Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-09-17

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I can't come. I've got to stay home
and look out for the folks"
why cant your father Do that p
asks Hartley.
"Who--pa? guess you amt heard
about pa. Hos sick. Got his never
get.over. he says. Pas had most every
kind Of symptom there Is; phthisic
and inAuency and lumbago and pleu
risy. Now he's settled down to con.
sumption and nervous dyspepsy. Afore
ma died she used to try to cure him.
but the doctor and pm had row. The
doctor said pa didn't have consump.
ton nor nothing else; what he needed
was hard exercise, such as work. Pa
said the doc didn't know his business,
and the doc said maybe not, but he
knew pa. So pa told him never to
darken our door again. and he amt
except to come around once In a while
and collect something from me on the
bill"
Well" says I, maybe you know
somebody else that would do for US.
Who's a good cook and general house
keeper that would be likely to hire
out?"
She thought fora moment o. 30. IL
don't know" she says. Most folks in
this neighborhood is too high toned to
go out working. They'd rather stay
to home and take boarders. Mrs Han.
nab Jane Purvis is about tho only
one, and you've had her"
Martin made q face I'VE have" he
says.
"Yup," says Eureka. she told Mr..
Scudder that you was crazy as all get
out, and sunk In worldly sin besides.
She said you'd get your pay hereafter
for treating her the way you did"
I'VE hope to- says Van, cheerful.
Now, Miss--er-Sparrow we want
you to come and help lis out. We're
Crusoes on a desert island and we
need a Mani should say Woman
Friday. Well pay you so much" he
says, naming price that made oven
my eyes stick out, and I was used to
high prices by this time.
"A month";" she says, staring at
him.
"A week." says he.
She had queer way of doing every.
thing by jerks. like as If she was hung
on wires and worked with a string.
Now she Strengthened up out of her
chair so sudden you almost expected
to hear her snap.
"A week. she sings out. oh"
Then she looked at me.
"Oh, it's so, If he says So" says l,
resigned like.
Land sakes A week, ! never
but 1t ain. no use. What would be-
come Of pa and the children2"
Couldn't you come over for the
days. at least?" asks Martin. You
might go home nights. you know"
And that's the way 1t ended, finally.
Ths Twins had made up their minds,
and when that happened. heaven and
earth wouldn't change EN-. At last
Eureka said she'd talk 1t over with
her folks and Van Brunt said we
would come over to her house next
day and get the decision.
THERE" says he. whom tho Sparrow
girl hal gone. Skipper the cook
question Is settled"
Maybe It's" says I. Looks to mo
as II you'd settled It the way the Teller
settled the coffee, by upsetting it. For
chaps that pined for rest and quiet you
two do queer things. Do you realize
what getting mixed up with that Spar.
row gang is likely to mean"
III the whole flock Is like the speci-
men bird we've seen" he says, It'll
mean joy. II there was one thing
needed to make Ozone island a de.
light, gem Of purest ray serene, that
original would be the thing. She's
circus In herself. shall dream to-
night OF pa and the doctor. Ho, no!
BY the way what's her Christian
name?"
told the name-the whole OF II.
How them Heavenlies did laugh.
Eureka" says Hartley, "Splen.
did,
Eureka" says Van. We have
found il! Sol. let's have lunch
got 'em something TO eat and then
the three of us put In the afternoon
chasing the wild animals. The chick
ems was fairly easy to get hold Of; laid
a trail Of corn up to the door OF the hen.
yard and trapped the most OF EN- that |
way. But the pig was a holy terror |
He'd had his experience with Ozone
ISLANDERS that morning and he didn't /
want any more. Up and down that |
blessed sand bar we chased him, get |
ng upset and firing ourselves out The |
pig race over to EasAyich want In II.
did most OF the chasing the Heaven.
lies superintended. as usual. and gave
orders and laughed. They pretty nigh
aughed themselves sick. Finally the
,ritter bolted into the woodshed and
ocked the door on him. 1t was six
o'clock when dumped him into tho
sty, OF all the Natural Life days Id
lad yet this one was the hveliest and
most wearing. A week like 1t and my
Natural place would have been the
1urying ground. cnl'la.e I lost three
pound that afternoon. was getting
10 thin that when fell down my legs
made grooves in the sand.
The next forenoon me and Hartley
went over to close the cook trade.
Van wouldn't go. He said the garden
ng and the shipwreck and the steeple.
the pig huut--had
given him sensations enough for q
week or so; he had some Of en- with