Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-15
SUMMER BOARDERS

Tan faces will be worn for the next
three months by those who have the
m6ney and time to spare to visit the sea-
side. and many who have not the neces-
sary wealth to spend a short season list
ening to the murlnur of the sad sea waves
will obtain this coating of tan by rus
ticating in the rural districts and board
ing with the guileless agriculturist.
Many persons, inhabitants of the pulls
ing city, know not the delight of a short
season spent on a farm. However, Jink-
erson does. He tried it last summer.
Jinkerson is we'll past middle age, and
holds a position in a bank. He receives
Il months vacation annually, and last
year decided to spend it down on a farm.
Think" said Jinkerson to his wife.
Think of the delights of homemade
eggs! And doubtless the farmer will oft
have an Oversupply of butter, and then.
dear, he will drop a pound or SO in a can
of fresh milk, and 10, we shall have fresh
buttermilk!'
Jinkerson asked several of his friends
as to selecting a farm on which to board,
but they We're city men and knew not Of
farms. One of them stated that he had
often noticed in the ~wspape accounts
of balloon ascensions. that the aeronaut
invariably descended with his parachute
on a farm in an adjoining county. and
advised Jlnkerson to try a parachute
drop. But the little man needed not his
SCOTS. He simply procured a railroad
time table and selected a flag station
where a train usually stopped about once
a year. and then only in the event of a
head-on collision with another train COM
ing from an opposite direction. He wrote
to the nearest postmaster and stated
that he wished to obtain board on a farm
near his flag station. 1t was we'll that
Jlnkerson stated emphatically that he
wished to Obtain r6 on q faruo hl-
cause the postmaster himself was in the
hablt OF entertaining guests for a none
tary consideration. and. of course, wished
to board the Jinkerson family.
A reply was at length received which
gave Jinkerson the choice of every farm
in the county. Selecting one. which from
Its description seemed desirable. the
family made their preparations for de-
parture and left early one morning reach
ing the little flag station at II a. m. A
more desolate spot, Jinkerson thought,
could not AVE been imagined. Nc tele-
graph operator was assigned to the place,
ana nothing greeted the eye excepting a
lot of peanut hulls scattered about and a
red flag lying folded upon a chair. The
trunks stood in a row upon the station
platform, and Jinkerson fumed and per-
splred. Finally, he espied a small snub-
nosed, freckle-faced boy. fast asleep, un-
der "a tree. a short distance down the
roadside. The boy was awakened and
asked as to the whereabouts of Mr..
Wasper's farm.
"Oh. you're the summer boarders. are
your replied the lad. well. dad sent me
over to fetch you! You'll have to walk,
as all the bosses is workin'! It's only four
till Sunday!'
With many misgiving Jinkerson hustled
the trunks into the station and. accom-
panied by his wife. daughters and son,
started on their four-mile walk.
is them your daughters?' asked the
boy. MY! Wait till my big brother Rube
and tn hired man. LATE Bately, sees 'em,
Mebbe them fellers won't firt. U-m-m";
Mr.. Jinkerson resisted an o'erweening
desire to kick the small boy into the
creek by the roadside and proceeded. At
length, thoroughly tired out. they reach
ed the homestead and were greeted with
effuslon by the mother and daughters. A
dinner of fried ham. fried potatoes, fried
eggs and coffee, literally seasoned with
grounds, was disposed of, and the farmer
then entered from the field and extended
an invitation to Mr.. Jinkerson and his
son to view the gathering of the harvest.
They gazed with admiration upon the
sinewy arms of the agriculturists as they
loaded the grain upon the wagons with
long forks.
Bet you cyant stand emmy such work
ez that"' exclaimed the farmer. Bet YOU
a seegar you cyant!'
Jinkerson accepted the bet, grasped a
long fork and manfully went to work. In
the meantime his son had made a bet of
ten same nature with the hired man. and
when the sun Went down and toll was
suspended Jinkerson realized that they
had won two very bad cigars. and that
the farmer was ahead one half DAYS
work for two men. And he f~ervently
blessed the memory of the man who in
vented gold bricks.
Upon arriving at the house the hired
man and the farmers son washed their
faces IN the horse trough and began to
do the BILE to his two DAUGHTERS.
But Jtnkerson didn't kick. He we'll knew
that either the farmers son or the hired
man could easily lick him with one hand.
and, Knowing the perversity of the fe-
male sex. he feared that if he remon-
strated his daughters would make love to
the farmers
The trunks arrived at the farm early on
the following morning, not because the
Jinkersons wanted them. but because the
female farmers wished to see what wa
IN tnem. J4nkerson soon learned to wait
for his newspaper until the postmaster at
the crossroads store had thoroughly read
and clipped out all the news that inter-
ested him. When the paper at last ar
rived he then handed it to his host. well
knowing that if he did not it might be
taken away from him, as the farmer
wished to read the news. Early during
his stay he learned that it was useless to
ask for q horse to drive. The horses were
always working. So he bought one from
Mr.. Wasper, who, it seems, always had
one in stock for that purpose.
His daughters became interested in
dairy work, and soon learned to milk the
cows so we'll that the farmers daughters
suggested that the Jinkerson girls might
do all of the milking if they liked. And
Jinkerson never kicked when unexpected
guests arrived and domestic arrange