Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-07-08
w0NTSTAND IT.
country Residents Findings Lots Of
relatives During the Hot Weather.
@<'a Cousins lust Dying 10 Visit the Old Farm
Tor Period.

! "'ec'oty In looking un no ,,,,,,.,.> -,
some long lost. cousin, uncle om,,,n,
WV Is located i'll some uuia, c,,,,,,r,
iar ifoin, the ma ..denin,. crowd
~, y" some fertile farm beside tho Ran
Ing brook. where the green fields ana
pastures beyond are tecmiur ,,i,n ,.,,
Z 'ious Wild fruits and the bro,,,,,, ;, -,
/ over run with gamey fish. and wiz ~
OLD oak spreads its branches ~. ~
You'd the front porch and hi,,
eoine TO ITS shade and rest -
After getting this picture Of ,,o.,,
/ - ''o''c win its pleasant sur
ou"''i'ss' photographed on his brain
proceeds TO write to this Ions,
neglected and forgotten relative ana
reminds him or hcr of old school doys
| when they used, to go to the old hill
lfs'chooihouse on the hill where ~,
/ USED To sit together and study ut ~
me same book and how they nsed 70
STOP AT the pasture when schoo, u,,s
OUT ana drive the cows home ,n1
"hat iuh ana good times they had At
'Iie speiiinS and singing schools and
tue pfisht ana original remarks thev
"Seu 10 make ana how, in the long APO
""eH u country cousin visited the ci,v
~" Ne TOOK him around and showed
MN the city or showed him to the citv
the cousin never knew which. how ba
draws on his fertile imaeinotio, ana
pictures NE on the old farm as a sort
OF paradise existence and how no lone,
10 once more look upon the scenes If
ms povhood days End drink the nectar
vi 'he gods from the old oaken bucket.
now ms wife and children have SET
their hearts on seeing that low thatch-
Ell rooted cottage where he was horn
ana that they may conclude to forego
the proposed trip to Long Branch or
bar Harbor this summer and paw tina.
long promised visit to the old home
stead with its pleasant rural environ
ments.
The letter is duly mailed and in time
reaches its destination. The honest Old
farmer. who has toiIei. early and late
only to see his crops eaten up by DO
tato bugs and grasShoppers and his
nay crop a failure year after year. on
account of the protracted drought, and
blight settle on his farm like. the
Prague In Egypt. all this and more had
he stood without a murmUr but when
ne sees in his mind his farm devasta-
TED. MS substance eaten up by locusts
in the shape of unheard of relatives
who propose to come down and canni-
bal on his farm for the heated term
and linger until the harvest days are
over. Jessie dear" AMI the robins nest
again. he draws the line and declares
IN no uncertain tone in the presence of
his good wife that he don't propose to
keep any Hotel dc Graball. free for all
or Sons of Rest boarding house. limit |
ed. and as soon as his 10th cousin by |
marriage gets that fact branded into |
his hide il viii be better for all con
cerned
No amount Of diplomacy or pursua-
sion on the part of the madam will jar |
him for he is as set as the hills and |
doesn't propose to be buncoed or gold |
bricked out of his provender by any
slick dude with a fluent gift of CAB or |
knowledge of Spencerian penmanship |
and If that city chap who only hunts |
him up when the hot wave strikes him. |
thinks he is coming down East and |
hold a feast on his premises and bring |
whole Mormon tribe of children to |
feed out Of his trough for him and his |
good wife 10 wait upon. they don't |
know the man and when he wants to |
have a three ring show, sort of Pan |
American feed. free for ALL he will get |
out couple thousand hand bills and |
get a good smart honest boy and have |
him distribute them in ample time for |
all his friends to get their costumes |
made before the curtain rings up on |
the first act: but as for being pushed |
into the philanthropy business he |
doesn't propose to do ii and If any Of |
those city chaps want to come down in |
Maine and trade old cast off clothing
and Decent counter bargains for a |
summers board for self. wife and maid |
not counting a couple dozen children. |
more or less, assorted sizes. why he |
amt dickering that's all and he pro |
poses to station himself up in the gable |
where he can command n good view of |
the stage road and the first signs OF |
any swarm he sees lining up towards |
his premises he proposes to close the |
windows and blinds and hang out a |
quarantine flag until the drove gets IN
to some other fellows hive and, long
in the autumn when the crops are al |
in and the days are cool and the ar |
refreshing he proposes to turn the ola |
farm over to Melinda and the boys ana |
with his wife go out into the great |
round world and find someone who |
keeps a homelike tavern where he can |
swan good American dollars for the |
best the house affords and II any
of those 4Oth cousin genealogy hunters
propose to drum on his coop during the |
heated term he'll catch 'em at 1t.
The Smallest Trunks Ever Seen Will Soon te