The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-08-16

day remarked.
why don't you buy another one ask
ed his wife
Seth laughed-a short laugh.
What do you think Mrs Higginbothom
has done:" said he. She ripped up her
husbands old suit and cut pattern by it,
and made new one, and entirely saved
him ten dollarsw
II could do that said Lucy with spark
ling eyes. Il will try it
You can do anything, my dear" said
Mr. Bellenden, admirngly.
And Lucy felt that she had her rich re-
ward.
Company began to come as soon as the
bright weather set in.
All the affectionate relations of Mr. Bel
lenden soon discovered that the farmhouse
was cool and shady, that Lucys cooking
was excellent and that the bedrooms were
neatness itself
Some of them We're even good enough
to invite their relations as well, and so the
house was full from April to December
All the clergymen made it their home at
Brother Bellenden's when they came to
Silvan Bridge for ecclesiastical conyen-
tiOns; all the agents of unheard-o of articles
discovered that they knew somebody who
was acquainted with the Bellendens, and
brought their carpet bags and valises, with
the faith in human hospitality which is
one of lfe's best gifts.
Mrs. Bellenden's fame went abroad
among the Decreases of the neighborhood
teok prizes in the domestic departments of
all the agricultural fairs, and the ad doining
housewives took no trouble to make things
that they could borrow of Mrs. Bellenden,
Just as well as not
And one day, when poor Lucy. under
the blighting influence of horrible sick
headache, was endeavoring to strain three
or four gallons of milk into the shining
pans the news arrived that Uncle Paul
was coming to the farm.
Another guest, said Lucy despairing gly
And then she uttered the proverb that
heads our sketch.
oh it's only Uncle Paul. said Mr. Bel
lenden. Don't fret Lutte; he's the most
peaceful old gentleman in the world
He'll make no more trouble than cricket
Johns wife thou rht she couldn't have him
because she had no hired girl, just now
Neither have To- said Lucy rebelliously
And Sarah Eliza don't like company
Il am supposed to be fond of it, OBJ
served Lucy, bitterly.
And Reuben's girls don't want old
folks staying there. It's too much trouble,
they say" added Seth
Lucy bit her lipto keep back the words
she might have uttered, and said instead:
Where is he to sleep? The Belfords
have the front bedroom, and your Cousin
Susan occupies the back, and the four Miss
Pattersons sleep in the two hall chambers,
and the hired men have the garret ROOM"
She might have added that she and her
husband and the baby had slept in hot
little den opening from the kitchen for
four weeks yainly expecting Mr.. and Mrs
Belford to depart, and that She had never
yet had chance to invite her father to the
farm in pleasant weather
But she was maganimous AMI held her
peace.
"Oh, you can find some place for him."
said her husband, lightly. 'Theres that
little room at the end of the hall where the
spinning wheel is"
You can easily sew a carpet together
out of those old pieces from the BelfordS'
room, and it's no trouble to put up mus
lin curtin to the window and lift in cot
bed. There are plenty of good sweet
husks in the corn house, and you can Just
tack together a mattress and whtewash
the ceiling, and What's that, Beniah?
The COWS in the rye lot. Dear me. Every
thing goes wrong if step into the house
for moment. And really, Lutte, these
things are your business-not mincw he
added, irritably.
Lucy could not help laughing all by her
self, as her husband ran up the Steps.
But it was very sad little laugh, and
soon changed into a sigh
Il wonder,' said she, in a whisper, IF
my poor, tired-out ghost would haunt these
stone pavements and scrubbed shelves if |
were to die? | never heard of a ghost in
dairy before, but | should think that it
might easily be"
But the little bedroom was filled up for
all that, as fresh as a rose, and Uncle Paul
arrived, a dried-up, yellow -complexioned
old man, with an old fashioned crayat tied
in many folds around his neck and suit
of navy-blue, with brass buttons
He had the nolite way of half a century
ago, and Lucy bought She would like him
very much, if only she had time la get ac-
quainted with him.
But she was churning ten pounds of but
ter a day, and there was the baby, and the
company, find the young chickens, and the
baking to do for the sewing society, which
was to meet at her house this week.
She was almost too busy to sleep But
Uncle Paul was watching her quietly all
the time
He came out one day To the barn, where
his nephew was putting a new handle on
a sickle blade
"Pretty busy times, ch, Uncle Paul"
said the farmer, scarcely takingth leisure
to look up.
AYE" absentlv wcred the old man
Did | tell YOU, Nephew Seth, about the
reason | left your Cousin Eliab's"
Not that remember, said Seth breath
ing on the blade and polishing it with his
silk handkerchief
''Dorothv dicd-hiS Wife
"Oh, yes, said Seth. "Malaral fever,
wasn't it,
No" bluntly answered Uucle Paul 1T