Lincoln, Joseph Crosby, 1870-1944 / 2008-07-28 00:00:00

EBOOK CAPE COD STORIES ***


Produced by Don Lainson


CAPE COD STORIES
Also Published Under The Title Of "The Old Home House"

By Joseph C. Lincoln


CONTENTS

TWO PAIRS OF SHOES
THE COUNT AND THE MANAGER
THE SOUTH SHORE WEATHER BUREAU
THE DOG STAR
THE MARE AND THE MOTOR
THE MARK ON THE DOOR
THE LOVE OF LOBELIA 'ANKINS
THE MEANNESS OF ROSY
THE ANTIQUERS
HIS NATIVE HEATH
"JONESY"


THE "OLD HOME HOUSE"


TWO PAIRS OF SHOES

I don't exactly know why Cap'n Jonadab and me went to the post-office
that night; we wa'n't expecting any mail, that's sartin. I guess likely
we done it for the reason the feller that tumbled overboard went to the
bottom--'twas the handiest place TO go.
Anyway we was there, and I was propping up the stove with my feet and
holding down a chair with the rest of me, when Jonadab heaves alongside
flying distress signals. He had an envelope in his starboard mitten,
and, coming to anchor with a flop in the next chair, sets shifting the
thing from one hand to the other as if it 'twas red hot.
I watched this performance for a spell, waiting for him to say
something, but he didn't, so I hailed, kind of sarcastic, and says:
"What you doing--playing solitaire? Which hand's ahead?"
He kind of woke up then, and passes the envelope over to me.
"Barzilla," he says, "what in time do you s'pose that is?"
'Twas a queer looking envelope, more'n the average length fore and aft,
but kind of scant in the beam.
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