Show Uncertain Coy and Hard HaId to o Please I IBy By JAMES J. J MONTAGUE 1 n r. i.-r. nr c CC i y A l 1 yo at t I i 4 i 4 f ff r r f f d i N l 4 It 1 i iV A V s 1 fi fir 1 r l I J b bl r f er if l t O 23 t. t r t f J They aint no bath tubs but mo me an an John every Sunday strips off shipboard an pours buckets of water over each other Yep said the old boat builder brother John an nn me ine Is out of th the tourist business We there 1 heln not much loin doln in our own line line that we might put up tip log lob o cabins on the old ohm place for folks to sta stay In overnight or a n week weel fit at a time Most everybody e that's got a piece of off ground b between t here herc an Machias J does It nn an ma makes es money so Ule they tell 3 me but I guess uess the women foll folks s does docs the most of the to It I thought once that a n boit bo together to together to- to gether so 50 she would woul ride the theater water ater j like a duck was quite a n trick j but It aint to up n a camp so it will please a woman Bell neIn mechanics s from boys up the cabins wasn't no trouble We e just drew along the rud a piece an E see sec e what the shacks s that the j farmers had hall built was like then we come tonne home got the lumber from town to an built us five of em cm There here they be he j now Take a look 1001 at em cm an tell me j if It you ou e ever er r seen an anything thing that could 1 beat b at em cm for the rl right ht draft nn an beam Theys They's everything e into em cum not Hot air j stoves for chilly weather pictures o othe othe of o the worlds world's biggest battles that we got out of a history book boot our granddad grand granddad dad left us when he died an nn an all the tin ware an chiny nn anybody body need needy to get a n mea meal together with Just to give the place a 0 home like i touch we took tool a trip around some of ot the farms an nn got some things to pretty em cm up like c tidies for th the chairs an nn artificial flowers an wall mottoes When we ha had everything ready an in we put up n a sign Camps night day dayan an weeks if Y you yon II want cm em out b by the time big rud and J sure enough right away folks begun to come conic in But nut the they was a n kind of folks folk that was different from nn any me roe an John had ever see The first was a woman wornall about sixty with a husband a n little older Before she would even look hook at one of the camps she began to ask questions of me II Arc Ale these places clean says sh she They dont don't look It It 4 The They're re bran IIran new maam ma'am I says t I III tI Never been lived In ln II I Are Arc the furnishings adequate II The le the thc furnishings furnish furnish- ings money can buy I says what she was about II Very well wen Ill I'll look at them I was goin along but f she he waved waed i me away Ill let you know our decision de do i cislon she says an the hunch bunch of keys I gi give gibel her ber off ocr she went her husband along behind h her riI ri I was Just how pl pleased as d dan an surprised shed she'd be when back she come hot foot Theres no In that first cabin she says Have llac e an any of them Wen Well no no- not Dot exactly Just what do you jOU mean by not I exactly I mean they aint no bathtubs bath bathtubs bathtubs I tubs but me an John every cry Sunday strips off on ship-board ship fashion an pours buckets of water over oer each other They like e it for givin you a n appetite for breakfast I dont don't know yet et what made the time theol theold ol old dame so ma mad but she just reddened reddened red red- dene up lip like e shed she'd been Insulted says Come on HeDl Henry to the man an off they go to their carI carI car I felt feJt pretty prett low about the business bustness busi bust ness for a n while hile an then pretty soon another couple shows up liP We want a cottage by the Uie shore says the woman who was wac young oung an kind of movin mo lookin Not too near the shore sa says s 's the man U As close dose as It can be he What's the use of coming comini to a n place like this if we cant can't see the river You wont won't be able to see the river for the time fog in the mornin morning If If you ou dont don't ml take e that shack up on the hill hili I Very well You can go o aud I will take tale the cunning little one by bythe bythe the beach Just as you ou say But nut dont don't expect expect ex ex- me to rescue you ou If a bear comes snooping aroun around Then what does docs the g girl rl do 10 but bust out cr ln an on sa says s the feller r ris is a brute brule than any bear an a as soon as she can n get to a a a. ra railroad station sta sta- station tion she Is goin home to her mother So she hops Into the car an nn he climbs after her bel an all of that It Ir was ln to look as If the business wasn't goin to go so well when along comes come t Vo old ladies down clown the road an one yells ells to us liS If we h have havea a camp empty When lien she finds we has five of em ern she an her friend starts to look em over oyer a ail an by an by we hear high wor words s about the It seems one of em was sore because because because be be- cause they wasn't no hooked ru rugs s on the floor un an an the other wanted a fire place They hey thrashed that out b by byan nn an b by to go back to the tl first st i cab cabin they'd they'll Jool looked ed at nt an there the they I got into into inton a n dispute ute about whether et the cook cool stove store would draw or not After ten mD minutes tes they decided to fin find out by a fire into it It l all right but the tine theo o old one claimed It only bec because because the hc wind was blowin down river an an would woula smoke like hike U e n a volcano when the wind shifted Then pretty prett soon when they had moved mo to another cabin we could h hear em arguin over oyer why they en ever r come here at all an nn one of em said the other should of come to the place that was recommended to em ern by her Cousin Alec Alee an the other saI said that Cousin Alec was only about three three- quarter witted an that his hs trouble hoube seemed to run in the family Then they both of em comes out oui of or the house single file me an right past us the they gits Bits Into the car squabbles a while about who was goin to drive an and then up the time the they goIt goIt goIt go It was u-as two days later before an anybody anybody any any- bo body else showed up an nn then It was wasa a woman with three daughters who was pleased please with the first cabin we showed eon em an real sociable They was all over oyer the place makin friends frIend with the dog clog an the cow ow an askin all sorts of questions They stayed stared the fust fast night an would of sta stayed ed edthe the second all right if it hadn hadn't turned turne foggy It It was about midnight mi when they ther wa was n a rap rap on our door an an there was two of oC th the girls t there but terrible mi mad Before BeCore I had a chance to say fin any any- thin thin or or ask asle em an thin the oldest ol est spoke up an nn says sars Wh Why dont don't you ou do something about that cow Listen to the poor thing thin I dont don't hear no cow CO I said The Time only cow cowe we e got hot Is in the barn harn Well WeB Its It's somebody's s cow and we just cant can't bear to hear It Ir crying that way You must find out about it at once or we shall leave Well Id I'd heard hemd other fellers feBers Ii In the business say that guests must be pleased please at all any cost so I slipped sUppell on I some does cloe's an went out with them We Ve started down the mud full without hearin nothing an then we wc come conic up over oyer a u little hill hili nn an one of the gals says There she Is now poor dear Where sa says s I pretty prett puzzled Right out there Do you mean meano to o say you ou dont don't hear It Then of a n sudden I knew what It was all aU about Three miles up the tho rIver Iver the fo fog fob horn was goin an nn them gals gols was out on a errand of merc mercy to o get et me mc to put It out of The next day I sn says s 's to Henry Henry i Tomorrow you ou nn an me Is s goin to take down that sign on the rud mud nn an an retire from Crom the outdoor hotel business That feller that said that women is uncertain co coy nn an hard to please was smarter than Solomon an m Danl Dan put together Service |