Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-27

his short gray beard and following the
bullying curve of his waistcoat was finally
lost in the tips of his square-toed shoes.
when l come to think of all the things
that happened they do seem funny, he said
in explanation. THE doctors-and we had
considerably many of them, take 1t first and
last-an told Sarah that there wasn't any
thing really the matter with her except
nerves. But she wouldn't believe any of
them, and it finally came to a point where
something had to be done. There wasn't
much fun living in the same house with
woman who was grunting all the time the
way my Sarah was, so l got desperate and
said to the doctor We HAD then that things
had got to stop somehow. We talked the
matter all over and we both came to the
conclusion that as long as Sarah really
thought she was sck-and you couldn't beat
II out of her that she didn't have hay fever
the only thing to do was to make believe
she was right, and then to pretend to cure
her So we decided that l was to take her
10 some place where she couldn't have hay
fever even II she wanted to-
Ihat evening l took out the map and l
studied II like when l was a boy at school,
L looked all over North and South America
and they wouldn't do-green grass growing
everywhere; then tackled Europe and Asia
and Africa and Australia and the islands in
the sea, and, by Jinks they wouldn't do
either Every single place was full of flow
ers and weeds in summer and the only
place that looked as If it might dollar
ring the ocean, and never cared much for
sea tripS-was Greenland. So l said to nv
wife. just naturally as if I'd said Sarah.
Wen have corned beef for dinner tomor-
row. l said, Wen spend the summer in
Greenland
@" 'Greenland?' she answered. You mean
switzerland, Abner. There's where Mrs
Hliis Is going She was telling me about 1t
only yesterday-all about the mountains
and everything she was going to see It'll
be nice to go along with her.
Mrs Hills may be going to Switzer-
land. but that's no place for folks with hay
4 mi inc hrtf a1o1xr
crawling all over the hills there and that
makes II pretty bad for people who are sick
the way you are | was taking chances,
and though didn't relish the idea of COOP
ing myself up in Greenland all summer 1
was bound to try 10 make Sarah think she
was cured.
Il guess what I said about that edel-
weiss impressed Sarah some, for the next
day when Mrs. Hills came in to talk about
Switzerland Sarah got back at her about
the advantages of Greenland, about IL
being more romantic to go to places every
one didn't go to. and all that sort of talk 1t
finally got so hot that II wasn't safe to
talk of foreign travel when those two were
to !SsIfg o,o- 49,,
ed. How did go? Oh, that was easy
enough. l fixed it up with the captain of a
whaling steamer sailing from New Bed
ford that he take us up and leave us while
he went whale fishing for a couple of
months, and then he'd call for US in Sep
TENDER and bring us back.
think of-eanned stun and tea and -four
Sarah made me put in my beaver hat in
case we should meet any swell people and
she put in her black silk dress. And we
took along oil cooking stoves to cook on
and cook books TO read. Then we bought
a house. 1t all came to pieces so it would
travel easy and the sailors could put il
together for US TO live in. The captain
told me we couldn't wear our regular
clothes up there. hut his wife, who had
been in Greenland with him and was Just
Sarahs size, agreed to lend her some of her
things that weren't worn a speck, and he
arranged to have some made to fit me-
When the day came for sailing the whole
family Travelled with us down TO New Bed
ford to see us of. They said goodbye and
come back well and strong and we said
goodbye and don't let the children-those
were our acknowledgements green apples
and we started.
You've taken a sea trip Then there's
no special use telling you of ours OF
course we were seasick some, but that
didn't last long. and we enjoyed the trip
better than / thought we would Only
Sarah was all the time curious about those
clothes Of the captains wife she was going
to wear.
"Are you sure they'll At and be stylish?"
she kept asking him.
He told her that she and his wife were as
much alike as twins, and the clothes would