HOW A FARMER'S HOUSE WAS FILLED BY SUMMER BOARDERS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1897, 24 January 1885, Page 2

HOW A FARMER'S HOUSE WAS FILLED BY SUMMER BOARDERS.

.' No, I can't'say .that' I've 'had -a prosperous season,' observed one passenger on {ho tiata-ty author, --'jjastr' spring me •and my old -woman- thought; wed keep Summer boarders, and make some money. We have a big house .able to -accomodate eighteen pdoplo beside?'our own folks' So we writ to our eons and darterß in the city, tellin' 'em what, we had decided on, and askin' 'em to say a good word for us .to their friends- ■Well,: we fixed tho old house up in fine shape and waited'for our boarders, Jtarty 60on.our darter Mary came down'from town. kitl\ icy three children, and fiaid bJjo had .'epoken to'all her frjends about us, .In about « week darter Em oanio with, her.four children, She said the same thing an, though they wasn't profitable boarders we hoped for a new kind, and felt inuch encouraged from what they told us, The next arrival was my wife'B sister Sal and her two nearly grown up children, I was agooddoai discouraged then, but my ol<| wqnian braced me up by saying some payin l boarders was coram', and we could 'conf oda'to'sbc more anyway, The next arrival wad my darter Eunice, with her husband and two children," They all settied down as if they 'lowed to stay all' summer, an" I was purty badly- broko up about.it. I told my old woman-things was gettin' down to a fine point an''-not' much left of the garden, truck. The encouraged me by saying we still had room for two boarders, «nd we'el charge them enough to run the whole house. Two days afterwards, I saw a strango man stop and" go in, an' I thought luck had turned at last, and killed two chickens before tgot to the house.- When I did get there I discovered lie was my brother Jim, who I Ijadn'taeen fqrtwelye years.,' eqm,o tp,: spend the sumrijer with mo. That settled mo on the summer boarder business, though the old woman said we still had room for one boarder, and by making the hired n W n B l ee P ! n the barn we could take in twq, and, tjjaj would run tHe house. When I came in from, work the next night my darter Em met me .on the porch, and said smilingly, 'Father,'says she, 'we're gqt two new boarders, They came this afternoon. Gpmo up stairs and see them.' ' Walt till I dress tip a bit' says' I. So I washed, put on a collar, an,'feeling "a gqod deal encquraged.. went up stairs. There was all the girls and my bldlwornan, 'Pap, r saysshe, with teara In her eyes, ' the house is full at last. Eunice has got twins/— Boston Qhk,