The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1911-08-29
Summer
Guests

THE Pixies live quarter Of mile
down the road from me-" said the girl
who owned a summer cottage. They
have one Of those simple little places
of about twenty acres, with it's own
bathing beach and melon patch and
gold plated chicken yard and mani
cured COWS and tomatoes worth 81
a piece. If fallen twig six inches
long is allowed to remain on the lawn
the head gardener gets into lot of
trouble. One slug discovered on the
rose bushes causes his discharge.
1.-THE Pixies are especially proud of
their kitchen garden, where they raise
things that cost them ten times what
they would pay for the same things in
the grocery store. But the things
the Pixies raise are worth the price.
You really wouldn't believe their
strawberries If you saw one suddenly
with no preparation. ASfor the green
peas-actually, those peas should be
framed and hung on the wall just to
be looked at!
well, the Pixies had guest over
Sunday, large, beefy, important gen.
tleman who had made his money late
in life and who enjoys entering cleo
trio lighted cafes and tipping the
waiter with S. bill. They thought
they would give him genuine treat,
something he did not get every day, a
dish that would make him exclaim
joyously. So they had the first pick
ing of June peas with the broiled
chicken for dinner.
THE guest did not observe the
| breathless hush with which the peas
I were offered him, but he helped him
| self beautifully and devoured them in
a workmanlike manner, while his
hosts watched him expectantly. Moth
ing happened.
Mr.. Pike coughed. En- he be-
| gan. The peas-pretty good, Ell
Right from our own garden!'
1.-The beefy gentleman dimly felt
that something was expected from
him. oh, yes he said. TO be sure
the peas. They're good, aren't they q?
Almost as good as the French canned
peas they serve at hotels'
Not having a garden, / 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 who has not witnessed the
setting out in a sunny place Of four
walking sticks with funny green
knobs on them and has not nursed
and cherished them for three seasons
and spatted off spiders and ants and
defied curly leaf and the yellow blight
and coddled and fused over them can
understand what It means to arrive in
the spring and find six or seven fuzzy
unmistakable peaches on each OF
those trees. 1t Is ae exciting a mo
ment as that when you find baby
has cut a tooth! l would go out a
dozen times a day just to assure my
self that the peaches were all there
and no insect was marring them and
to tell them how nice 1t was Of them
actually to grow before my very eyes
on my own trees! That was the sum
mer asked Pearl over to visit me.
Pearl is a fascinating young won
an, but you will understand her nmita
tons when ] say that she would rath
er walk down State street thar
through the woods and that she turn!
pale at the sight of a spider. l be
lieve she regarded the country will
bored surprise and came over because
she felt sorry for me in my exile. Thu
only time Pearl stepped off the porcl
when she did not have to l found he
out by the peach trees.
""There was a big fat squirrel OF
|, the rail fence just now she said, eat
, ing something so busily that h.
, wouldn't bulge even when l threw
/ things at him. There weren't an,
l stones, so l used those hard greer
things on these trees-they were jus
right to throw-and he jumped 81
l when the last one hit him.
,, 81 fed to keep from doing violenc
! to Pearl.
I "The Vannecks are jolly people an
4 l anticipated their coming with spe
place-it takes about five minutes t
exhaust the sights of my estate-an
with a burst of pride dilated on tn
fact that even in these wilds Their
= are comforts and that l have batl
n room, with running water. OF course
o | added, it's cold water, but then jus
r consider having any kind right in tn
n house,
"Mr. Vanneck leaned weakly agains
!, a wall. DO you mean to say he &c
n out tragically, that you don't haV
n hot water here? No hot water?
n "'You heat it on the alcohol lam
n to shave / explained. And for
n hot bath we heat it on the kitche
q stove and carry it in, but the water
so soft that prefer the cold tub
l. \;