Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-08-25
LETTING THE STABLE.
How I Learned That "a Penny
Saved Is a Penny Got"

Saved Is Penny Cot
Let ME see. There is a nice little
stable on the place, isn't there?" said
Uncle Franklin.
Really, i almost wish there was
not / replied. for 1 do not keep a
horse, and never will Ever since
was run away with. two years ago
with VIII and Trot in the wagon beside
me, ] have been afraid to touch the
-eins--
Uncle Franklin spread his silk hand
Aercnief over his crossed knees. after a
fashion of his own, and smiled in Il su-
per:or way he has.
IF ever a woman had faculty for
2 overlooking the opportunity of making
an honest dollar. you have. Fenella, -
he said 1T behooves young widow,
with two small children, to look out
for the main chance. If you don't use
your stable, you can let ii. So much in
Your pocket. 1t is very customary: and
a stable in use really makes the place
look better than one standing empty,
shut up. desolate. as if the family were
in distressed circumstances and had
sold their animals and equipages."
Uncle Franklin liked to round his
sentences with long words; and / did
not even mention that the resident of a
two-story cottage in the suburbs was
scarcely to be reckoned amongst those
Likely to keep animals and equipages :"
Besides. Uncle Franklin was a serious
man. He had been named after the
original Benjamin, and was said to look
like him: and he rather diSlillcd Jokes.
He would have liked to wear q queue
and powder his hair. His favorite
motto was the one he now repeated as
he arose, took up his hat and his thick.
gold-headed cane.
IA penny saved is a penny got, Ee-
nella- Don't forget that, for the sake
of my poor nephew's children
j knew I was likely enough to forget
it every day. for at that time | was not
used to being economical / said to
Uncle Franklin that i would let the
stable. and asked what he thought any
one would be likely to offer. He was
not sure The Auchesters. he thought,
got fifty dollars a month for their
stabies-though, to be sure, they were
much larger.
Fifty dollars a month, / felt that
half of that would warrant me in hav-
ing more done to the garden than / had
intended. And 7 never told Uncle
Franklin what 1 paid for those japoni-
cas- and jessamines and climbing roses
and oleanders and / forget what, with
long Latin names; but Mr.. Guffin. the
florist assured me that my garden
would be the envy of all my neigh bors.
They certainly made a great show; the
grass OH the lawn was very fine, and
there were some nice fruit-trees. A
suburban residence might be more
homeI;ke and more tasteful than any
city enc. / began to tell myself in n
weeks time; but / was conscious of
having already spent very great deal
more upon mine than / Ought-es-
pecially as had not let Sny stable
You ought to advertise it, said my
uncle. Describe it, and have the let
tiers addressed to the post office
did so. As / was not accustomed to
making up advertisements, the result
was the appearance in the morning
paper of a fowery little sketch of my
stable, with some of my reasons for
letting it This, paid for at SO much a
line. was scarcely an economical be-
ginning. A lengthy correspondence
with various persons followed. One
gentleman even interviewed me. and
looking straight at the little building
of olive-green picked out with Indian
red. asked: Where are the stables
situated?'
Nothing, however, came of all this;
lint a humber method succeeded bet
ter.
Bridget, the cook, / remember. sug-
pested: s.Stick bill on the back of the
stable. where the foine company COM
ing to the house won't see il"
The idea seemed good to Ee. IPosted
the bill after dark. and at dawn the
bell rang wildly. Some one thumped
on the door and beloved ''Hollo.' un-
der the window; and when I thrust my
head forth, with wild cry of Where's
the fire?- a voice with German ac-
cent replied:
s.On de shtove, ma'am. dat Is all. /
comes little early. before somebody
else hires dot shtable. Dat is all Dere
is no for alarm reason
..Please take a seat I said. Il will
be down in a moment" and hastily as
Stunning a morning robe and slippers, L
hurried downstairs
A stout gentleman filed one of the
red chairs on the porch, and nodded
praciously as appeared
Good morning, ma'am,' he re-
marked. Sometimes, in dis world,
beople agrees even. You wish to let dot
shtable. / wish to hire it So. De next
ovestion is, how much is de brice?-by
de mors-'
settled myself in another red chair,
deliberately, before ! answered, as
though I had done nothing but let
stables all my life.
'swell, the Auchesters have Fifty dol
lars . month for theirs"
Ny visitor uttered low groan, and
,muttered . remark IN German, best left
ntranslated