Wichita eagle., 1890-03-09
Her eye sometimes fell on the uords.

Wealthy people had found out that j,
was not only a pleasant but healthy
locality, and they had come and bought
ground and built fine big houses; there
were The Elms and The Larches and
The Yews and The Hawthorns, and ever
so many more: and speculator had
run up a whole terrace along the slope
to the west side of the village Then
the spirit of the age laid his hand
gently on the shoulders of the quiet,
easy going, sleepy little shop keepers,
and stirred them up to put second fiat
on their houses and plate glass in their
shop windows, and generally to look
more alive than had been the habit with
them or their fathers. But after all was
done it still to people from the city
seemed a delightfully."- innocent, drowsy
little place. Not that the inhabitants
were by any means deaf to the WISDOM
Of the proverb which says, Make hay
while the sun Shines" on the contrary.
you paid more for probably an inferior
article than you did in town .sbut then
it was sold to you not as mere cold
matter of business, but as an act of
friendship done with the expression Of
much genuine interest in you, your fam
lily and your health: and when you
threw that into the bargain you found
it actually cheap.
At this epoch The Hawthorns was to
be let, and it was advertised in the Cold
burgh newspapers. and described as IAN
excellent and commodious house, with
large, well stocked garden, park. sta
bling and coach house, together with the
right of fishing in the Oxhaugh water;
shooting for two guns could also be had
if required The fishing must have
been above the mill, it is to be supposed.
What did the trouts think who came
down on voyage of discovery from the
clear mossy pools among the hills and
found their dainty snouts plunged in
chloride Of lime or something equally
powerful and pungentf They must either
have gone back the way they came. or
have fallen martyrs to their intense
ardor for piercing the unknown. This
advertisement fell under the eye OF Mrs.
Wright, as most things in the shape of
advertisements or news did; and she,
being on the lookout for summer quar-
ters, directed her husbands attention TO
it The Wrights always went some
where in summer, and Of course they
had been at great many places; but
Oxhaugh, although 50 near. Mrs. Wright
had never even seen. and she thought
that, other things being equal, it raighi
lie a very pleasant and convenient change
of residence
Mr. Wright was aself made man. You
sometimes meet self made men you
think might have been strikingIy i'm
proved If some other person or persons
had had hand IN the making Of them.
You would not have been long beside Mr..
Wright TIL this idea occurred 10 you. he
read the advertisement and said. There
can be 10 harm IN looking at the place.
Il seems as If the shooting is TO be paid
for or no. as you wan. it. but have nc
doubt the fishing is considered in the
rent: in which case don't choose TO pay
for what don't want"
Nr. Wright had never fired gun In
his life, and IS for fishing, he would as
soon have picked oakum- The burns o.
Scotland sound musical 10 hin: WHY.
toe g1u-le OF Bass beer cut OF bottle
was besszr 10 him than the Inusic OF zuv
.t.eam, be - nationality what il might
Ii such a thing had been suggested 10
hin. &c would have uastapt.r decided j;