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Updated: June 12, 2025
When we got back from Mount Vernon, and entered our boardin'-house, Cicely went right up to her room. But truly, as it turned out, I had better have gone right up, breath or no breath. For, while I was a settin' there, a tall, sepulchral lookin' female, that I had noticed at the breakfast-table, come up to me; and says she,
"Pretty tiresome trip, ain't it?" he observed. "You'll have a chance to rest decent to-night, and I got a team uh bays that'll yank yuh to the Meadows in four hours 'n' a half. My wife'll be plumb tickled to have yuh. They ain't much more'n half a dozen white women in ten miles uh the Meadows. We keep a boardin'-house. Hope you'll like the country."
"Jes another boarder for Miss Hazy," she explained airily to Mrs. Eichorn. "Lovey Mary was so well pleased with her boardin'-house, she drummed it up among her friends. This here lady has been at the hospittal. She got knocked over by a wagon out there near the factory, an' it run into celebrated concussion. The nurse told Lovey Mary this mornin' it was somethin' like information of the brain.
At least fer the present. The day will come when I won't have to be in service to no one. I'm puttin' by each week, and the time ain't distant when I'll be settin' at the head of my own boardin'-house table, an' it will be 'Miss Flathers, if you please! You, Bertie!" this to a frail-looking little boy in the back yard. "You git up off the grass this minute!
"This is worse than shanghaiing for a Liverpool boardin'-house, and I won't " "S-s-s-sh!" hissed Hiram, flapping his hand. "That's the elder." "An elder? A man that uses that kind of language?" "He's had good reason for it," returned Hiram, fervently. "It's stout talk, but I ain't blamin' him." He locked the outside door.
Thankful sat down. Mr. Cobb swung about in his own chair, so that his face was in the shadow. "Hear you've been doin' pretty well with that boardin'-house of yours," he observed. "Hear it's been full up all summer." "Who told you so?" "Oh, I heard. I hear about all that's goin' on, one way or another. I was over there a fortni't ago." "You were? Why didn't you stop in and see me?
I guess I was sperrity an' nervous some, but they didn't allow for that.'Twas in Monroe County, Noo York, an' sence then till I come here, I've run away with more men than 'u'd fill a boardin'-house. Why, the man that sold me here he says to the boss, s' he: 'Mind, now, I've warned you. 'Twon't be none of my fault if she sheds you daown the road.
When Cicely and the boy and I got to Washington, the shades of twilight was a shadin the earth gently; and we got a man to take us to Condelick Smith'ses. We told him to take us right to Miss Condelick Smith'ses. Condelick is my own cousin on my own side, and travelin' on the road for groceries. She keeps a nice, quiet boardin'-house.
I guess I was sperrity an' nervous some, but they didn't allow for that. 'Twas in Monroe County, Noo York, an' sence then till I come here, I've run away with more men than 'u'd fill a boardin'-house. Why, the man that sold me here he says to the boss, s' he: 'Mind, now, I've warned you. 'Twon't be none of my fault if she sheds you daown the road.
"Bees'n Lake!" cried Jimmy fiercely through an aperture of the door. "You'll find th' boardin'-house just across over the track," said the woodsman, holding out his hand, "so long. See you again if you don't find a job with the Old Fellow. My name's Shearer." "Mine is Thorpe," replied the other. "Thank you."
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