Our Gentleman Boarder 



are when you have sat up too late the 

 night before : like you are when you know 

 mother is going to give you a dose of 

 senna. — A little sea air, and sea bathino- 

 and some talk with Father will soon cure 

 him of that," she added, " unless indeed he 

 is an unusually- poor kind of creature." 



"' Little pitchers ! " said my Mother, look- 

 ing at her meaningly and following up the 

 remark with a cough. " Now Harry, 

 mind," Mother continued, turning to me, 

 "when the coach comes in you and Fred 

 are not to go hanging about, and staring 

 at the gentleman, as you do sometimes. 

 It's not nice manners, especially when he's 

 going to live with us afterwards." 



I was a little disappointed at this, having 

 purposed meeting the coach in the square, 

 so as to have a good look at the low 

 spirited gentleman ; for I was filled with a 

 lively recollection of my own condition 

 when a certain little yellow mug brimming 

 with senna tea awaited my agonised gulps ; 

 and I expected to find him suffused in tears 

 and partly hidden by his handkerchief. 



In a little space came Sukie, and Mother 

 and Mary must shift their work, for she 

 was going to spread the table with a clean 

 white cloth. Then was it time for Mary 

 to take her keys and release from the old 

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