Show uncertain coy and hard to please by JAMES J MONTAGUE ajr ON 1 k k F aa t W it 00 if I 1 they aint no bath tubs tub but me an john every sunday strips trip off shipboard an pour youra buckets bucket of water over each other yep tep 1 said the old boat bul builder lder brother john an me Is out of the file tourist business we figuered figg ered there much doln in our own line that we might put up log cabins on the old place for folks to stay in overnight or debbe a week at a time west most everybody got a piece of round ground between here nn an macheas toes does 14 it an makes money so they tell me but I 1 guess the women folks does the most of the bendin to it it I 1 thought once that a boat together so she would ride the water like a duck was quite a beetle trick but it aint naw thin to birin up a camp so it will please a woman abeln mechanics from boys up build Ln the cabins no trouble we just drew along the rud a piece an see what the shacks that the farmers had built was like then we wa cone come home got the lumber from town an built us five of em there they be now BOW take a look at eni em an tell me if you ever seen anything that could beat em for the right draft an beam theys everything into em cm hot alt air stoves for chilly weather pictures of the worlds biggest battles that we got out of a history book our grand dad left us when he died an an all the tin ware an chiny anybody needs to get a meal together with just to give the place a home like touch we took a trip around some of the farms an got some things to pretty em up like tidies tor for the chairs an artificial lowers flowers an wall mottoes when we had everything ready an In inviting we put up a sign camps night day an weeks if you want em out by the big rud and ture sure enough right awny away folks begun to come in cut but they was a kind of folks that was different from any me 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 one of the camps she began to ask questions of me are these places clean says she they dont look it bran new maam I 1 says bays wever r been lived in are the furnishings s adequate the furnishings money can buy I 1 says won wonderlin derin what she was about very well ill look at them 1 I was coln along but she waved me be away ill let you know our decolon decision the she says a an the bunch of keys I 1 give her oft off she went her husband tr allin along behind her 1 I was just how bow pleased an surprised shed be when back she come hot toot foot theres no baeth in that first cabin she says lays have any of them barths well no not exactly I 1 just what do you mean by not exactly 1 I mean they aint no bath tubs but me an john every sunday strips off shipboard ship board fashion an pours buckets of water over each other they aint like it for givin you a appetite for breakfast 1 I dont know yet what made the old dame so mad but the she just reddened up like shed been insulted says come on henry to the man an off they go to their car 1 I felt pretty low about the bustness business for a while an then pretty soon another couple shows up we want a cottage by the shore says the woman who was wag young an kind of movin lookin not too near the shore says the man As close as it can be the use of coming to a place uhe like this it if we cant see the river you wont be able to see the river for the fog in the morning it if you dont take that shack up on the hill very well you can go there and I 1 will take the cunning little one by the beach just as you say but dont expect me to rescue you it if a bear comes snooping around then what does the girl do but bust out bryin an says the he teller feller Is a wass brute than any bear an as soon as she can get to a railroad station she Is coln home to her mother so she hops into the car an he climbs after her an all of that it was beginning begin nin to look as if the business goin coin to go so well when along comes two old ladles ladies chug gln in down the road an one yells tells to us if we have a camp empty when she finds we has five of em cm she an her friend starts to look em cm over an by an by we hear bear high words about the furnI furnishings shIns it seems one of em was sore because they no hooked rugs on the floor an the other wanted a fire place they thrashed that out by an by deciding dec idin to go back to the first cabin looked at an there they got into a dispute about whether the cook stove would draw or not after ten minutes they decided to find out by a fire into it it draped ail all right but the old one claimed it only draped because the wind was blowin down river an would smoke like a volcano when the wind shifted shit ted then pretty soon when they had moved to another cabin we could hear em arguin over why they ever come here at all an one of em said bald the other should ot of come to the place that was recommended to em cm by her cousin alee alec an the other said that cousin alee alec was only about three quarter witted an that his trouble seemed to run in the family then they both of ern em comes out of the house single file an st stalk alkin ln right past us they gits into the car squabbles a while about who was coln to drive and then up the rud they go it was two days later before anybody else showed up op an then it was a woman with three daughters who was pleased with the first cabin we showed em an real sociable they was all over the place makin friends with the dog an the cow an askin all sorts borts of questions they stayed the fust night are an would of stayed the second all right if it turned foggy it was about midnight when they was a rap on our door an there was two of the girls stand ln there sh shivering iverin but terrible mad before I 1 had bad a chance to say any thin or ask em any anything thIn the oldest spoke up an says why dont you do something about that cow listen to the poor thing 1 I dont hear no cow I 1 said the on only y cow we got Is in the barn 11 well its cow and we just cant bear to hear it crying that way you must find out about it at once or we shall leave well id heard other tellers fellers in the he business say gay that guests must be pleased at any cost so EO I 1 slipped on some does cloes an went out with them we started down the rud without bearin nothing an then we come up over a little hill an one of the gals says there she Is now poor dear where 1 says 1 I pretty puzzled right out there do you mean to say you dont hear IM it then of a sudden I 1 knew what it was all about three miles up the river the tog fog horn was coin an them gals was out on a errand of mercy to get me to put it out of its misery the next day I 1 says to henry henryl henry 1 tomorrow you an me Is coin to take down that sign on the rud an retire from the outdoor hotel business that teller feller that said that women Is uncertain coy an hard to please was smarter than solomon an danl put together Berv lc co |