Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1900-06-21
IDS MASON'S BOARDERS.

slcIt ME Win TWO bHUusaAaA aoilhIH
IN the Pine Ridge bank, i house al
Pine Ridge and twenty acres Of
land, two cows and three pigs, a
boss that had seen better days and
was spawned in both hinder legs, Q
son named Daniel and seYonty-iive
Plymouth Rock hens.
Soon after he left thih pear, the
assis and The
cashier went 10 CahAdy I'll 4 yaeA-
ton and | expect he took my two
thousand along with him for safe
keeping, for I've never seen moth
ing Of it sense.
ii was kinder tight work for me
to squeeze along on that larm and
pay the taxes and the hired man
and Daniel, he SEE % me LAST spring,
sez be
"Ma, why don't you take city
boardors, like Simpsons folks
We've got two good frunt rooms,
aad you're a good cook, aud | could
rub up Billy's legs with lineameni
sos that he'd be as frisky as colt,
and there's lots Of scenery laying
around loose here for folks to ad.
mire, and you could make money, "
sez he. ~ hain't the shsdder Of a
doubt"
"Massy on us, Daniel !" sez l.
81 amt no band 10 primp up for
city iolks, and set ont tho table
with lamp-mats and finger bowls,
like they have over at Simpsons
and there's yer grandlather-hc''
alters into everything, aud he'd BE-
sartiu to act wuss than ever II there
was anybody here that | keered
for"
ooh, they wouldn't mind him,
scz Daniel. "Jest now, it's all thC
fashion to grow crazy over al things
and, II there's anything more an
tique in this town than grandfather
Jones, then | hain't seen Il. TheJ
will admire him and he'll rFop
young again, telling bis atoiies Owe
to new act Of folks"
Somehow, Daniels talk hiudci
kept q turning itself over in M
mind, and at last | concluded /,
take some boarders. | advertised
in tho city papera, and in week
had twenty.thrse folks come 10 SCI
what kind OF a place had.
took six Of them at fifteen dol
/ lars a week each, and afOre the,
was gone | wished I'D have asket
them twenty, for expect the
would have paid it.
There was two women aud tw
men and two children, that was th
mosl moddle children. their m
sed, that ever lived She was il
constant fear that they never woul
live to grow up, she said she ha
noticed that oncommonly brigh
and loYable children waru't neye
long for this world.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Rashe
aud their two children BERTHE an
Sammy had the south front cham
Der and the little back room tina
jnes it, and the Widder Whitne
and Miss Arethuser Smith had tn
tother frunt room.
Mr.. Rasher was sighentilio mar
and wanted to try experiments an
gather bugs and things, aud Mri
Rasher was faith-cure that don
believe there is any such thing a
being sick. She had 80 much faith
and prayed so much for sick foil
through the winter, that she ha
wore herself to a shadder and ha
got her general cistern oil out {
| kilter, and she wanted to stay /
the country to recruit, and her der
children needed fresh air and COW
milk and change OF scene.
Widder Whitney was q short, fl
woman about forty.fve, and sl
was on the lookout for a secon
husband; and Miss Smith was
dreadful sentimental miss, awft
gh-sighted and fond OF novels an
poetry.
And they all had tho biggest 81
petites that it ever was my forti
to come acrost. 1t was nigh fsbor
oil could do to cook enough Il
them. But then ! amt sting
about vitfles--I alters like to 4,