The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1908-10-05
"oh. George!" Observation-Disclosures.


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"Oh. George" Disappointment.
What's the matter, Lima? Isn't
that g.lorious?'
George, when we do get a cottage
| don't believe you can really AFFORD
Il now. dear-when we do get a sea
shore lot, | want something dainty and
secluded. Just a cottage nesting
among the oaks or birches. with peeps
OF the sea, lovely hooks in the woods
and hiding places among the powders
on the shore-wild flowers and shrub
berry in the background, and islands OF
shore, green and shadowy. That broad
expanse of sky and sea and beach
would give me a broad expanse OF sea
sickness. ! know
'Pshaw. Lima! You need more sun
light" ] checked my argumentative
tone and began to honey. My wife
likes to be honeyed-that's why mar
ried her. MY little bird mustn't stay
in her nest all the time. She needs to
be out on the wing where the sun can
shine on her feathers-on your cheeks,
| meau-and make them blush; out In
the grand sea-breeze where your lungs
can expand and all the tired wrinkles
fade ont of your eyes
Mercy, George, don't! Tired
wrinkles. indeed! They are all in your
brain. Now listen TO me-
She ran her fingers hastily over a
budget OF letters in her desk and
drew out one from a seventeenth
cousin, once removed:
Dear Emiline: IL you are lust quick
enough about Il you can secure the love-
Hest cottage and lot on the coast Of
Maine. My aunt occupied IL last sum
mer. I visited her. II is the daintiest,
sweetest nook in all that beautiful state.
The cottage peeps out from rare old
oaks and beeches. and the grounds
stretch back to the dearest old pasture!
And the wild flowers! Buttercups and
daisies, v~iolets. bird-on-the-wings. jack
ln-the-pulpits. strawberry-blossoms-all
these in June, and many others. And
In August the bushes are just loaded with
blueberries and b~lackberries. Aunt Ma
ria canned Al quarts last
Think OF that, George!"
"and along the shore. underfoot OF the
old trees, are little caves, where the
water GENES trlckling down and ripples
over the rocks. glistening In the sun; and
the beaches are strewn with pebbles and
sea-shells-"
George, she goes on for six pages
Just like that. Then-listen!
1T belongs to n widow whose name I've
forgotten. but Aunt Maria wrote me it's
to be sold. and II you will write her she
will secure IL. Only she must have lib
erty to bid against others II necessary.
The woman has been offered 5000"
"Shucks, Lima! My dear wife!
What can you buy for nine hundred?
Probably only a shack of a cottage on
some wild pasture land. Now this
price is just right-$2 900! Broad sea
view! Magnificent coast line, Elk.
panse Of sea and sky! Just think OF
1t! I'm going down to Maine to-
night"
George"
"Lina-my dear!"
Wouldn't It be better to wait and
write for PARTICULARS"
And lost both chances! Id better
look them up. Only, IL this one is sat
isfactory, we'd better not bother with
the-the little one, would we, sweet
heart7"
"N-no, George. But you won't mind
II | write Priscilla about it,"
Certainly not! Buy 1t, II you wish
Then Wen have two!" / said II mag
unanimously. My wife has resources Of
her own-though that was not why
married her.
| appeared at the Maine Coast
agency at 8 q. m. next day. The man
ager was a mar Just to my liking. VIZ
agreed enthusiastically on what con
stitUtes the ideal coast scenery
nearly exhausted ourselves In doinl
so. He left the ONCE to his clerks
tucked me into his private launch, anc
we rippled across the bay. Sea like 1
moor! Stately islands! Not 30 man,
high cliffs as ] like, but rocky point,
jutted out into the ocean and sturd,
old powders were braced up 10 meet the
waves OF any gale.
There's the property" cried IN,
manager, pointing TO the eastern
shore.
think my eyes flashed pleasure. w,
saw 1t miles away. Those magnincen'
trees parted just enough to enhanc,
the impress OF the cottage on tn,
mind. II was half-tide. On the rlgh
lay a white sea.beach. sparkling like
jeweled pavement. In front Of tn,
cottage and up the cove at the left la!
great round rocks, where, for cen
turtles, they had been pummelsd an,