so many little things that we wanted, and so many little things that were so cheap, that I spent pr

lived in our new home for about a month, and we came

in the flour business, who was very anxious to come and live with us. He had been to see

ther room, and our boarder brought his trunk and a large red

provements in the first three days of his sojourn with us than I had thought of since we commenced housekeeping. And what made the matter worse, his suggestions were generally very good

d that the laws of symmetrical propriety required that the rudder should remain where it was-that the very name of our home would be interfered with by its re

flower-garden for Euphemia on the extreme forward-deck, and having borrowed a wheelbarrow, he wheeled dozens of loads of arable dirt up our gang-plank and dumped them out on the deck. When he had covered the gar

have before supper. It had been raining the day before, and as the bottom of our garden leaked so that earthy water trickled down at one end of o

my establishment, I did not have that view. I hurried on. The nearer I approached the

t was n

the truth fl

rain had swollen the river

dnesday afternoons our

ightly on my head

always said it was of no use, and taking advantage of my absence, he has ha

ne off together-where I knew not,-a

of which there were only two-but their crews must have been very inattentive to the w

on his shoulder. I shouted

boat-a house, I mean,-

use?" aske

use-boat,

nd he passed on, to his wife and home, no dou

ut none of them had see

boarder had not taken the rudder for an ironing table he might have steered in shore!

g frantic when I met

"are you after a c

" I p

. Well, I can tell you where she is. She's stuck f

s that?

up with the tide-big flood tide, to-day-and I thought

thi

up the river without a word. Was the boat a wreck? I scar

I stopped. I could but stop,

," he said, "g

e lapel of his coat. It was a dirty lapel, a

me the truth, I can bear it

e queerly. I could not exact

you kin bear

hand trembling a

out of my hand, and sprang away. When he reached the other side of

led. "I think you're a darned luna

Point. Long before I re

reached the Point, I found that the boat had run aground, with her head in among

board, but to wade through the mud and reeds to

en I thought I was going over, I believe I should have fallen down and come to my death in that horrible marsh. When I reached the boat, I stood up to my hi

how glad I was that the boat was an old one and had cracks!-and so, painfully and slowly, slipping part way down once or twice, and besliming myself f

ne on each side of the dining-room t

led them. My appearance

o her feet and to

laimed; "has any

ed!" I

utching me by the arm, "what a con

in!" s

t each other. I looked at them. T

now," I yelled, "that

e boarder, and in two

into my arms. I told her all

tly grounded among the reeds, that the voyage had

was going to beat him. I had two kings and two pieces on the next to last row, and

essed and washed myself an

as there, standing by the petunia bed. His arms were folded and h

have hauled it in; but it was such a little anchor that I

s do very well," said I, cuttingly,

something in

cessary on board, and, as it really didn't make any difference in our household economy, where we happened to b

as was our custom, but there was a cer

irs to consider what had better be done, when

are. I've hired a couple of mules to tow the boat back. They'll be here when the tide rises.

d two men with a long rope appeared, and we

ine, and the coolness between us is gradually diminishing. But the boat is m

s not a sufficient depth of earth for them. Several times our boarder has appeared to be on the