Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-11-15
ME AND URIAH.
Our Experience in Keeping Sum
mer Boarders.

Our Experience in Keeping Sum
mer Boarders.
Me and Uriah had got along fust'
rate fur about thirty years or so when
the love OF gain got hold of me, and
i made up my mind to, keep summer
boarders.
There was the Blinkerses; they'd
made enough to buy a new kerridge tn
take UNI tn meetin', and there wus the
Poplinses that had all gone into silks
fur the same cause; and Isez TO Uriah,
SEE L:
Look here, Tenery." that's my
pet name for Urlah, "why notP" SEE j.
well, nanny" SEE Uriah. that's
his pet name for me, "well. dunno as
there Is any reason pertickeler ag'in 1T
only we've been so kinder comfortable
as we be. Wen hev TO do more, and
well hev TO buy lots OF things; and
!cookin' fur twenty amt like cookln'
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'
um; she's been 10 bed, with the doctor
comm twice day. on account OF over
work. Boarders amt all angels, and
keepin' um amt all parrydice-"
"But think OF the money. my pre-
cious old honey" seq I. maxim potry
without meaning tn do 1t. think
how you will kinder like to say to
yourself: Now. there is 30 much
banked / sha'n't spend 1t onto rib
bins or kerridges. Wen bank 1t and
get satisfaction out OF 1t, and you and
me won't hev no fear fur old age.
What's little moro work. You amt
but fifty and / Amt but forty-seven.
We've got our health and strength; 1t
won't hurt u.s."
ut may In other ways" seq Uriah.
"But never hinder you from actin as
you please, and never shill, Nancy"
And 30 the next day jez went down
tn New York and had 1t put inter the
paper that Mrs Pottleton. OF Stopover,
would take few select summer
boarders. Plenty OF fresh eggs and
milk, fruit, mountain air. and not
many muskeeers.
"Say none," SEE the young man at
the desk. when he read the advertise
ment-he wuz young man / knowed
10 speak to-''say no muskecters, Mrs.
Pottleton, as the rest does"
THE rest tells fibs, then,n seq l.
'They is some everywhere"
Leave 1t out altogether then" 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 las is $50,
rs l used TO keep saying TO myself,
when got up feeling like boiled owl,
and wasn't goin' give up after gettin'
my own way agin' Uriah the way had
got 1t.
dunno but I'd hev stuck tn II OF II
hadn't been for the Jessamys They
was city iolkses and come down one
Monday mornin'.
The ma, Miss Jessamy. was one OF
the lly-away kind OF widders' dressed
principally in bugles. She shone COM
i,' ~, tl,a rnoJ onneidarh,,I Y,,nrain N
tin-peddlcr The darters wus sixteen
and eighteen and twenty-one. They
wus laced and hustled out, and frizzed
and ribboned like Christmas dolls In
York show-windors. And they brought
down trunks enough for an army. and
games they called lawn-tennis and
archery.
The iust wus balls and bats and net
tins. the last wus bow -arrers and n
target But they couldn't find no place
for their tennis, and the lamentin' and
the sighin' and tho appoalin' TO dear
Mr. Pottlcton to give them ground
enough. until Uriah jest made blamed
fool OF himself and squared of one OF
the hay-medders for um. and rolled 1t
and help 'em far tn sot up nets. and
went and made rustic seats fur 'em,
and wasn't to be seen only at meal
times fur the best OF the week.
Wall. I'd calkerlated on Uriah help
in' me. In old times ef had punhin-
pies tn make he'd cut up the punkin,
and he'd heat up the oven-Uriah was
real smart for man, and never hevin'
no children he did lots OF things fur
ine-hung out tho clothes sometimes
when there wurn't no need OF him onto
the farm. and he used 10 stand fur me
10 drapo my skirts on like lamb.
But now, when he'd more tn do than
ever had In my life before he didn't
come nigh INC.
l bore II quite spell before spoke.
But one night walked up In our bed
in the barn, aggravated by remember
in that I'd had to split my own kin
dlin's that day, and ! said all had.to
say--bottlln' up SO long had plenty.
Nancy Pottleton," said he. when ]
got through, I'm sorry about the kin
dim. but rs fur comm In and maxim
Miss Nancy OF myself before strange
help carn't do It, Betwixt yon and
me II wuz all right. 1 told you keep
in' boartlors would alter things
You've got to entertain company when
you've got it."
.'You'ye rot tu feed 'em Rood,n SEE