correspond to
amount to any thing with u.
H." two second cousins of my
wife's aunt, and a man who brought
along family tree with black frame
around it under his arm, to prove to
me that he was cousin of a nephew of
mine, dropped in and took the small,
scattering rooms around here and
there, and most of them mentioned
that they was fond of milk. About a
week after | had letter from one
man, and he came up to see me. | told
him that If he cou1d figure it out that
he was any relation, he might just as
we'll stay all summer and it wouldn't
cost him a cent; but he said he guessed
he couldn't do it. told him thought
probably my nephew's cousin could
get him up tree in little while, but
he said no, he expected to pay for his
board; so we set up bed for him In
the garrett Sometimes no talked about
going back to town, but the Others
wasn't heard making any such re
marks. had several other chance:
to take cash boarders, who couldn'
trace no relationship, but had to turf
them away, as the house was full. The
second cousin. of my wife's aunt com
plained some because the boarder tool
up so much room, and | heard 'eu
saving that il it wasn't for him they
could have their father and mothel
come and make a pleasant little famil.
party. But we all got rid of him along
in the middle of the summer because
the lightning struck him one night a
he was sleeping up in his room clos
to the lightning-rod, and tore his bed
stead all to pieces, and the next morn
ing he said he guessed he would g
back to the city.
The summer passed middling sool
after all, as the young ones the,
had brought with them got into s.
much mischief that it made it yer,
lively for me. About the LIST Of Octc
Der they began to drop off, and by tn
middle the family reunion was over
Ny wife's cousin, the one with hus
band and five children that had com
first and popularized the movement, a
Imay say, give us very urgent inv
tation to come down and see them thi
winter. l remarked to Matilda that
wouldn't be no bad plan.
just after the hollerdays we begu
TO rig up for the trip and get the 81
children ready. / thought, to max
the thing just right we ought to hav
a few others along, so sent up to m
uncle's and got him and his wife an
two children to go with us. His wife ha
distant cousin that had seven chi
dren and a husband that worked in
saw-mill; and the Oldest girl wa
growed up and was married and had
baby. They all agreed to the tri
soon as mentioned it to them, and
fixed them up family tree Whe