Blue-grass blade., 1892-09-03

VIII never forget tnaJ again.
advertisement, ten dollars; tele-
gram. four sevcnty-five," l was saying
to myself. But no matter"
''IIe is moved in, num-" said Bridget,
on Monday, when I returned from a
walk, land he is the milk"
The what?" exclaimed.
"The milEman, num-" said Bridget.
There's couple of horses in it, and
two wagons, and niver to be counted is
the cans
sat dumb with amazcment. had
thought of nothing but private car
riage.
"A milkman! Oh! he must go." l
cried. Il cannot allow this high
handed proceeding"
AN the clashin' and the baugin'
will be somctbin' fcarful!' Bridget
added.
1t was at two o'clock every morning
the household started awake in various
stages of insane terror. On one occa-
sion, Bridget, sure that the house was
in flames, threw herself promptly out
of the window. She only fell as far as
the roof of the wash-house, but she
broke her arm. and the surgeons bill
was twenty-five dollars. Fifteen and
ten added to twenty-five make fifty.
had begun to keep a little record of
what it cost me to let my stable. Be
sides, though it is highly respectable to
deal in milk, the clipping, stating that
now made living in that way,
which was sent me by dear friend
who cut it from fashionable journal,
was startling.
"You cannot help it, you know"
Uncle Franklin said. "You evidently
Unpronounccablc, before you signed it.
Console yourself by the thought that
you are saving five dollars a month";
''lIc has brought the Ould BOY with
him this time, num-" said Bridget. a
few days after this, rs she sat on the
back porch, with her arm i'm sling.
while 4 cooked the breakfast. ran To
look. Behold, tied to a ring on the
stable wall, black goat, hairy and
ferocious, with the countenance of the
ficnd himself. ! venturcd down the
path 10 look at him. lie evidently con-
sidered it liberty, and, lowering his
horns, made IA plunge at me. fed in
terror. However, he was tied fast,
and nothing happened that time.
1t was the day on which Mr. Unpro-
nounceablc came to pay his rent.
Uncle Franklin had spent Sunday with
us. and was not yet off and away. He
listened calmly at the window as re-
monstratcd with my tenant.
Il did not expect a goat" said.
"A goat goes always nit shtable.
You ask any von," he replied. ''Etfcr
did you see a shtable midout goat?
II is lawful"
perhaps it is" my uncle said, mild
ly; ''and when you look at this" and
he spread the fvc-dollar hill out upon
the table, '.you will feel proud of your
economy"
1t was on returning from my
walk to the train with Uncle Frank
lin that ] passed my house without
! knowing it. | could not at first un-
derstand what change had come
upon it; but at last it dawned upon
me that all those fine plants which
had placed along the beds, all the
Towering shrubs and box borders, even
all the vines, were gone! And there,
beside the fence, calmly devouring the
last rose of summer, by way of dessert
stood Capricornus, the goat.
'IIe ate livery wan of them, and me
enable to do anything but scrcech,
said Bridget
Fifty dollars worth of plants"
murmured. Fifty and fifty make a hun
dred."
"l!e ate up my wed shoe, muzzer,
I said Tot, from the window.
"Nell, you do not cgspect human in
delligence of joost goat" said my
tenant, when entered my complaint
"And now We will let him run around /;
liddel, every day; he will make youl
grass down like Il lawn-mower."
but we have lawn mowerm ex
claimed /; ''and am sure it is much
better than goat" | added, goadcd to
vexation by the tenants coolness.
"Esc it, mees? Veil, We will see. In
de shpace of an hour, dot goat will max,
down dot lawn as it vas before never
made down"
lie did. He also ''made down any
thing which hung within his reach OF
wash days, and at other times devoure,
straw hats, baskets and magazines. Ii
my little expense book | noted down
as an item of my stable expenses: "Fif
teen dollars for sundries devourcd by
Capricornus.
What frightful smell of bad to
bacco.' | said to Bridget, one day.
"Ycs ma'am," she replied, Its /;
very cheap kind he do he smoking, t.
he sure
'Iie?" | queried.
There's a man living over the sta
be-" said Bridget. didn't you he no
ticing it? He came with his furnitur
three days ago" bridget made all tn,
ne " discoveries, just then having lei
sure to look about her.
"Mit shtable goes man. Dot Va,
de law" said my tenant when | inter
rogated him; and, for all | knew, j
might be 50.
A new surprise awaited us. On,
morning we beheld upon our lawn ;
rocking-chair of ample size, and in tin
chair woman who filled it comfort
ably as she exhibited the dccpcs
maternal solicitude to twins, Will,
four other infants gamboled upon til,
grass; and from the grapevine arbo
emerged Il comical old couple In knitte,
caps. who nodded to MS condescc nding
ly, Capricornus meanwhile friskin!
| about
! ''Exblain?' said my tenant, a littl,
later, willingly! My man now haf /;
good job and nice house, so he sen
for, from Chermany, his wife and chill
derns, and his old parents. Dot is al
right. Not?"
could not deny that either.
| We had calculated on large crop 0