Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-11-01
ME AND URIAH.

hiy mind To keep summer boardcrS
There was the Bhnlersu4: they'd made
enough to buy 4 new kerrridge TO take um
10 meelii', aud there was The roplinse,
that had all gone into silks fur the same
cause; and sez TO [ riah, sez l.
Look a here, Henry" that's my pet
name for Criah. why noty" SEE l.
well, nanny, said Unah, that's his
pet name fur me; "wcll, dunno as there
is any reason pertickeler agin it, only
we've been SO kinder comfortable RS we be.
| Wen hev to do more. and we'll hey to buy
lots of things; and cookin' fur twenty ain t
like cookin' fur two, specially when the
two amt perhicketty and is healthy.
You'd ought to hear farmer Poggins wish
to mussy his wife would give Mp
takin' um She's been to bed. with the
doctor comm twice day, On account of
overwork. Boarders amt all angels, and
keepin' um amt all parrydiee."
'But think of the mo ney. my precious
old honey" seq |, maxim potry without
meaning In do it, or hevin' the talent ef |
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of ink sot handy. "Think how you Will
kinder say tn yourself: Now there is so
much banked" shan't spend it on rib
bons or kerridges Wen bank it and get
satisfaction out of it, and You and me won't
hey no fear fur our old age. What's lit
tie more workf You amt but fifty, and |
amt but forty seven. We've got our
health and strength; it won't hurt us
at may in other ways" seq Uriah, "But
| never hinder you from actin as yOu
please, and never shall, Nancy
And so the next day jez went down to
New York and it put inter the paper that
Mrs Pottleton of Stopover would take a
few select summer boarders. Plenty of
fresh eggs and milk, fruit, mountain air,
and not many muskeeters
Ia Say none" seq the young man at the
| desk, when he read the Understandable
wuz young man I knowed to speak to
"say no muskeeters, Mrs. POttleton, as the
| rest does"
"The rest tells fbs then, seq l, they
is some everywhere"
Leave it 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 / had fifteen boarders
Ne and Uriah was sleeping in the barn. I
wuz obleeged to keep help, which wuz a
great trial, and l wuz beginning to run
down considerable from work and anxiety.
Still ten fiiteens il one hundred anf fifty,
as | used to keep sayin' to myself when
got up feeling like boiled owl, and l
wasn't going to give up after gettin' my
own way agin Uriah, the way | had got
it.
dunno but I'd hev stuck to it ef it
hadn't been for the Jessamys They were
city folkses, and came down one Monday
mornin'
The ma, Miss Jessamy, was one of the
ly-away kind of widders, dressed princi-
pally in bugleS She shone comm up the
road considerable more'n tin peddler.
The darters was sixteen and eighteen and
twenty-one They were laced and bust
led out, and lrizzled and ribboned like
Christmas dolls in New York show wind
ers. And they brought dawn trunks
enough for an army, and the games they
called lawn tennis and archery.
The fust was balls and bats and nettin's.
The last was bow arrers and target But
they couldn't find no place for their ten
his, and the lamentin ond the sighin' and
the appealin to dear Mr. Pottleton to give
them ground enough, until Uriah made Il
blamed fool of himself and squared off one
of the hay mcddcrs for 'um, and rolled it
and helped 'em to sot nets, and went and
made rustic seats for 'em, and wasn't to be
seen only at meal times for the best part
of the week
Well, | calkerlated on Uriah helpin' me.
In old time eff he'd pqnkin pies to make
he'd cut up the punkin, and he'd heat up
the Oven-Uria was real smart for a man,
and never havic' no children he did lots of
things for me-hung out the clothes some
times when there warn't no need of him
onto the farm, and he used to stand for me
drape to my skirts on like a lamb But
now. when | he'd more to do than | ever
he'd in my life before, he didn't come nigh
me.
bore it quite spell before | spoke
But one night ! walked up in our bed in
the barn, aggravated by remembcrin that
I'd had to split my own kiudlin's that day,
and said all had to say bottlin mp so
long | had plenty.
Nancy Pott leton," said he, when l got
through, 'Im sorry about the kindlin', but
as fur comm in maxim Miss Many of my
self before strange help carn't do it. Be
twixt you and me it was all right told
you keepin' boarders would alter things
You've got to entertain company when
you've got it
You've got to feed 'em good" SEE l.;
''but dunno as you've got to kite around
aceordin' to their directions"
wall, I've promised tu fix up the tennis
grounds" sez.Uriah. "Its splendid game.
I'm goin' to get suit and bats tomOr-
rer, and buy Inc bow wuz up head ut
bow arrer, when l was boy an eff l can't
hit that bulls eye every time I'll give up"
II have give up already, seq l. care
you goin' to get short trousers aud striped
Jacket"
Regular tennis suit" sez Uriah. what
ever it is. | want to show them York
folks that am as good as they be, ef not
little better"
When heerd them words ! couldn't
express my sentiments no way but in
groans. ! laid upon my pillar in kind O
CONNER fur quite spell then Uriah
nudged me.
Nanny, sea he, "would You get yel-
Ter clothes or blue and whitei'
Neither" seq I. "Get red, so the folks
will know what monkey you be, playin'
ball and shootin' bow arrers at your age"
But my words wuz of no avail. He got
the clothes, and after that kinder strange.
ness fell betwixt us. / wuz alters tn work;
he wuz alters tn play-ridin' round or
sailin round with them Jessamys and the
other boarders, shakin' down the plums
and peaches for 'em, takin' 'em dshin'. ST.
las Prog, the man that he'd the laborers
cottage for four or five years, told me he'd
given over all farm directions to him and
paid no. attention to the place, and as