The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1905-01-12

Gle Timothy. Their, You've had sou'
lovely err. Nov les's 90 pack your trunk
/ IA certainly do you coed to Aunt kmll,t
Mrs. Boyce departed AT noon. Wher
L ecle Timothy arrived, M hour later, b
looked At Rslh ssd said, "Humph"' Ther
be looked at Alns, and said "Humph y
agalr, but there was vast difference ir
the tao "humphs.
You've s sor, Of scrIed apple counie'
nance, haven't you ,sid the slsays brutal
ly frank old mar, e,irg Alma with quici
diapprovsl Got 3 pcevish diiposl'i ~,
guess
Prom the yerJ d 9, moment A'ms's sui
len eyes glued themselves with an odd, II.
resisuble fGssin,lion upon uecle Timothy q
wry eountenarce ltseemt oddly familiar
Where had the seen that peeylsh, puckert d
mouth, thofe fre'sai eyes, the little, dis.
ssih 4 d wr'' = IN the forehead, the THO,
pointed sihistalfseofrfal, wholly
dlssf .,raslrg H..
woepa ~as, arg ssrssa SIAeie limo
thy. II WASH. cor sidered p lite for Young
folks TO stare lhtlf elders out o. ctunte-
nalcel IL ,ha,'s etfse | tm'l II, don't
want any.
would ytu rather have ter AXE Ruth.
No thundeIei The visiitr | drink hot
water, ard won's touch thar II 1t ish't
just right
Ruth REGARDED the guest with an ODD
mixture a amusement ard ply, bu. be.
tween uncle Timothy and Alma there WAS
certainly no love lost. IL was evident that
this belligerent pair were antagot i'tic
from the moment Of their meeting, bu. they
preserved kind Of armed truce. Ruth
managed for several days, With Hsnnsh's
help, to keep The grumbling guest from
the volcanic outbreaks for which be was
famed, but the atmosphere was far from
sci ene.
think, said Alns, one day when the els
tiers were in the kitchen, trying to cut
bread to thickness tba. should meet with
the nearest approach to approval that the
visitor was able to fee', that L ncle Timothy
has the vii, st disposition Of any body ever
saw, and such a sour-sppe.snd.vinegar eI
preston / wish knew whom he reminds
me OF 1t bothers me because ! cant fad
GU.
Well, you needn't be bothered any long
er, said outs poken Hannah, who had lived
with the Boyces for twelve years, and was
therefore privileged. Go look In the glass
Mics Alma, and you'll see the living image
OF him. He's enough like you, barring sg',
to be your own twin.
But horrihed Alma did not need to lock.
II was the dlshearteDing truth, with no
room for doubt. She herself was the un-
fortur ate person tf whom shriveled, vine
gary .cOuntenarc, Uncle Timothy so un-
reminded her.
or course. soothed Hannah, cheerfully,
your face Is smoother, the lines amt go
deep and puckery, like you'd been eating
and your voice amt quite
SO much like rusty saw, but In another
twenty years
Well, maybe there is a family rsem-
blance, admitted Alma, g,udgingly, but
done you dare to say that my disposition
is Ike his
My saying so wouldn't make any differ
eLce, said candid Hannah, but two disposi-
tions more alike never did see.
This was at noon. At six that night Han
nah confessed to having felt III all day.
By midnight she feared che had quinsy.
By morning, when the doctor was hastily
summoned by Ruth, who had been sum
moned to the suffers bedside at daybreak
the faithful maid learned that her quinsy
was that unusual and absurd malady, case
OF grown up mumps. In Hannah's case,
however, the disfa was aggi awaited by
severe cold She was really Ill and in iced
OF careful attention.
Now delicate Alma had been sedulously
safe guarded against all the usual childish
His, and 1t seemed far from wise to expose
her now to mumps, go Ruth, who had tur
vived double attack, decided to stquester
herself Ia Hsnnah's part OF the house.
This, OF course, loft Uncle Timothy to Al
mae tender meIcies, Alma TO Uncle Timo-
thy and worse arrM cement could not
be imagined.
Alma made an honest tfiJ Jrt TO provide
ncle Timothy with meals to his liking
hut to her grsnduncle's mind she failed so
Iamentsbly that relations very speedily be-
came strained The toast at breakfast
lime was really excellent, the dainty lunch
was certainly palatable, the boil, d water at
night was Of the porper temperature, and
he cook was al xious to plesse. But Uncle
Timothy had been awakened during the
night by Hsnnah's groaps, he disliked Al
ns IS thoroughly as Alma disllked him,
and be 4 ttly declined to be satisfied with
anything she odered, He WAS perfectly
'audid, too. He all that In all bis sixty
nine years be had never known iuch dis.
agreeable girl, nor bad he ever attempted
10 worry down tuch so'utely detestable
meals.
Alma, who was proud Of her ability to
cock, was a. first dumb with tmszsment.
She was doing her best for 3cle Timothy,
and he grumbled, grumbled, grumbltd
Very well, she would show him what she
could do She would do better than her
bfsi. He should have perfec.Iy sumpilous
meas
But The peifec lg sump,ious meal,, too,
failed to please him. 10 ftc. they made
him III, and for twelve honrs more Alma
lsbored faithfully, II no, alto ogether urcom.
plsinirgiy, TO make her queiulou, goes,
Her t1jrif, however were
no, appreciated.
Just before dusk 90 ID. third day Of Hsr-
l abs illness Ms. Boyee unexpectedly re-
turned. Aims gave = ceight,d cry VII,