Eunice's Twins

"No, I can 't say tliat IVe had a prosperous season," obsened one passenger to another. "Last spring mo and my oíd voman thought we'd keep summor boarders and mako somo money. We have a big house, able to acconimodate eightec.i peoplo beside our own íolks, o we writ to our sons and darters in the city, tellin' 'em what we had decided on, an' askin 'em to say a good word for us to their fricnds. Well, wo fixed the oíd houso up in fine shape and waitei for onr boarders. Purty socn our darter liary carne down from town with her three children, and said 3ho had spoken to all her frienda about us. In about a week Darter Em carne with her four children. She said the same thing, an' though they wasn't profitable boarders we hoped for a new kind, and feit niuch cncouraged from what they told us. The next arvival was mj wife's sister Sal and her two nearly grown-up children. I was a good deal discouraged then, but my oíd woman braoed me up by sayin' some payin' boarders was comiu' and we eould 'commodato six more anyway. The next arrival was my darter Eunice with her husband and two children. They all settled down as if they 'lowed to stay ftll snnimer, an' I was purty badly broken np about it. I told my oíd woman things were getting down to aliñe point an'uot much left of the garden truck. She encouraged me by sayin' we still had room for two boarders, an' we'd charge tliem enough to run the whole house. Two days afterward I saw a strange man stop and go in, an' I thought hicK iied turned at last, and killed two chickens before I got to the house. W"hen I did get there I discovered he was my brother, Jim, who I hadn't seen for twelve years, come to spend the summer with me. That settled me on the summer boarder business, though tho oíd woman said we still had room for one boardor, and by making the hired man sleep in the barn we coud take in two, an' that would clear the house. When I come in from work the noxt night my darter Em met mo on the porch, and said smilingly, 'Father,' saysshe, 'we've got two new boarders. They carne this afternoon. Come np stairs nnd seo them.' 'W'ait till I dress up a bit,' says I. So I washed, put on a collar, and, feeling a good deal eneouraged, went up stairs. Thore was all tho girls and my oíd woman. 'Pap,' says she with tears in her eyes, 'the house is f uil at last. Eunice hus got twins.' - - i