Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-29
A CURIOUS COUPLE

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came at-osT' think YOU would
have seen INV -, ,.,,,., n ne the ueliest
have aumIl's" -. t7,av certainly
paif II! l'-' 49, nIoea and unfriendly.
were 'li| ~ ,.iztann Years that they
DUl'"- I.,4 .ot+aoa they never once
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a'At' q Iy.,,,,i+s indondn oh
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NIFTY INC "oiil"n 90
DEAL INC ili''n as ''ol-l' .,,
"NHcH IneS nio' I"niG n0Ao
teen years ago no"' lillliN uH'
who was 1leh rector trleo u nno ou'
what he colld ABOUT theh. ne onl'
learnt little and that little was noun
Ing out Of the way. 1t transplred that
the man was an eX-sailor OF the Roya1
Navy, who had lost MS speech a1tef
severe attack of yellow fever in the
West Indies. He was now entitled to
pension. which he drew half yearly
and which my uncle only knew about
by the fact that the old fellow had
to come to him periodically to get his
papers signed. The woman was his
sister. so lie gave the neighbors to I'M
derstand. and so also might have been
inferred from q certain family likeness
which was noticeable between them.
She was most ill-favOred bag; shrlV-
elled Uukempt, and dirty beyond de-
scripton. Although she must have
been nearer 70 than 60, her long, tou-
zled hair was still as black as a coal.
and hung in hideous untidiness about
her haWk-like face, which, With its
dark eyes, and it's hooked proboscls,
was most uncommonly forbidding.
The poor people all pronounced her
witch; and for that reason gave her a
wide berth. Probably the woman en-
outraged the idea. For her great aim
and object, evidently, was to be left
alone.
Although her brothers pension,
amounting to about two shllllngs a
day. was ample to keep two old folks
decently, and even comfortably, in
that cheapest of neighborhoods, these
two always gave the impression OF
being half starved, and L do not De-
lipve that either of them purchased q
new article of clothing all the time
they lived i'll R. From this people
began to inter that they were hllsers'
ana, as time went on many thlhSs
happened to strengthen the inference.
All along they had discovered the
greatest anxiety and apprehension
when any one had tried to gain access
to their howell. Indeed, my uncle mas
often loId me that the expression OF
the old peoples faces when he called
there and one or the other of them
had nurrnl around the chained door at
mn" WAS really quite comical in it's
suspicious trepidation; and the older
I"'} -Er" 1Ne more pronounced dld
mem precautions to prevent outsiders
entering become.
M "ENl they had sometimes ventur-
gu to loch their house and make an ex-
'"S.v" l'-.fhtr into f, the adJoin-
I''H gave III such recklessness entire
~, "'" whenever one of them went
HoI ''v other remained ON guard at
a,I,. $780,,
on,,,. r.'0'' was greatly eAerciseo
".> TWO strange parlshlohers'
Many reetors would have considered
themselves ahsolved of all obliga
r nons towards people who not merely
er,r' attended church, but refused to
w." "tiIll jllef clergyman into their