The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-08-03
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 l 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 tryln' to get att" he
asked and then, without waiting to
learn, "What kind of u cfitter is that
oldish man that I've noticed round
your place lately?' he demanded.
THAT'S the critter / had in mind
when begun to tell YOU" Mr.. Peaslee
replied, 'and 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
/ 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 tif-
. teen years old, and then his folks
moved to the city and he'd lived there
ever since. He'd never had chance
to get back to the country for's much
as a week till this summer, and he
wanted to have things as near the way
they was when he was u boy as we
could make 'em.
"The fust night" Caleb continued,
1--WE put him in big room in the front
part of the main house, with four win
ders and a good spring bed. Come
morning, he didn't c'mplaln 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 tindin' out, If |
could, jest what he did want, and when
1 fn'ly got it through my head |
couldn't believe it for a spell, nor my
wife, either. What he really wanted
'cordin to him, was an open room in
the attic, where he could sleep on
husk bed.
THAT was yest'day, and last night
he went to sleep up in the attic. You
know what br'illn' hot day 1t was
yest'day? Well, l mistrust 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 win
ders, and they amt screened. ] had
an idea that he'd find the mosquitoes
fulls thick as he'd care bout havin'
'em, but want p'pared for anything
like 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 furthern 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 l could get back to things as |
had 'em when I was boy she, and
last night l did-good and plenty. l
guess he says, that I'm like a good
many others-I didn't remember the
of boyhoOd as we'll as l
did the pleasures, but last night
brought 'em back to me plain
"'That husk bed he says, kind of
hunchln' up his shoulders, was jest as
hard and just as full of Jumps as the
one l used to have, and the room was
full as hot-I amt sure but it was
mite hotter, She GRIMM kind of
sheepish. But he says, I've got to
give up that even When l was a boy
never saw any such mosquitoes. They
)rob'bly want anywhere near as big
Is doves nor as savage as wolves he
says, but it seemed to me they was
md wuss'n that
"'Now,' she, 4 want you both to
understand that l amt complainin' at
Ill. I'm jest satisfied that I've had
hings as I've been wantin' to have
EN- for a number of years. And now,'
lie says to my wife, sudden-like, how
bout that witch-hazel? Amt that
,ood for insect bitesT
"And that's the way i left him."
Jaleb continued, ''doctOrin' up his bites
nd listenin' to my wife's sympathizln'
While she told him how cOnf'table she
vas goin' to make him In the front
oom from now on."-Youth's Compan- |
on.