The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-01
ENAMELED.
Our Lady Lodgers and DR.. Bar
lows Preparations.

It is not our custom to take dodgers.
know we might gain penny now
and then in that way, but we would
rather pick huckleberries at ten cents
a quart than have strange people
about. How can one ever know what
tin peddler might take it into his
head to do after he had put his horse
up in our barn and had pulled his cart
under the shedP And it is tin peddlers
principally that want lodgings in this
part of the country. Besides, it is ir-
ritating to be forced to take payment
in tin dishes when you already have all
OF those articles you viii ever be likely
to need.
1t is our misfortune that our house
is very large, and has that indescrib-
able appearance which always belongs
to houses where people do take dodgers.
This look we have never been able to
eradicate, and first and last il has
brought us a great deal of trouble.
When / look in the glass but I
ought to begin at the beginning.
One night last week, as Amabel and
were coming home from calling at
friends house, we saw two figures on
our piazza. They were sitting on the
bench. and seemed reposing them
selves as those who had right and
were sure Of their welcome; evidently
acquaintance awaiting our arrival. It
was growing dusk, and at first we did
not know il they were men or women;
but as we entered the yard they rose
and came forward into the glow of
light from the west, and we saw that
they were women, plain and respect
able, just as our friends usually seem.
The woman in the gray dress-one
was clad in black, the other in gray
advanced a step in front of her COM
panion and began speaking. She said
they were intending TO go to Plainville
but as it was getting late another lady
at the next house had told them that
we would doubtless take them for the
night, and they gave twenty-five cents
apiece for their lodging, and they
were canvassing In the vicinity and
should not need any breakfast and she
hoped we should find it convenient tC
keep them. All the time that these
words were coming cOpiously and
without punctuation from the lips Of
the one woman, the other kept bowling
and smiling an accompaniment. In.
deed, every time we looked at this
other-she in the black frock-sht
bowed and smiled, showing two prom
inent white teeth, wriggling with her
neck and head in a way that was con
fusing in the last degree.
Seeing our dodgers by the light o.
the lamp, we now discovered that the
spokeswoman, she in gray, had mo-
any smile; In its stead she had Ger
tain movement Of the nose and upper
lip. which answered just as we'll anC
had the advantage Of not being sc
confusing. She continually referred
TO tho other one as "Sister Emma, y
and Sister Emma never failed with
her smile and bow. But she was not
dumb, for we heard her talking after
they went upstairs. Perhaps she wa,
shy; perhaps she considered that sh,
could do better than talk.
Naturally we asked for what they
were canvassing. At this question
they looked at each other so very
uueerly that had instantly a creepy
sensation down my backbone at tn,
thought that they we're going to stay
ali night with us. After this mutua
glance the speaking one replied tina
they had 'etoilet articles" / felt tina
toilet articles covered a wide range o
things; they might be bureaus or fine
tooth combs they were selling. II tn,
former, they were certainly not carry
Ing them in their satchels. unless by
feqt of legerdemain.
just as they were going upstairs {,
bed, as the clock was striking nine, tn,
spokeswoman turned TO me as I stoO,
at the foot, made that motion Of tn,
nose and lip, and said she would lil
10 sec me on private business in tn,
morning. At the same time, from be
hind. Sister Emma smiled and bowed
and then I was loft standing helples
in the hall, looking up the stairs alonl
which the two had disappeared.
Before retiring, Amabel and held
smothered conversation in the remot
est corner Of the house, the principa
part of this conversation being a dis
cussion rs TO whether dynamite coul'
be considered a toilet article. Amabel
I found, had determined in her owl
mind that the handbags held dyna
mite, and that their owners wer,
female Nihilists.
She said she would prefer that tn
house should be full of tin peddlers
Any thing would be better than TIVE
women, one of whom could not smile
while the other could do nothing else
Here She interrupted her remarks Z,
60 and count the spoons and TO hid,
them ia pile Of old newspapers. Sh,
thought that If she walked TO find her
self alive Ina the morning she should