The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-11

I am dressed and have had breakfast
all yearning for work has left me.
Don't you think I deserve credit?"
She said he did. Only he must be
careful and not get up and work In HE
sleep. l listened with my mouth open
as usual. Such crazy drivel from
grown up men and women was too
many Cor me. 1t want intended to
be funny. Of course, because they
never smiled. II beat me altogether,
and Eureka said the m Twas her
notion that all the lunatics hat was
crowded out OF the asylums, or was too
rich to be put into 'em, raj sent TO
New York. 1t sounded reasonable
enough to believe, sometimes.
Agnes saw Sparrow, OF course, but
Brown was by when she see him and
Washy didn't dare say but he'd gone
to work of his own accord. / cal'late
that he figgered that the gang Of us
would have killed him II he had. SO
satisfied. And Eureka went home
again nights and kept house for Lycur-
gus and her dad. But Hartley looked
out that the most of the old mans
ten dollars a week was turned over
to her.
The Heavenlies' quiet Naturalness
had pretty nigh disappeared altogether
now. They was restless all the time.
Mail was heavy and the telegram en-
velopes In the coal hod and around
was thicker than ever. And Scudder
come Il Ozone three times a day.
BY September l thought sure they'd
be ready to quit and go home. They
of the whole thing. l thought I'd
sound 'em, SO l says:
IL s'pose likely you'll be for shut
ting up this shop and getting back to
the city most any day pretty o
now, won't your"
Hartley looked at him. Then they
caught themselves doing it, and looked
away quick.
"Why, skipper!" says Van, what
makes you say that?"
ooh, nothing Special" says /.
"Only it seemed to me that o was
kind of nervous and fidgety lately.
Didn't know but you was anxious to
be dealing them stocks of yours, or
something. You've been away from
'em a good while"
1t was Hartley that answered. Van
is done with the stock market" he
says, quick. "He has sworn never to
touch it again"
That's So" says l. Il remember
hearing him swear that every ten min.
utes when we first come. But he's
kind of knocked off swearing lately, so
l forgot. But l did think O fellers
weren't quite so keen on the Natural
Life business as you was. You amt
read the gospel for a considerable
spell"
They both looked sheepish and
guilty.
That's So" says Van. I'VE haven't
But we've been 81 confoundedly busy
cunning, and white plagueing, and sc
on, that we haven't had time. And
we've mislaid the book. II 1 knew
where 1t was l should be-"
Here it's, right on the mantel
piece" says I, reaching for 1t and
you take a set at it now? It's toe
foggy to do much outside"
:, So they done 1t, Hartley reading and
Van listening. But twas a short ses
sion. When I come in, about Is min
utes later, the book was bottom up or
the floor and the Twins was dealing
what they called cold hands" witt
cards for a quarter a hand.
That week was when we reaped oul
7 harvest from the garden. Two mid
= ding lean cucumbers and a tomattel
that was suffering from yellow jaun
7 dice. They was pretty sick vegetables
but the Heavenlies seemed to thini
they was something wonderful. The!
. made more fuss over EN- than If the!
If they was, too.
News come that Dewey, the Sparrow
baby, was sick with a cold over t.
the Fresh Air school and Eureka wa
worried. Finally she decided to G,
over there for a day OF SC and see t
him. Lycurgus would look out TO
pa. So she went and me and tn
! Twins was left alone.
The day she went was beautiful an,
clear. Hot as July, and not a breatl
of wind. 1t acted to me like a weatf
err breeder, and l said So; but all
got for the prophesying was Van
calling me a Jeremiah again. He ha
planned a cunning cruise for the mex
day.
That night i woke up about l
o'clock and Marcellus' old slab cast
2 was shaking like as If 1t had tn
= palsy. The wind was roaring an
screeching and the rain was jus
smashing against the windows.
turned out and put in a lively ha
= hour shutting blinds and maxim
!. things fast. Usually September Is
pleasant month down our way. b,
!, sometimes we get a regular gale. AM