The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1911-07-27


impossible subject We went ava
last summer, and that's the reason
The Tinnhs anne unced that the
were going to Europe and said that
we'd occupy their big place acros
the lake for the season, and see tina
the servants didn't fight and that tn
cows didn't eat up the garden. wei
make them our debtors for life.
we stored our furniture when thu
lease expired in May and rushed
headlong to our doom. We though
II was a paradise on earth TOWARD
which we were flying, and maybe Il
would have been If the cook and the
place hadn't decided that since their
real family was gone, this would be q
nice time to run home TO the old
country for visit. And they went
two days after we came They looked
US over in a cold and critical way and
disapproved of us and departed
we got lots OF exercise before we
found help. Tom used to rise at four
and weed the garGen and | got up at
the same time to feed the chickens,
turn on the automatic pump, get
breakfast and superintend Toms
milking. He was kicked through the
barn door only twice and we consid.
cred that the record was pretty good
for a greenhorn. lie had some minor
mishaps, like pOking back all the
beans when they came up. pushing
the seed ahead of them and training
the potato vines up on strings instead
of the peas. but trouble didn't really
start until later.
"One day we were sitting in the
flower garden having lunch, and
told Dotty, aged four, to go indoors
for something. We watched her dis
appear into the house and then Tom
said, Gould anything be more peace
full or inspiring than this perfect
day. And responded in similar
blank verse, Just then the neighbor
whose cottage was on the lake shore
came tearing around the corner of
our house.
she stared at us as though we an
noyed her. Aren't you folks in bath
mgr she inquired. Well, somebody
IS out in front, and thought
Tom and did a foot race to the
water unconscious and black In the
AXE and he fished Dotty out of the
ace. That child had marched in at
he back door of the house and as
marched out through the
ront door and proceeded to take a
paddle by herself in the lake. inspired
~ some uuaccountable juvenile i'm.
,ulse.
"Dotty came out OF her trance in
wo hours, but during that time | got
en- gray hairs and Toms nervous sys
EN- was permanently shattered.
1T was a couple of weeks later that
lofty and Tom, Jr., remarked that
heir throats were sore and the doctor |
II black diphtheria. He
lurmured something about defective
rains There was a blur of trained
he smoke Of battle cleared away.
Meanwhile the cows had eaten that
art of the garden that had not dried
p for lack OF attention and the chick
ms were laying eggs all over the
Ounty. The Tunnills never did get
lem back.
They'd send us postcards from Flu
,pe saying. We saw this today. Hope
on are enjoying life at the dear old
ONE This while was burning
candles Or. We came
own this river today. How you must
, enjoying the garden green things.
hat came the day the cows ate the
st of the green corn we had ex.
ected TO use ourselves.
"A little while later Tom dropped a ]
ltiron on his toe and blood poison
< set in. Then the Tunnills sent a
vely card. saying; We can just Inn ]
zine you doing the five-mile walk
rough Elm lane and the woods. We ,
IVY you. This was while We were
anging the bandages on his smashed
Id painful foot six times day.
The worst OF all was that the
mily sent Toms pretty and harum- l
arum sister Nell to us so that she'd S
rget the ineligible man she vas try .
z to get engaged 10. | produced all '
e young men at the hotel and sew,
al village lights to distract her, and :
perfectly did ] succeed that she
,ped with college boy who was
ming q launch to pay his summer '
penses. AS the family was saving
a millionaire for Nell when she a
ould have come to her senses theJ n
II feel hard toward me, and say
ould have had more sense.
when we came back to town In the :
! NIL the good flats were taken and Z
, moths had got into our rugs. and
lad lost fifteen pounds and all my
or and Tom was a dyspeptic old
ouch. It's taken all winter to get
tty and Tom, Jr.. civilized again.
4 on the whole we've concluded
Il the family will be better off II II 70
hts itself the strain of 4 summer
cation. We're going to stick right L
-e."
Tt does sound safer" admitted ths Ell
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