| Show uncertain coy and hard to please by JAMS JAMES J MONTAGUE e 00 tr 0 o 4 V 1 S I 1 ae ak JJ I 1 il let 1 0 they aint no bath tubs tub but rne me an john every sunday tripi strips off shipboard hip board an pours pour buckets bucket of water over each other yep yell said the old boat builder brother john an me Is out of the tourist busl business ness we figuered figg cred ered th there ere abeln not much doin in our own litie hue that we might put up to log cabins on the old place for folks to stay in overnight or debbe a week at a time most everybody got a piece ot of ground around between here an machins does docs it an makes money so they toll tell me but I 1 guess the women folks does the most of the bendin to it I 1 thought once that a boat together so she would ride the water mho a duck was quite a beetle trick but it aint naw thin to fixin fixen up a camp so it ft will please a woman bein mechanics from boys up bulldis bull din the cabins no trouble we just drew along the rud a piece sin an see ece what the shacks that the farmers had built was like then we come home got the lumber front from town an built us five fire of eni em there they be now BOW take a look at lem cm an tell me it if you ever seen anything that could input em for the right draft arbeam an beam theys everything into lent cm hot air stoves stores for chilly weather pictures of 0 the worlds biggest battles that we got gor out of a history book boob our grand dad left us when lie 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 eni em up like tidies tor for the chairs an artificial flowers an wall mottoes when we hall had everything ready an we put up a sl sign n camps night day an all weeks if Y you want em cm out by the I 1 big rud an a nl ture sure enough right away folks begun to come in cut but they was a kind of folks that was dif different from any me an john lad had ever see the first was a woman about sixty with a husband a little solder ider before she would even look sit at one of the camps she began to ask questions of me mcl are these places clean says slip she they dont look it bran new uinam I 1 says never kever been lived in n are the furnishings adequate the adequate st furnishings money can buy 1 I says gays won wonderlin derin what she was about very well mell ill look at them 1 I was goin along but she waved roe me away til ill let you know our decision the she says an the bunch of keys I 1 give her oil off she went her husband traille trall trail ln along behind tier her 1 I was just th inkin how pleased an surprised shed be when back slie she tome ome hot foot theres no baeth in that first cabin she says llave have any of f them barths well no not cot exactly 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 bothin like it tor for givin you a appetite for breakfast 1 I dont know yet what made the old dilme dame so mad but slie she just reddened up like shed been insulted says come on henry to the man art an olt off they go to their car 1 I felt pretty low about the business for a while an then pretty soon another couple shows up we ve want a cottage by the shore says the woman who was young an kind of movin cletur lookin not too near the shore says the man As close as it can be the use of coming coining to a place like ilke this if we cant cantsee ae the river you wont be able to see the river for the fog in the morning if you dont take that shack up on the hill very well uell you tou can go there and I 1 will take the cunning little one by the beach just as you say dut but dont expect me to rescue you if a bear comes snooping around then what does the girl do but bust out bryin an says the teller feller is a 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 lie he climbs after her an all of that it was to look ns as if the business coln to go so well ivell when along comes two cold id ladles chug gln in down the road an one yells to us it if we have a camp empty when slie she finds we lias has five of em cm she ana an her friend starts to look em over an by an by we hear high words about the furnishings furni shins it seems one of lem em was sore because they no hooked rugs on the floor door an the other wanted a fire place they thrashed that out by nn an by deci aln 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 11 lian a fire into it it draped all right 7 but the old one claimed it only draped because the wind was blowin down river an would smoke like a volcano nhen the wind shifted then pretty soon when they had moved to another cabin we could hear lent ein arguin over hy they ever come here at all tin an one of ent cm said the other should of come to the place that was recommended to em em by her cousin alee alec an the other oilier said that cousin alee alec was only about three quarter witted wilted an that his trouble seemed to run in the family then they both of em comes come out of the house single rile file an stalken stalk ln la right nasr us they gits into the car squabbles a while about who was galal to drive and then up tip the rud they go it was two days later before anybody else showed up an then it was a woman with three daughters who was pleased with the first cabin we showed lem em an real sociable they was till all over the place makin friends with the dog an the cow an askin all sorts of questions they stayed the fust night an would of stayed the second all right it if it turned foggy it was about midnight when they was a rap on our door ana an there was two of the girls there sh iverin verin but terrible mad before I 1 had a chance to say any thin or ask em 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 only cow we got Is in the barn well its cow and we just cant bear to hear it crying that way you oust must fand out about it at once or we shall leave well id heard other fellers in the he business say that guests must be pleased at any cost so I 1 slipped on some cloes cloea an went out with them we started down the rud without licar ln nothing an then we come up over a little hill an one of the gals says there she Is now poor dear where says 1 I pretty puzzled Illg night ht out there do you mean to say you dont hear it then of a sudden I 1 knew what it was till all about three miles up the river the fog horn was coln an them gals was mas out on a errand of mercy to get me to put it out ot of its misery the next day I 1 says to henry henryl tomorrow you an me Is doln to take down that sign on the rud an retire from the outdoor hotel business that teller feller that said sald that women Is uncertain coy an hard to please was smarter than solomon an danl dan put together service |
