New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-12-11

gloves, and mamma and Aunt Florence would not
he trying to find me a suitable husband. And"
she looked up with sudden change OF face, l
should be under such a sky as this all the time
The girls horse walked on for half an hour
through heavy sand and palmetto scrub. 1t was
along this way lhat Saomc Gerry toilcd when she
came into town TO sit the plaza or on the water
battery Of the old fort. But she maintained that
it paid her Yes. although her shoes were the re-
ceptaccs of a great deal OF sand ana her skirts
were festooned with sand-spurs, and red bugs dis
ported themselves upon her
1t was not far beyond tic curve of the shore,
where the little river empted itself silently into the
ocean inlet that they call the Matangas, that Mr..
Job Maine resided 1t would hardly be correct to
say that he lived. lie did not live anywhere He
resided he stayed
And this was where his truck grew. That is, it
grew here when it grew anywhere. But if truck
is not planted il will not grow, even in Florida.
There was the long trunk Of Pine tree which
Mr.. Maine had some years before in one Of the
times when he faxed round TO quote his own
words, burned at the roots 50 that it fell TO the
ground.
Mr. Maine, ever since, had "aimed" to cut this
tree up for firewood But thus far he had antic-
pated that 1t would be considerable trouble TO cut
il up, and he had not done so and no did not
always inl it quite convenient to plough aud put
seed into the ground at the proper time AL
together things were quite a good deal Of trouble
to job Maine. What he really wanted to 10 was
TO sit on that pine which lie had burnt down and
mcditatively suck pipe, or roll tobacco from one
side of his mouth TO the other Ills pigs ran about
in the sand. He did not know or care, what they
ate. He only knew that he should eat them when
he was ready. Aid if he had planted kac he
should boil some kalc with the pork or rather, he
should tell his wife TO do IT,
Mr. Maine, he SAT on his pine tree, used TO
say that il turriblc hard work TO git Twin,
specially if man had a wife to support. Women
were so 'Xtravagant."
This gentleman now looked forward to longer
periods of sitting on that tree for he to be in
receipt OF a regular income of s. n month from
Mrs. Gerry rent for the building which she and
ncr daughter occupied
1t was not worth 81 a month. but Mrs. Gerry did
not know that Shc was sure IL was tho cheapest
way sho could live.
And the ozone was thrown in. In fact, Mr.
Maine said he should not charge cant for the
climate, any way.
As the house in which the Gcrrys lived was
built Of logs, and as I'll" in;ersticcs between tho
LOGS were not filed, the two women felt that they
had nearly as much climate when they were in tho
house a. when they were out Of it,
And a. 1t is air want, said Salome. checriiy,
why, | cannot complain
But everything was bitter ~ gall 70 Mrs Gerry.
She hated that wrctchcd onc-roomcd hut. with
its clay and log chimney. which had great holes IN
light And the door had no hinges. and was 10
De taken up bodily and st IN it, place rs thl-
could be done better without the hov"l than with
in it, there was much discussion between me Two
women as 10 how they should get IN after they
had put the door up from the outside.
Mr.. Maine, when consulted. said b" aimed 10 iiX
that door before his tenants went North. And
D.. rrofs-st.1 rp Willlu
any time when tho women wer" inslG" and put mp
the door II" said most likely b" should b" S"ttln
on that pine tree rrstin, or somewhere, near ana
if they scritchod he should hear them and would
set tho door right up. And he shouldn't charge
anything, either.
Bcing in,crrogatol aa TO the safety from evil
people which this door did not provide. MI Maine
salt he supposed TWO women wouldn't De sal" up
North. but here in Florida he wa, Of the opinion
that they were safer with door llk" that tian II
il had "A burglar proof lock on 1t. lie arSued that
no man coming along and seeing that door in that
condition would think it worth while to tako II
down ,u., 90. 49,. ,.o,, s,o FIN. q t.,ior
would saw 70 himself: Their ami nothin' behind
that thar do, n sha'n't tech il That's about
what Teller d say. y he'd 80 on n ni'1 , III
somcwhar whar they WAS fastened and boit".l and
claimed up. Amt that reasonable, shy but
don't say but what | aim to tX up mat do Tore
you 90 North y,
Mrs Gerry would reply sharply, that sh" an
io She had cone to St. Augustine and had bought
a bed. table and two chairs. These articles %
rcther with "A lamp-stoyc, were now standing IN
fho hut Everything else she had managed To
bring in their trunks
Every time il raincd She appealed tercry to hcr
landlord to do something about stopping the LEAKS
He said that WAS another thing be- was aiinins -
do fore she went North. IA yet th'r" had w'''
only showers in th" two weeks since their 'S'ap-
lishmcnt in the cabin.
Al first. Mrs. Gerry was in panic lest Salomc
should take cold. But she did not. N@thlns
seemed to hurt her She out Of doors all day. a
She laughed at Inconvenience, which maj" hrr
mother arc-t frantic with Indignation, froplc
needn't live sO,' the Yankee woman SAID dozen
times a day. e.. -
the hearth. with the door leaned mp IN It's place
And Mrs Gerry would say that the only reason tho
old hut didn't burn down, was because 10 WIS
raining That was no kind Of a chimney. o.,
And what shall We 10 in northeast storm
." Let ~ wait until the storm comes, rccomih'h'-
Her mother turned and looked AT her sharply.
She hardly felt that she knew the child.
That's 10 way" she said, with some edge 70
her voice, -, .,,or ,
DO you know | sometimes feel as If | wonidn
fight any more? At home, YOU know, everybody
is fighting something. They fight th"lr own SINS
II good deal. | am going 10 take things easy.
Perhaps you'd like TO take things a easy as
Job Maine
I've found out how delightful it is lust TO sit
in the sunlight, answered the GIRL earnestly. n 1
I'm tired of resisting, resisting. That's al me
seems TO be-, in the North. And here lts yI"idihS;
Yielding Us a great deal more comiortaplr.
don't think understand myself any m'rc, mother
with increasing caTnc~tncss. seem 10 ID" hpnl'-
body else It's Just ~ if there were something III
me that | didn't know about ana thai coming
here had called into life | have great deal
more physical energy than had, but nave
thought that in some prr-cXiStenrc. ] was some
thing ar other that just loved to live IN warm ar
and sunshine, and that didn't care much Tor any,
thing clsr Or that | am not IN" kind ol gIrl
thought | was. don't think - much rs TO
wIcth'r thing i, right or WRONG, any more ana,
worse than that I'm glad don't II wa' 50 very
trying to lc always asking myself that, you Know.
used 10 feel sometimes If was like that Story
about the sharp blade wearing through the Scap-
bard. You zee I'm different somehow. Do YOU
think I'n going 10 be very wicked? But if am,
| don't believe ] shall rcrcnt one bit
MIS- Gerry, who was lacking up some cotton
cloth against tie walls, hoping il would Keep ont
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