The Monitor-register., 1897-07-30

new bottle of ink sot handy. think how
you will like to say to yourself, Now
there is so much banked l shall not
spend it onto ribbons or kerridges. We'll
bank it and get satisfaction out of it, and
you and me won't have no fear for our
old age. What's a little more work. You
amt but fifty and l amt but forty,
seven. We've got our health and
strength, it won't hurt u.s."
''It may in other ways" sez Uriah.
"But never hinder you from ACTIN as
you please, and never shall, Nancy"
And so the next day jest went down
| to New York and had it put inter the
paper that Mrs. Pottleton, of Stopover,
would take few select summer boarders.
Plenty of fresh eggs and milk, fruit,
mountain air, and not many muskeeters,
"Say none" SEE the young man at the
desk, when he read the adveItisement-he
was young man knowed to speak to-
say no muskeeters, Mrs Pottleton, as the
| rest does"
| 4 10 ioSe ooiio Ii 20, tuohy oeA L. AuoJ
| is some everywh here"
Leave it out altogether then," SEE he,
and so l did, and put in my prices
| instead.
Well, got lots of answers, and by the
middle of June | had fifteen boaiders
| Me and Uriah We're sleeping iu the barn.
was obleeged to keep help which was a
great trial. Aud l was beginning to run
| down considerable from work and
anxiety. Still ten ffteens is one hundred
and fifty, as used to keep saying to my
self when Igot up feeling like a boiled
| owl. And l wasn't going to give up
after getting my own way agin Uriah,
the way had got it,
l dunno but I'd stuck to it if it hadn't
been for the Jessamys. They was city
folkses, and come down one Monday
morning,
The ma, Miss Jessamy, was one of the
| fyaway kind of widders, dressed princi
pally in bugles She shone comm up
| the road considerable more'n the tin
peddler. The darters was sixteen aud
eighteen and twenty one. They was
| laced in and busted out, and frizzled and
| ribboL ed like Christmas dolls in i ork
show, winders. And they brought down
trunks enough for any army, and games
| that they called lawn tennis aud archery.
The first was balls and bats and net
tins, the last was bow -arrers and a
target. But they couldn't find no place
| for their tennis, and the lamentin' and
the sghin' and the appealin' to dear Mr..
| Pottleton to give them ground enough,
until Uriah jest made a blamed fool of
himself and squared off one of the hay
| medders for them, and rolled it and help
'em for to sot up nets and went and
made rustic seats for them, aud wasn't
to be seen only at meal times for the best
OF the week
Wal, I'd calkerlated on Uriah helpin'
me-. In old times if | had punk in pies to
make he'd cut up the punkin, and he'd
heat up tle oven-Uriah was real smart
for a man, and never hevin' no children
he did lots If things for me-hung out
the clothes sometimes when there wurn't
no need of him onto the farm, aud he
used to stand for me to drape my skirts
on like lamb. But now when l had
more to do than l ever had in my life
before, he didn't come nigh me.
l bore it quite spell before | spoke
But one night walked up in our bed in
the barn, aggravated by remembering
that had to split my own kindling that
day, and said all l had to say-bottling
up so long, had plenty.
'Nancy Pottleton," said he. when
had finished, "I'm sorry about the
kindlng. but as for coming in and max
ing M iss Nancy of myself before strange
help, can't do it Betwixt you and me
it was all right. l told you keeping
boar ders wonld alter things. You've
got to entertain co mpany when you've
got it,"
| You've got to feed them good" sez
|
round according to their directions.
"WalI, I've promised to fix up
the tennis giouud," sez Uraf. "It's
a splendid game. I'm going to get a
suit and bats to morrow and buy me a
bow. was up head at bow. .arrer when
l was a boy. and if can't bit that bulls
eye every time Pll give up"
81 have give up already" says l.
"Are you going to get short pants and
striped jackets ?"
Regular tennis suit" sez Uriah.
"whatever it is l want to show them
York folks that 1 am as good as they be,
if not little better"
When heard them words couldn't
express my sentiment in no way but in
groans. laid upon my piller in a kind
of CONNER for quite spell; then Uriah
nudged me. ---.
"Mammy," SEE be. would you get
yeller clothes or blue and whiGs''
Neither" seq [. ''Gst red, so the
folks will know whist a monkey you be,
playin' ball and shootin' bow arrers
at your age -
But my words were of no avail. He
got the clothes. and after that kinder
strangeness fell betwi ist us. | was
always to work; he was always to play
ridin' round or sailin' round with the m
Jessamys and the other boarders-
shakin' down the plums and peaches for
them-takin' them fishin' Silas Frog,
the man that had had the laborer's cot
tage for four or five years, told me he'd
given over all farm connections to him,
and paid no attention to the place; and
as hands don't work much if they amt
watched, he said It was OWN to him II
we had any crops that year.
As for me, the help was the sassiest
thing 1 ever knowed. and l didn't burst
dismiss her, aud kept on raisin' her
wages every time she threatened to
leave.
But at last the climax came. was
sure out and half sick, and seemed to
me the fresh air would save me, and one
afternoon l told the help she'd hev tt
get tea herself, and took my SUI bon
net and off went to the archery ground,
as they had taken 10 calling the end o
the orchard. The girls looked as cool as
could be there, all dressed up in white
| and the Young men talking and smiling