Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-27
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bears. Neighbors don't grow thick around
these parts
But what shall do without folks to
talk to and tell them how I'm feeling to-
day% she asked.
THE captain said something that sound
ed like swearing. but Sarah didn't hear,
or else I'd have talked to him straight, be-
cause l won't let any man swear when nv
wife is around. Between us all we got
Sarah into rowboat. and the sailors put
up our house where 1 told them to-right
out on point sticking out into the sea and
covered with ice. where there was sure to
be no hay fever. They put all the things
we had brought to eat in the house. so If
there were any polar bears around they
wouldn't Steal things; and. seeing there
wasn't much room left in the house thew
put the trunk holding our clothes under
meath stone heap in back And then the
snip sailed away, the captain saying he'd
call for us in September.
Il noticed that Sarah was uneasy all the
time the men were working. and naturally
thought 1t was because we were going to be
lett alone. But Just as soon as the shin
started off, I'm glad they're gone she said
tain's wife lent me-
Well l thought, 'Sarahs hay fever is
better II she thinks of clothes at this time >
But opened the trunk and brought her
bundle marked For Mrs. Spencer There
was another bundle marked for me. and va
each started to put our new clothes on
Mine were made Of fur, and they were
cut sort OF queer. but / didn't think much
about 1t until Sarah yelled out, .Abner
That woman sent me pair of pants to
wear! Well. you should have seen nv
wife, leastwise no man except her husband
should have seen her, because she was
dressed IN fur jacket just like mine and
Sarah hadn't been so mad it'd have been
funny" Mr.. Spencer leaned back and
laughed at the remembrance
And the captains wife expected Mrs
m tlaA L..
inquired.
That's just what she did, and come To
think about 1t. tiF is what the books saw
the Esquimau women do wear: but NV
Sarah In pair OF furry pants, with her
bonnet with feathers in IL on her head and
spectacles on her nose and she the mother
OF three ch ldren and the grandmother of
SIX more! Gracious / was glad / was the
oniy one 10 see her. Abner Spencer she
said, 1T makes me blush to look at nv
self You ought to be ashamed to stand
there and laugh. Dear, oh, dear she said.
what do look like?'
well, for the life Of me I couldn't tell
her, because she didn't look like anvthino
I'd ever seen before. Do you know I had
the hardest time to keep that woman frnr,
changing back to the things she wore IN
the ship? But saw we were taking cha noes
enough from lumbago and ouinsv sore
throat as 1t was, so / made her keen on
the Things, seeing there was nobody thera
ready. "ei d.
If should tell you how we worked n
get Things htted up In our house IT'D take
III supper time, and there'd be no sense T.,
II, anyway We got things as we wanted
them at last, with everything to eat Sc 70
indoors and the clothes we weren't wearine
In the trunk under the heap of stones hacs
OF the house, and We hau supper and went
to bed dead tired out. It seemed foolish 70
go to sleep when the sun was shining Int
figured that we'd have to wait a montb or
two before 1t set, so we pulled the curtain.
to make 1t as dark as we could and ~
wasn't long before we were snoring.
THE first thing We knew after that #
seemed as If an earthquake had struck MS
Everything was going humpity bumnify
and there was the scarfest. ripping, roarinr
, noise. and 1t wasn't until / stuck nv head
out of the window that 1 saw what was the
matter. We were afoat. Yes, sir. af1oaf.
bobbing around on an iceberg with the
wind blowing us further and further from
the land. The whole point we took for
rocks covered with ice and broken off inst
back Of our house. leaving our trunk under
the stones behind; and there we two were.
Knowing Sarahs nerves was scared 10
death to tell her what was the matter
thinking she'd have fit; but do you know
when / saw there was no use keeping
things a secret and did tell her. breakinT
the news easy, she was as pleased as pos
sible.
:" Now she said. I'll have adventures