The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-09-26
WHAT He Wanted
Summer Boarder Desired a
Taste Of His Boyhood Days.
He Got a Great Deal More Than He
Expected, But He Was Game and
Had No Complaint to Make.

! "Ever since my wife and begun to
keep summer boarders," remarked
! Caleb Peaslee, "we've tried to give 'em
what they wanted, if twas anything
you could call within the bounds of
reason"
Mr.. Hyne caressed his chin with the
back of his hand and looked at Caleb
keenly.
"What you tryin' to get at!' he
asked; and then, without waiting to
learn, "What kind Of critter Is that
oldish man that I've noticed round
your place lately?' he demanded.
that's the critter l had in mind
when begun to tell you," Mr.. Peaslee
replied, land in some ways he's about
the most Gurus boarder we've ever
took. We've tried hard to satisfy him,
and firm what he told US this mornin'
I guess we've made out.
"When he fust come" Caleb went on,
''he told us that he'd been born in the
country and lived there till he was If
teen years old, and then his folks
moved to the city and he'd lived there
ever since. He'd never had a chance
to get back to the country for's much
as week till this summer, and he
wanted to have things as near the way
they was when he was q boy as we
could make 'em.
1.-The fust night" Caleb continued,
ssxv,n MI tn 10 in, tho front
part of the main house. with four win
ders and a good spring bed. Come
morning, he didn't c'mplain exactly,
but gave more or less p'ticulars bout
the room he used to sleep In when he
was a boy; so after breakfast l sOt
myself to the task of findin' out, if
could, jest what he did want, and when
I fn1y got it through my head l
couldn't believe it for spell, nor my
wife. either. What he really wanted,
'cordn' to him, was an open room in
the attic, where he could sleep on q
husk bed.
THAT was yest'day. and last night
he went to sleep up in the attic. You
know what Il brilin' hot day it was
yestday? Well, l nlistrust that attic
must have been a good deal like an
oven, and the only way to get any COM
fort at all would be to open the VIM
ders, and they amt screened. l had
an idea that he'd find the mosquitoes
full's thick as he'd care bout harin'
'em, but want p'pared for anything
Hike his looks when he came down
stairs this mornin'. His eyes looked
'sif they was swelled bout shut and
his hands and neck-well, they was a
sight. He had better grit than I'd ever
had to stay there an hour, let alone all
night.
And further'n that" said Caleb, "he
stood there in the doorway this MORN
in, tryin' to grin, and owned up to his
mistake in a way that I'd call hand
some!
"'For a number of years. he says,
I've been lookin' forward to the time
when I could get back to things as l
had 'em when l was boy She, and
last night ! did-good and plenty. I
guess he says, that I'm like a good
many others-I didn't remember the
discomforts Of boyhood as well as l
did the pleasures, but last night
brought 'em back to me plain!
"'That husk bed he says, kind Of
hunchin' up his shoulders. was jest as
hard and just as full Of Jumps as the
one I used to have, and the room was
full as hot-I amt sure but 1t was
pite hotter she GRIMM kind Of
sheepish. But he says, I've got to
give up that even when I was boy !
never saw any such mosquitoes. They
prob'bly want anywhere near as big
as doves nor as savage as wolves he
says, but 1t seemed to me they was
and whss'n thatl
SNOW, she, I want you both to
that amt complainfn' at
all. I'm Jest satisfied that I've had
things as I've beens wantin' to have
'em for a number Of years. And now
be says to my wife, sudden-like, how
bout that witch-hazel7 Amt that
good for insect bitesT /
"And that's the way I left him."
Caleb continued, "doctorin' up his bites
and listenin' to my wife's sympethizin' |,
while she told him how conn toh1e she \
was goin' to make him n TIE front
,oom from now on."-YustHS Compan-
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