The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-20

cinda, because it's your place to hold
your tongue. I'm great believer in
your holding your tongue, Lucinda
Lucinda held her tongue and the
poor unhappy one twisted about in bed
and bemoaned the quietude of her en-
vironrnent by the hour a a time.
'eDid you say we had a calf2' she
asked. suddenly, one day.
Lucinda nodded.
"Well, want Joshua to take that
calf to the blacksmith and have him
shod behind an before right off. To-
day-this rninnit,'
You want the calf shod!" cried Luz
cinda, fairly convinced that her mis-
tress had gone light headed.
Aunt Mary glared.
IF said shod, guess l meant shod,~
she said, Jelly II do sometimes mean
what I say. Pretty often-as usual
thing
Lucinda stood at the foot OF the bed,
petrifed and paralyzed.
Aunt Mary took pity on her helpless
fright.
Il want the calf shod, she explained,
SOS Joshua can run up an down the
porch with him.
So far from ameliorating Lucinda'S
condition, this explanation rendered IL
visibly worse. Aunt Mary conten-
plated her in silence for few seconds
and then she suddenly cried. out, in y
tone that was full of pathos:
II feel like maybe aybe-the caIfl1
make me think it's horses feet on the
pavement"
The maid quilted the room abruptly
AS the days passed on, she slept more
and more, and awol<e to an. ever-iIa-
! creasing ratio of beIligerency.
1t was not long before Lucinda's third
cousin demanded her assistance during
moving and Arethusa had to take up
the burden, now become fearfuily
heavy one.
Aunt Mary was getting to that period
when the nearer the relative the great
er the dislike. so that her greeting to
her niece was even less cordial than
ever,
did you bring a trunk?" she asked.
"A small one" replied the visitor
That's something to be grateful for,"
said the aunt. IF I'd invited you TO
visit me, of course I'd feel differently
about things
Arethusa unfolded her sewing, and
ere she had threaded her needle Aunt
Mary was sound asleep Her niece
sewed placidIy for an hour or more, and
then, like lightning out of a clear sky
"Arethusa!"
Eyes, Aunt Mary"
when I die, want TO be buried
from a roof garden! Don't you forgetE
You'd better go an write it down Go
now-go this minnit!"
Arethusa was counting stitches, and
waited fve-eighths of a. second before
, rising. Aunt Mary saw her lips move
fJx~. Oh.
flashed cinders.
Quit your kiddin'." she said, sharp
ly.
Arethusa shook as if with the dis
charge of a contiguous field battery
II won't stand it, the old lady con-
tinued, wrathfully. Its bad enough
to live with a pack of idiots without
havin' EN-. one an ALL act as If I was
the idiot"
Arethusa laid aside her work and rose
to quit the room. When she returned
five minutes later, Aunt Mary was Off
on another tack.
7 want bulldog!" she cried. i'm
peratively.
"a bulldog!" shrieked her niece
| What do you want bulldog forg''
Not bullfrog!' the old lady cor
rected; "a bulldog" Then she sat up
III peu ana gave ner pillow a punch
that was full of dire suggestion.
"Oh, I do get so sick of your stupid
ity, Arethusa,'' she said, lying down
again. What should I or anyone else
want of bullfrog?''
Arethusa sighed, and the sigh was
apparent.
I'D sigh if was you" said her aunt.
| I certainly would. If I was you. Are
thusa, I'd certainly feel that I had
cause to sigh
Arethusa did not gainsay the truth OF
| this proposition. It was too apparent.
The next day Aunt Mary slept until
| noon. and then opened her eyes and
simultaneously declared:
Next summer I'm goin' to have an
automobiIer'
Then she looked about her and saw
| that she had addressed the air, which
made her very vexed. She rang VIC
| lently, and Arethusa left the lunch
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