Show M Uncertain Coy and Hard to Please By Dr JAMES J. J MONTAGUE t y vt dJ f. f 1 Pc A t Mw S W Ji- Ji Mf IIi o ol r. l' l i t t II If 11 I I The They aint In no bath tubs but me ml an D an John eyer every Sund Sunday strips trip off shipboard an n an pours pours pours' buckets bucket of water over oyer each other I Yep rep said the old boat builder brother John an an me Is out cf of the till tourist business business- We there thero brim not much doln In our own line that we might p put t up log cabins on the old place for tor folks to stay In overnight or a week at a time lime 1 Most everybody that's got a B piece of I ground between here herc an Machine does It an makes money so BO they tell me but I 1 guess the women folks docs does the most of the to It I 1 thought once that put tin a boat bont together to together to- to gether ether so she would ride the water like a duck was was- quite a trick but it aint to up a camp so It will please a woman Belo mechanics from boys up bull din the cabins wasn't no trouble We just drew along the rud a piece an an see Eee what the shacks that the farmers had built bulIt was like Uke then then we come home borne got the lumber from town an built us five fire of em There they be benow now Take a look at em cm an an tell teU me If you e ever seen anything that could beat em for the right draft an an beam beata Theys They's everything into em Hot air stoves for tor chilly weather pictures of the worlds world's biggest battles that we got goc out of a history book our grand granddad granddad granddad dad left us when he died he-died died an an all the tin lIn ware an an chiny anybody needs need to get a meal together with Just to give the place a home like touch we took n a trip around some of the farms an nn an got some things to pretty retty em up like tidies for tor the chairs an an artificial flowers an an wall mottoes When we had everything ready an an we put up a sign Camps night day dayan an weeks If you yon want em out by the big rud and sure lure enough right away folks talks begun to come In I One nut they was nas a kind of folks that was different from any me an an John had bad ever see The first was a woman about sixty with a husband a little older Before she would even look at on one one of f the camps she began to ask ask questions of ot me A t I Are these places clean 7 2 says she dont don't They look It 11 I. I They're bran ran new maam ma'am I says Never Neves b been en In Are to the furnishings adequate Y furnishIngs furnishings furnish furnish- the nd ings money can caD buy I 1 says fays wonder n what she was about Very ery well eU HI ru look at them I was gon gain along but she Ehe waved waed me e away Ill IU let you know our de- de she says an the bunch of keys I t give her off she went her husband along behind her I was Just lust how pleased an an surprised shed she'd be when back she come hot bot toot foot Theres no ao In that first cabin she says Bays Have an any of them Well Well no not exactly Just what do you mean by not exactly I 2 I mean menn they aint no BO bath bathtubs bathtubs bathtubs tubs but me an John every Sunday strips off all ship shIp board board fashion an nn pours buckets of water over each ellch other They aint like It II for givin you ou a appetite for tor breakfast brenk fast I dont don't know yet what made the theold theold theold old dame dame so mad but she Just reddened reddened reddened red red- up like shed she'd been Insulted says Come on Henry to the man an an off they go to their carI car I felt tell pretty low about the business business busi busl ness for tor a while an then pretty prett soon another couple shows up 14 We want a cottage by the shore says the woman who was wa young an an kind of movin mavin II Not Tot too near hear the shore says the man II As close as It can be What's the use of at coming to a n place like this If It we cant can't seethe river You wont won't be able to see the river for Cor the fog in the morning If you dont don't take fake that shack up on the hill hili Very well You tou can go there and andI I 1 will take the cunning little one by bythe bythe bythe the beach 11 Just as you say But nut dont don't expect expect ex me to rescue you If It a bear benr comes snooping around Then what does the girl do but bust out an an says the feller Is a brute than any bear an as soon as liS she can get to a railroad station sta lion tion she Is coin home borne to her mother So she hops Into the car an an he climbs after her an on that's all aU of that It was to look as If it the business wasn't goin to go so well when along comes two old ladles ladies down the road an an one yells to us if we have a n camp empty When she finds we has bas five of em she abe an an her friend starts to look em over an an by an an by we hear high words about the sIt s. s It seems one of em was sore because because because be be- cause they wasn't no hooked rugs on the floor an an the other wanted a fire tire place They thrashed that o out t by byan byan byan an by n dedd to go back to the first firs cabin they'd looked at at an there they the got Into Inton a n dispute about whether the cook stove sto would draw or not After Atter ten minutes they decided to find out ont by a It fire Ore Into Into it It all right but the old one claimed It only because the wind was blowin down river an an would smoke like Uke a volcano when the wind shifted Then pretty soon when they thel had bad moved to another cabin we could hear bear em arguin over oer why they Tr ever T r come here at all aU an an one of en e lAid sald the other should of come to the place that was recommended to em hr br her Cousin Alec an the other said that Cousin Alec was only about bree- bree quarter witted willed an an that his trouble seemed to run fun In the family Then the they both of em comps out of the house single Bingle file an an right past us they gits Into the car squabbles a while about who was WitS gain to drive and then up tie te rud they goIt goIt goIt go It was two days later before anybody anybody any any- body else showed up an then It It was wasa wasn a n woman daughter daughters who was pleased with wIlh the first calla we showed em an real sociable They was all nil over the place makin friends with the dog an an the cow all sorts of questions They Hayed the fust lust night an would of ot stayed Hayed the second all right If it It hadn't turned foggy It was aae about when they was a r rap on our door dOr an nn an there was two of the girls there but terrible mn mat rani Before I had a chance to sty say any any- thin or ask em any thIn the oldest spoke up an says i Why dont don't you do something about that cow Listen to the poor thing I 1 dont don't hear no cow I saId sail The only cow we wo got Is In the barn barD Well IVell Its It's somebody's coy cov and we Just cant can't bear to hear It H crying that way You must find ou out about It at once or we shall leave Well Id I'd heard other fellers In la the business say 11 that guests must most be he pleased at any 81 cost so to I 11 slipped on some come does cloea an an went out with them We started down the rud without henna heRrin nothing on an then we come up op over o a little hill bill an an one of the gals Rals says There she Is now now poor dear M Where says MYS I r pretty puzzled Right night out there D Do De you rou mean I to say you dont don't hear bear It ItT Then of a sudden Iud den I knew what It was All about abouL Three miles up the river the fog tog horn was an an them gals was out on n a errand of mercy to get me to put It out of Its Us miser misery The next day I says to Henry Henry I Tomorrow you ou an me Is coin goin to take down that sign on the theraid rud raid an an retire from the outdoor hotel business That feller teller that said that women Is uncertain coy toy an an hard bard to please was smarter than Solomon an Danl put together Co B |