The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-08-18
What He WANTED
Summer Boarder Desired a
Taste of His Boyhood Days.
He Got a Great Deal More Than ne
Expected, But He Was Game ana
Had No Complaint to Make.

ever since my wife and begun TO
keep summer boarders, remarked
Caleb PeasIee, we've tried to give EN-
what they wanted, if twas anything
YOU could call within the bounds OF
reason"
Mr.. Hvne caressed his chin with the
back of his hand and looked at Calep
keenly. ~
what you tryin' to get atT he
asked; and then, without waiting 10
learn. "What kind of critter Is thal
oldjsh man that I've noticed round
your place lately?" he demanded.
THAT'S the critter | had in mlnc
when begun to tell you" Mr.. Peaslee
replied, land in some ways ne ABOUT
the most Gurus boarder we've ever
| took We've tried hard to satisfy nm,
and firm what he told Us TINS morlllh
| guess we've made out.
"Wben he fust come" Caleb went on
"ba told us that he'd been born in the
country and lived there till he was nj
teen wears 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 tors llucn
as a week till this summer, ana lie
wanted to have things as near the way
they was when he was BOY as We
could make EN-.
"The fust night" Caleb continued
Eve put him in a big room in the from
mart of the main house, with four VIII
ders and good spring bed. Come
morning, he didn't c'mplain eXacu9
hut gave more or less p'ticulars bou
the room he used to sleep in when NJ
WAS a boy; so after breakfast L so
myself to the task of tindln' out, IL
could. lest what he did want, ana "hei
| fin'ly got it through my mead
couldn't believe it for a spell, nor III,
wife. either. What he really wanted
'cordin' to him, was an open room Il
tho attic. where he could sleep on
husk bed.
'rThat was vest day, and last nlgf
he went to sleep up in the athc. 10
know what a br'ilin' hot day 1t wa
yest'day? Well, / mistrust that att
must have been good deal ike
oven, and the only way to get any con
fort at all would be to open the VII
ders. and they amt screened. l ma
an idea that he'd find the mosquito'
fulrs thick as he'd care bout havl
'em. but want p'pared for anythll
Ike his looks when he came dow
l stairs this mornin'. His eyes look'
l 'sif they was swelled bout shut al
! his hands and neck-well, they was
| sight. He had better grit than I'd ev
I had to stay there an hour, let alone
I night. 40
I "And further'n that" said Caleb. y
= stood there in the doorway this NOR
in. irwin to grin, and owned up to i
70 mistake in a way that Id call nan
- some!
u "sFor a number Of years. he sa!
10 I've been lookin' forward to the III
u when could get back to things as
had 'em when was boy she, a
ny last night l did-good and plenty.
~ guess he says, that I'm ike go
q many others-I didn't remember
a discOmforts of boyhOod as well as
MS did the pleasures. but last mig
wv brought 'em back to me plain!
nd "That husk bed he says, kind
'e- hR1chin' up his shoulders, was jest
hard and just as full OF Jumps as
one I used to have, and the room
full as hot-I amt sure but 1t was
lei mite hotter She GRIMM kind
ae- sheepish. But he says, I've got
give ND that even when l was DO
'rn never saw any such mosquitoes. Ii
IVY nrob'bly want anywhere near as
no. as doves nor as savage as woives'
u.s. saws. but it seemed to me they wa
as and wuss'n that!
val Snow She, I want you both
We. understand that 1 amt complalnln
'uI all. I'm Jest satisfied that I've
Ter, things as I've beens wantin' to III
and 'em for a number Of years. And nc
he saws to my wife, sudden-Nke, +
ONT bout that witch-hazel? Amt t
good for insect bites!
"And that's the way left III
Caleb continued, "doctorin' up ms D
was and listenin' to my wife's sympathl
OF while she told him how conf table
ant was goin' to make him in the II
ing ,onr from now on."-Youth's ComI
.ain