Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1895-11-01
Miscellaneous.
OUR COUNTRY COUSIN.

sisters, the fashionable Misses Seymour
towards the end of certain summer,
having been the rounds OF all the old
summer resorts aud firing of the last
one, suddenly remembered that some
where in the rural districts in the in
terror of the States they possessed some
cousins of more or less nearness or dis.
lance
As last resort, in order to overcome
the onui that was then gradually taking
possession Of them, they decided to set
tie down on these cousins for the re-
naming days of the late summer and
the heated period of autumn
With them to decide was to act, so
with almost unfashioDable alacrity--and
my sisters were stricklers for fashion,
too--letters were dispatched to tho sud
denly remembered cousins aud the an
swer to them awaited with breathless
impotence.
They came at last, bearing the most
cordial invitation for my sisters to fol-
low their inclinations and come up into
the country at their earliest convenience
To say that my sisters jumped at the
chanoe would be wholly misleading ;
my sisters never Jump at anything;
'hey were entirety 700 elegant ,or 'nat
Out WIN surprising haste they an-
s"ereu' informing 'heir hostesses wneh
sney won,u arrive, ana lheh on inc
heols OF the ietter swept up INTO tho
country pag, oahupoA anu oaggaee'
hcuers 'oid US now they iounu the
COUSINS cnarhioe wiuow anu her
uaugnter, WIN me oid pace, ana
%na' p'eSsou IT. reai country hospitality
ino "iuo" was 30. uo"n US Perso"
VINO nad seen somethlng OF NO. ana inc
daughter was Votco h'co' 'hough aIrine
oid,iashloned
AS iather and were very busy 10
Town that summer we dld hoe JOIN inc
iaoiss 10 INC country out merely .ook u
week hSnihg ~ ono Oh our iaVor'to
haunts ana went righ. pack 10 WORK
again, 30 IL was hoc untli carry IN octo-
per- when inc girls came PACK 70 town'
Dro"h as berries ana 'qil Oh 'he peas
urcs oi Ino'r Trip eha' rccc'Veu regu-
iar' detaiieu description Oh NY COUSIN,
Harriet, ana ner daughter hilce. .,
AND from the description l gathered
that inc young iaoy was person VINO
would 90 very "eii--lor inc country
Indeed. my sisters gave me very
plainly to understand that our cousin,
hilce seymour wouia hoe shine uhaor
the CITY . lamps
In row days aiter thelr return tnero
was notnine no" W tcii' e'ehcr y, 'hc',
trip or OF their entertainers ana heard
no more OF my country cousins until one
day IN early winter, when the female
portion OF the household was thrown
into sudden CONSERVATION by inc arrival
OF iettor from mrs' 'iarr'e1 seymour;
~ wnlcn sue ,".ofmoa . , Ivy ' "s o aI
, ,.oir 'n ,u Pn'on s '"aS ono VII
iiho W "a. .o nc. y, ua's'''' 'p0"u " ''''''
Thoro ware othor snndrv remarks of n
rIoasant and nersonol nati,re in tho let
tnr hn, ,hnu wero hardly no,;ceJ in Tho
IIobsorh;ng ;nnortance If Tho desire
oxnrosseJ
Sister Florence came to mo with in.
dippatiou written on every feature.
"To think" she exclaimed, cousin
Alice wants to come here p
"Well, why shouldn't she Z" | asked
"Wbv shouldn't she 70 echoed Flor
cncc EWbv il simplv can't be done "
"Wbv mot ~
Nv slater did not deion to answer
me- but swept away ia great indigna-
tion
II was Caroline next who exDrossed