The Nevada County picayune., 1911-08-25
Summer
 Guests

The Fixes live a quarter of mile down he road from me-" said the girl who owned a summer cottage. They have one of those simple little places of about twenty acres, with its own bathing beach and melon patch and gold plated chicken yard and mani cured COWS and tomatoes worth s1 2 piece. Y fallen twig six inches long is allowed to remain on the lawn The head gardener gets into a lot Of trouble One sing discovered on the roaa bushes earaes hts discharge.
 ha lakes are especially proud Of fhs#f kitchen garden. where they raise things that cost thsm ten times what they would pay for the same things in tte grocery store But the things ths Fixes raise are worth the price You really wouldn't believe theii HtEaW WberrIes fl YOU saw one suddenly aifb ne preparation. As for the green peas actually those peas should be framed aud hung on the wall just to be looked at
 Well. the Pikes had n guest over Sunday. a large. beefy. important gen tlemaH who had made his money late in life and To enjoys entering cleo trte lighted cafes and tipping the waiter with a S5 bin. They thought they would givp him n genuine treat something he did not get every day, a dish that would make him exclaim ioyousiy. So they had the first pick ine Of June peas with the broiled chicken for dinner.
 The guest did not observe the breathless hush with which the peas were offered him. but he helped him self bountifully and devoured them ID workmanlike manner. while his hosts watched h,m expectantly. Moth Ing happened.
 Mfr Pike coughed. 'Er-.' he be gan. The peas-pretty good. ehi Right from our own gardeni'
 The beefy gentleman dimly fell that something was expected from him. Oh. yes. he said TO be sure the peas. They're good. aren't theyi Amos, as good as the French canned peas they serve at hotelsi'
 Not having garden. 1 do not get my feelings outraged in just the same manner as did the Pikes-but there are times. There was the occasion of the peach tree. for instance.
 Nobody whe has not witnessed the setting out in sunny place of four walking sticks with funny green knobs on them and has not nursed and cherished them for three seasons and spatted Of spiders and ants and de1ed curly leaf and the yellow bligh, and eoddled and fussed over them can understand what fl means to arrive in the spring and find six or seven fuzzy. unmistakable peaches on each of those trees. It Is as exciting mo ment as that when you find a baby has cut a tooth l would go out dozen times day just to assure my. self that the peaches were all there and no insect was msrrinE them and to tell them how nice it was of them actually to grow before my very eyes on my own trees, That was the sum mer 1 asked Pearl over to visit me.
 Pearl is A fascinating young wom-- an. but you will understand her limita- tions when I say that she would rath CT walk down State street than through the woods and that she turns pale at the sight of a spider. be- lieve she regarded the country with bored surprise and came over because she felt sorry for me in my exile. The only time Pearl stepped on the porch when she did not have to l found her out by the peach trees.
 "'Ihere was a big fat squirrel on the rail fence just now she said. eat ing something SO busily that he wouldn't budge even when I threw things at him There weren't any stones. SO used those hard green things on these trees-thcy were just right 10 throw-and he jumped so when the last gne bit him
 "l fled 10 keep from doing violence to Pearl.
 The Vannecks are jolly people and I anticipated their coming with spe cial pleasure showed them the place-it takes abou, five minutes to exhaust the sights of my esiate-ard with a burst of pride ellated on the fact that even in these wiids there are comforts and that 1 have a bath room. with running water. of course. 1 added, its cold water. but then ia@t