The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-03-19

buu tue HreplhCe cleaned out 80 We
CANT have fire and the rooms full
of porch furniture? It's ridiculous!'
1--WE will leave Friday. Henry
Cell him soothingly.
Then everybody works like mad.
Thursday morning Henry always
comes In dragging of his work gloves
end sits down with a thump.
Well. he says, I've finished up out.
eide. I've covered the flower beds with
. mulch Of leaves and burlapped the
honeysuckle vines and spaded up the
earden. I've put away the hose and
1nid board over the chimney
Go right up and take IL on I
tsli him, severely. How do you sup
pose we're going to cook lunch and
dinner and breakfast and lunch again
with the chimney stopped up?'
Henry has forgotten all about the
fact that we still have to eat. so he
sheepishly chambers up on the roof
and throws the board down. Il gets
split up for kindllng by the cook an
hour later, and there never is another
that will exactly At, so the next sea.
son we find chlpmunks and mice and
other wild creatures socially room.
ing In the cottage when we get there.
and are irritably disturbed at bang
turned out.
81 don't see, Henry pursues after
he has disposed OF the chimney hoard.
why we can't take the evening train
tonight. Your trunks are all packed -
IAN but the curtains and soft pill.
lows and the candlestick and most of
my Clothes remind him. ny tho
way. have you wrapped those dishes
for packing in the barrel?
THAT keeps him occupied for some
time Then. too. he finds a punch bowl
that we borrowed from the Perkinsons
and forgot to return. so he has to walk
two miles with that. Then he has TO
attend to the man who comes to set
out shrubs and then tell him about
two places in the roof that leak and he
and fix them. Usually he still grum-
bles at supper time about the foolish.
ness OF sour remaining over III next
day. but I'm so busy fixing the canned
fruit TO ship back TO town. folding
away curtains and putting away
LAMPS that | don't mind him.
I'm the morning | ask Henry brisk
ly II he has remembered to take on
the window screens and take down the
porch screens. bring in the spade and
the rake and nail up. the broken place
In the fence That makes him iump
hastily and cry out: BY Georgol II
hadn't nearly forgot that!
Then when he tries to turn on the
water and drain the pipes he breaks
- valve or something and he has to
make special trip to the village fol-
Ihelp while the cook and pile rugs
and bricks on the leaky places and gel
ssoaked and catch awful colds.
Usually. Just as we are locking uI
ahe house | remember that | haven,
Ssmptied the tank Of the kitchen stove
and that reminds Henry that he has
completely neglected to empty the no,
winter boiler, He comes dragging In Q
swstering can, two flower pots and Q
carpet beater which have been left
outside.
However. we finally lock the las
door and start Half way TO the launch
N ask him II he put out the next doo'
ueixhbor's cat which had wandered
an mat morning. Henry Is peevish b!
NOV and demands to know u thinl
slre has nothing to do but play uurs'
maid TO a cat. 80 we drop the suit
cases and go back and unlock tn
place. raise all the window curtain
and search for the animal Sometime
we md her and sometimes We don't
and II we don't am haunted all win
Ter by the fear that she has died LIN
gering death.